It’s all happening at the zoo: Montclair artists plan Earth Day kindie rock music festival
By GWEN OREL
orel@montclairlocal.news
Plants and animals and children rightful seem to go together. That's one reason Montclair's Jason Didner wanted to hold a "kindie Rock" concert at Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange on Earth Day, Saturday, April 22. Five New Jersey artists, all independent musicians who make children's music, will perform in "Party for the Satellite" ahead of the Reptile House at 11 a.m.
"I'm encouraging families to enjoy nature, enjoy the animals and being out of doors," same Didner, the leader of Jason Didner and the Hobo camp Gym Jam. "Hopefully they will get word some songs that get them mentation about slipway to help the surround, and about ways to unplug from their gadgets for a piece and just enjoy nature and live medicine."
Didner gained comprehensive fame in 2013 when The New York Times spotlighted his 2001 Sung "You Can't Get There from Here in Jersey," about Jersey jughandles, where you have to "turn just to turn left" cancelled the main road. There was a bill proposed in the Jersey Senate to ban their later construction.
Caitlin Sharp, of Essex County Cultural Affairs, worked with Didner on the space and go steady. Euphony with Mollie, starring Molly Dorsman, will play at 11. Baze &A; his Silly Friends, who mix up baby's room rhymes until a young audience member corrects them, will execute at 11:35 a.m.
Miss Nina, a YouTube star well known for her "Ursus arctos Rap" based on the Eric Carle/Banknote Martin Jr. Scripture, wish bring up at 12:10 and 2:10 p.m. The Fuzzy Lemons, who combine rock, funk and blues, will play at 12:45. Didner himself will execute at 1:20.
All of the bands are from Essex County except for The Foggy Lemons, who are from Hoboken.
Didner's 6-year-old daughter, Holly, who sometimes performs with the band, will credibly be in the audience saltation, he said, but his married woman, Amy, will atomic number 4 on stage.
Some of Didner's songs are connected to the zoo: the kiddie train that runs around the zoo and the sight of the water twinkle on the reservoir gave him the idea for the chorus of "Window of the Caravan," he said. The catchy earworm "Five Oceangoing Lions" was glorious by the zoo's acquiring a sea lion march in 2013.
An Earth Day festival isn't overtly sentiment, but for Didner there's an undertone of activism: "I hope that by going to events equal this, parents will seduce IT a priority to require that their politicians take climate change seriously, whether they're Democrats or Republicans."
Party for the Major planet
Saturday, April 22, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
The Reptilian House, Turtle Posterior Zoo, South Mountain Reservation, 560 Northfield Ave., West Orange
11: Music with Molly
11:35: Baze & his Silly Friends
12:10: Miss Nina
12:45: The Indistinct Lemons
1:20: Jason Didner and the Hobo camp Gymnasium Jam
2:10: Miss Nina
JungleGymJam.com
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