Kids music with Katy Hobgood Ray
Children’s musician and storyteller Katy Hobgood Ray is available to do music sessions for your organization. Perfect for libraries, school assemblies, and kids camps.
Katy will sing interactive music (sometimes accompanied by a special guest or two). Folk songs, clapping songs, name games and circle dances are incorporated into an interactive presentation, sometimes featuring a short stories or folk tales weaved throughout. Rhythm sticks, bells, shakers and scarves often round out the fun. Can be tailored for the toddler set all the way through young teens. (Ages 2-14)
For older students, interactive music history, creative songwriting sessions and/or podcasting sessions are available. Katy is a professional podcaster and radio producer. LEARN MORE
Interested in booking? Email confettipark@gmail.com
The Confetti Park Players
Katy Hobgood Ray & the Confetti Park Players are a special musical team! Katy leads a fun mashup of a kids choir and fabulous, well-established adult New Orleans musicians. They sing catchy originals and familiar folk songs, jump rope jingles and clapping chants, and a few rock ‘n roll surprises. They’ve performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, French Quarter Fest, the Folk Art Fest, Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo, Beignet Fest, Creole Tomato Fest, Fête Française, and numerous venues around New Orleans. LEARN MORE
Interested in booking? Email confettipark@gmail.com
Musical Storytime with Confetti Park
Children’s librarians will LOVE our interactive musical storytime sessions! Katy Hobgood Ray and David Eugene Ray, award-winning children’s author, singer-songwriter and zookeeper, visit school libraries, school assemblies, and classrooms together to spread the love of reading and music! We will read storybooks from the Confetti Park workshop, and incorporate songs, games and rhythm games into an interactive presentation. Can be tailored for the toddler set all the way through young teens. (Ages 2-14) For older students, interactive music history, creative songwriting sessions and/or podcasting sessions are available. Interested in booking? Email confettipark@gmail.com
In the News
- Offbeat Magazine: Review of Katy Hobgood Ray, Long Way To Go (Confetti Park)
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- Offbeat Magazine: Katy Hobgood Ray Featuring Dave Ray, I Dream Of Water (Out Of The Past Music)
- New Orleans Magazine: People to Watch
- New Orleans Advocate: Confetti Park Players offer a colorful take on Louisiana music
- Tulane New Wave: Tulane takes Jazz Fest
- New album from Katy Hobgood Ray: Louisiana Oranges
- ParkBench: Meet Katy Hobgood Ray and the Confetti Park Players Children’s Chorus!
- Gambit Weekly: Gambit’s 40 Under 40, class of 2016
- NOLA Family: Lullabies and Lagniappe (Mompreneur Profile)
- Story Monster Ink: Katy Hobgood Ray Inspires a Love of Music with her Confetti Park Players
- Examiner.com: Real New Orleans park inspires children’s media workshop
- Children’s Music Network Blog: Partner Spotlight on Confetti Park
- WWL-TV: New Orleans Created CD Wins Big with Parents
- Old Algiers Main Street News: Katy Ray Engages Kids with Confetti Park Players
- We’re Going to Confetti Park! won a Parent’s Choice Award
- NewOrleans.me: A Kids’ Chorus Comes Up in Algiers
- Tulane New Wave: Tulane staffer creates Louisiana children’s music
- Macaroni Kids Westbank: Local CD features New Orleans kids music that grownups will love!
- NOLA.com/Times Picayune: Confetti Park Players children’s choir releases CD
- OffBeat Magazine: A more perfect world (record review)