Confetti Park

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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.

     

     

  • Bumblebee, the animated music video!

    Bumblebee, the animated music video!

    The Confetti Park Players are a children’s chorus based here in New Orleans. One of our favorite things to do is to collaborate with other musicians who live in this amazing, creative city! We are SO lucky to be surrounded by and nurtured by so much talent.

    Our most recent collaboration  was with local folk-pop duo Ginger & the Bee (aka Sherri Montz and Scott Frilot). This duo perform around New Orleans and have other musical projects, including the beloved Vinyl Girls, Slack Adjustor, Skin & Bones, and the Tomatoes.

    Ginger & the Bee wrote a song specially for the Confetti Park Players—it’s called “Bumblebee.”

    Bumblebee, bumblebee, where is your honey? I want some honey for my honey!

    Bumblebee, bumblebee, where is your honey? I want some honey for me.

    Choir director Katy Ray taught the song to the kids over a few weeks, and one special Wednesday night, Ginger & the Bee came to our practice at Algiers United Methodist Church to record with the kids.

    After the recording was over, the kids went outside to play on the grass with Sherri to shoot some playful scenes with scarves.

    A few weeks later, the Confetti Park Players went to the Mini Art Center, a child-centric community arts center located in our very own Algiers Point, to do stop motion animation for the music video. We had such a great time creating this from drawings and recording footage. Molly and Prescott, who run the Mini Art Center, are great teachers.

    And, voila! Enjoy the final product!

    Confetti Park Players perform Ginger & the Bee from Mini Art Center on Vimeo.