Confetti Park Children's Workshop

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  • Interview with hrilina ♡ : Water Wonderful World

    Interview with hrilina ♡ : Water Wonderful World

    A new reading and coloring book about New Orleans’ relationship with water will entertain and educate!

    Katy recently interviewed hrilina ♡, a rising leader among young New Orleanians, who is proud to announce the release of a unique educational coloring book titled “Water Wonderful World.”

    Published by Trinity City Arts, the book explores the relationship we in South Louisiana have with water, particularly in and around New Orleans.

    hrilina ♡’s vision for this book was to create an engaging and fun experience for kids (and grownups) that teaches about the role of water in New Orleans—from providing livelihoods to being an essential part of our recreation. The book also faces the challenges of coastal erosion and rising waters. In fact, it was funded through Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Youth Climate Action Fund and supported by Mayor Latoya Cantrell’s office and the City of New Orleans.

    “One of my favorite New Orleans Easter eggs in the book is on page six, where everything in the garden bed is a Louisiana export,” says hrilina ♡. “It’s Water Wonderful World, and it’s about the unique relationship that we New Orleanians have with water. But it’s also about how our waters matter to the world, and why people should care about our waters and issues relating to our waters.”

    “Water Wonderful World” stands out not only for its content but also for its collaborative creation process. The artwork in “Water Wonderful World” was created by three talented teenaged illustrators from New Orleans: Lauren Landers, Zion Mercadel, and London Salvant. Each brings their distinct style to the pages. (They represent local arts programs such as New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), YAYA, and Morris Jeff.)

    “Water Wonderful World” is now available for download as a PDF from the Trinity City Comics website. Printed copies are also available for sale. Dive into the wonder of water and explore New Orleans through this coloring adventure!

    Thank you, hrilina ♡, for sharing your talent with Confetti Park in so many ways! (hrilina ♡ is a veteran member of the Confetti Park Players and has long contributed her thoughtful creativity to this radio show and podcast. Here she is sharing a poem called “Teacher’s Prayer.”)

    Confetti Park is supported by the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation and Music Rising at Tulane University.

  • Westward ho! Kids radio show “Confetti Park” moves into California, New Mexico, Pacific Northwest

    Westward ho! Kids radio show “Confetti Park” moves into California, New Mexico, Pacific Northwest

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | June 2, 2017
    Contact: Kathryn Hobgood, (504) 650-1238, [email protected]

    Westward, ho! Kids radio show “Confetti Park” brings Louisiana music and stories to California, New Mexico, Pacific Northwest

    Kids variety show and podcast from Louisiana airs on weekend mornings

    Several new states on the West Coast can now enjoy a weekly half-hour children’s radio show called “Confetti Park.” The show, hosted by Katy Hobgood Ray of New Orleans, features music and stories spun in Louisiana. There are skits, poems, jokes, clapping songs, brief interviews, children’s voices, and a weekly story time. All shows are evergreen, and can be played throughout the year.

    The West Coast community radio stations currently carrying Confetti Park are all members of the Pacifica Network, and include:

    (For a full listing of stations that carry Confetti Park, and broadcast times, visit https://confettipark.com/podcast.)

    “I hope, through Confetti Park, to showcase the diversity, depth and universal appeal of Louisiana culture, and also, to show that kids music can be really good,” says host Katy Ray. “May the families across the nation be filled with joie de vivre and a little appreciation for the bayou state as they listen to the stories and songs.”

    Background of Katy Hobgood Ray

    Ray, who works in communications at Tulane University in New Orleans, has a master’s degree in musicology from Tulane and is a former producer and host for Red River Radio, an NPR-affiliated public radio network in north Louisiana. She directs a children’s choir in New Orleans called the Confetti Park Players who won a Parents’ Choice Award for their first album.

    With support from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation and Music Rising at Tulane University, Katy traverses her home state to unearth music and folktales, local legends and spooky stories, colorful family memories and overlooked histories.

