Wow! What a great show today in LA featuring The 2014 Grammy Award Nominees for Best Children's Album! All five nominees came up on stage to play songs from their nominated album. The concert aired at 6pm EST/3pm PST today and will repeat tomorrow at 1pm EST/10am PST on SiriusXM 78. Great performances!
This weekend's Rumpus Room is a concert by Ben Rudnick and Friends. Loyal KPL listeners are very familiar with the title track of their latest CD A Frog Named Sam. It's a show that you can't miss!!
(Photo used without permission from Ben Rudnick's newsletter.)
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Our year in DC is coming to a close. While I doubt that it was our last Rumpus Room Concert (we had been to 3 or 4 before this year), it is our last for a while. And what fun it was! A nice crowd came out to see Peter Himmelman. I wasn't sure if the show was going to be Peter solo or not, and it turned out that a nice band had been cobbled together -- I think Peter said that they had only rehearsed once, earlier in the day.
The show was incredibly fun (and funny). Little Rhett stole the show with his antics. Hey, if your mom is the boss and your dad is in the band, you kind of get a little crazy, huh? The kids in the audience had great fun, making large dancing circles. Even the babies got into it; two babies did a little call and response screeching.
While we love Peter's CDs, I wasn't sure what to expect from a live show. It was wonderful! He has a wry sense of humor, played just right. One kid told Peter it was his birthday, and Peter made up a song right there on the spot, as well as freestyling verses into other songs. Wonderful and fun!
We're so happy that we got this chance to see Peter Himmelman perform live!
Today we were thrilled to get back to the Rumpus Room at XM in DC after over a month and see Lunch Money perform live in the XM LiVE Performance Studio! We always love to hear Lunch Money live, and while we heard a couple of the new ones in NY, we heard another couple of new songs and think they rock! We cannot wait for the next CD!
We had a fabulous time in the Rumpus Room. The KPL "minion" Ali does a great job keeping everyone entertained and organized. Mindy and various family members were there for the show.
For various reasons, the band was not planning on playing their KPL hit "It Only Takes One Night To Make a Balloon Your Friend," but a kid requested it. Then there were some technical difficulties, so the band played it, not for airing, but as filler while the connections/wires were being fixed. At the end of the show, someone gave Molly (I think) a red mylar balloon, and guess what happened?? It flew away! Red ones go to Paris, don't they?
Go check out the Lunch Money concert schedule and get out to see them live if you can!
Hope We're Ready to Rock
I Want A Dog
Tricycle
Rollercoaster
Ate Too Much of My Favorite Food
Yes, We Have Rhythm
Stop and Go
Dizzy!
It Only Takes One Night To Make A Balloon Your Friend
Yesterday, we were excited to get back to the Rumpus Room at XM in DC and see Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could perform live in the XM LiVE Performance Studio! We've seen them a couple times before, once in Georgia, and love his enthusiasm, music and smile.
We spent a bit of time in the upstairs waiting area. The kids were asked if they would like to make some recordings for possible use on the station, and they all loved it -- they had to say "Sirius/XM Kids Place Live!" Camille ran around chasing one very fast little toddler who feels right at home at XM, wandering down this way and that.
We finally got to head into the performance theater. Brady in the band wandered in before Mindy got to play her "joke" on them. Brady jumped right into playing, starting off with the logical choice "Here Comes Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could." The band members at this show were Brady on lead, Seth Farber on keybaords, Liz Queler on mandolin and vocals and then Chris Roselli stuck over in the drum box.
The concert was fantastic. Great energy, great selection of songs (though I would have loved to hear 15 more, of course). The audience really got into "I Found It!" Brady played older songs along with songs from the latest CD and even a couple new tunes, which we can't wait to hear on his next CD! He finished up on a high note with the popular "Road Trip." What fun!
We had a great time hanging out for a long time after the show. I can't believe that we won't get to go back to XM for at least a month! A whole month! How will we make it that long?
Here Comes Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could
Last Friday (how have I gotten so far behind??), we were lucky enough to be able to get to see Billy Jonas live in the XM LiVE Performance Studio (aka Rumpus Room).
Along with getting to go to an awesome live concert, we also met up with new and old friends. Everyone was so nice, and so happy to be there for the concert. I "re"met someone from past Rumpus Room shows (Kit, thank you for being was SO nice and friendly) and chatted a bit with the mom of Scrap Metal creator Danny - Chloe was fascinated with Danny, but too shy to say anything to him. We also enjoyed being with a fellow kids' music blogger, OWTK Jeff and his family. And, of course, Chloe loved being with her BFF + .5, Mindy. I felt so lucky to be a part of the Kids Place Live family!
