Tis the Season!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – Halloween! The leaves are changing, the days are getting shorter, and giant skeletons have popped up all around the neighborhood. This year brings a whole assortment of new music to celebrate the season. Here is just a sampling of the creepy, silly, haunted new treats just waiting to jump out at you. Have a song or video for Halloween that you would like to share? Pop it into the comments.
Let the Halloween hijinks begin with a jazzy number from New Zealand’s own Itty Bitty Beats, brought to life in this wonderfully witchy lyric video.
The ghoulishly good times continue with The Halloween EP from Patrick Adams. This collection of four songs includes one original fiendishly fun tune and three magical, mystical songs that answer the question, who are you going to call when somebody’s watching you??
What’s one activity that everyone looks forward to doing leading up to Halloween? Why, carving jack o’lanterns, of course. But what happens when you’re walking through the woods on Halloween night and you see “Jumping Jack-O’-Lanterns” and other startling sights? Listen to this slightly scary cumulative song from Esther Crow to find out.
Are your kids still trying to figure out what to be for Halloween? Check out Esther’s video from a couple of years ago for homemade costume inspiration.
Still looking for fall-themed songs to add to your storytimes or family listening playlists? Try out Little Miss Ann‘s version of the classic “Five Little Pumpkins” and the new video for Laurie Berkner‘s call and response song “Hayride.”
As New Zealand Music Month wraps up, I’d like to turn our attention to the southern hemisphere and the latest outing from Levity Beet. Levity Beet and the Aotearoa All Stars, the first album from Levity’s new label “Wildbeet Records,” is chock full of New Zealand notables and features collaborations with 12 different writers/performers/producers from New Zealand’s rich family music industry. Special guests include familiar names like Itty Bitty Beats, Music with Michal, and Claudia Robin Gunn as well as names that might be new to American audiences such as Suzy Cato, Craig Smith, fleaBITE, Kath Bee, Judy Cranston, Chris Sanders, Mr. Roberelli, MLO, and Loopy Tunes. 