    For the weekly segment Confetti Park Storytime, she features published children’s authors as well as interviews and encounters with everyday people on the street. Children’s voices are often used to share poems, contemporary jump rope jingles, hand-clapping games and other playground chants.

    A podcast version of the show featuring shorter clips, storytime segments, and interviews is available on iTunes, iHeartRadio, and other major podcasting networks.

    Community radio stations interested in carrying Confetti Park should contact [email protected].



    CONFETTI PARK
    Confetti Park is a children’s media workshop in New Orleans. We create books, mobile apps, music, videos, and special events geared toward celebrating and growing the wonder and magic of childhood. For more information, visit https://confettipark.com

  • Kids radio show “Confetti Park” debuts on WRFA-LP 107.9 FM on Saturday, April 15

    Kids radio show “Confetti Park” debuts on WRFA-LP 107.9 FM on Saturday, April 15

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | April 11, 2017
    Contact: Kathryn Hobgood, (504) 650-1238, [email protected]

    Kids radio show “Confetti Park” debuts on WRFA-LP 107.9 FM on Saturday, April 15
    Kids variety show and podcast out of New Orleans features children’s music and stories

    On Saturday, April 15 at 8 a.m., a weekly half-hour children’s radio show called “Confetti Park” will debut in Jamestown, NY on WRFA-LP 107.9 FM.

    “Confetti Park,” hosted byWRFA-LP_logo Katy Hobgood Ray of New Orleans, features music and stories spun in Louisiana. There are skits, poems, jokes, clapping songs, brief interviews, children’s voices, and a weekly story time.

    “I hope, through Confetti Park, to showcase the diversity, depth and universal appeal of Louisiana culture, and also, to show that kids music can be really good,” says host Katy Ray. “May the families in New York be filled with joie de vivre as they listen to the stories and songs.”

    Ray, who works in communications at Tulane University in New Orleans, has a master’s degree in musicology from Tulane and is a former producer and host for Red River Radio, an NPR-affiliated public radio network in north Louisiana. She directs a children’s choir in New Orleans called the Confetti Park Players who won a Parents’ Choice Award for their first album.

    With support from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation and Music Rising at Tulane University, Katy traverses her state to unearth music and folktales, local legends and spooky stories, colorful family memories and overlooked histories.

    For the weekly segment Confetti Park Storytime, she features published children’s authors as well as interviews and encounters with everyday people on the street. Children’s voices are often used to share poems, contemporary jump rope jingles, hand-clapping games and other playground chants.

    A podcast version of the show is available on iTunes.



    CONFETTI PARK
    Confetti Park is a children’s media workshop in New Orleans. We create books, mobile apps, music, videos, and special events geared toward celebrating and growing the wonder and magic of childhood. For more information, visit https://confettipark.com

  • Music Medley: Crawfish Holes

    Music Medley: Crawfish Holes

    Crawfish CartoonConfetti Park is a community radio program and podcast 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:

    Wishing To Go Crawfishin’ – Terrance Simien
    Old Dan Tucker – Jeremy Lyons
    Love Bug – Johnette Downing
    Wobble Cha – Los Po-Boy-Citos
    The Shark and the Fish – Louis Ray
    Pretty Purple Possums – Angela Mannino and the Louisiana Pollywogs
    Bridge Street Lullaby / Lac Martin – David Greely, Joel Savoy & Sam Broussard

    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! We also broadcast weekly on WHIV 102.3 FM in New Orleans and KSLU 90.9 FM in Hammond.

  • Music Memory from Tommy Sancton

    Tommy Sancton. Photo by Sébastien Chaillot
    Tommy Sancton. Photo by Sébastien Chaillot

    In this episode of Confetti Park, Tommy Sancton shares one of his earliest music memories from Preservation Hall, a musical venue in the French Quarter founded in 1961 to protect, preserve, and perpetuate traditional New Orleans jazz. There, Tommy heard the sound that would guide the course of his life.

