9/6/24

Dear Families,

We hope you’ll join us in celebrating our new album release by listening wherever you stream or picking up a CD. We know that we wouldn’t get to make new songs without your participation in our programs. Thank you for making it possible for us to continue sharing music with you over the years!

This group of songs carries a lot of memories for us, for some of your current and past PLAY teachers, and I hope for some of you. We started singing Willie Aron’s “Jungle All the Way” and “Big Round Sun” over a decade ago at our old Third Street home, and at SCM since 2017. We sang these and other favorites on this collection to brighten our mornings on Zoom four years ago, and during that time, Emilia, Veronika, and I wrote some of the newer songs on the album, getting together with each other and then the artists–Randy, Ruth, Samantha, and more–all by remote. We sang these songs to welcome you back in person in 2021, to say goodbye to Third Street in 2022, to welcome new families, and new teachers, to SCM since then, and to greet kids out in the world through our partner organizations and in your backyards! That we get to keep singing our songs may seem a small thing, but it means the world to us–and so much more when you’re singing along.

Hope you enjoy, and thanks again from all of us!
Anne & James