Dynamic Children's Songs For A New Generation / Va - Dynamic Children's Songs For A New Generation - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Featuring counting and activity games and songs from different cultural traditions. Performances from Langston Hughes, Woody Gutherie, Ella Jenkins, Lead Belly, Suni Paz, Pete Seeger and otehrs. Includes a 28-page booklet contains song descriptions, discogrphy, bibliography and a list of Smithsonian Fokways' children recrodings.

This fun collection features classic American tunes that the whole family can sing along to. The CD includes detailed liner notes and artist photos. Featuring Johnny Bregar, Aaron Watson, Victor Johnson, Guy Davis, Elizabeth Mitchell, Dan Zanes & Friends, Diane Taraz, Randy Kaplan, Buck Howdy, and Phil Rosenthal.

In Classic Folk Songs for Kids, curator Jeff Place culls a cross-section of 26 classics from the Smithsonian Folkways vaults to tell an intriguing story of American signature sing-alongs. The songs' origins are as fascinating as the songs are fun centuries-old European ballads, an American Revolutionary tune, 19th-century American folksongs, African-derived game songs, a sea chantey, a railroad jingle, camp songs, and even an opera song! And the singers themselves are a who's who of American folk music artistry-Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Cisco Houston, Suni Paz, Tom Glazer, Lord Invader, and many more. 56 minutes, 40-page booklet with lyrics.