    Tommy Sancton has had an illustrious career as a journalist and musician. After studies at Harvard and Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar, he began a 22-year career with Time magazine as writer, editor, and Paris bureau chief. Music has always been part of Tommy’s life. As he traveled the world, he never stopped playing his clarinet.

    He also never stopped feeling the pull of home. In August 2007, Tommy left Paris for New Orleans. He now teaches at Tulane, continues to write, and plays and records frequently with numerous traditional jazz bands. Visit his website to learn more.

    Tommy has a beautiful memoir called Song for My Fathers: A New Orleans Story in Black and White, published in 2006, which recounts his experiences at Preservation Hall and explores his childhood apprenticeship with clarinetist George Lewis and other musicians, as well as his relationship with his own father.

     

     

     

     

  • Confetti Park: The Lightning Bug Episode

    Confetti 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.

    A great children’s song doesn’t have to be classified in the kids genre. A lot of the music in Louisiana is naturally kids music… Full of whimsy, silliness, and fun. And danceable, too!

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

    “This Little Light of Mine” – Kermit Ruffins
    “Today is Monday in Louisiana” – Johnette Downing
    “Lemonade” – Confetti Park Players
    “Swahili Baby” – Los Poboycitos
    “We are the Lightning Bugs” – The Lightning Bugs
    “Little Sally Walker” –  Leadbelly
    “Itty Bitty” – Susan Cowsill and Paul Sanchez
    “Dansez, Codine ” – Renaissance Cadienne

  • Louisiana kids radio show Confetti Park debuts April 4

    Katy Ray at the station
    Katy Hobgood Ray at the station

    On Saturday, April 4 at 12:30 p.m., a new kids radio show called “Confetti Park” will hit the airwaves of New Orleans on WHIV 102.3 FM.

    “Confetti Park,” hosted by Katy Hobgood Ray, features music and stories spun in Louisiana. There will be skits, interviews, and studio performances by local musicians, and a weekly story time. A podcast version of the show will be available on iTunes.

    “New Orleans is not often thought of as a kid-friendly city, and more frequently than not, ‘kid music’ is adults singing down to kids,” said Ray. “But here in New Orleans, music permeates the fabric of our daily lives and kids integrate naturally with our live music scene. I hope, through Confetti Park, to show how kid-friendly New Orleans is, and also, to show that kids music can be really good. A lot of Louisiana music is naturally kids music—danceable and full of whimsy and fun.”

    “Confetti Park” will air at 12:30 p.m. every Saturday on WHIV 102.3 FM in New Orleans and via live stream at http://www.whivfm.org/.

    Ray, who works in communications at Tulane University, has a master’s degree in musicology from Tulane and is a former content producer and host for Red River Radio, an NPR-affiliated public radio network in north Louisiana. She directs a children’s choir in New Orleans called the Confetti Park Players.

    The name for Confetti Park comes from a small playground in the heart of Algiers Point.

    WHIV FM RADIO
    Launched in late 2014, 102.3 FM is a low power community radio station for New Orleans. Featuring programming from the Pacifica Network, WHIV is dedicated to public health, human rights and social justice. During the day, WHIV features local New Orleans and Louisiana news and current events. In the evenings, weekends, and holidays, WHIV broadcasts locally DJ’ed shows highlighting New Orleans music and culture. For more information, visit http://www.whivfm.org/

    CONFETTI PARK
    Confetti Park is a children’s media workshop in New Orleans. We create books, mobile apps, music, videos, and special events geared toward celebrating and growing the wonder and magic of childhood. For more information, visit https://confettipark.com

  • The Confetti Park Podcast

    We are very excited to announce the debut of the Confetti Park podcast—a show for kids of all ages. We will feature magical, locally-spun music and stories created right here in Louisiana. Subscribe on iTunes!

    The radio program version launches on the air on April 2015. Listen for us in New Orleans on WHIV 102.3 FM New Orleans every Saturday at 12:30 p.m.

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

    Here is a sneak preview of things to come.