Confetti Park Children's Workshop

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  • Music Medley: Honey Comb

    Music Medley: Honey Comb

    Confetti Park: A music medley of children’s songs from Louisiana

    Hi everybody! Enjoy this new medley of family friendly songs created in Louisiana. This episode of Confetti Park, which airs in its entirety on the lucky radio stations listed below, has songs that kids and the grownups will love, that reflect the unique culture of Louisiana and the American South. We’ve got songs about possums, bees, foxes, bubbles, and Cajun prairie trail rides. Listen up!

    honeycombSongs featured in this episode, in order:

    Pretty Purple Possums – Angela Mannino
    Joke of the Day: Honey Comb
    Bumblebee – Ginger & the Bee featuring the Confetti Park Players
    Here Comes Summer – Imagination Movers
    Vinegar – narrated by Louis Ray
    Bubbles – Jazzy Ash
    Take Me to the Trail Ride – Terrance Simien
    FoxHunt – Bruce Sunpie Barnes

    Also featured in this episode, the Storytime feature Foolish John, narrated by Ted Lindsay, and a music memory from Bruce Sunpie Barnes.

    About Confetti Park

    The Confetti Park hosted by Katy Hobgood Ray, features music and stories spun in Louisiana. It showcases songs that kids love, songs created for kids, and songs created by kids. Sparkling interviews, in-studio performances, delightful music medleys, jokes, local author storytime, and a little surprise lagniappe make for an entertaining show!

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    The radio program version launched on April 4, 2015 in New Orleans on WHIV FM and is supported by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation and Music Rising at Tulane University.

    Current broadcast schedule:

    A full list of Confetti Park stations (and a map) is available at https://confettipark.com/podcast/

    Community radio stations, interested in carrying Confetti Park? Contact Katy Ray.

     

     

  • Bruce Sunpie Barnes: The magic of my father’s music

    Bruce Sunpie Barnes: The magic of my father’s music

    Sunpie Barnes CD coverIn this episode of Confetti Park, we hear a childhood music memory from Bruce Sunpie Barnes, the talented and multifaceted blues harmonica player and zydeco accordionist from Louisiana.

    In addition to leading the zydeco band the Louisiana Sunspots, Bruce has had a long career as a ranger and naturalist at the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in Louisiana. (He also had a career in the world of NFL football, playing with the Kansas City Chiefs!) And he’s the photographer and author of Talk That Music Talk. Read more about his biography at All Music.

    Bruce’s music has always been a part of his life, and even as a naturalist, he found music an effective way to communicate about the culture and importance of the Louisiana environment. Bruce was one of the key producers on two-album compilation, the National Park Service: Songs of the Lower Mississippi Delta.

    Here Bruce shares a special memory of his father, who was one of his most important influences.

    “My earliest memory of anything to do with music was sitting on my father’s knee and listening to him play harmonica. He would work all day, and when he’d come home in the evening, I always wanted to hear him play his harmonica. And he’d play a song called “Coon ‘n the Hound” and make these barks like a dog…. and I was completely fascinated by it.

    I would sit on his knee and he would play for all my brothers and sisters (a lot of them), but I would just sit and I would try to figure out where all that sound was coming from.

    It was like magic. It was the first thing I ever associated with being magic.

    I would always think about that when I would go to bed, ‘I can’t wait till I get old enough so I can make some magic.‘”

  • Catch a reading of The Little Mouse Santi

    Author David Eugene Ray reading from The Little Mouse Santi. Photo by Sally Asher
    Author David Eugene Ray reading from The Little Mouse Santi. Photo by Sally Asher

    David Ray recently wrote a guest blog post for Elizabeth Dulemba about the genesis of The Little Mouse Santi and going the indie route to publishing a children’s book. Thank you, Elizabeth, for the opportunity to share our story!

    We had a wonderful time at our recent book signing in Shreveport, Louisiana. What a warm, receptive group of people who came to the Barnes & Noble on Youree Drive. We hope you are enjoying your books.

    Next up, on March 21, 2015 at 2 p.m., there will be a reading and book signing for The Little Mouse Santi at Barnes & Noble, 2590 CitiPlace Court, Baton Rouge, LA.

    Hope to see you there!