River Raisin Ragtime Revue: Children's Ragtime CD

Project Title : River Raisin Ragtime Revue: Children's Ragtime CD

Creator : William Pemberton (River Raisin Ragtime Revue)

Description : With the resurgence in family music, especially over the past five years or so, you can find many different subgenre albums -- punk, polka, country, what-have-you. But there really isn't any ragtime kindie out there.  I suppose one could argue that a lot of ragtime -- think Scott Joplin -- is kid-friendly, but this new project from Michigan's River Raisin Ragtime Revue promises a nice little animal-themed distraction and maybe a different entry point into this very American musical style.  I'm eager to hear the result.  (Hurry up, though, if you want to pledge -- the campaign ends today, Wednesday.)

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Tim Sheridan works as a creative director in Chicago, doing digital marketing and advertising.  Sheridan joined me this week to talk about his Kickstarter illustrated children's book project, getting The Low Anthem to agree to have their music part of the book, writing speeches for Steven Tyler, and the slooooooow gestation process of bringing kids books out into the world.

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Tim Sheridan 

Thunder and Lightning Kickstarter project

Dee Duncan (illustrator)

The Low Anthem 

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Introducing the Non-Cast

For a variety of reasons, there are family-friendly Kickstarter and other crowdfunding projects I'd like to feature but just can't do it in podcast format. 

Why should that stop me from promoting them, though? 

So I'm going to start mentioning them occasionally here on the website.  They'll be brief mentions, not much more than a summary, but if you're enjoying what you're hearing about, I think you'll like reading about some of these items, too.  We'll call it the "Non-Cast."  Hope it helps you find even more cool projects.

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Django Jones

Girlyman 

Django Jones Kickstarter project

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 Girlyman tuning song collection

Ep. 3: Django Jones (AKA Girlyman), Debut Kids Music Album

Stefan Shepherd

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Stefan Shepherd

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SukeyJump Music​

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Ep. 1: Heidi Swedberg, My Cup of Tea

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