"Frank, a renowned kids' entertainer in these parts, really rocks his slot on Wednesdays at 2:30pm" (@ Two Moons Cafe in Park Slope)
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What To Do This Weekend Nov 3-6 Go To It
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ISN'T THIS SPECIAL: Who is your favorite Dana Carvey character or impersonation? We vote for the Church Lady; wait, maybe Hans the bodybuilder; no, it’s H. Ross Perot. Whatever. The Emmy-winning comedian and former SNL member is in town Sunday (church day). Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. $35-$55. The Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St., Boston. 800-745-3000. www.thewilbur.com
ROLIE POLIE GUACAMOLE: This Brooklyn-based trio sings about nutritious foods including hummus, guacamole, and apples. Listen for “Wake Up Shake Up,” “Red Light Green Light,” and “Swim Like the Dolphin.” Nov. 6 at 2 p.m. $5 (Recommended for ages 2-7). Brookline Music School, 25 Kennard Road, Brookline. 617-277-4593.www.bmsmusic.org
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Of Hummus and Guacamole: With songs dedicated to açaí berries and hummus, Brooklyn-based trio Rolie Polie Guacamole has amassed a young Park Slope fan base. It's Wednesday evening at Fifth Avenue's Perch Cafe and Rolie Polie Guacamole lead singer Frank Gallo is making an imaginary bowl of hummus. As bassist Andrew Tuzhilin and drummer Christian McCarthy play backup, he smooshes his hands together, mashing up make-believe chickpeas, garlic, olive oil and lemon juice. His audience—a wiggly group of toddlers, preschoolers and parents—follows suit. Now, in a moment of truth, the cooks must taste their concoction. "What else should we put in it?" Gallo asks. "Umm, electric," says a small voice from the audience. "Cheese!" says another. "Cotton balls!" "Tahini," a parent finally yells. Gallo mashes each ingredient one by one and then breaks into song: "Someone someone someone must love us love us love us/to give us all this tasty tasty hummus hummus hummus." Though he and his Brooklyn-based children's jam band may not offer the strictest of culinary instruction, their songs about eating healthy and being active have earned them a dedicated Park Slope fan base. Four years ago Gallo, Tuzhilin and McCarthy, all scruffy bearded twentysomethings, would never have guessed they'd be spending their days grooving with four-year-olds—let alone praising açaí berries for their purpleness. Gallo and Tuzhilin met at Fair Lawn high school in New Jersey, where they initially bonded over an English class assignment for which they recorded their own songs. Once they went off to college in 2004, they'd meet in the summertime to record music, usually for Gallo's grunge band Anatomy. One day, in a moment of clarity atop a mountain, Gallo called Tuzhilin and suggested they form a children's band. "I had been writing children's songs, but wasn't used to playing anything but punk and grunge," Gallo said. For inspiration, Gallo often turned to his childhood experiences, drawing from class field trips to write songs like "Museum of Natural History." He also consulted his father Lou, who had been working as a children's musician for the past 15 years. While on lunch breaks during brainstorming sessions, they'd often go to Castro's on Myrtle Avenue and eat guacamole. One day, in an absentminded rhyme Tuzhilin came up with the name Rolie Polie Guacamole and it stuck. They recruited McCarthy to fill out the band and began playing small gigs and festivals. A year later, in May 2008, they released their first self-titled album. After getting a gig teaching music and movement classes at the Ninth Street YMCA, Rolie Polie Guacamole slowly but surely began to connect with the Park Slope community. Gallo saw proof of this by the time they released their second CD "Time For Hummus." They'd decided to throw a release party at the Church of Gethsemane, complete with free hummus, guacamole and açaí juice. The band also ordered 150 purple balloons, which they dropped from a balcony while performing "Açaí"—a song in which Gallo sings "let it rain down purple berries." He said that almost every person who'd seen them play in the past year came to the event. "It felt like a really big accomplishment," Gallo said. "This whole local thing we'd grown for a year really culminated at the 'Time For Hummus' release." When it comes to practicing the healthy lifestyle they preach, the bandmembers of Rolie Polie Guacamole are nearly foolproof. Gallo has been a strict vegan for six years (excepting the honey he eats from his backyard beehive) and McCarthy is both a Pilates and skateboard instructor. According to Tuzhilin, he and Gallo were raised to appreciate natural living. On any given day of the week, you can find Rolie Polie Guacamole playing a birthday party, teaching music and movement courses, leading sing-a-longs at Perch Cafe or performing at the Park Slope farmer's market. Though McCarthy is the only bandmember who lives in Park Slope (Gallo lives in Windsor Terrace and Tuzhilin in Red Hook), they feel at home in the neighborhood. Their fan base includes children like Odin Kilroy, 2, who comes to shows and plays alongside the band with his miniature guitar and five-year-old Kaya Chase-Kohn, who is the self-proclaimed president of Rolie Polie Guacamole's fan club. Both Kilroy and Chase-Kohn live near JJ Byrne Playground and frequent Rolie Polie Guacamole's shows at the farmer's market and Perch Cafe. According to Chase-Kohn, her presidential responsibilities include "well, not really anything"—but she "likes [Rolie Polie Guacamole] a lot." Though Gallo is reluctant to stray from his strong local fan base, the band's growing popularity has inspired him to think bigger. Rolie Polie Guacamole is currently recording a CD of classic children's song covers. Gallo has also begun brainstorming for a TV show. The concept is Blues Clues meets Brooklyn, where Rolie Polie Guacamole lives in a tree in Prospect Park, communicates with a computer generated beehive and visit a local business every episode. That last element is important to Gallo. He said even if the band eventually aims for national recognition, they'll always make an effort to stay connected to Park Slope. "The more you do it," said Gallo, "the greater sense of a community you get."
