For June, the Family Film Series at the Nickelodeon Theatre in Columbia, SC will have a friendship theme. In addition to songs, we will watch the short film “Lost and Found” based on the picture book by Oliver Jeffers. Here’s the trailer:
The Family Film Series is a uniquely social movie theatre event for families. With short films and songs and dancing, you can come to the movies to interact with other kids, laugh at the movies with them, chomp on popcorn with them, and move to the music with them! No zoning out! Join us on Saturday, June 19 at 10 a.m. Tickets are $5.
Reporter-turned-blogger Sarah Lindenfeld Hall interviewed me when Lunch Money played the CoolKidz Expo in Raleigh, NC last weekend. Here’s the interview. I think it comes across that guerilla-style interviews at Expos while the “Kidville Kids” are performing nearby make me even more upbeat.
Lunch Money is excited to announce that we are going to be hosting the children’s film series at the Nickelodeon Theatre (Columbia, SC’s art house cinema). We’ll be doing it once a month on a Saturday morning. We’ll be getting more of those dates up on our calendar soon, but for now we hope you’ll come to the kick-off party on Saturday, April 10 in the lobby of the Fox Theatre (1607 Main Street), which is the future site of the Nickelodeon. The festivities start at 9:30 a.m. and we play at 10.
Hosting this series is going to be fun! We’ll be helping to pick out the short films, coming up with songs to play (maybe even writing special ones to go along with the films) and thinking of all sorts of secret handshakes and running jokes and other ways to get to know our Columbia, SC audience even better. We hope to see you there this year!
Our album Dizzy was voted the #2 children’s album of the year by the judges of the annual Fids and Kamily Awards! The folks who vote on this panel are radio show hosts, reviewers, bloggers and promoters who all play a major role in the children’s music scene. We are really glad they took a shine to Dizzy!
Here is the list of the Top Eleven (these awards go to eleven!) for 2009 - we hope you’ll discover some new favorites too!
P.S. We also love Honorable Mention winner Billy Kelly and his album Thank You for Joining the Happy Club!
1. They Might Be Giants - Here Comes Science
2. Lunch Money - Dizzy
3. Recess Monkey - Field Trip
4 (tie). Peter Himmelman - My Trampoline
4 (tie). Ziggy Marley - Family Time
6. Milkshake - Great Day
7. Gustafer Yellowgold - Mellow Fever
8. Billy Jonas - Happy Accidents
9. Captain Bogg & Salty - Emphatical Piratical
10. Sarah Lee Guthrie & Family - Go Waggaloo 11. The Not-Its - We Are The Not-Its
This week we had reporter Otis Taylor and photographer Kim Kim Foster Tobin over to our house to take pictures for a story that ran today in our local paper, The State. Since our kids’ voices appear on the new CD, Kim Kim wanted to include them in the picture and decided to use our living room as the setting, since that is where we practice (now picture the mad scrambling we did to try to make our house look slightly less chaotic - actually getting it up to just “chaotic” was the goal).
With my blog in mind, I asked Otis if he would take a few pictures of us getting our picture taken, especially since Kim Kim’s vision involved trying lots of angles, including the one pictured above (I’m the one with the striped socks). Henry and Lucy were great sports, and I was able to keep them going with promise of an Icee and popcorn at Target later.
You can read the article and see the final photograph here. The State also used our song “Wake Up, World” as part of slideshow celebrating the first days of spring.
One of the best things about doing this kind of music is the real possibility that children are going to be dancing their butts off at your show. And that’s just cool. Here is a clip of one of my all-time favorite experiences of kids dancing. I am so grateful that someone at ImaginOn was filming this so I know I did not make it up. Later, Jay, J.P. and I tried to analyze just what was going especially right that evening. We concluded that the combination of free Skittles and the manic energy of children keenly aware they are pushing their bedtimes can lead to especially terrific choreography. Should there be more “witching hour” shows for kids?
Hello and thanks for visiting our website! We are Lunch Money - a band based in Columbia, SC - and are part of the independent family music scene. We’ve been around for about 5 years, doing our best to put on a good show, get our music reviewed and travel outside the Southeast when we can. Up until now, despite some props from the people we were able to reach, Lunch Money was an especially well-kept secret. Read More
