On Saturday, June 26th 2010, bring your fairy wings to Prospect Park’s Imagination Playground and join PLG Arts as they team up with Park Slope Parents and children’s singer/songwriters Suzi Shelton and Charlie Hope for a musical fairy party! In celebration of the end of the school year, this event will begin at 10am in addition to the regularly scheduled performance of Daydream by PLG Arts at 11am.

Pre-show activities include a 30 minute musical performance by kindie favorites Suzi Shelton and Charlie Hope , accompanied by drummers Kyle McGee and Vin Scialla from Off Beat (a rhythm collective dedicated to help people access the healing benefits of the drum). Suzi Shelton is a local Brooklyn favorite in the playground set and will be singing songs off of her two award winning CD’s, Simply Suzi and No Ordinary Day. Charlie Hope is a gifted, award winning singer songwriter who knows how to tug the heartstrings of children – and their parents, too. You can catch her whimsical sound and melodic lyrics in her Award-winning debut album, I’m Me!.

The main event begins at 11am with a forty-five minute adaptation of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” entitled Daydream by PLG Arts followed by post-show kids’ activities, which are held at each show. You can catch Daydream, directed by Rohana Elias-Reyes, every weekend this June. Saturdays at 11am and Sundays at 3pm. PLG Arts hotline number is (718) 393-7733.

Media sponsor Park Slope Parents, NYC’s largest online parenting community, will be there to help facilitate the days’ activities.

All activities are FREE to the public. Children can bring a bathing suit to play in the fountain after the show. Seating is on the ground so bring a towel for comfort.

Prospect Park’s Imagination Playground is located in the park from Ocean Avenue between Lincoln Road and Parkside Avenue. Take the Q or S train to Prospect Park, exit to Lincoln Road.

Click here to see the Imagination Playground on our Interactive Map.

Canada’s Leading Children’s Music Artists to Perform at Kids’ Jam for Janeway in Support of Good Music and Goodwill

St. John’s, NL – On April 17, Charlie Hope, Bobs & Lolo, The Bee’s Knees and The Kerplunks, all JUNO Award nominees for Children’s Album of the Year, will perform at Kids’ Jam for Janeway, a free concert to benefit the Janeway Children’s Health and Rehabilitation Centre. The concert is being coordinated by Kids Music Connection, an initiative to support music and the arts in the lives of children.

“It’s truly inspiring whenever artists who are competing against each other for the same award can come together in support of a wonderful cause,” said Charlie Hope, singer/songwriter. “We are all passionate about the happiness, health and wellbeing of children, and support the Janeway and its mission of healing and hope.”

Just after receiving her first JUNO Award nomination for her debut children’s album, I’m Me!, Hope got the idea to organize the benefit concert and immediately reached out to her fellow nominees for their support and participation. The other artists were eager to lend their voices, and financial and logistical challenges were overcome by the outpouring of support from local businesses and organizations.

Dan Rubin, president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Musicians’ Association (AFM Local 820) has offered sponsorship as well the possibility of support by the Music Performance Fund, a New York-based fund which uses money from the recording arts industry to support free educational and public performances across North America. Additionally, Little People’s Workshop, Gower Street United Church, Oompa.com, and Sheth Graphic Design are generously supporting the event.

“We are honoured by the generosity of the artists and organizations who are donating their time, talent and resources,” said Jenine Kerrivan, Manager of Community Initiatives with the Janeway Children’s Hospital Foundation. “Support from the community allows us to continue providing our province’s sick and injured children with the special care they need and deserve, and our staff and patients are very appreciative of Kids Music Connection and the JUNO Award nominees for their kindness and caring.”

The Janeway Children’s Health and Rehabilitation Centre is Newfoundland and Labrador’s only hospital specializing in pediatric health care. The Janeway is a tertiary care centre with modern emergency, diagnostic, operating and development and rehabilitation departments, and serves thousands of children and families each year.

Kids’ Jam for Janeway will be held on Saturday April 17th at 10 a.m. at the Gower Street United Church, located at 99 Queen’s Road, St. John’s, Newfoundland. The event is free and open to the public. Rik Barron, renowned local folk and children’s performer and two-time ECMA winner for Best Children’s Artist, will serve as the host of the event.

As part of the fund raising effort, Kids’ Music Connection is holding an online auction for a set of 4 Juno Nominated, autographed children’s cds.

For more information about the event and free advance ticket reservations, visit www.kidsjam.ca.

Last Tuesday we were featured on IWearYourShirt.com and had a great time watching Jason & Evan wearing a Charlie Hope shirt talking about her train song, while flying a kite, or going down to see an old train in town.

We offered the Train Song as a free download and over had an amazing response of over 1,000 downloads! Choo Choo!

IWearYourShirt.com

Today Jason Sadler & Evan White are wearing Charlie Hope’s shirt….well, not one from her closet, a Charlie Hope shirt.

For those of you that don’t know them, they are social media gurus that wear a shirt from a different performer each day, and promote them on their blog, twitter, ustream/youtube, etc.   They also talk about a lot of other interesting things at the same time.

As part of the promotion, we are giving away a free download of the TRAIN SONG!  This is a favorite of so many people, both young and old—-yes, many adults have mentioned how they really enjoy it.  This is the song that plays on the video on our  home page.

This download is for one day only.  You can click on the file here.

http://www.mediafire.com/?mgjhjtyz2ut

If you like this, and want another, the Frog Song in the shopping cart is “pay what you will.”  All proceeds from this download will be donated to the Janeway Sick Children’s Hospital in St. John’s Newfoundland, as part of the benefit concert Charlie is organizing with the other children’s nominees, on April 17th.

Many of you know that in addition to the judged Independent Music Awards, they are also awarding a people’s choice, or “Vox Populi” award to be awarded later this spring. Here is your chance to tell the judges they made a great choice! Lots of people have been asking where they can vote, and it is a little tricky navigating the IMA site, so we have brought the site to our site, here on our blog. So, please take a moment to vote; We don’t need to remind you who to vote for, right? If you are in a rush, and can’t decide you can always just pick the first candidate. Remember, to vote for best album AND best song.

Oh, and one last thing…5 stars is good….1 star…not so good.