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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

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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:

4pm – British Columbia & Yukon (PST)
5pm – Alberta & NWT (MST)
6pm – Saskatchewan, Manitoba & SW Ontario (CST)
7pm – Ontario & Quebec (EST)
8/9pm – Newfoundland, 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

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Skip, Jump and a Swap!

Friday, September 21st, 2012

After a wee bit of an extended break from the blog, we are back with minutes to spare before the arrival of Fall. We love this time of year! The crisp autumn air, the changing colours of the leaves and one of our favourite family fun days – Halloween!

Be sure to visit costumeswapdaycanada.com for more info about attending or organizing a swap in your community. And don’t forget to send us your costume ideas to receive an entry in the draw to win a super-fantabulous prize pack! We need your entries by 12pm (PST) on Monday, October 15. You can get an entry into the draw by emailing us (fanmail@bobsandlolo.com), leaving a comment on our blog, posting your costume ideas/pics on our Facebook page or sending us a tweet.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Bobs & LoLo

 

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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

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Holly-oliday Cheer!

Monday, December 19th, 2011

Well, another year has flown by, and once again we pause to reflect on how amazing and rewarding our lives truly are. We have dream ‘jobs’, and 2011 is another great example of what incredibly fun lives we live!

Highlights from the past year include the hundreds of live shows we shared in all over Canada, alongside the opportunity to introduce songs from our May 2011 release – Connecting the Dots – to families across the country! We also celebrated a SOCAN Music Award, Parents’ Choice Award and a Western Canadian Music Award nomination. Plus, the icing on the cake was definitely the addition of the youngest and sweetest member of the Bobs & LoLo family – 6 month old, Baby Anisa.

It has been an unforgettable year, and we are so excited to see what lies ahead in 2012!

Santa's Helpers

We wanted to wrap-up this year with an extra special project, and last month we wrote a song in celebration of the season. This is our first holiday tune, and we hope to add to the collection over the next year [wishing for a xmas album in 2012!]. We hope you enjoy this little musical treat from the B&L family to yours!

Bobs & LoLo – Jingle Jangle Holly Jolly Festive Time of Year

We will both be spending the rest of the month with our families on Vancouver Island, but we look forward to connecting with you again in the New Year.  Thank you so much for the continued support of our music and programming.

Happiest holiday wishes to all of you ! We can’t wait to share in many more musical adventures in 2012!

Bobs & LoLo

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Playlist for the Planet

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

September marks the 20th anniversary of the David Suzuki Foundation. Happy birthday!

To celebrate, the organization launched Playlist for the Planet, a musical initiative bringing together some of Canada’s finest songwriters and performers in the spirit of a clean, healthy, sustainable planet.

The collaboration already includes a star-studded list featuring artists like Joel Plaskett, Bruce Cockburn, Broken Social Scene, k-os, Gordon Lightfoot, Randy Bachman (with Sarah McLachlan and Nikki Yanofsky), DOA, Tom Jackson, Johnny Reid, Raffi, LIGHTS, Jessie Farrell, Rush, the Trews, Great Big Sea, and Tanya Tagaq. Wowsers!

In July we submitted our song, Recycle With Me, to the Playlist for the Planet contest – a special component of the project that gives independent songwriters (like us!) a chance to be featured on a compilation album with the amazing artists listed above.

Thank you to everyone that has already voted for us! Voting is still open until tomorrow – September 1, 2010.

Please take a listen to the songs and vote for your favorites on the CBC Radio 3 website.



A Playlist for the Planet CD and downloadable album will be released by Universal Music this October. Maybe your favorite song will be part of it! :)

Bobs & LoLo

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Party Time

Monday, December 7th, 2009

As many of you know, when we first started performing for kids, we did a lot of birthday parties…A LOT! On average we would fit in 4 parties per weekend – a schedule we kept for nearly 3 years!

Molly's birthday! (June 2006)
Molly’s birthday party! (Jun 2006)

Birthday bookings proved a great way for us to practice new content and learn what worked well with the kids. Plus, the experience gave us the confidence we needed to move onto larger audiences and transition from living rooms or backyards to real stages. Due to an increasingly busy schedule, we stopped offering our birthday party packages a couple years ago, but we have been thrilled to continue hearing from families that still include our music during their family celebrations.

