Posts Tagged: kids

Rappers’ Delight Club

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You may have heard these rappers without knowing who they were. These elementary age children from Maryland are on The Go! Team’s latest record. But they’re at least as wonderful rapping on their own. Really, check them out, they’re surprisingly irresistible, and just plain surprising. Here they’re rapping over…wait for it…Jens Lekman, Swedish pop troubadour,… Read more »

Cardboard box music

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What happens when you give a two-and-a-half year old boy a cardboard box and then tell him to destroy it?…can you make music from it? W J Kington did. The results are awesome! I think this just might make the list of my top 5 songs of 2007. Give it a listen: W J Kington:… Read more »

My nephew the sax player

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I just found out that my nephew is learning to play the saxophone. His mom says that after some practice he’s been learning to play at a lower-than-full-blast volume, which she must appreciate. I want to hear him play. I gotta visit or at least hear him play over the phone soon.

How I came to Santa Cruz

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I first arrived in beautiful Santa Cruz, California in 1984, intending to get an undergraduate degree at UCSC. I had been more or less miserable up to this time, due to poor health and depression. I wasn’t able to handle university courses, but by the time I dropped out I was double-digging garden beds with… Read more »