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Tunesday Tuesday

Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

Last week we posted a video on our YouTube channel featuring the music, lyrics and chords to our Outer Space song. We shared this in honour of Commander Chris Hadfield’s last week on the International Space Station. He returned safely to Earth yesterday!

There was such a positive response to the sharing of the chords for the song that we are officially launching a little mini-series called Tunesday Tuesday. Basically on the second Tuesday of each month we will share a video similar to what we did with Outer Space. We are super excited about the fact that families are not only listening to our music, but they are now able to perform it for their own B&L-themed family concerts. Hooray!

Below is the Outer Space video we shared last week. Be sure to watch for the special bonus footage at the end. We have also copied the lyrics and chords separately at the bottom of this post. Hope you enjoy!

Please feel free to capture your family concerts on video and share them with us by email (info @ bobsandlolo.com) or on Facebook and Twitter. Also, if you have specific song requests that you would like to see featured in Tunesday Tuesday, be sure to leave us a comment.

Happy singing and dancing everyone!

B&L

 

Outer Space

Verse 1:
G                   C
What’s out there?
G                 F
Above the air
G            C
Out in space
G           F
Let’s investigate
G                       C
Can’t wait to see
G                F
The mystery
Dm         Am G
Of our galaxy

Chorus:
C           G
Outer Space
Am                        F
Must be such a crazy place
C                                      G
Filled with comets and shooting stars
Am                       F
I wanna see Venus and Mars
Am                   G
I’m gonna need a rocket ship
Dm                                       F
And a space suit for my trip
F
When I’m flying by
G                               C    G    Am
Racing across the sky
G                               C    G    Am  F
Racing across the sky

Verse 2:
G                  C
With no gravity
G              F
I feel so free
G           C
I do a flip
G            F
And I bounce and skip
G              C
Maybe today
G          F
We’ll get to play
Dm           Am  G
In the milky way

Chorus:
C           G
Outer Space
Am                        F
Must be such a crazy place
C                                      G
Filled with comets and shooting stars
Am                       F
I wanna see Venus and Mars
Am                   G
I’m gonna need a rocket ship
Dm                                       F
And a space suit for my trip
F
When I’m flying by
G                               C    G    Am
Racing across the sky
G                               C    G    Am  F
Racing across the sky

Bridge:
Dm         Am         G
Asteroids and meteors
Dm           Am        G
Surround our planet earth
Dm        Am         C
Let’s go walking on the moon
F                                                             G
Then head for home, we’ll be back soon

Verse 3:
G                     C
When I grow up
G              F
I’ll be an astronaut
G             C
But until then
G        F
I’ll just pretend
G            C
And that’s Ok
G            F
’cause when I play
Dm       Am   G
I get closer everyday

Chorus:
C           G
Outer Space
Am                        F
Must be such a crazy place
C                                      G
Filled with comets and shooting stars
Am                       F
I wanna see Venus and Mars
Am                   G
I’m gonna need a rocket ship
Dm                                       F
And a space suit for my trip
F
When I’m flying by
G                            C   G   Am  F  C
Racing across the sky

2011 © Bobolo Productions Inc.

Fresh Fun for Spring

Thursday, April 18th, 2013

Life has been exciting and busy these last few months. As many of you know we started off 2013 filming a new series for Treehouse TV. We’re thrilled to announce that the first three episodes started airing earlier this week! You can catch the videos daily at the end of some of Treehouse’s regularly scheduled programming. Three more new episodes will debut next week! Watch for the first airings of these at the following times:

Outer Space: April 22, 2013 – 7:23pm (EDT)
Helping Hands: April 25, 2013 – 6:23pm (EDT)
Muscles: April 26, 2013 – 6:53pm (EDT)

We love receiving your emails, tweets and Facebook posts about the first three episodes. Huge thanks to everyone for sharing in our excitement and celebrations. Please keep sending us your comments and feedback!

Bobs & LoLo on Treehouse TV

Bobs & LoLo’s new show on Treehouse TV!

We are also excited that Earth Day 2013 is just around the corner. Earth Day is a celebration of all the things we do in our daily lives to help nurture our beautiful planet, and it generally turns into a fabulous weekend of musical adventures for us too! We actually arrived on Vancouver Island yesterday and will begin a small mid-island tour tomorrow.

Our first stop is the Tidemark Theatre in Campbell River (April 19) followed by the ADSS Auditorium in Port Alberni (April 21) and a day of community fun in Bamfield to wrap things up on Monday, April 22. Full details about all of these performances can be found on our Events Calendar!

