Laura Freeman's Somersault Season
With numerous musical artists releasing new CDs during the summer months that coincide with their local, regional or national tours, we take a different look at one of the newest offerings from today’s children’s music industry.
The recently debuted CD, Somersault Season, puts another award-winning songwriter/vocalist, Laura Freeman, in the spotlight.
Somersault Season is Freeman’s third recording venture and it highlights her kid-friendly interactive strengths as an artist.
In her newest outing, Freeman’s cabaret/stage-style vocal range effectively shows off her pied piper mesmerizing style, which kids adore.
Hailing from Texas, Freeman is well accompanied by her young audience members in addition to guitar, ukulele, percussion, base, zils, mandolin, banjo, banjola and distinctive character voices. The entire effect is guaranteed to get junior couch potatoes up, moving and thinking.
Musical selections are categorized into seasons: spring; summer; fall and winter and interspersed among the songs are spoken word interludes where children learn new words to describe the seasons in Portuguese, Fante (from Ghana), Urdu (from Pakistan) and German.
Highlights from the CD include a rollicking rendition of My Brother’s a Monster, guaranteed to get kids growling and giggling while marching about and singing this catchy tune; Big City, Little City, which takes a child’s imagination on a folk music travelogue of worldwide locations and famous sites; Frankenstein, another catchy number that playfully rocks and rolls – nothing scary here; while No Two Alike thoughtfully reminds us of the individual wonder of a single snowflake.
"I wrote these songs to keep busy active bodies moving all year long,” said Freeman, who involved children in the recording process. “I also wrote it to remind us to notice how the natural world is always changing around us. I love watching the seasons flow from one to the other. I hope I inspire others to do so.”
Laura Freeman tours as an individual artist and as a member of the Hey Lolly Trio.
You can preview all 16 tracks of Laura Freeman’s Somersault Season at CD Baby where it is also exclusively sold.
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