We are having a lot of fun here in Santiago Chile right now! Just finished performing at the park for a birthday party. We were just going to play one song for our friends but of course it turned into a half hour with the rest of the park of children coming over for a show =) Best afternoon ever!! Was that ever a lot of fun. We LOVE impromptu performances! Thanks for playing with us Kids!

Filed under: performing Tagged: birthday, children, Family, family show, fun, kids, kids music, Music, outside, park, santiago, show

Hi vogelJoy fanistas! I think that Spanish language is finally rubbing off on me

We’re brainstorming about the production of our music video for our song “Mom” and we want you to be part of it.

So here it is: our casting call to Moms and families and vogelJoy fans!

Send us video!

• Video clips of you Moms being active playing with your kids.
• Video clips for “She’s the prettiest girl in town, that’s what daddy said” : You know, clips of you with your spouse on a picnic, sitting on a bench together, having fun, Dad giving mom flowers, spinning her around, a kiss … you know… Dad showing off and loving the prettiest girl in town, the love of his life, his wife!
• Video of your kids fighting… ha! Maybe I’ll just do that one — I could get lots of footage
• Video clips for “Do you think she knows, that I need and love her so” : You know, clips of your kids running to give Mom a hug or kiss or to bring Mom a picture or picking flowers or dandelions and bringing them to Mom…
• Video clips for “When you just can’t find your stuff and you’ve been looking long enough, Ask Mom” : your kids looking for stuff in their messy room and Mom pointing where it is, that sort of idea.
• Video of the whole family doing their favourite thing together, your thing, what makes your family you and the happiest.

Send us Photos!

Pictures are our second choice but we may still be able to incorporate them. We are looking for photos that would represent the ideas above.

Not all videos or pictures will be chosen but I bet a lot will! We will not be giving credit to photographers or videographers or businesses etc. with the video – it’s a homemade vogelJoy and fan music video – easy peasy, no fuss no muss and beautiful =)

Deadline

May 25 2013

How to send files

Contact us when you have video and pictures ready and we can help you with sending them to us.

We really hope that you can help us out with this song! We think that Moms and families are beautiful and we are really looking forward to highlighting that in this music video.

Remember if you go to our Soundcloud page you can download our new songs for free right there! Or you can even go to our Digital page on our website and “pay what you want” =D

Please share this project with your friends because we would enjoy lots of footage for the Mom music video!

“Mom” Lyrics : click to download song Mom Lyrics

When you just can’t find your stuff
And you’ve been looking long enough
Ask Mom, just ask Mom
She always seems to know
When your important things go
So ask Mom, just ask Mom

Mom’s got eyes on the back of her head
She’s the prettiest girl in town that’s what Daddy said
She is smart, she is wise
and those tears in her eyes
are the pride she feel inside
when she knows how hard I’ve tried

Skin your knee and stub your toe
Get a bee sting on your nose
Tell Mom, just tell Mom
Broken hearts, broken bones
Broken friendships, broken homes
Tell Mom, just tell Mom

When I’m talking look at me
Or I’m gonna to count to three
One, Two, Three!
That’s Mom, yeah that’s Mom
Pick your clothes up off the floor
For the hundredth time or more
That’s Mom, yeah that’s Mom

Do you think she knows
that I need and love her so

Who can read me bedtime stories
And do all the voices for me
Just Mom, only Mom
Who can wipe away my tears
Understand my silly fears
Just Mom, only Mom

Mom’s got eyes on the back of her head
She’s the prettiest girl in town that’s what Daddy said
She is smart she is wise, she deserves and Nobel Prize,
She’s my teacher, she’s my friend,
She’s my Mom.

Filed under: contribute Tagged: Family, Home, kids music, mom, Mother, mother's day, Music, music video, Nobel Prize, parenting, song, SoundCloud, Video clip, vogeljoy, youtube

So far we've tweeted, updated our facebook status' and blogged all about our best moments - the ones we are really proud of - the ones we think will win you over to love us as the most fun, creative, music and kid loving family band that there ever was. But it's true we love to tell a story; a good story. This time though it isn't about how good our newest song is, how 'good' we performed or how good we look ;) These not so perfect moments are what make a good story because everyone knows good stories seem to always come out of tricky situations.  We have experienced plenty of those!!!

Performing with young children and especially your own children isn't always easy but we think you'll completely understand since you know us and we know you have a crazy family just like we do. It's not that we've been hiding our less than shining moments from you -- if you've been to a show throughout the years you've been sure to experience our not-so-perfect moments with us! And let's face it - we know it made you smile or at the very least look up to the sky and shake your head. We just haven't pasted these juicy details up there on twitter or facebook after the show to exclaim:


Alright I admit I exaggerated on the last point; I think singing still might be beating math in the fun factor. But we thought we'd leave out our quirky stories since we're trying to be an amazing -- well actually a Really Amazing family band. Try as we might, our family has yet to become the perfect performers of our dreams and as much as we work on it and think of new ideas to make ourselves and our show better we still have those challenges you couldn't dream up to prepare for ahead of time. But in spite of ourselves and the work we put into our vogelJoy project it appears our imperfections actually give us creativity, fun and that character you love - the one you recognize from your house all making us uniquely unforgettable.


