Kindie Rock Stars

Jada Siwak, creative force for Jada's Children's Music and Books, joins the show from still snowy Northern Ontario to share her new album called Healthy Feelings.  We talk about what inspired her to make this album and about the children's books she's working on inspired by the songs.   Songs from "Healthy Feelings" featured in this episode include:  1 - Healthy Feeli...

In celebration of the release of Kindies Do the 80's Volume 4, I do a project overview to date by way of a special countdown.  I rank the 49 songs that have appeared on the 4 volumes based on the number of Spotify streams the Original Version of the songs we covered have to date.  Then for each, I'll play a little snippet of our cover version until we get to the Top 5, where I play the f...

Anne Montone and Jen Nice from Again Again return to the show to talk about their awesome collaboration with Mista Cookie Jar called "Thank You Teacher".  We also catch up on what Again Again has been up to since their Season 3 appearance on the show and what's coming up in the near future. Find the Song at: Spotify Coming May 3rd! The Featured song will be added to the KINDIE ROCK...

Kim Noller joins the show to talk about her debut children's album "Watch Me Grow" and how her teaching job rekindled a passion for writing songs and launching this new phase of her career.  She features 2 songs from the album and shares their stories and how the videos were put together.  Songs featured on this episode include::  1 - My Sunshine 2 - Watch Me Grow YouTube Episode Li...

Cory McAtee returns to the show with an awesome new song, a total ear worm called "Rock With Me"!  She shares the story behind that song and as a bonus, we re-visit the song that propelled her into the kind music scene.  I've also had the honor of working with Cory on 2 songs for my Kindies Do the 80's album series, ones that have her primed as an honorary member of Bananarama!...

Our good friend Van Sereno returns to the show to talk about his new album "Fables" and how famous fables from the past inspired his unique style of song storytelling for this album .  We cover the importance we both put into making music videos and how he has used that extensively for this new album and his last one.  He shares some songs and song stories with us.   Songs featured in th...

Grammy Nominated duo Andrew & Polly join the show to talk about a wide variety of fun, musical topics!  An amazing story about how their first few songs caught on is followed by a discussion of their podcast called Ear Snacks.  After that, we talk about their Grammy nominated album featured here on the show called "Ahhhhh!", their Grammy award experience and share a few songs and son...

Children's Musician and accomplished Voice Actress Debi Derryberry joins the show and tells us about her amazing career doing VoiceOver work in some of the most highly recognized cartoons as well as how she started making music for children and families. Her new album, Gotta Go Green is featured and she shares the stories behind some of the great songs on the album.  Songs featured on this sh...

Riley Max, daughter of our very own Doctor Noize (Cory Cullinan), joins the show from Harvard U to talk about her debut album ROYGBIV and the creative influences of growing up with a musical dad (who also joins the show!).  Riley shines on this album and she features 4 songs from the album, with a great story behind each one.  Songs featured include:  1 - Blue 2 - Yellow 3 - Red 4 - Violet YouTube...

Find out why Mr Jeff is Fun!  Jeff Klemm joins the show to talk about how his journey through his musical life led him to the super fun artist we all know as Mr Jeff.   He talks about his newest album Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful and shares some great songs and song stories with us.  Songs featured in this episode include:  1 - Loud in the Library 2 - Wonderful Wonderful Wonderful 3 - Sleepover 4...

Frank Gallo of Rolie Polie Guacamole joins the show on our Season 5 premier to talk about the origins of the band, approach to music and album making, their influences and how one of their biggest fans inadvertently helped them get over 40 Million views on a YouTube video!  This superfan also was a creative force in one of the featured songs.  Songs featured in this episode include:  From "Di...

Beth Bayley and her daughter Vivienne, a member of Swiss band Schwiizer Kiddies, join the show to talk about the origins of the group by its founder and song composer Urs Guggisberg.  They share some incredibly fun songs from their album "Let's Go Los" and this episode mirrors a music video feature you can find on YouTube at the link below.  They are joined by Swiss Punk'n&apos...

Artist and Producer Nicole Porter of You and Us returns to the show to talk about her latest album "Calming a Panic" and shares some amazing songs from the album.  Tracks include: 1 - Shake Shake 2 - Earth Candy 3 - Abacabama 4 - Do the Vowel Howl 5 - Stay Wild Moon Child Find the Album at:   Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/30zEgQb6CFUTLvgpIwfqQD?si=PylefOWeQAeJ7N3KfaM15w The Feat...

