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A full segment will run Thursday, April 19th 26th at 8:00pm and again Sunday at 6:00 on OPB TV in Oregon.  Find it this Friday anywhere else in the world at OPB.org.

This month Tumble Bee is one of 100 titles Amazon.com is promoting at the sale price of $5.  Not to be outdone, we are matching it at the Raven Marching Band Boutique.  Follow that impulse!

Top honors were bestowed on Tumble Bee: Laura Veirs Sings Songs For Children.

“What do you get when you mix rollicking and soulful folk songs with captivating vocals and a first-rate mix of harmonies, guitars, banjo, piano, percussion, accordion, brass, strings and whistles? A topnotch family folk album, shaped, layered and made shiny new by skilled musicians led by vocalist Laura Veirs, whose voice is graceful, expressive and utterly charming.”

Culminating in headlining a Mother’s Day You Who variety show, Laura Veirs and The Tumble Bees / Hall Of Flames* will play Seattle and Portland with staggered evening adult and daytime family shows this May!

* The morning/afternoon shows will be ‘Laura Veirs and The Tumble Bees’ and the evening shows will be normal Veirs catalog songs as ‘Laura Veirs and The Hall of Flames.’

No shows booked at the moment.

World Cafe is conjuring up Portland with their performance archives for a special series.  Laura Veirs is featured amongst Blitzen Trapper, Blind Pilot and The Decemberists.  Get the free digital music sampler here!

You may have heard that Google has consolidated its Android market and music stores. Now they are consolidating the seasons: Spring hasn’t yet arrived in North America (or has it?) but Laura Veirs’ “Summer is The Champion” is served up on Google Play through the weekend for a free download. Whichever the case, it’s a cause for celebration!

ps. If you haven’t yet heard July Flame in its entirety, do yourself a favor and pick up, or download a copy.

Music made for kids– or at least with kids in mind– hasn’t had the best of reputations. Oh, the kids like it fine, sure, but it’s not them who’ve done the complaining. It’s parents who have been forced to endure the kind of earworms that make them start to wish the childhood years would speed along….

Watch the interview and a live performance of “The Fox” on OPBmusic