Earlier this month the EV Glee of El Verano School in Sonoma County visited the Mystic Theatre in Petaluma, Calif. before HT faves Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers took the stage. The grade-school singers had worked out a version of Bluhm’s Stick With Me that they wanted to sing for the band.
Watch EV Glee’s incredibly cute take on Stick With Me…
And here’s the original featuring Nicki and Tim Bluhm…
Following yesterday’s installment of Kidzz where we showed you six-year-old drum prodigy Avery Molek nailing Van Halen’s Hot For Teacher comes another incredibly impressive performance by a youngster. Nine-year-old pianist Owen York ties together over 20 songs in a seamless, mostly improvised medley that he’s shared on YouTube.
Among the tunes York works into his medley are 1348, 2X2 and Nothing Too Fancy by Umphrey’s Mcgee, Zappa’s Peaches En Regalia, Do It Again by Steely Dan and Pink Floyd’s Echoes. Check this out…
Medley: Rocky Theme Song > Mr. PC > 1985 > Blue Skies > Peaches En Regalia > 1348 > Do It Again > 2×2 > Star Wars > Doxy > Cruela DeVil > Linus & Lucy > After The Gold Rush > Echoes > 7 Nation Army > Bennie & The Jets > Sponge Bob > Nothing Too Fancy > Fur Elise > Southern Man > Eye of the Tiger > Yesterday > Rocky
[Hat Tip - @SoundCaresser]
Six-year-old drummer Avery Molek of Washington, Pennsylvania has drumming skills that would make most professionals jealous. The youngster has garnered over one million views at his YouTube channel which features Avery showing his skills by drumming along with a bevy of classic rock and heavy metal tunes. However his latest drum cover might be the best one yet.
Watch as Molek handles Van Halen’s Hot For Teacher seemingly with ease…
[via GuySpeed]
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Now that many Phish fans are old enough to have kids of their own, they are teaching their children all about the fantastic music of the Vermont Quartet. If you look on YouTube there are tons of videos of toddlers and infants grooving to Bouncin’, Contact and more. We’ll save you the trouble by compiling a list of our favorite kiddie Phish video on the ‘nets.
10. Two-year-old Gracie loves to noodle dance even if her friends aren’t as into the PH. In this video Gracie gets down to Gotta Jibboo…
READ ON for nine more incredibly cute videos…
Journey’s Separate Ways covered by nine year old Vocalist Vincent Fondale, 11 year old Alex Raz on lead guitar, 9 year old Joey Sampson on drums, 12 year old Alexis Shook on bass and 13 year old Anthony Fondale on keys…
Alex Raz, Vincent Fondale and Friends – Separate Ways
I’m missing my nephews, who are currently living halfway around the world, pretty bad today. Luckily, this video cheered me right up:
Kids are so cute, until they get to be about 16 and start attending concerts:
[Hat tips to Ace for the pic and Boing Boing for the video]
Rupert and Stan from the Ghosts of Wayne Fontes blog do everything for the keeeedz. So let’s turn our attention to their regular Thursday nonsense…
While kids like you and me were busy tasting dog food and puking at church, a rare breed of kids prefer composing sonatas and jamming with blues legends. Mozart allegedly learned to play the harpsichord at age three, Ricky Scaggs performed with Flatt & Scruggs at the tender age of seven, and Herbie Hancock played piano with the Chicago Symphony at age 11. Were talking about the Doogie Howsers of music. These are the rugrats who quite miraculously develop virtuoso mastery of an instrument at a freakishly early age. So today, we’ve scoured the interwebs to take a look at some of today’s rising geniuses.
Since we believe musical talent is hereditary, we’ll also take the opportunity to speculate which musical masterminds may have tapped some groupie ass and unknowingly produced these small wonders. Read on for the five best…
Middle school can be rough, a time when even the most well-adjusted kids are doing everything they can to look as cool as possible in the company of others. But some kids are just born that way, and the best thing they can do to look cool is just be cool. Sophie, Lucio and Izzy — Care Bears on Fire — are three such kids.
The three seventh-graders met in kindergarten, and since the fall of 2005, Sophie (guitar and vocals), Izzy (drums) and Lucio (bass) have been playing gigs in rock clubs, dances and parties under a moniker that’s far too clever for your average 12-year-old. Care Bears on Fire isn’t exactly breaking the mold and reinventing rock and/or roll with each show, but any power trio that can make a room full of adults grin from ear to ear and throw up the rock horns deserve at least a modicum of our undivided attention.
The pre-teen punk-infused power trio releases its first full-length debut album, I Stole Your Animal, on Tuesday, October 2nd, and the band will host a CD release party at Brooklyn’s Southpaw tomorrow night (the 29th). There you’ll be reminded of the teenage angst that once plagued your every thought, and you’ll most definitely smile along with the band as they throw down rockers like “Met You on MySpace” and “Five-Minute Boyfriend.”
Feel free to get sloshed on all the tequila you can stomach, but this is one show you should be careful not to offer anything to the band. Care Bears on Fire was kind of enough to answer a battery of questions for us, and our interview as well as the band’s debut video for Everybody Else follow after the jump…
As the Yankees and Angels get started on weekend beisbol, now’s the time to drop this week’s outro. This clip combines two of our favorite things: kids kicking ass and retro-rock stylings of The Bees, one of the cooler British bands cooking today. So we’ll conclude this patriotic week of holiday posting with this student-made video (where they’re students, we don’t know) for The Bees’ Chicken Payback:
We’ve got a double dose of our regular Friday ”The Kidzz Are Alright” subset of Pullin’ ’Tubes. So instead of wasting time with our usual pre-video blather, let’s jump right into the magic and check in with rising stars Sierra Hull and Ryan Holladay pickin’ on Salt Creek. Damn, that’s pretty serious:
And continuing with this post’s and this week’s unofficial bluegrass theme, here are the talented Tuttle kids playing El Cumbanchero:
That’s some mighty fine pickin’, kidzz. For more youthful talent, check out last week’s Greyboy jam and two weeks ago’s YEM at the mall episode.
