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Confetti Park Players at the New Orleans Jazz Fest!
Read more: Confetti Park Players at the New Orleans Jazz Fest!The Confetti Park Players will be featured at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 2016! We will be at the Kids Tent on Saturday, April 23 in the morning. More details coming soon.
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Music Memory from Emily Estrella
Read more: Music Memory from Emily EstrellaEmily Estrella is a singer who has spent the last several years singing traditional jazz and original tunes around the French Quarter and Marigny music clubs. You can even catch her busking on the streets of New Orleans on occasion. She “has an ‘old soul’ voice evoking the Dixie ghosts of a previous century. Charismatic…
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Music Memory from Leonard Service
Read more: Music Memory from Leonard ServiceIn this episode of Confetti Park, we hear a childhood music memory from Leonard Service of Shreveport, Louisiana. Leonard plays mandolin and guitar regularly with different groups such as Slydell and the Slippery Slope, the New Levee Serenaders, Trashcan Jinga and more. He’s also a member of the Friends of Lead Belly. Leonard grew up…
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If Ever I Cease to Love by AJ Loria & the Confetti Park Players
Read more: If Ever I Cease to Love by AJ Loria & the Confetti Park PlayersIt’s January 6… Twelfth Night! Officially Carnival Season! To celebrate, the Confetti Park Players have created this very special video to share with you. Here, they perform “If Ever I Cease to Love” with the great A.J. Loria, King Nino, a.k.a. the Louisiana Lounge Lizard. “If Ever I Cease to Love” is the royal anthem…
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If Ever I Cease to Love by AJ Loria & the Confetti Park Players
Read more: If Ever I Cease to Love by AJ Loria & the Confetti Park PlayersIt’s January 6… Twelfth Night! Officially Carnival Season! To celebrate, the Confetti Park Players have created this very special video to share with you. Here, they perform “If Ever I Cease to Love” with the great A.J. Loria, King Nino, a.k.a. the Louisiana Lounge Lizard. “If Ever I Cease to Love” is the royal anthem…
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Storytime: The Lord’s Supper by Ms. Chocolate
Read more: Storytime: The Lord’s Supper by Ms. ChocolateIn this episode of Confetti Park, we hear a wonderful and true childhood story from the Louisiana-born storyteller Ms. Chocolate. This is a story about when she attended her first Lord’s Supper at the Galilee Baptist Church in Alexandria, Louisiana. Ms. Chocolate was only four years old, but she was looking forward to the supper…
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Music Memory from Hazel Schlueter
Read more: Music Memory from Hazel SchlueterHazel Schlueter is well known for her old time country music and bluegrass show on WWOZ (90.7 FM in New Orleans) and for her musical performances as the band leader of Hazel & the Delta Ramblers. In this episode of Confetti Park, Hazel shares a music memory from her early childhood. When she was just…
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Music Medley: Frogs & Lizards & Flies
Read more: Music Medley: Frogs & Lizards & FliesConfetti Park is a community radio program out of New Orleans. We feature local storytellers and songs that kids love, songs created for kids, or created by kids, right here in Louisiana. This medley of kids music shows the diversity of Louisiana musicians. Songs featured in this episode, in order: Strolling Along – Johnette Downing…
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The Little Mouse Santi named among Best Books of 2015 by Kirkus Reviews!
Read more: The Little Mouse Santi named among Best Books of 2015 by Kirkus Reviews!Louisiana-based children’s workshop Confetti Park is honored to announce that its first publication, The Little Mouse Santi, written by New Orleans author David Eugene Ray, has been named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2015. Kirkus Reviews has named The Little Mouse Santi, a children’s book about a mouse who wants to be a cat,…
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Interview: Judy Caplan Ginsburgh shares Jewish culture through music
Read more: Interview: Judy Caplan Ginsburgh shares Jewish culture through musicIn this edition of Confetti Park, Katy Ray sits down with Judy Caplan Ginsburgh of Alexandria, La. to talk about children’s music. Judy has been creating music for children since 1981! Among the topics they discuss: what kinds of songs do little kids love? How does Judy share her Jewish heritage through song? Judy specializes in music…
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Storytime: The Kitty at the Manger by Mary Jean Chester
Read more: Storytime: The Kitty at the Manger by Mary Jean ChesterIt’s Christmas Storytime on Confetti Park! You’ve heard about the friendly beasts in the manger, who all gave their own special gift to the baby Jesus, who was born in a stable so rude. There was the donkey, who gave mother Mary a ride, and the cow, who gave up her manger and hay for…
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Music Memory from Roger Lewis
Read more: Music Memory from Roger LewisNew Orleans musician Roger Lewis shares a childhood music memory with Confetti Park about his first love, the saxophone. Roger Lewis has had a wonderful career in music that keeps him traveling around the world to this day. The baritone saxophonist is a founding member of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, which began in 1977!…
