Boston Children’s Music has been a fun site to write for and we feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to meet so many talented local artists. But all good things must come to an end and with my energy focused on WonderBaby.org I just can’t put in the effort here required to keep this site up and running.

So, for now, Boston Children’s Music is officially retired.

I am hopeful that I will be able to return to it someday or that maybe someone else will pick up the mantle and take the site over. I’d be happy to hand over the duties of writing and reviewing CDs to anyone who feels inclined to do so! If you’d like to discuss the possibilities, please contact me.

Thanks!

This is a big weekend for Boston fans of Gustafer Yellowgold!

Gustafer creator, Morgan Taylor, will be on the awesome radio program, The Playground, this Saturday at 6pm. Tune your dial to WERS at 88.9 FM and listen to Morgan talk about his music and play some Gustafer songs. All for free and in your living room – what could be better?

Actually, I think maybe a live performance at Coolidge Corner may be better. So after listening to Gustafer on the radio on Saturday night, why not head on out to Coolidge Corner in Brookline on Sunday morning to see the show live and in person?

The Gustafer Yellowgold show will be on Sunday, November 13th at 10:30 am. Tickets are $7.75 for kids and $9.75 for adults. You can buy tickets in advance here.

Celebrate the harvest with this beautiful kids song from South Africa: Here Come Our Mothers… Bringing Us Presents. The song, mp3, video, lyric sheet music and coloring pages are all free.

Also, enter to win a chance to win a beautiful, hand-crafted rainstick gourd by signing up for Daria’s monthly music e-newsletter!

Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15 to October 15th each year.

Multicultural Children’s Performer DARIA offers some fun musical ways to celebrate the diverse Hispanic and Latin American cultures through some fun and easy homemade musical instruments. Check them out here or on her monthly free song page.

Looking for some free summer fun for you and the kids?

Check out Daria’s world music for kids website. On this Parent’s Choice Award-Winning site, you can find free songs each month plus activities, games and contests. This month, you can get the limbo song for free, find out about the history of the limbo (in English and Spanish), and enter a contest to win a musical washboard with your name on it!

If you can’t wait to win the contest, there’s also a great craft activity where you can make your own washboard from recycled materials or a drum that sounds like the surf of the sea.

When the weather’s hot, here are some nice ways to make cool music! Check out www.dariamusic.com.

There’s a hot new music spot to help fill those hot Summer days!

Both jeanniemack and Stacey Peasley (two of our favorite local artists) will be playing weekly sing alongs through out the summer at Angora Cafe and Angora Ice.

Stacey will be playing on Wednesdays at 1pm at their Chestnut Hill location and jeanniemack will be playing Tuesdays at 11am at their Boston location. Both sing alongs will continue through Summer until the end of August. Stacey’s performances will be outside, so if the weather is rainy there won’t be any music that day.

Check out Angora Cafe and Angora Ice for directions and details.

April 22nd is Earth Day and you can get yourself a completely green children’s music CD to celebrate Earth Day for free!

Get 6 Earth-Friendly songs FREE from popular multicultural children’s performer Daria. How do you do it? Just send her a suggestion of one thing that you can do to love the Earth. There’s also a wonderful poster giveaway and recycled art and musical crafts. You can find out all about it on Daria’s website, just click on the EARTH DAY 2011 tab:

www.dariamusic.com

Or check out the new 1,000 Ways To Love The Earth blog here:

1000waystolovetheearth.wordpress.com

I’d like to introduce everyone to Thelonious Rockwell, the newest member of the Boston Children’s Music team.

I’m very pleased to announce that Thelonious will be doing some writing for this website and that he is excited to listen to lots of new kids’ music and tell you all about it! I’m still getting to know the little guy myself, but as you can see he clearly has an interest in music.

So stay tuned for more from Thelonious as he lets you know about new kids’ releases and cool children’s music. And if you’d like your CD reviewed by Thelonious, just let us know!

In the meantime, be sure to visit our calendar of events to find great live music shows in your area. Winter time is the perfect time for a concert!

Popular children’s performer Daria is offering a free song download this month of her “I HAVE A DREAM” song to celebrate Martin Luther King Day.

Based on Martin Luther King’s famous speech, the “I Have A Dream” song has become popular in schools, classrooms, and community organizations to celebrate this day across the USA.

Free MP3 download, lyric sheets, sheet music and even two beautiful mini coloring posters can be found at Daria’s Parents Choice Award-winning children’s music website at: www.dariamusic.com.

Boston Children’s Music sprouted from a conversation with my husband after we attended an amazing show at TCAN. The show had been sparsely attended and we felt that someone out there should start a website dedicated to helping promote local artists and telling Massachusetts families about all the live music shows going on in the area.

We got home, saw that the domain name was available, and the rest is history.

I’ve been working on the site for about a year and a half now and it’s been an amazing experience. We’ve gotten to know so many talented local children’s musicians and I feel like the site has become an important part of the kids’ music scene here in Boston.

But I’ve been running the site as a mom who has some free time while her son’s at school. It’s never been something I’ve done for profit and it’s always been something to do as a hobby. I’m fortunate enough now that I can say I don’t have as much free time at my disposal—but it also means that I’m going to have to say goodbye to Boston Children’s Music.

I’m hoping to find either a person or an organization who might take over the site and continue creating a valuable resource for local musicians and fans. I know the site has huge potential and I already feel that it’s become very important to the artists as well as to many, many fans. I’d be very sad to see the site languish and hope someone will want to continue providing a music calendar, reviews, interviews, and insight into the music scene in Boston and around New England. It’s a lot of work, but it’s very much worth it!

I’ve decided that I will have to stop working on the site by the end of the year—which is looming! If anyone is interested in talking to me about taking over the site, please contact me! To everyone else, thank you for reading this blog and I hope to see you at a concert soon!