SuperBee
459 posts
Jul 28, 2012
1:31 AM
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ha ha, we just played a kiddy matinee show supporting a well-established aussie children's entertainer. he has been around for 20-odd years and now also plays overage shows for his 20-something previous generation fans....
anyway, because it was a show for kids we had low volume..the lowest volume show i have ever played...my big DeVille up on stage, un-miked...all i could hear on stage was drums vocals and harp...that was a first...of course i'll need the big amp tonight for the overage show
really weird playing for kids...i can see how people can do it for a job...what a fantastic audience...i couldnt stop smiling
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Frank
932 posts
Jul 28, 2012
7:07 AM
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Madcat does childrens events - I think he has a CD of childrens songs he did too.
What were some of the songs you guys did for the kids?
http://www.madcatmusic.net/kids.html
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Pistolcat
233 posts
Jul 28, 2012
7:28 AM
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Kids are the best! As I have been learning playing during my paternal leave I have been playing around of a lot of playgrounds with my daughter. You always get a crowd of wide eyed kids listening. As a result I think I have learned all Astrid Lindgren song there is.
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Pistolkatt - Pistolkatts youtube
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BronzeWailer
737 posts
Jul 28, 2012
3:02 PM
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Good on you SuperBee. Kids love the harp. As Pistolcat says, they seem to be wondering how you can make such a great sound with such a small object. I am also in wonder.
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SuperBee
460 posts
Jul 28, 2012
4:14 PM
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We opened and closed with "mama don't allow no..."
Things which mama didn't allow include mandolin, harmonica, armpit noise. At the overage shows there are a couple of other tricks, but not appropriate for littlies.
I played "chicken train" while a couple of band members led a silly chicken dance. That went over very well.
We had tap dancing to a cover of winehouses' back to black, with lyrics tamed down. Not the best song choice, but no chance to get the dancer to work up a different act. It's a nice melody on the harp anyway. C harp in 3rd position. Plenty of kids in the audience were dancers, and they were right into it. I hope they don't go seek out the song though. There was a juggling act to an improv 12 bar built around Folsom prison blues, hula hooping to an original number, and some contortion from the mandolin player who ended with his ankles behind his neck, and picking "wipeout" on the mandolin. The two main vocalists in the band wrote lyrics for wipeout in about 20 minutes before we went on. We had a couple of other songs, originals which are quite silly. "broken refrigerator blues", "fruit platter".
The licensee at the venue commented later that we could reinvent as a kids band. It's true we have the personable interactive front people to do it. Material is fairly easy I think.
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