Folk Rock Your Kids World—this Sunday!

March 22nd, 2011

I just laid hands on Laura Doherty’s “Kids in the City” CD—all about her town, Chicago—and we’re hooked! The kids and I rock out the mini-van to and fro school with Doherty channeling through the speakers. Very psyched that she’ll be at High Noon Saloon this Sunday, March 27  @ 3 pm!!

Doherty’s accoustic folk-pop for kids is pretty dang delightful—which explains why the album is award-winning. How to describe it for adults? Bright. Happy. Toe-tapping, head-bobbing fun. Doherty’s voice reminds me of Sarah Harmer, one of my fave female singers for the grownup set.  In our house (and car), kid music has to be something mom and dad like to listen to. I, in fact, listened to it by myself in the car today because, well, I like it that much.  So, pardon me as I continue to wax on about her…

Our fave tracks: “Kitty Cat”(Kitty cat, kitty cat I’ve got a pretty cat—can’t stop singing it! So catchy it could make Doherty big bucks as a commercial!), the down-home “Uncle Ukulele’s Band,” “Farmer’s Market” (cuz we’re into messaging on green, fresh, local + sustainable around here), “Wheels in the City,” and “El Train” (what kid doesn’t like to ride trains?) The range is folk-poppy, with smatterings of jazz, a capella, good banjo strumming mountain sounds, and even a Spanish numbers lesson via song thrown in. And, in super coolness, all the lyrics are posted on her web site.

Doherty tours nationally. And maybe you’ve heard her lovely voice before: she’s sung with other national artists for Walt Disney Co. She’s just begun recording vocals for “Record-A-Song” books, including Dora the Explorer and Thomas the Train. She directed and taught Chicago’s Old Town School of Music’s Wiggleworms program before going full time with the kid-gigs.

Doherty’s show is the perfect antidote to this lionlike March weather we’re socked with. Head down to High Noon Saloon this Sunday. She’ll brighten your blustery day.

$10/adults, $5/kids, under age 1/free

—Mama Kate

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