February 27, 2013 There're so many schools struggling right now to stay afloat. I happen to have visited the school just within the past several weeks. They are looking for your donations to keep it going and have posted a video about it that I thought was important to share
February 14, 2013 On Wednesday, I visited The Bethlehem Children's School and spent some time writing and recording a song with the elementary and middle school kids. One of the unique things about this school is the multi-age classrooms. Kids in grades 1 through 5 are grouped together in the Elementary class, and grades 6 through 8 are grouped together in the Middle School class. I didn't work with the younger kids, but the school also has a pre-k program. Take a listen (there's also a video included)
January 15, 2013 "I'm just a bill on Capital Hill....." What a clever song! It still rolls around in my head whenever I watch those clowns in Washington try to get things passed. What a great little novelty song, and it's now 40 years old!
January 13, 2013 You've heard of Reading, Writing and Rhyming? Now we have Reading, Writing and Publishing! This is a fantastic new service I can get kids to really work on the writing skills plus get their work out there with Boomwriter
January 11, 2013 I had a fantastic time at the Green Meadow School in the Schodack/Castleton area today with my favorite little moonlighting job - the Readin' Writing and Rhymin Tour. This appearance was actually a prize won at a fundraising event, (thanks Mrs. Bertrani!) so I wanted to make it special, and it was!
January 6, 2013 Teachers! Sign up right now for the Reading, Writing and Rhyming school program. I have a signup sheet below to make it easy.
December 20, 2012 I was reminded by Mrs. Toher yesterday upon visiting this school that it is my 5th appearance there. Hopefully I'm not wearing out my welcome, but I always enjoy the kids at Yates Magnet School. This visit was no exception
December 14, 2012 The kids from Mrs. Reilly's class at the All Saints Academy love the song "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas". Unfortunately, Santa is going to need a part time job, because that's not ALL these kids want! Take a listen
December 14, 2012 The Christmas carols that are out there are great and all, but sometimes you suffer from EB (ear burnout). We need to freshen up the catalogue, don't you think? Local singer, songwriter Kelly Bird thought so, and did a wonderful job with a song written by Mitch Elrod and Grace - "A Wonderful Christmas To Come". Here it is!
December 4, 2012 It will be a very long time before victims of Hurricane Sandy get their lives back. You'd have to shower some of these folks with money to bring them back to where they were before this horrific natural disaster. There's only one man to do that -and he's very fat with a white beard
November 21, 2012 This was a tremendous labor of love by all involved. It's still a work in progress, but we wanted to get this up on the web to hear what we have so far. Here's the ALMOST finished collaborative production between two classes who have never met each other - a true experiment in the use of modern technology
November 19, 2012 There have been quite a few songs written about this most esteemed holiday. One person who really brings out the absurdity of it all is Mr. Absurd- Adam Sandler
