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Fun visit from Danny & Yosi!  Here’s what we played:

Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG – Pictures of Pandas Painting (Here Come the ABCs)
Charlie Hope – I’m Me! (I’m Me!)
The Whites – Keep On the Sunny Side (O Brother Where Art Thou?)
Ben Rudnick & Friends – I Need a Hand (A Frog Named Sam)
ID
Justin Roberts – All Eyes On You

Segment 2
Purple Stripes – Aba Daba Honeymoon
Moonlighters – Makin’ Wickey-Wackey Down in Waikiki (Surrender)
Joe McDermott – Come To Hawaii (Hawaiian Playground)
ID/prep to rock
Ramones – Rockaway Beach
Boogers – This Song is About Transportation! (Road to Rock)
Verve Pipe – We Had to Go Home
ScribbleMonster – All Ready to Go (Songs With No Character)
ID

Segment 3
Los Lobos – I Wanna Be Like You (Los Lobos Goes Disney)
Hipwaders – Little Baby Brother (Educated Kid)
Key Wilde & Mr Clarke – Favorite Names
ID
Billy Kelly – I Don’t Know! (Thank You for Joining the Happy Club)
Pizzicato Five – Twiggy Twiggy (Made in USA)

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Egg – Summer Today (Sunny Side Up)
Baze & His Silly Friends – I Got the ABCs (feat. Ah-Choo)
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo – I Like Fruit (feat. Egg)
ID
Us 3 – Cantaloop

Segment 5
Danny & Yosi in-studio

Segment 6
ID
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem – Wildflowers (Ranky Tanky)
Velvet Underground – I’m Sticking With You
Deedle Deedle Dees – Tub-Tub-Ma-Ma-Ga-Ga (American History + Rock & Roll = Deedle Deedle Dees)
ID
Bunny Clogs – Olive’s Olives
ID
TMBG – Roy G. Biv (Here Comes Science)
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Now that we’re in 2010, let’s take a look at the River’s Family Music Meltdown and Book Bash.  So far we’ve announced:

Elizabeth Mitchell & Friends
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem
Uncle Rock & the Playthings
Dog on Fleas

…and a ton more to come!  I’m not sure there will be another single kids’ music event with a better lineup this year.  Certainly there won’t be a free event that comes close.

Plus, on the book side we’ve got Mo Willems and, just announced, Diane deGroat and Shelley Rotner, authors of Dogs Don’t Brush Their Teeth.  (Two more authors are yet to be announced.)

We’re also adding a third performance area this year, focusing more on storytelling and the like, and we’ll have activities, vendors, food, and all sorts of amazing other stuff for you to enjoy — and admission remains free.  Yes, free!

Last year we had around 2,000 people come through and have a great time.  If you’d like to talk about being a vendor or a sponsor, please get in touch with me (show AT sparetherock DOT com) and I’ll put you in touch with the relevant folks at the station.  Sponsorship and vendor prices will go up on January 15, so drop a line soon if you’re interested.

Danny and Yosi put on a great show at Cup & Top Cafe today, and also stopped by the studios to record an in-studio with us that we’ll air on Saturday.  Here’s one song, “She Just Doesn’t Get It,” from their new holiday CD, …And a Happy New Year.

Just a friendly reminder that we’re presenting a free show with Danny Adlerman and Yosi today at 4:00 at Cup & Top Cafe in Florence Center.  More fun will not be had in all the thirteen colonies.

I really, really like the new Renee & Jeremy CD, C’mon.  Where their first album was, as I said at the time, flat-out gorgeous and mellow, this one is flat-out gorgeous and up-tempo.  The vocal interplay remains as sweet as it gets, but now, after the It’s A Big World-induced nap, you can boogie with C’mon.

So I was pleased as can be to accept the offer of giving y’all a free download of the lead-off track, “Share.”  This will be up for one week only, so get downloadin’ while the downloadin’ is good!

Here it is:

You can celebrate the new year in a couple of ways this week:

First up, on Tuesday at 4, Danny Adlerman & Yosi will play a free after-school show at Cup & Top Cafe in Florence.  These guys have been mainstays of the show since the very start and have released (along with Kevin Kammeraad) a great winter record, “…And a Happy New Year.”  Bucket of fun, this will be.  (And they’ll be on the show on Saturday.)

Then on Saturday at 3, Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem will have a CD release party at First Churches, benefiting Nontuck Community  Preschool.  The band’s new CD, Ranky Tanky, is more fun than is allowed in some countries.  You should be there.

I’ve been so excited about our Meltdown announcements and the like that I’ve almost entirely forgotten to talk here about the fact that Elizabeth Mitchell will be in town on Saturday, February 6, at 1:00, doing a benefit for the Northampton Community Music Center.  The show will be at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, and it’s just $6 at the door (cash only, doesn’t include admission to the museum).  Later in the spring, we’ll welcome to the series Uncle Rock for a solo show as well as Debbie & Friends and Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem.  So: Mark your calendars for what promises to be a lovely afternoon with Liz and friends!