Many Hands – Family Music for Haiti, is an excellent new CD put together by Dean Jones and Bill Childs to help Haiti continue to recover from a devastating earthquake in January of 2010. Among the many artists that have contributed to this collection of songs are Frances England, Randy Kaplan, Dan Zanes and Elizabeth Mitchell. Get the full story and purchase to help here, and take a listen to a few songs on Jitterbug here.
-Dan
Come out to Kindiefest on April 30 to May 2, 2010. Get the pulse on the kid music community with panel discussions and hear lots of great bands performing throughout the weekend. Register here… space is limited! See you there.
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Congratulations to Ziggy Marley for winning a Grammy Award in the Best Musical Album For Children category. His album Family Time gets better and better the more you listen, with or without the little ones….
It’s that time of year to give gifts… Jitterbug has put together a holiday song playlist of 7 original songs for DailyCandy Kids. We’re offering a free download of the songs for the holidays. Take a listen and give a gift of music – download for free here, enjoy!
Congratulations to artists Milkshake, Ziggy Marley, and Cathy and Marcy for your Grammy Award Nominations this year. We’re happy and proud you are involved with jitterbug – good luck…
Daily Candy, the free daily e-mail that gives you the scoop on fashion, food, good deals…… and kids stuff – asked Jitterbug to put together a summer music playlist. We were happy to help out! Barenaked Ladies, Ziggy Marley, The Jimmies, Randy Kaplan and Brady Rymer are part of the mix. The artists were generous enough to offer a free download of their song (for a limited time). Five artists, five songs – listen and download here. Go enjoy!
-Dan
Jitterbug was recognized by Batchblue in their annual Small Business Super Hero Contest. Read about it here, and congratulations to RetroRazor and Kitbook for their 1st and 2nd place finishes! Batchblue’s online software is a great way to keep track of people, communications, to do lists…etc. Thanks Batchblue for providing a solid service and choosing jitterbug!
-Dan
Dear Mothers,
What condition is your soul in? Today, Mother’s Day is the day to look, check, caress and feed that soul. From a father, there is no mightier day than Mother’s Day because of the chance to pause, admire, serve and applaud. Yes, applaud; when love walks in the room, we should always applaud – but today, Mother’s Day, the applause is haunted with memories of children (as a father) and remembrances of childhood (as a son). Haunted, not as in frightened, but as in every nerve bowing in appreciation to a job well done by “Mom”.
And how can we breathe a thought about Mother’s Day without thinking about the kids, those little beings that Moms teach the world to love. As Shakespeare reminds,
“Look on beauty,
And you shall see ‘tis purchased by the weight;
Which therein works a miracle in nature,
Making them lightest that wear most of it.”
Yes, all those beautiful kids that Moms impact so profoundly, so quickly, so early – they grow, they learn, they become – ultimately themselves.
Mothers, today, on your Day, whatever condition your soul is in – “sit, feast on your life” and allow us to join you in your moment of grace.
-Dan
Jitterbug wants to congratulate Dennis Caraher on winning a Parents’ Choice gold medal award for his album I Miss The Mud. As Lynne Heffley writes, ” Dennis Caraher delivers smiles with quirky humor and sunny charisma…..” That’s enough of a blessing to get me to listen… We are happy to have Dennis involved and represented on Jitterbug.
The Parents’ Choice Foundation is a nonprofit guide to quality children’s media and toys established in 1978. A well respected voice on everything kids – so well-done Dennis on winning the Gold!
-Dan
Greetings – we have made a few technical changes to Jitterbug that we hope will make the experience of finding and listening to music and videos even better. The main one is you can now sort the entire site by only Video, only Music or both. The filtering is just below the logo: Show: All | Videos | Music
We’ve also moved the red Jitterbug Radio button to a prominent position – top right. Last but not least, the Blog link has moved down to the footer – we’re still confident you’ll still find it! When you are watching a video, the “What’s Related” offerings on the right side has been enhanced to give better results too. Hope you like the changes – more to come.
-Dan