More Family Music…

Doctor Noize is fortunate to have many wonderful friends in family music. There is so much great music for families out there — too many to effectively link here — so I will limit this list to a few good friends who I know first hand are both wonderful and inspiring musicians and wonderful and inspiring people. Please buy twelve of all their albums and support the growing family music genre.

• Roger Day… based in Tennessee
• Zak Morgan… based in Southern California
• Justin Roberts… recently nominated for a Grammy!
• Steve Weeks… based in Colorado
• Yosi… based in New Jersey
• Andy Z… based in Northern California

Expand Your Family Musical Horizons…

• The Banana Project Learning Adventure… is Doctor Noize’s free, full album length multimedia journey into music appreciation and fundamentals.
• San Francisco Symphony Kids… has fantastic interactive activities for kids and upcoming family concert listings.
• Youth group performances — like the choir Doctor Noize used to conduct — inspire audience kids to wanna make music.
• Bobby McFerrin & Friends — Swingin’ Bach… is an amazing DVD spanning many musical genres by great musicians.
• Mahler’s 9th Symphony… is a DVD of a fantastic youth orchestra playing one of Doctor Noize’s favorite composers.
• The Nutcracker… is a DVD of the classic ballet. And if you can find it, get this Peter & The Wolf with great youth dancers.
• The Fantasia Films… inspire kids to actively listen to fine art music and ask: “What’s happening in the music right now?”