Things to Do Rolie Polie Guacamole CD Release Party Description The Brooklyn-based jam band plays songs from its whimsically titled second album, Time for Hummus. As expected, complimentary snacks include hummus and guacamole. The debut of the group's claymation music video kicks off the event, and after the tunes, kids can get crafty with Private Picassos or check out the band's first picture book. All ages. When Tomorrow 4pm–6pm Read more: http://newyorkkids.timeout.com/events/music/331401/rolie-polie-guacamole-cd-release-party#ixzz0igb0OXRp
A Child Grows Event Picks: March 20th, 2010 - Time For Hummus cd, dvd and book release party. Halloween Event Pick 2009 - Still Hip Street Fair June 3rd, 2009 - Perch Cafe April 1st, 2009 - Brooklyn Public Library
Kids Helping Kids Concert--The Bowery, Manhattan Rock out to some of the Bowery Poetry Club's favorite kids' artists (like Hayes Greenfield & Jazz-A-Ma-Tazz, Niall O’Leary Dancers, Uncle Rock, Louise Rogers & Washington Heights Children’s Jazz Choir, and Rolie Polie Guacamole) while donating to children in Haiti. You can also bring one small basic plaything (suggestions: small stuffed animal, small plastic car, crayons, etc.) – to be sent directly to children in Haiti. $5/minimum suggested donation
So many factors influence the naming of a band—musical style, location, attitude, goals, personalities, desperate need to stick out/sound deep—that it's no wonder The A.V. Club finds an endless bounty of funny, stupid, and confusing names every year for our annual band-names list. After all, someone out there right this very moment is forming a band and wondering what to call it, just like someone seriously thought A Hero Named Hope was a good idea. Each year, we receive thousands of albums, press releases, and show listings for venues around the country, and each year, we assemble a list of the notable names we encountered along the way. A reminder before we get started: This list isn't meant to compile the worst names of all time or assess the quality of the band's music. For all we know, Put Down The Muffin is the next Radiohead. We just think the name is funny. “TOO TWEE TO LIVE IN THIS WORLD" • Electric Courage Machine • The Phenomenal Handclap Band • Rolie Polie Guacamole • It Hugs Back • Koo Koo Kanga Roo • Afternoon Naps • Mkng Frndz”
Today is Thursday which means taking my daughter to toddler music class at the Y. It is literally Seconda’s only scheduled activity or engagement all week -- neglected second-born that she is -- but it’s a good class, very low-key, very affordable, and taught by these really nice, not-at-all-annoying early-twenty-something guys who have a kid’s band called Rolie Polie Guacamole. Although they each have their own normal names, Seconda refers to them together and individually as “Guacamole.” As in, “I love you Guacamole!!!!!!” whilst she throws her dirty socks at them, the way an off-kilter fanatic would toss her thong at The Boss’s head during “Thunder Road.” So today, Guacamole was singing one of their story-book songs. This particular song sets the words of Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle’s Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? to music. Lovely, really. A nice, repetitive soothing ballad which gives parents the opportunity to sit down and relax as one Guacamole turns the pages of an oversized copy of the book while the other Guacamole plays guitar.(I know the names of both Guacamoles by the way, just in case you’re beginning to think I’m the sort of person that thinks toddler music teachers are interchangeable and calls for my check by yelling, “Waiter!”). If you’re not familiar with Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? it is exactly and I mean precisely like Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? except that it features endangered species rather than run-of-the-mill animals. If you’re not familiar with either, well, you’re not missing a whole hell of a lot. I mean, its good stuff, but its no Very Hungry Caterpillar or anything. You start by asking the panda bear, “What do you see?” and when you turn the page, well, there’s your answer. “I see a whooping crane looking at me.” Then you ask the whooping crane what does he see? Bam. Bald eagle looking at me. If a two year-old can catch on to the pattern, I imagine you have by now too. So I’m just sitting there on a yoga mat, totally zoning out and halfheartedly singing “Spider monkey, spider monkey, what do you see?” when Guacamole turns the page and lo and behold, instead of an animal, it is a child. And I swear to God, I thought I heard Guacamole sing, “Demon child, demon child, what do you see?” So I am sitting there, criss-cross-applesauce, with Seconda on my lap, singing “Demon child, demon child . . .” and wondering how Bill Martin Jr. came to pen such a controversial line, how the book made it to press, trying to decide how I felt about this surprise ending to what I imagined was just another predictable, (let’s-be-honest) pedestrian board book, and concluding that in fact I rather enjoyed how refreshing the reference to the demon child was when I realized that everyone else in the class was singing, “Dreaming child, dreaming child, what do you see?” Sure enough, there, very clearly drawn by Carle’s competent brush, was a child lying down with closed eyes and moons swirling around his head, almost in the shape of a halo, the very antithesis of a demon. Figures. I guess I’m the only parent with demon-like children . . . I’m fishing here. Tell me I’m not. Tell me your kids have been so bad lately you might make the same Freudian slip.
