Taking my son to his first music festival
The last time we went to a music festival, it was summer of 2009 and I was pretty pregnant. We stayed for about a day, and then we bailed — with much navel gazing and obsessing from me. WHAT DID IT MEAN? So that was three years ago. I’ve continued to dance, mostly at dance studios and very occasionally at clubs… but we had not made it back to a music festival. Then along came the Beloved Festival, in Oregon. I was contacted about doing an Offbeat Families workshop at Beloved, and so here’s how it all went down…
Jenny and Skot’s sunflower and music maternity session
Jenny and Skot took advantage of their last pre-baby vacation and had a friend shoot a few maternity photos — complete with happy sunflowers and music playing.
There’s a teenager in my house and he’s probably cooler than I am
I don’t know how or when he got here, but his voice is low, the top portion of his underwear is permanently visible, and he feels very strongly that Justin Bieber’s version of The Christmas Song should be played all year round.
Folk music for kids by Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash, and more
Finding music that young kids and adults can agree on can prove to be a challenge — there a lot of albums out there with debatable content (do you REALLY want to hear a group of kids sing “Mary Had a Little Lamb” for the 85 millionth time?). I recently stumbled into a whole treasure trove of folk music for children, including albums by Woody Guthrie and Johnny Cash. So if folk is your thing.. come on down and listen.
Eye Candy round-up: let’s all get our ogle on
It’s Eye Candy time! Wanna get in on the love? Drop a photo and a few sentences into our Flickr pool or send it to us.
Beautiful Freak: The Eels, my daughter, and me
[My daughter] Schuyler has always loved music, which is no surprise given that she’s been surrounded by it from day one, and I’ve always sung to her. The other day, we were singing an Eels song, Beautiful Freak. “Daddy,” she asks, “Am I a freak?”
Watch this dad lull his baby to sleep with Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters”
This baby was sleepy but still in the mood to sing, so when Dad pulled out the guitar for an acoustic sing-along to Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters it was the perfect bedtime remedy. Video after the jump!
Edit songs yourself to be karaoke party-friendly
If you’re the at-home karaoke party type then you KNOW you want to get the how-to’s, to rid yourself of those awkward solos moments, over on Offbeat Bride.