Guest post by Beth Blenz-Clucas of Sugar Mountain PR
- The top-rated and award-winning Story Pirates Podcast offers amazing content for kids, with hundreds of hours of story fun… all based on kids’ ideas. Story Pirates are launching a daily radio show, Story Pirates Radio, featuring fan-favorite songs, play-at-home games, hilarious bits, and listener call-in kid interviews to keep kids busy in between podcast episodes. They will also post live-streamed creative writing lessons, called Story Sparks, taught by expert Story Pirates teachers.
- PJ Library offers a plethora of sounds and activity ideas on their “Resources for Quarantined Families” page. Every school day, PJ Library posts a “Read Aloud” session featuring a picture book. Watch for these at 11 am and 1 pm ET on Facebook and Instagram.
- Alastair Moock, who had planned to release his socially conscious Be A Pain: An Album for Young (And Old) Leaders at his showcase during the now-cancelled Kindiecomm, is hosting several Facebook Live sing-along and educational “virtual assembly” sessions..
- Justin Roberts launched a “Stuck at Home” activity page , and he will be hosting Facebook Live concerts every morning through March.
- Brady Rymer is hosting “Live From Brady’s House” Facebook Live concerts. The first will be this Saturday, March 21st at 11am ET.
- Latin Grammy winners Lucky and Alisha from The Lucky Band are posting 10-minute daily family jam sessions most mornings at 10 am PT on Facebook
- Multiple Grammy winner Bill Harley is offering free virtual mini-concerts starting on Friday, March 20th, and then every Tuesday and Thursday at 1 pm ET. All the news will post at: billharley.com/miniconcerts
- 123 Andres is offering bilingual Spanish/English YouTube Live videos. The Latin Grammy winning duo posted the first earlier this week: https://youtu.be/kEd6xlRSPB4, and more are coming at 2 pm PT/ 5 pm ET on Wednesdays and Saturdays
- This week, Coy Bowles (of Zac Brown Band fame) launched Facebook Live sing-along and creative writing sessions every day at about 4 pm ET. In May, Coy plans to release his first children’s album, Music for Tiny Humans, along with a social-emotional learning kit from Lakeshore Learning.
- Aaron Nigel Smith will begin offering free online concerts at 10:30 am each Friday, starting on March 20th: https://www.facebook.com/AaronNigelSmith/
- Roger Day kicked off his Facebook Live concerts on March 17th with “Dream Big”
- Suzi Shelton hostFacebook Live sing-along sessions. The most recent posted on March 14th
- On a light-hearted note, The Okee Dokee Brothers posted a spontaneous (and well loved) video PSA encouraging kids not to touch their face, and Bill Harley‘s “Wash Your Hands/ Lavate las manos” is enjoying a healthy resurgence! The song was written a few years back for Rhode Island Public TV. Bill is offering the song for free right now. Here’s the video: https://youtu.be/wQVdnTbnUeA