A few more fun comments from us about Earth Day…

Our final announcement is about the Great Kids’ CBC Song Search that launched yesterday. We are thrilled to have one of our songs included in the amazing catalogue of featured Canadian writers/performers! The first round is all in your hands – the listeners. Please consider casting a vote for our song! You can vote daily until May 8. As a bonus, every time you vote you will be entered into a draw for some great prizes including a grand prize trip for your family to the Kids’ CBC Days in Toronto this summer (airfare, hotel & spending money included). We’d be grateful to anyone who can take a moment to vote…every day! :)

Please leave us a comment and let us know how you and your family are celebrating Earth Day this year. Hope to see some of you soon!

Bobs & LoLo

New Adventures for a New Year!

Saturday, February 2nd, 2013

2013 has started off fast and furious in the Bobs & LoLo world. While things have been quiet on the live show front, we’ve been working hard on a new project for Treehouse TV. We are excited to announce that we have a brand new show premiering on the network this Spring. Stay tuned for more info soon!

Secret sneak peek of the new Bobs & LoLo show!

Live Shows

We are about to jump back into one of our favourite things about our ‘jobs’ – live shows! Things get started this weekend with a couple of family concerts on Vancouver Island including Parksville (Feb 2 – today!) and Victoria (Feb 3). Tickets are still available for both events (see links below).

Sunrise Preschool Fundraiser
February 2, 2013 – 1:30pm
Parksville Community & Convention Centre

Bobs & LoLo Nature Rocks – Victoria
February 3, 2013 – 3pm
James Bay Community School Centre

Bobs & LoLo – Nature Rocks!

We also have a number of shows coming up later this month including some fun around BC’s first Family Day weekend (Feb 9 – 11). And, we are super excited to announce a return trip to Ontario (Feb 16 – 18) with performances scheduled in Whitby, Guelph and London. All the details can be found on our Events Calendar or on our Facebook Page.

In the News

Tune in to CFAX 1070 today at 12:30pm (PST) as we chat with Shirley Broback about our latest musical adventures and upcoming projects. http://realparenting.ca/2013/01/world-renowned-author-dr-gabor-mate-bobs-lolo-kimberley-hopwood/

For BC residents, we also have a whirlwind media week ahead with appearances on Breakfast Television (Feb 4), CTV Morning News (Feb 6), CBC On the Coast (Feb 8) and Global Weekend Morning News (Feb 9). We’ll share reminders about days & times on Facebook and Twitter throughout the week.

Looking forward to seeing some of you at live shows soon! Happy 2013 everyone…it’s going to be a fun one!

Bobs & LoLo

Live Online Concert Today!

Tuesday, December 18th, 2012

Today is the day! We are so excited about our first live broadcast and online ‘living room’ concert. This is one of our favourite Facebook Holiday Countdown celebrations! Many of you have been asking for specific details on how to watch. It’s actually as simple as turning on your TV…

Bringing the kiddie mosh to you!

Join us today, December 18, at 7pm (EST) for the musical adventures!

There was a bit of confusion on Facebook about the concert time, so to be super clear, the concert begins today at:

4pmBritish Columbia & Yukon (PST)
5pmAlberta & NWT (MST)
6pmSaskatchewan, Manitoba & SW Ontario (CST)
7pmOntario & Quebec (EST)
8/9pmNewfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & PEI

Our apologies to families on the east coast as we realize the timing is late for some of you. Nunavut – you cross three time zones, so we hope you can figure it out based on the above. :) We will be recording the broadcast and reposting for those of you who can’t join us live.

Viewing Instructions:

1. Go to our Ustream Channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bobs-lolo

2. Sing, dance and play!

3. For added fun you can sign into Ustream with your Facebook or Twitter accounts and join the live chat stream that will be running at the same time as the broadcast. We’ll try to chat with you between songs and fans can chat with each other while we sing!

See you soon!

Bobs & LoLo

Holiday Countdown

Saturday, December 1st, 2012

It’s a jingle, jangle, holly, jolly, festive time of year! Our favourite holiday season is here although if you’ve been in the malls or watching TV recently, it almost feels like the season has been upon us for weeks!

In our homes, December 1st always signals the start of the countdown for Santa’s arrival. Today we are decorating our trees, putting up our lights, playing our favourite holiday songs and planning out all the tasty treats we’ll be enjoying with family and friends over the next few weeks.