Our Eat-In took place in the schoolyard of Teunis G. Bergen School (P.S. 9) and had some 70 participants, both children and adults. We were pleased to host NYC Council Member Letitia James, professor Janet Poppendieck (upcoming book, Free For All: Fixing School Food in America, and Brooklyn Academy of Science and Environment student Marcia Foster as speakers. We were also lucky to have local band Rolie Polie Guacamole sing fun tunes about healthy eating. While adults wrote postcards to elected officials (46 total!), kids drew pictures of what they would like to eat for lunch and had their faces painted. With gorgeous weather it was a super-fun, informative, and delicious event!
Music classes and private parties in Brooklyn and beyond. Frank Gallo and Andrew Tuzhilin offer 45 minute music and movement classes at the Prospect Park YMCA and Gumbo in Boerum Hill. The program includes original and conventional children's music and singing books. The children use egg shakers, scarves, purple balls, and themselves to move to the music. Through interactive dialogue and percussive rhythms the classes promote motor skill and speech development. Talented musicians, great teachers Author: ginac My son is so, so happy every time he goes to their classes at the Y or their concerts, and their music is great, with strong folk/rock influences (their first CD is one of those that I can leave in the CD player for weeks at a time, and not out of sheer laziness, we LIKE it.). They seem to have mastered incorporating movement into their classes, and I think they have a great future in music, most especially for children. We're big fans Author: sbmcinerney My 3.5 year old son, 2 year old daughter, and I are huge fans. My husband didn't even know it was a kids CD when we played their music at home. This talented duo performs many classes at the 9th Street Y, including a rarely found drop-off class for the 3+ set. They also have Saturday options so the whole family can rock out.
We first heard Rolie Polie Guacamole at a birthday party at Vox Pop not so long ago, and have been fans ever since. They return today, Tuesday, June 2, at 5:30 for an hour of fun for the little ones. I was at that birthday party. Rolie Polie Guacamole was fantastic! The kids were so happy and danced up a storm
November 13, 2008 Rolie Polie Guacamole in Providence Kidoinfo is always on the hunt for new music, and our latest cool find is Rolie Polie Guacamole. Frank Gallo (from Brooklyn, NY) and Andrew Tuzhilin (who recently moved to Providence to play in a rock opera at Brown) released their first children’s album this year with eleven original songs that are fun and will definitely get your kids up and moving. Their acoustic folk funk sound is groovy even for the adults. When we heard them perform live at LoveBugs, the new second-hand kids’ store on Hope Street, a few weeks ago, my son Ethan had a front row spot to watch Frank and Andrew play and was thrilled when he came home with their CD. The “Rolie Polie Guacamole” theme song is one of my favorites on the CD, and I also enjoyed the hummus song (not on the CD). All this singing will make you and your kids hungry while teaching them about the healthy ingredients that go into these dishes! The band is also available for birthday parties and recently played a guacamole making party at The Spot on Thayer Street. Rolie Polie Guacamole is starting to make monthly visits to Providence to play, including a once-a-month guacamole making party for kids of all ages at The Spot. You have three chances to catch them in Providence this November.
Urban Baby - Weekend Events: July 23, 2009 Go Still Hip’s 2nd Birthday Block Party Brooklyn’s Still Hip boutique and neighbors host a block party on Grand Avenue. Free yoga, arts ‘n’ crafts and Spanish music classes. Performances by Rolie Polie Guacamole and LIG Funk Band. Feb 19, 2009 Hear Rolie Polie Guacamole Check out a class with this local Brooklyn-based kids’ band.
Description This Brooklyn-based jam band are regulars at music festivals–catch them surrounded by books instead of nature today. Kids can expect to hear acoustic rock, funk and folk tunes like “Always Brush Your Teeth” and “My Mama Said.”
