Toe Jam Puppet Band at Amazing Things Arts Center
| Hours: | 2:00 p.m. |
| Ages: | Kids |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | $ see below |
| Category: | Performances |
The Toe Jam Puppet Band was founded in 2000 when friends and big kids Tom Poitras and Vinny Lovegrove decided to combine their diverse backgrounds in music, songwriting, scenic artistry and puppetry. The goal of the band is to offer a unique brand of interactive children’s entertainment that is “fabulicious”, encouraging kids and their grown ups to giggle, dance and be silly together.
With sponsorship from the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC), the Toe Jam Puppet Band released their first CD, aptly titled The First CD, in April 2002. Featuring 14 original songs, the CD seeks to replicate and bring to a wider audience the nurturing hands-on interactivity of the weekly playgroup experience that has made them so well loved by children and parents in Southeastern, Massachusetts.
January 2004 brought the release of Toe Jam’s second CD, Dance Party. The CD features songs that have become popular favorites at their live shows. All three of the band’s studio recordings seamlessly retain the interactive nature of their popular live shows which are very active, encouraging kids and parents to sing and dance along with the band as they entertain with a unique combination of original songs, masterful shadow puppetry, storytelling and pure FUN. The dynamic group is great with kids, but best when parents are having fun with their little ones.
Much to the delight of their legion of little fans, the Toe Jam Puppet Band released their third studio CD in 2008, Toe Jam in Outer Space.
The newest CD represents Toe Jam’s most ambitious journey in the recording studio to date, with 15 original songs, spanning several musical genres such as Rock 'n' Roll ('Moon Rock', 'We Are the New Planets,') Funk ('Space Bump,' 'Ed & Edna Live on Sedna,') Banjo Punk ('The Bathroom Dance,') Country ('Lost In Outer Space,') and a Jump Blues song, ('Sideways Boogie Woogie.') Guest performers, both young and old, were invited into the recording sessions to explore what they heard in the songs, and in turn contributed to the big and little kid view of our ever-changing universe.
| COST | ↑ top |
$10 ($8 Members)
| WEBSITE | ↑ top |
amazingthings.org/frontpage2.asp?DC_ID=1556
| LOCATION | ↑ top |
160 Hollis Street, Framingham, MA, 01702 map
Phone: 508-405-2787
From Boston and points east:
Mass Pike west (I-90w) to Exit 13 (Natick/Framingham). ***Bear right after toll booth onto Route 30 west toward Framingham. Take left onto Route 126 and follow through downtown Framingham. Cross RR tracks and bear right at Tedeschi Food Mart. Firehouse is 3 blocks down on your left at 160 Hollis Street.
From Route 95/128 and points south:
Route 95/128 north to Mass Pike west (I-90w) to Exit 13 (Natick/Framingham).
Follow ***asterisk above.
From Route 95/128 and points north:
Route 95/128 south to Mass Pike West (I-90w) to Exit 13 (Natick/Framingham). Follow ***asterisk above.
From Cape and south on 495:
Route 495 south to Route 9 east. **Exit Edgell Road ramp, turning right at light onto Main Street. Continue straight onto Union Avenue through downtown Framingham. Cross RR tracks and bear right onto Route 126 at Tedesche Food Mart. Firehouse is 3 blocks down on your left at 160 Hollis Street.
From north on 495:
Route 495 north to Mass Pike east to Route 9 east. Then follow **asterisk above.
From Worcester and points west:
Mass Pike east (I-90e) to Route 9 east. Then follow **asterisk above.
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