We were excited by a recent Facebook message from the Wang Family, and we wanted to share the story of their daughter, Hayden’s, 1st birthday celebrations!

Hayden's 1st birthday!

From Hayden’s Dad…

It was my daughter’s 1st birthday, and since she loves B&L, we had a B&L themed party.  We had B&L playing on the stereo (all 3 CDs I might add), and we had the On Your Feet DVD playing on the TV.  Everything my wife did in terms of décor was fashioned like the cartoon-y images on the DVD (bugs, trees, butterflies, flowers etc).  The room was filled with them. I even made little B&L name cards for the kids. There were also cut out music notes and flower confetti on the tables and “grass” centerpieces.  We even tried to get the cake like the DVD images with trees, lady bugs, flowers and more!

B&L place settings

Table settings!

As the icing on the cake (pun intended!), here’s a copy of the text that the Wang’s included with their guest invitations – those of you familiar with our songs will surely recognize some of the words! We were super impressed with this…

Something special is in the air,
Flex your muscles and let down your hair,
Just like that I’m turning one,
Let’s go marching together and have some fun,
Musical adventures are what I adore,
Get on your feet and let’s hit the floor!
It’s sure to be an action packed day,
Just be ready to shake it up, okay?
If you haven’t guessed Bobs & Lolo are the best!
Get on the right track and I’ll take care of the rest,
One year already, how I go, go, grow,
So skip, hop, and jump and I’ll see you at the…..PARTY!!

It’s nice to be polite so please RSVP!

Our thanks to Hayden and her family for sharing stories of the birthday adventures with us! We were so flattered and touched to see how much they enjoy our music!

While on the subject, we wanted to flag a couple of great birthday ideas/resources. Be sure to head to Green Planet Parties for lots of tips and ideas for eco-friendly party planning and products. And, if you’re in the BC Lower Mainland area, check out the new nature-themed birthday party packages in Stanley Park! The Stanley Park Ecology Society will host a tailor-made party for your active, nature-loving kids. Bug hunts, forest walks, nature art and more! Program booking also includes use of a great party space (w/ access to kitchen) for snacks and gifts in the historic Stanley Park Dining Pavilion. For more info, visit www.stanleyparkecology.ca or call 604-718-6522.

Hope to see you soon!

Bobs & Lolo

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Sing in the Spring – Live Shows, Radio and More!

Monday, March 30th, 2009

It’s been another action packed month for us with lots of live performances and many exciting projects behind-the-scenes. We’d like to start off with a big THANK YOU to all of the superfans who came out to help us sing in the spring during Spring Break at the Vancouver Aquarium. The venue was jam-packed this year and the kiddie mosh pit was definitely the place to be! We loved meeting all of the new faces and connecting with familiar ones too…especially those of you that showed up for not one or two, but three or more shows over the week! If you have any pics that you want to share, send them our way and we’ll post some on our blog and our Facebook page!

Speaking of new faces, we’d like to welcome Green Planet Parties to the B&L family! We had the pleasure of meeting the company’s owners (both named Suzanne!) at the Coquitlam Family Fair. Green Planet Parties offers a great service with their selection of eco-friendly party planning ideas and products. We’re excited that party planning wannabes can now discover our music in the mix of great tips and tools on the Green Planet Parties site!

Green Planet Parties

If you haven’t had a chance to pick-up your own B&L CD or DVD yet, you do have a limited time opportunity to get them for FREE! Soapboxmama is hosting another colossal gift basket giveaway, and we’ve added some goodies to the loot bag. Click on the image below to enter for a chance to win over $800 in prizes!

Soapbox Mama - Colossal Gift Basket

We hope to see all of you at a live show sometime soon. Be sure to keep an eye on our calendar for full details on all the musical adventures! Upcoming shows include the Kiddies Korner Imagination Fair in Port Coquitlam (April 4), two special family concerts at the Errington Community Hall in support of the Errington Cooperative Preschool (April 5) and the Pedagogy Toy Store’s Anniversary Celebrations in New Westminster (April 11).

If we’re not in your neighbourhood in the near future, keep an ear out for our tunes on Treehouse Radio. The digital radio network, hosted by Max Trax, has just started broadcasting some of the songs from our Action Packed CD as part of their regular programming – be sure to send them some feedback if you like what you hear! You can send in your requests here.

