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  • Music Medley – Lettuce In!

    Music Medley – Lettuce In!

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    This medley of kids music shows the diversity of Louisiana musicians. Songs featured in this episode, in order:

    Whole World in His Hands – George Porter, Jr.
    Kazoo Song – Judy Caplan Ginsburgh
    I’m a Puppy – Mel Lecompte
    Louisiana Catahoula Leopard Dog – Don Abney & the Louisiana Pollywogs
    Messy Room Blues – Johnette Downing
    Ducks in a Nest – Belen Walker
    Inky Pinky Ponky – Nola Frazier
    Clean My Room – Imagination Movers
    Farmer in the Dell – Julieann Banks and Friends
    Goodbye – Red Wolf Brass Band

    Also featured in this episode, The Little Louisiana Pine Tree, and a music memory from Duane Petri.

    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, OffBeat magazine and Music Rising at Tulane University.

    Current broadcast schedule:

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

  • Storytime: The Ice Cream Cow by Mel Lecompte, Jr.

    Storytime: The Ice Cream Cow by Mel Lecompte, Jr.

    Ice Cream CowWhat do you do with a cow that does not moo?

    Westwego’s own Mel Lecompte, Jr. explores this conundrum in his colorful children’s tale, The Ice Cream Cow. Here he narrates for Confetti Park! Available for purchase on Amazon


    Living on a farm with her friends the Chocolate Chip Chicken and the Soda Pop Duck, the Ice Cream Cow has a problem. While there are many things she can do — such as hop like a kangaroo — the poor cow does not moo. Kids will love the rhythmic tale of the cherry-topped, polka-dotted bovine and the quest for her true voice. Savvy parents who read this story to their little ones will enjoy scanning the illustrations for inside references meant to keep big people’s eyes in the book and not on their watches.

    Mel is an elementary school teacher, an award-winning journalist and cartoonist, a musician and an entertainer (check out his band Mel and the Moodoggies), and a dad who writes and illustrates his own books, including T-Boy and the Terrible Turtle.

     

  • Storytime: T-Boy & the Terrible Turtle by Mel Lecompte, Jr.

    Storytime: T-Boy & the Terrible Turtle by Mel Lecompte, Jr.

    T-Boy was just a Louisiana kid. One with a terrible turtle that ran away! Oh yes, he did… but exactly where did that pet run off to?

    T-Boy and the Terrible TurtleMel LeCompte, Jr. narrates his original story, T-Boy and the Terrible Turtle, a delightful adventure that doubles as a fun geography lesson of the Bayou State, for Confetti Park!

    In T-Boy and the Terrible Turtle, Mel keeps track of T-Boy as he searches along the state looking for clues of where his darn pet turtle went! North, south, east, and west our protagonist travels, looking for the runaway reptile in Louisiana’s largest of cities and smallest of towns, gathering interesting tidbits about the places he visits along the way.

    Mel, who lives in Westwego today, has traveled all over Louisiana, and spent many years living in Natchitoches and Prairie Ronde. Mel is an award-winning journalist/ editorial cartoonist (Associated Press/ Louisiana Press Association), children’s entertainer, and social studies educator. He has written several other books, including another children’s book called The Ice Cream Cow, a bedtime reader for little ones.

    You can purchase T-Boy and the Terrible Turtle on Amazon.

    Learn more about Mel’s creative projects at https://www.facebook.com/TheTerribleTurtle