As an extra special celebration this year, we have organized a Bobs & LoLo Holiday Countdown (like an advent calendar) where we will be giving away fun prizes everyday until December 24, 2012. The main festivities will be taking place on our Facebook page, but we’ll also be sharing some of the giveaways on Twitter.

Prize announcements will be posted daily at 12pm (PST). For contests, you will have until Midnight (PST) on the same day to cast your entry. Winner(s) for each prize category will be announced sometime the following day. Good luck and have fun!

To get things started and to help light the holiday spirit, we are sharing a free MP3 of our holiday song – It’s a Jingle Jangle Holly Jolly Festive Time of Year! No contest for this one. Everybody wins! Be sure to visit us at www.facebook.com/BobsandLoLo at 12pm (PST) today to get the link.

Also, if you are like us and you have yet to start your holiday shopping, we’re happy to share a special promo code from our friends at Raspberry Kids. Raspberry Kids is offering all Bobs & LoLo fans 10% off on purchases until December 15, 2012. Raspberry Kids carries fresh, healthy and fun products, and we’re big fans of this Canadian-based retailer. Promo code: bobsandlolo10

Happy holidays!

Petting Dinosaurs!

Friday, May 25th, 2012
Today we pet a dinosaur. Yup. A dinosaur!! In fact, it was a baby t-rex from Erth’s Dinosaur Petting Zoo, and it was probably one of the coolest things we’ve ever done. The experience may just inspire our first dinosaur song!

It goes without saying that we are having an amazing time at the Okanagan Children’s Festival in Penticton, BC. Besides meeting dinosaurs we have also performed a couple of action packed shows (one more tomorrow!), and we are meeting tons of great families, artists and festival volunteers at the event. Hope you enjoy the vid of our new ‘friend’, and we look forward to seeing you soon!

Bobs & LoLo

Are you hungry, Mr. Shark?

Saturday, May 12th, 2012

It has been a whirlwind few months with lots of shows, road trips, fun side projects and LoLo’s little appendix fiasco. ;) We’ve been enjoying some sunny days here on the west coast and can hardly wait for summer. What do you most look forward to with the longer days and sunshine-y weather?

Next up…

Mother’s Day at the Roundhouse Community Centre!
Sunday, May 13th – 11am
Tickets: $12 each
Call 604-713-1800 to reserve tickets in advance!

For those of you that missed it last month, here is the radio ad we recorded for the Vancouver Aquarium‘s Babies feature. Could this be the sequel to Cindy Seahorse? :)

ShamROCK!

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
We are heading to the 2012 JUNO Awards in Ottawa at the end of March, and we’re rallying some hometown support to help us celebrate our nomination and raise some funds for our big trip to the nation’s Capital. It’s ShamROCK time!

Please help spread the word and join us for the festivities!

Special thanks to our sponsor – yoyomama – and all our ticketing partners!

Tickets can be purchased instore at Beansprouts, BC Playthings and Jack and Lola.

Online purchases can be made through Raspberry Kids at:

$1 from every ticket sold will be donated to the Gaby Davis Foundation to support their efforts in providing resources and financial aid to children with cancer and their families.

See you at the ShamROCK!

Name That Tune!

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

We are thrilled to announce that our latest release – Connecting the Dots – has been nominated for a 2012 Juno Award for Children’s Album of the Year! The Juno festivities will be held in Ottawa on March 26 – April 1. We hope to be able to attend the awards ceremony, and we will be sure to post some videos and pics from the trip here and on Facebook!

In the meantime, we thought it would be fun to host a musical contest to giveaway some CDs, Connecting the Dots t-shirts and stickers in celebration of our nomination. Check out the video below for all the details!

Contest Summary

1. Listen to the ‘amazing’ medley of songs performed in the video.
2. Write down the titles of the three songs featured.
3. Email us the names of the songs at info@bobsandlolo.com.

We will randomly select 2 names from all of the correct email submissions to receive the prize packages. Contest closes February 16, 2012 at 12pm (PST).

Good luck!!

Kiddie Fair Fun!

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

Last weekend we spent a day in New Westminster, BC at the Royal City Kids Fair. The event was hosted at the Fraser River Discovery Centre which is an education centre featuring programs about our fave fish – the Great White Sturgeon! Here’s a peek at the fun…

Also, if you missed our video share on Facebook last week, here’s a glimpse of how we celebrated LoLo’s birthday!

Next stops for us include musical adventures in Parksville, Abbotsford and Whitehorse. We look forward to seeing some of you soon!

Bobs & LoLo