The Music of Marcome

Yazan: CanCan | 26 March 2009 | 44 Comments
Categories: Giveaways, Soundtrack

Marcome is a Canadian New Age music artist with four albums under her belt.
River of Soul is her newest release, boasting a captivating blend of New Age, Latin, Middle-Eastern, jazz and African beats. My first thought was “world music”; I could also compare it to the gentle soundtrack of a film.
The exotic sounds whisk [...]

Music for Little Ears: Scat Like That!

Yazan: CanCan | 01 December 2008 | 61 Comments
Categories: Giveaways, Music for little ears, Soundtrack, Videos

I’m fairly positive that when I was a child I had no inkling of what “scatting” was, at least in how it related to music. My preschooler is lucky; he has been scatting all of his short live, and now that we have the Scat Like That: A Musical Word Odyssey Oppenheim Toy Porfolio Award-winning [...]

Music for Little Ears: Baby Loves Salsa (And Mommy, Too!)

Yazan: CanCan | 29 October 2008 | 76 Comments
Categories: Deaky Deke, Educational products, Giveaways, Music for little ears, Pictures, Reviews, Soundtrack, Teaching kids different cultures

Are you looking for some fun music to energize those long car rides? Baby Loves Salsa is a fun CD is helping to bring Latin flair to nurseries everywhere!
Produced by Grammy winning producer Aaron “Luis” Levinson, Baby Loves Salsa features some big stars in contemporary salsa music, like band leader and singer Jose [...]

Music For Little Ears: All Roads Lead to Sesame Street Playground

Yazan: CanCan | 28 October 2008 | 150 Comments
Categories: Educational products, Giveaways, Music for little ears, Reviews, Soundtrack, Teaching kids different cultures, Videos

The children’s division of Putumayo World Music, Putumayo Kids, has released a darling CD called Sesame Street Playground.
This is a two disc set that has 13 songs from Brazil, France, China, India, Israel, Mexico, the Netherlands, Palestine, Russia, South Africa, U.S.A, and Tanzania, accompanied by five DVD music videos.
It is so touching to listen [...]

For Little Ears: an African Dreamland and a Hawaiian Playground!

Yazan: CanCan | 23 September 2008 | 84 Comments
Categories: Educational products, Giveaways, Music for little ears, Reviews, Riding in cars with kids, Soundtrack, Teaching kids different cultures, Uncategorized

Putumayo Kids is one of my favorite sources for child-friendly world music selections.
I first encountered Putumayo Kids CD’s as a fabulous cultural and musical resource when I was researching teaching tools for use in an Early Learning program.
Hawaiian Playground was released this summer by Putumayo Kids and has found a permanent rotation in our daily [...]

For Little Ears: Let the Good Times Rouler!

Yazan: CanCan | 22 September 2008 | 56 Comments
Categories: Educational products, Giveaways, Music for little ears, Reviews, Teaching kids different cultures

I love listening to music from all over the world as I chauffeur my family around on mundane errands.
It really has an extremely positive effect on my emotional well-being, much more so than listening to “kiddie music” replay continuously and wondering if my intelligence is decreasing.
Thankfully there is a vast selection of high quality [...]

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