Jitterbug

Kindiefest in Brooklyn

Dan Gellert — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:39:01 +0000

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.

Ziggy Marley wins Grammy Award

Dan Gellert — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:25:19 +0000

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….

Holiday song playlist for DailyCandy

Dan Gellert — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:48:17 +0000

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!

Grammy Nominees on jitterbug

Dan Gellert — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:10:11 +0000

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 Kids Playlist

Dan Gellert — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:43:01 +0000

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

Batchblue recognizes Jitterbug

Dan Gellert — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:35:13 +0000

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

Happy Mother’s Day!

Dan Gellert — Sun, 10 May 2009 04:19:44 +0000

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

Dennis Caraher wins gold medal

Dan Gellert — Sun, 03 May 2009 07:56:40 +0000

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

Jitterbug enhancements

Dan Gellert — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:00:29 +0000

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

Gustafer Yellowgold – featured artist

Dan Gellert — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:53:40 +0000

Gustafer Yellowgold…. a strange yellow friendly creature who came to earth from the sun. A creation by Morgan Taylor; it’s great music and curiously contagious videos. I haven’t been disappointed yet. Jitterbug is happy to have them as our latest featured artist. Go enjoy.

-Dan