make your own kind of music
Madeline's latest playlist:
- If I Had $1,000,000 - Barenaked Ladies
- The Littlest Birds - Be Good Tanyas
- Faraway Cookies - Sandra Boynton
- Don't Make Me Sing Along - Al Simmons
- Mahna Mahna - Cake
- The Last Saskatchewan Pirate - Captain Tractor
- Chicken Soup with Rice - Carole King
- Tickle Cove Pond - Great Big Sea
- I've Got to Be Clean - Guster
- (The Banana Boat Song) Day-O - Harry Belafonte
- The Unicorn - The Irish Rovers
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
- Upside Down - Jack Johnson
- He Mele No Lilo - Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus & Mark Keali'l Ho'omalu
- Be Like a Duck - Sandra Boynton
- When I'm Up I Can't Get Down - Oysterband
- Bicycle Race - Queen
- The Rainbow Connection - Sarah McLachlan
- The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Nylons
- At the Zoo - Simon & Garfunkel
- The Hockey Song - Stompin' Tom Connors
- Fishin' Blues - Taj Mahal
A few months ago, I signed Madeline and myself up for a mix CD swap with some of the other parents in one of the online communities I'm a member of (btw, thank you, Alexandra!). So far, I've received three CDs and sent off my batch, and we're a now a pretty groovin' household :)
The structure of the swap is fairly straightforward: two people sign up to send out a mix CD to all other participants for six months (this means everyone makes eleven CDs and sends out eleven CDs when it's their month). Our theme was family-friendly music, but it wasn't restricted to songs recorded specifically for children. I had a day or so of stress when it was my month for the swap and discovered that I had to burn elevens discs yet iTunes really wanted to limit me to seven, but I eventually figured out how to work around that. I filled my discs with the music in the list above - songs from Canadian recording artists, performers whom we've seen at the Edmonton Folk Fest, and then, a few songs that were just fun or favourites of Madeline's. In return, we have dozens of great songs to listen to that neither of us had heard before, and there are still eight more discs to come ...
Everyone with a kid should do this, really :)