Picture it. Winnipeg. 2010. We were performing at The Forks singing away when suddenly I notice Sophie is missing. She was just 2 then and through the crowd I couldn't see her anywhere! So in the middle of my song I had to stop and ask the crowd, "Have you seen a little girl about this high with a blue and purple tutu running around?" and the whole audience pointed over to Sophie who was swinging on the ice cream shop door. Yes it is a bit of a task parenting and performing at the same time but thankfully there are many wonderfully helpful and good people in the world -- especially at the Forks in Winnipeg that day!

Then there was the time we had a little show in a library in which only one family came out. Just one! But this hasn't ever happened since. ;)

Terry has had some good ones too and in fact in some shows he has quite a time counting to five. I don't know how he does it but each time he scrambles his numbers and so we get little helpers to come up and help us with the song so Terry gets it right. No this wasn't supposed to be part of the show but now I couldn't imagine it any other way. It's completely fun having kids come and teach Terry his numbers on stage! Plus they are usually very good singers too :)

One of the things we used to practice with our kids was just getting them comfortable on the stage so that they would sing and be themselves. Now they are so comfortable that I'm not sure if they remember the difference between the stage and the audience. So we try to emphasize singing on stage is part of their act, their job of entertaining. It's such a great life skill to teach them this! If they get it I am sure they could be successful at anything. They have to put the audience first and for a little while forget about their sore toe or that they're too hot and focus on making good music and bringing joy to everyone there. But this can totally work backwards.

Louisa and Oliver were performing their song "Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better" at the Hillside Music Festival 2012 in Guelph and during the song Oliver messed up so much that Louisa stomped over to the side of the stage to restart the music. So they started again and there were more mistakes and then some pushing and then pushing back and then Louisa actually slugged Oliver with the mic. This lead to Oliver crying and then Oliver crying more because he was so embarrassed that he was crying. Finally Terry swept Oliver up into his arms and helped him finish the song and they sang to the end with huge applause for the slam bang finish.  Some dads and a few families came up at the end of the show to congratulate us on that number and told us how great it was! I was completely surprised. But they loved it and told us how great we handled the song when it was going South there for awhile. In fact they had thought it was all part of the show! That is what they thought until as one Dad summed it up, Louisa slugged Oliver with the mic.

We have many moments in our show that will make you laugh and say, "Wow you guys are crazy! But I love that you do this together as a family -- it's so good to see a family like this and my kids loved it." We just want to say thank you!!! And we promise to bring you many more crazy moments of ups and downs in our shows in 2013 and happily ever after.

Singers and actors were among the staunchest peace-proponents throughout the history of western wars of conquest (WWI, WW2, Vietnam, Korea, etc). Nowhere did the anti-war sentiment coalesce more than in the folk/rock/jazz community.




Seeger, Lennon, Young, Crosby Stills Nash, Seegers, and on and on. Today, the peace movement has dissipated and is largely voiceless. This little video reminds me that the voice for peace truly has been silenced.




Instead of calling for governments to end senseless wars that have taken the lives of millions of children, today's "peace movement" consists of celebrities who will not say one word about Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, Syria, or any other theater in which innocent women, men and children die every day at the hands of western governments.


Instead, today we hear Beyonce, John Legend and cast asking for, actually begging for intervention from, wait for it ... the government. Yes, THAT government. The same government with kill lists, drone strikes, bombings and torture of the most horrific kind.




If celebrities of the past had made this video, it would have sounded like this:

"Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, Syria .... how many more? When will it stop? How many men, women and children must be killed and injured until we stand up and say ENOUGH?"

This lament should take nothing away from the deaths of hundreds of innocent men, women and children in schools, malls, houses of worship, or anywhere else where lone crazed gunmen commit acts of horrific murder.


And as much as I grieve when I hear about lives of little children just like mine that are snuffed out, I grieve in equal proportion for the lives of the millions who face the same fate by the hands of government violence that will never get 24/7 news coverage, that will never get mass-vigils, that will never hear pleas of justice, that will never have more than a brave handful of celebrities lend their voice to their deaths.


Today most bands, singers and celebrities are sadly only a bunch of propaganda agents for government but they could do so much more just as the singers and celebrities once did; stand up for peace, for freedom and for personal liberties.  Give a voice, be original, be real, love.  You won't get any less from our little voice and our little band.


Peace In,

vogelJoy 

We were completely excited to launch our new album with an exciting CD Release Party!  The biggest surprise for us was how many people came!  It was packed! 



We just want to say a big warm and happy thank you to all who came and supported us at our party.  You made our day!  When I envisioned a CD Release Party this is exactly how it looked -- Thank You!



