Happy to pass this along from Amber of Boston Children’s Music:

On October 30th the KidsBeet concert series will be putting on a fun kids concert to benefit the Franciscan Hospital for Children (located in Brighton). This hospital serves so many special needs kids in the Boston area, particularly through outpatient therapy. My son receives PT here and they are just amazing!

The concert will feature three artists: Ben Rudnick & Friends, Charlie Hope, and Suzie Shelton. The event will be hosted by Rik Barron who will also play some of his kids songs between sets. It’s going to be a really fun show.

The concert will be at First Church Boston on October 30th from 10:30am to 12pm. Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for kids. For more info visit http://kidsbeet.eventbrite.com/

Today, we recorded a really fun phone interview with Trace Beaulieu and Len Peralta about their book Silly Rhymes for Belligerent Children. We had to edit it down a lot for the radio (it’ll air this Saturday), but here’s the full thing, unedited:

Trace Beaulieu and Len Peralta

The book is hilarious.  It is available now via tracebeaulieu.com (click on the link at the bottom of the “Under Construction” page) and you should get it.

Listen any time at WRSI.com!

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – James K. Polk (Factory Showroom)
Dog on Fleas – Give It Away (When I Get Little)
Matt Clark – Sitting Up Straight (Funnier Little Fella)
ID
Elizabeth Mitchell & Family – Green, Green Rocky Road (with Dan Zanes) (Sunny Day)
Keith Munslow – Watchin’ All the Cars Go By
ID

Segment 2
Pete Seeger with the Rivertown Kids – De Colores (Tomorrow’s Children)
Bill Harley – A Walk Around the Block
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock
Primal Scream – Movin’ On Up
ScribbleMonster – All Ready To Go!
ID

Segment 3
Salteens – I’m So Happy (Kid Songs)
REM – Furry Happy Monsters
ID
Cloud Cult – Today We Give Ourselves to the Fire
Pop-Ups – Up and Down
Artichoke – The Commune
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Keller Williams Guest DJ Set:
1 louis prima – i wana be like you
2 jerry garcia david grisman – jenny jenkins
3 toots and the maytals – country roads
4 cake – mahna mahna

Segment 5
Keller Williams Guest DJ Set 2:
1 Keller Williiams – mama tooted
2 pointer sisters – Twelve
3 choo choo soul – bullet train
4 tom t hall sneaky snake
5 Presidents of the united states of america – dune buggy

Segment 6
ID
Lunch Money vs. Grody – You Are Here (Remix)
Frances England – Mind of My Own (Mind of My Own)
ID
Jim Cosgrove – Cool Daddy (Swimming in Noodles)
Buckwheat Zydeco – Zydeco Boogaloo
Justin Roberts – New Haircut
ID
TMBG – Alphabet of Nations
TMBG – Spare the Rock

We had a wonderful time on Sunday afternoon at the Pines.  Perfect weather, a lovely venue, great help, and, above all, terrific performances.

You can find photos from the day at Josh Stearns’s Flickr Set, Tom Adams’s Facebook album, and my Facebook album.  I’ve set up a YouTube playlist (embedded below) with the videos I’ve posted and a montage Tom Adams (of Reelife Productions) put together; I’ll add more videos to that if I come across them.  You can also go to my YouTube channel to see my videos separately.  The videos include Dan Zanes and Elizabeth Mitchell & Family, all performing together for the first time in public (joined by a bunch of other folks, including Tony Vacca, Rani Arbo, Scott Kessel, and others!).

I don’t know the precise numbers yet, but I can say safely that we raised thousands of dollars.  Thanks to all of you and to all of our amazing sponsors for the support!

And, as I noticed late in the day, the day of this event marked exactly six months out from Meltdown 2011!

Listen any time at WRSI.com.

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – QU
John Coltrane – Favorite Things
Randy Kaplan – Loquat Rooftop
ID
Robbie Fulks – Browns Ferry Blues (Old Town School of Folk Music Songbook: Vol 1)
Stan Ridgway & Pietra Wexstun – Spider’s Web
The Good Miss Padgett – I’m a Little Doodlebug
ID

Segment 2
Lunch Money – You Are Here (Many Hands)
Okee Dokee Brothers – Lucy and Tighty (Take It Outside)
ID/prep to rock
The Not-Its! – When I’m Five
Dressy Bessy – Electrified
Liz Phair & Material Issue – The Tra La La La Song
ID

Segment 3
Mono Puff – Guitar Was the Case
Ventures – Spudnik (Surf Rider)
ID
Free Energy – Dream City
Ben Harper – With My Own Two Hands
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Secret Handshake (Underground Playground)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Mike Doughty – 27 Jennifers (Rockity Roll)
Deedle Deedle Dees – Si Se Puede
Dan Zanes – Verde Luz
ID
Van Morrison – Cleaning Windows

Segment 5
ID
Elizabeth Mitchell – Keep On the Sunny Side
Big Star – Watch the Sunrise
ID/Book Time with Ella
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem – If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out
Lucky Diaz – This Old Man
ID

Segment 6
Breeders – Invisible Man (Last Splash)
Grenadilla – Arabella Angelique (Many Hands: Family Music for Haiti)
ID
Recess Monkey – Not Fast Cheetah
Yo-Yo Ma & Bobby McFerrin – Bumblebee
Paul Weller – Fast Car, Slow Traffic
Bonerama – You’ve Got a Friend in Me (Funky Kidz)
ID
TMBG – Apartment 4
TMBG – Spare the Rock

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Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Sleepwalkers
Trout Fishing in America – Alien in My Nose
Cocteau Twins – Sugar Hiccup (BBC Sessions)
ID
Moby feat. Chrissi Polland – Sleep So Very Long

Segment 2
Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers – Beautiful Day
Elizabeth Mitchell – Reggae in the Fields (Sunny Day)
ID/prep to rock
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock
Lunch Money – Dizzy
AudraRox – Sugar High
Trip Shakespeare – Two Wheeler, Four Wheeler
Uncle Rock – Magic Carpet Ride
ID

Segment 3
Royal Order of Chords and Keys – Cookies & Milk
Wilson Pickett – Land of 1,000 Dances
ID
Bunny Clogs – Confessions of Teenage Lima Been
Prince – Get on the Boat
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Alexandra & the Good Batch – DEMAND (Extended Playdate)
Quiet Ones – Ultrafoot
ID
Steve Forbert – Autumn This Year
Old 97’s – The Bug Song
ID
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – Ride the Butterflies (Underground Playground)
ID

Segment 5
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem – Purple People Eater
The Boy Least Likely To – When Life Gives Me Lemons I Make Lemonade
Ditty Bops – Lemon Tree
ID
David Tobocman – Hello, Goodbye
Recess Monkey – Book Time with Ella
ID/Book Time with Ella (Anne’s House of Dreams)
Beatles – Yellow Submarine

Segment 6
Dean Jones – Sing Like a Sparrow
Gustafer Yellowgold – Penguin Day
ID
Dreyer Family Band – Home
Michael Franti & Spearhead – Home
Tom Waits – Long Way Home
ID
TMBG – My Brother the Ape
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Ella talked about Anne’s House of Dreams. Follow the link to find it for sale from an independent bookseller:

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