Be sure to buy your tickets now for Parents Who Rock presents Rockin' for Kids, a family-friendly concert for kids of all ages, Sunday, February 22 at 3 pm at the Montclair High School Auditorium (entrance on Park Street). Performers include the
Mama Doni Band, Mr. Ray,
the Momclair Singfunny Orchestra and
the Roo Mates from the soon-to-open
Club Kiddoo. In addition Parents Who Rock will be raffling off a guitar and some CDs from the performers and other children's artists.
Order tickets online at www.brownpapertickets.com or call 800-838.3006. You can also purchase tickets at the Montclair Community Pre-K, Grove Pharmacy and Kiel's Pharmacy. $10 in advance or $12 at the door. All proceeds will go to fund the work of
Little Kids Rock in Montclair. Parents Who Rock and Little Kids Rock have partnered to try to raise $50,000 to help put more music in the Montclair public schools by the start of the 2009-2010 year.
Mr. Ray, aka Ray Andersen, honed his skills jamming with Bruce Springsteen, playing guitar and keyboards for Meat Loaf and writing and singing his tunes in Blue Van Gogh, an indie band with his wife, throughout Germany with Matchbox Twenty. Over the last decade, he's released three albums and two DVDs. mr. RAY toured London twice and is heading back there in the spring, where he can be seen on TV nearly every day. Stateside, his songs are all over Blues Clues, Radio Disney and XM Kids, to name a few. Simply put.... "It's music for the kid in ALL of us!" Visit his website at www.mrray.com.
Doni Zasloff Thomas, aka Mama Doni, a Montclair mom and popular singer/songwriter, breaks the mold of traditional Jewish music with her special brand of "funky music with a Jewish twist." Her quirky Jewish indie-rock band for kids brings a contagious and unexpected blend of reggae, rock, disco, klezmer and “Jewgrass,” all woven together with Yiddish lingo and a hip sensibility. These "Jewified jingles" are for people of all ages and backgrounds--just like a bagel, you don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy! The Mama Doni Band came away with one of the top prizes, "The Simcha Award," at the 2008 International Jewish Music Festival in Amsterdam, Holland. Music from Mama Doni's album, "I Love Herring (& Other Fish Shticks For Kids)" and her holiday EP, "I Love Chanukah," is being played on XM radio, as well as on national and international radio stations. The Mama Doni band has been recognized in The Star Ledger, The Record, The New York Post, The New Jersey Jewish News, The Jewish Week, The New York Times, Jewish Woman International
Doni Zasloff Thomas, aka Mama Doni, a Montclair mom and popular singer/songwriter, breaks the mold of traditional Jewish music with her special brand of "funky music with a Jewish twist." Her quirky Jewish indie-rock band for kids brings a contagious and unexpected blend of reggae, rock, disco, klezmer and “Jewgrass,” all woven together with Yiddish lingo and a hip sensibility. These "Jewified jingles" are for people of all ages and backgrounds--just like a bagel, you don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy! The Mama Doni Band came away with one of the top prizes, "The Simcha Award," at the 2008 International Jewish Music Festival in Amsterdam, Holland. Music from Mama Doni's album, "I Love Herring (& Other Fish Shticks For Kids)" and her holiday EP, "I Love Chanukah," is being played on XM radio, as well as on national and international radio stations. The Mama Doni band has been recognized in The Star Ledger, The Record, The New York Post, The New Jersey Jewish News, The Jewish Week, The New York Times, Jewish Woman International