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Young at Heart airs Saturday mornings at 8 AM on WTMD.
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A show is born
Back in April of 2016 my band Milkshake and I did a show at WTMD. Sam Sessa, a dj at the station, had an idea: lots of young families couldn’t come to the night time events at WTMD, so why not ask a kindie band to come do a show on Saturday morning and see what happens. So that’s what we did and it was a huge success. Sam immediately thought about how he could grow a Saturday morning kid-friendly live performance into a regular once-monthly thing called Saturday Morning Tunes. I thought about a radio show for families that wouldn’t make the regular WTMD listener wince and tune to a different station. Fast forward to March of 2017 and Sam’s Saturday Morning Tunes series is a hit, and I aired my first hour-long show called Young at Heart. The two kid-friendly ventures were absolutely synergistic: kindie artists would come to the station and do Saturday Morning Tunes; I would interview them afterwards for Young at Heart.
What instantly amazed me was how many incredible kindie bands were out there making music. When Milkshake started back in 2000, it was pretty much us, Dan Zanes, Laurie Berkener and a few other bands making music for kids. Now, it was a definite scene, a real genre. I immediately found artists I loved: Walter Martin, StevenSteven, Andrew & Polly, Priscilla Ahn - and folded in kid-friendly songs from bands like Weezer, Wilco, the B52s and the Beatles.
Both Saturday Morning Tunes and Young at Heart have evolved over the years. Sam now likes to take the series off-site to different venues using different themes. And besides doing the Artist Interviews I love so much, I’ve created regular features for Young at Heart. Talking Tunes finds Milkshake bandmates Brian Simms and Tom Moon chatting about a song they like in what usually proves sarcastic, funny and informative. Song Bites is a feature where a musician talks briefly about the inspiration for a song. Notes from the Playground is a new feature in the works which finds me chatting with a few kids about one or two things, having them share their words of wisdom from a playground. It’s all very exciting and very gratifying, especially when I now feel inspired to go back into the studio with Milkshake and do another album after so many years. Although we still perform, it’s been six years since our last and fifth album for kids was released. We will see what all this creativity will bring.
Thanks for listening!