On top of all that, we were thrilled to be a part of the audience at the Billy Jonas show. Billy entertained us all and happily described the "reclaimed" instruments that he used in his bangin' and sangin'. He sang some of our favorites but also made up a new song on the spot, called "Ducks and Racecars." The kids really got into the call and response parts and the fireworks applause, too.
We look forward to hearing this show on the radio some day soon!
Today we took metro over to XM for a Rumpus Room concert featuring The Sippy Cups. We loved being back in the building, seeing Mindy and hearing a wonderful concert by The Sippy Cups. Mindy even got to be a circus performer during the show!
Yesterday, we went to the release party for Rocknoceros's new CD PINK! And how exciting to hear them, yet again today, on Kids Place Live! Chloe LOVES the song PINK! and even had a dream about the song "Put A Hat On...."
Rhett helped out with the sound; he's learning the ropes early! What a fun Rumpus Room -- we were hoping to be there in the studio, but the plans (not our, cough, cough) changed. Oh well. Seeing them Jammin' Java was just as awesome!
Yesterday as we drove from one state to another, we finally caught the Bill Harley Rumpus Room broadcast, recorded in the Summer of 2008, I believe. What a great show! We all were so happy to sit and listen to the stories and music from a two -time Grammy winner! Old favorites, new stories, some background on the stories, it was all greatly entertaining!
I would love to get to see Bill Harley perform live at some point. Maybe he'll make it to Atlanta one day!!
We tuned in to hear Lunch Money for today's Rumpus Room Rewind from sometime around May or June 2007 (I think).We've heard them live in concert enough times now that all of the songs they played are quite familiar to us, even ones that are not on a CD. Their newest CD Dizzy is set to be released on Jan 17th.
We tuned in to hear Justin Roberts for the New Years' Eve countdown. What fun! He played "Cartwheels and Somersaults" which always makes me think of Zooglobble. And some songs that I hadn't heard before. But we didn't catch the whole thing. Maybe at 11pm we'll be able to listen better.
Listening to XM yesterday, they played an alphabet song sung by Justin that I really liked. I wonder if it is on some CD?
Rumpus Room Playlist:
Airplane of Food
Imaginary Rhino
I Chalk
Billy the Bully
Way Out
Taking Off My Training Wheels
Dad Caught Stars
Cartwheels and Somersaults
Hey Hippopotamus
Yellow Bus
Meltdown
Countdown and Auld Lang Syne on the melodica (6 minutes early)
We enjoyed this week's Rumpus Room concert recorded in June 2008...SteveSongs! We have not yet seen SteveSongs in concert yet, but we will see him in Atlanta in two weeks and just can't wait!!
>We enjoyed this week's Rumpus Room concert...Ralph's World but it is no surprise since we love Ralph's World, we love XM and we were there for the show! There are more pictures are at a link from our recap post. Ralph told the story about the origin on his "Folsom Daycare Blues,: which was fun.
The Set List:
The Boring Song
Gotta be Good
The Coffee Song
Dinosaur Rumble
Freddy Bear
Puppy Dog
Abby's Alphabet Soup
Fee Fi Fo Fum
Dumptruck
We Are Ants
Dance Around
Happy Lemons
Happy Not My Birthday
River Flow
The Rhyming Circus
Things That I Like
Folsom Daycare Blues
(the list went much longer live, but the aired show ended abruptly)
We enjoyed this week's Rumpus Room concert...Secret Agent 23 Skidoo! They performed songs from their CD Easy.
Mindy interviewed Secret Agent 23 Skidoo earlier this week; you can read some of the interview highlights here. We were lucky enough to get to be in the Rumpus Room for this concert; more pictures are on our recap page.
We enjoyed this week's Rumpus Room concert...The Sippy Cups! They performed songs from their CDs Kids Rock for Peas and Electric Storyland. Electric Storyland was named in the Top 10 CDs of 2006 in the Fids and Kamily Poll.
We were lucky enough to get to see this SF Bay Area group perform at Austin Kiddie Limits in September 2007. They put on a fantastic show, complete with circus acts and psychedelic props. But best was getting to hear Springtime Fantastic live!
The Sippy Cups this week released a new EP One Day Soon available on iTunes.
We were so excited to get the chance to see Ralph's World perform in the XMKids Rumpus Room! Everyone had a great time; it felt like a large house party!
Yesterday we were thrilled to get to see Secret Agent 23 Skidoo. in the Rumpus Room! To make it even better, we got to meet Mindy's "baby brother" while there!
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