Well, we’d better get back to work! We’re hiding away in rehearsal for the next couple days while we prepare for our ArtStarts in Schools showcase. On Wednesday morning, we’ll be delivering a 12-minute snippet of a show we’ve developed for elementary school-aged audiences. ArtStarts in Schools is a not-for-profit organization offering educators, artists, parents and students a broad range of  programs, services and resources to promote arts and creativity among BC’s young people. We hope to work with the ArtStarts team to share our music and programming with communities throughout BC during the 2009/10 school year. Wish us luck for the showcase (we’re a little nervous!) and check us out in the artist directory at the end of April! www.artstarts.com

Here’s a cute little video that ArtStarts posted on YouTube to wrap up this post:)

Hope to see you soon!

Bobs & Lolo

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Connecting Kids to Nature – All in the Bag!

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Those familiar with our music and programming are most likely already in tune to our love of the outdoors and our goal of connecting children to the wonders of nature through music, movement and make-believe. And, while our audience (the kids!) are our main focus, we also definitely value connecting with like-minded individuals in the greater community too. We’ve been thrilled that the worlds of Twitter, Facebook and MySpace have introduced us to a diverse network of socially-conscious artists, entrepreneurs and educators.

Recently we stumbled across the website of a Vancouver-based company called Naturebag. Created by Sylvie de Sousa and Katharine Byers, two moms with one vision, Naturebag is designed to help children and their families reconnect with nature through hands-on, curiosity led games and activities.

Naturebag

We love what these two moms are doing…so much so that we have offered to sell their product at our live performances! Be sure to check out the Naturebag website or email us for more info. The kits really are fantastic tools that inspire exploration and discovery with kids, and the organic cotton bags are perfect for carrying around a snappy snack or two as well:)

Besides connecting with fun and creative small businesses like Naturebag, we’ve also been blown away by the vast and supportive world of bloggers who value many of the same things we do. Below is a short list of some of the sites we have connected with recently. One of the greatest things about these sites is that most are written and hosted by moms – true experts in the realm of kids! In addition, a lot of these sites feature tons of product reviews and give-aways. If you love free stuff (who doesn’t!?) be sure to check them out!

Feisty, Frugal and Fabulous
Tot Trends Weekly
Kid Trends Weekly
BarefootMommy
4BabyandMom
Modecokids

Things also continue to be busy for us away from the online world and back in the land of live performances. We had a great time throughout the month of February with shows all over the Metro Vancouver area as well as trips to Vancouver Island, the U.S. and the Gulf Islands. Highlights at the end of the month included a fantastic sold-out event at the Roundhouse Community Centre, a beautiful trip to Saltspring Island to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Saltspring Island Daycare Society and a number of amazing school shows, specifically Qualicum Beach Elementary (Qualicum Beach, BC), Hillcrest Elementary (Victoria, BC), Holly Elementary (Surrey, BC) and Kingsford-Smith Elementary (Vancouver, BC). March also started off on a high note with the Coquitlam Family Fair on the 1st of the month, and there’s still lots more to come!

We are really looking forward to seeing some of you during Spring Break at the Vancouver Aquarium. We will be performing three shows daily in the Underwater Beluga Gallery (11:30am, 1pm & 3pm) from March 14-22, 2009. Please join us for lots of singing & dancing and a chance to say hello to all of your favourite animals while also checking out the new Birds of Prey in Flight program. For more information, please visit http://www.vanaqua.org.

Beluga Encounter

And finally, while we put out a call for votes a couple of weeks ago on Facebook, if you missed the announcement, we are thrilled to let you know that we have been nominated for a Canadian Indie Award for Favourite Children’s Artist of the Year. Final winners have been selected by fans – voting closed on March 6th. The winners will be announced at the 9th Annual Independent Music Awards on March 14th. Keep your fingers crossed for us and stay tuned for more soon!

Phew – we jammed a lot of info into this post!! There’s lots more to share though, and hopefully, we will get a chance to write again before the end of the week. We do want to sign off with a BIG thanks to all of you for your continued support and encouragement. You are truly helping make our dreams a reality every day!!

Bobs & Lolo

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