I'm sure most people have discovered how much I enjoy the circus so of course no vogelJoy Party would be complete without something circussy! 



That is why we found Bogle the Stiltwalker!  He walked around on his bouncy stilts and also had a magic act in our show!



I still have no idea how he did those tricks and I was even standing behind him!



I love a good stilt walker =D



We also were excited to have cupcakes at our party and Louisa, Oliver and Sophie had been counting the days for months until they got to eat a cupcake!  So it was an exciting day in more ways than one.



There was even a craft table!  When we were little we loved making paper cranes so I thought these kids would enjoy this clever craft too and they did!  We like to have kids making art during our shows so that they can create something that goes with the music and have something to take home and remember their time with vogelJoy! 



In this case we had paper cranes to go with our song "Peace In Me".  There were a lot of interested kids making paper cranes of all colours -- I loved it!  Thank you Mom for teaching everyone during the show - I know it kept you busy!



We had people come to our show from far and wide!  Places like London, Kitchener, Brantford, St. Thomas, Aylmer, and Caledonia!  It was fantastic!  It really looks like everyone had a great time.  What a way to spend your Saturday morning!

Thanks to our choir kids for coming out to sing the world premier of "Peace In Me"!  It was really fun to sing it all together.



After this party our new album definitely feels released.  This concert was the icing on the cake and a fantastic way to introduce our album to the world. 



Thank you to everyone online for all of your excitement, smiles and support and thank you to everyone at the party for being part of our album release concert!  What a huge happy success.



--Kimberly

Louisa and Oliver.  There isn't much to say except that this video will definitely bring a smile to your face.



And that my friends is what it's like working with Louisa and Oliver.  =D

You can also read about and watch a video with Sophie recording here.  And more about Making our new album here!

Album Mastering Adventures - All Through The Night

Right now we are working once more on mastering.  We just need the Master CD to burn properly - that is our puzzle right now.  Terry is working on it though and will be through the whole night because he has work in the morning.  If there is one thing I know he will find the way!  You can do it Terry!  This album is worth all the work and love it takes.  Good New Update: the new Master works so the CD is being printed! YAY! :)

Release Date Countdown: 9 days to go for November 1 2012! (or less... we'll see what we can do)

We had a fabulous time playing at the Family Expo in Cornwall this past weekend!  We had a huge enthusiastic crowd! 



This event was so well attended!  The Ontario Early Years Centre of SD&G hosted it and not only were there many interesting vendors all around there were also places for the kids to play, craft and build things. 



The kids were great!  We loved hanging out with you too!



We had a great time performing 3 shows that day and each show was Full of families.



Thanks for having us Cornwall!!

We just wanted to say a big thank you to Gemma Charlton for choreographing the dance to our vogelJoy Theme Song with us!  We love it!  We definitely have to do more songs together.

Here she is!



Here are the videos of the vogelJoy Theme Song!

This is the main video of our little number that we open many shows:



And the we put together a video so you can practice learning the dance too!



Brent Charlton was also a huge help being our videographer for these videos. Thanks Brent -- You are the best!



He also filmed the video for the title track of our new album "A Friend Like You"



These two made our day!

We are really excited to have a CD Release Party to launch all of the new music from our new CD!  The party is in Aylmer Ontario at the Old Town Hall Theatre Saturday November 3 2012 at 10AM!  We hope you can come out!  Of course we even have crafts for you and the kids and because of our love of circus we are even having Stilt-walking Bogle the Clown coming from Stratford Ontario!  Our new CD will be available at the show too! 

To promote our show we made up these beautiful posters!  And while we're promoting the party you will even be able to download one here:




To read about our album "A Friend Like You" click here! 

We are spreading the word about our band and the party through word of mouth and getting out and talking to people.  This is how it's going so far:



If you are in the area come out to the party!  We'd love to meet you and sing you all of our new songs! 

Thanks so much for your support!

We are happy to officially release the Artwork for our new album!




Our release date will be November 1 2012!  So keep your eyes peeled for our new album on our website and iTunes.  ***ok, it got done early... October 22 2012 to be exact!  YaHoo!!

Here is our official album description! :

vogelJoy's second full length album "A Friend Like You" is a colourful adventure of original music with a few additional surprises. "A Friend Like You" features a medley of family oriented songs in genres such as musical theatre, traditional, jazz, country and caribbean.  You will even hear a very enthusiastic children's chorus of vogelJoy's hometown friends.   Children and adults alike will find much enjoyment in these songs.  Themes of friendship, family, peace, fun, dreams, life, liberty, goodness, victory, health and happiness resonate from beginning to end. This family band has grown since their debut album in 2010, and this album definitely reflects their widening musical landscape; vogelJoy 2.0 is quite an appropriate subtitle!  As children Sophie, Oliver and Louisa mature vocally, creatively and as performers, they each bring oodles of life to this album and the vogelJoy live show.  Singing and traveling together is a project and a pleasure; this album is a testament to the adage that music expands us as individuals and as a families.  We wish the same for you!