The other day it hit me. I listen to music on Pandora all the time. Why not create a station for the kids?I selected a new station, typed in Laurie Berkner and then modified it with They Might Be Giants and Barenaked Ladies. I taught Christopher (age 4) how to click on the thumbs up if he likes a song and we started listening to some GREAT kid's music!
For those unfamiliar with Pandora it's a service that uses the Music Genome Project to bring your favorite music right to you. Basically you tell it what you like and it finds other music that you'll probably like and plays it all over your computer. You can create different channels based on they type of music you want to hear (one for 80's punk, one for Christmas jazz, one for the kids). Then click on thumbs up or thumbs down if there are songs that you REALLY like (or don't). There are ads every once and a while but WAY less than a radio station.
The kids love the music and I love hearing something new... instead of the same music over and over and over and over.
See this link on Parent Hacks!
What a nice blog you have..thanks for all this information.
ReplyDeleteI've avoided Pandora as part of my "justification for my iPod" project, so I found the site Free Kids Music: http://freekidsmusic.com/
ReplyDeleteYou can even subscribe to their RSS feed, so that you get notified of new music that has been posted, which happens about once a month! Some of it is great, and some of it is not.
I wish Pandora worked in Canada!
ReplyDeleteSome of our favourite kid's musicians (in the same vein as those above) are Justin Roberts, The Terrible Twos, Lisa Loeb & Elizabeth Mitchell and Brady Rymer. For classics, we love Raffi. :)
we do Pandora all the time at home....that and Playlist.com LOVE THEM!!!
ReplyDeleteWe posted this on the Laurie Berkner Band Facebook fan page. Thanks so much!!!
ReplyDelete(Following up: Look at you getting on the LBB Facebook page! Congrats!)
ReplyDeletePandora is very cool. Thanks for sharing it. I can't quite figure out how to get our music included, but I'll keep looking. Love your site!
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I'll definitely check this out! thanks! I've been wanting to hear the BNL kids' music since I really like a lot of their other stuff. I'm tired of hearing the same songs over and over again too. :P
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome! Thanks for posting about this. I'm using it to finally listen to some "mom music" though. : )
ReplyDeleteThanks! My dd has been asking for LB's "Family" song!
ReplyDeletegreat blog. Is there anyway to follow you RSS or get updates by email?
ReplyDeletefound you via parenthacks link, great idea
ReplyDeletehere in Ireland, we can't get Pandora (however I did submit my lullabye-esque project Sunflow, hopefully it's in the system now! i should ask my sister to search for it!
Hi! I'm here via Parent Hacks. We LOVE Pandora for kids' music, and we have a Laurie B. channel as well as the Ladies and TMBG! Great, great music for dancing with kids!
ReplyDeleteAmy!
ReplyDeleteThis is the singer we saw live at theStoryville @ BCPL Rosedale Library in Baltimore!
...and didn't the kids LOVE dancing around!
I must say my FAVORITE Laurie Berkner song is "The Cat Came Back" (written by Harry S. Miller in 1893).
Nana
Great idea! I've noticed that the more music we play, the happier a family we are. We're pretty obsessed with Collective Soul here (my husband's fave band). The kids even ask for it when it's dance time.
ReplyDeleteWe do that too, and I think we started with the same picks - Berkner, TMBG and Barenaked Ladies. Yay Pandora!
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