The Suzi Shelton Band

With a new little brother having been born the day before, Olivia needed to cool off with some toe-tapping rock-n-roll music. So we headed off to Madison Square Park to check out The Suzi Shelton Band.

The park was filled with pre-schoolers who like olivia were jumping and bopping all around. The band was good and we ended up doing a circle dance with two other kids and their nannies. I think our favorite song was "Honey My Love", Olivia liked it when i swung her around, carefully avoiding other swinging children. Since the concert was very playground accessible, Olivia wanted to swing and slide. So we ran around the playground and Olivia splashed around under the sprinklers all while the music filled the air. A good time was had by all.

Star FIsh

I was looking in Time Out New York's kids section for fun things to do with Olivia and we found a cool free concert at Bryant Park by a band called Starfish.

So we packed up the car and heading into manhattan. 9 month pregant women hate walking up and down subway strairs in 90 plus degree heat. Who knew.

We arrived at the park just before the band from New Jersey was about to start their set. On the nice shady part of the park there were seats set up and a row of mini chairs were set up for pint sized rockers. Sitting in the front row with the kids was a bald guy named Stingray. He was the lead singer and he had tons of energy and enthusiasm as he, Ant Farm, Dr Yes, Moose, and Grateful Dave rocked out with an hours worth of awesome music. My favorite song was the kind of Primus sounding "My name is No!"

The preschoolers were bopping around as were all their adults. They intertwined lots of references to everyone from ACDC to The Clash to Cream. It was our first taste of Kindie rock but not our last.

Check out Starfish for yourself at their website