Suzanne Jamieson joins the show to talk about her journey into kindie music and to spread some holiday cheer!  She shares some fun Christmas and New Year's Eve songs, including:  1 - Santa's a Surfer 2 - Christmas Eve 3 - Sequine Find the Artist at: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/35fSQa6lSf7H4znKvQci1V?si=-iEymdKcSMSpHB4wGoPk5g The Featured songs have been added to the KINDIE RO...

Symon Hajjar, creative force behind Hot Toast Music Company, joins the show to feature newest album "All the Feels" and talk about his journey into kindie music.  He also shares the cute inspiration behind the band name.  Songs featured from the album include:  1 - Made for Feelings 2 - Kindness Rocks 3 - I Want Monster 4 - Peace Rainbow 5 - Please Listen to My Words Find the Album at: S...

Adam Donmoyer, affectionately known as "DAdam" (Dad + Adam) joins the show to talk about his family band with his wife and 3 sons called Rockaroni and Cheese.  A fascinating career is covered going back to having his early music praised by the legendary Dr Demento, the long and winding 5 year journey to finishing their self-titled album and all of the important contributors along the way...

Live Performance by Strawbitty Yops on the Kindie Rock Stars Podcast, featuring songs from their latest album What Does Love look Like: Live Songs Featured: What Does Love Look Like Let's Get Excited Level Up YouTube Video Link:  https://youtu.be/BWvdtOEqdk8 Kindie Rock Stars showcases some of the best children's bands and musicians, with artist stories, song stories, songs and live perf...

Emily McKnight, known in the children's music community as Emily Who, joins the show from Sydney, Australia to talk about how the stars aligned for her to start making music for kids.  She also talks about her inspiration for the name Emily Who.  She shares 5 song stories and songs from the album, including:   1 - Does a Duck Go Woof 2 - Like an Elephant 3 - Sing-a-long Song 4 - Off We Go 5 -...

Susie Tallman of Susie Tallman Music joins the show to talk about her new album "Let's All Sing!" and share some amazing stories about her musical journey (working with big name bands in the 90's, being an early part of Interscope Records with Jimmy Iovine and much more).  She shares 5 song stories and songs from the album, including:  1 - Garden of Sounds 2 - The Crawdad Song...

Levity Beet joins us from the beautiful country of New Zealand to talk about his unique inspiration to the world of music and his journey as not only an artist, but as a Producer and even a musical instrument creator!  He shares the story behind the song "The Shivers" and the children's game that inspired it. See a video by the musical influence referenced in the show (David Hollis)...

Marisa from Young Folkies returns to the show to talk about her new album "Will You Sing With Me" and shares 5 song stories and songs from the album, including:   1 - Kindness (It Will Come Back to You) - Featuring Claudia Robin Gunn 2 - Will You Sing With Me (inspired by Raffi) 3 - Far From My Family 4 - Hooray (It's a Very Good Day) 5 - Mother Nature Find the Album at: Spotify htt...

Ashley Mills Monaghan returns to the show to talk about a really cool collaboration with Uncle Dox that resulted in a remixed combination of Ashley's song "If I Tell Myself I Can" and Uncle Dox's song "Fish".  The result is a new and fresh version of both.  As an added bonus, we close the show with the 80's cover of "I Think We're Alone Now" featur...

Julieann Hartley, better known as Miss Julieann, joins the show to share her incredible and inspirational story.  From working with children who have suffered a trauma to her battle with Lyme disease to the birth of her newborn baby, hers is also a major story of strength and resilience.  She tells the story behind her album "Resilient Child" and shares some songs with us, including:  1...

I am my own guest this episode!  I give an update on the direction of the Kindie Rock Stars podcast, which includes a potential fun new addition for Season 5.  I also talk about my new album "Adventure Time with Patrick", working with Producer Erick Gatchalian and vocalist Tin Gatchalian,  and I feature 5 songs, including:   1 - Kindie Music Show 2 - Roller Coaster King 3 - Trampoline Qu...

Joining us from Vancouver, Canada is Dustin Sacks, the creative force behind Koobee.  He talks about his journey from indie rock band to children's musician and the wonderfully fun story behind the featured song "Go Daddy Go". Find the Song at: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/0jkBCTZ48bTGiSSfNMkGz9?si=42069ebe711648e7 Go Daddy Go has been added to the KINDIE ROCK STARS Season...