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Itinerary updates
July 1, 2010
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The Banana Slug String Band's Latest CD… Join in the musical fun as the award-winning Banana Slug String Band – Doug Dirt, Airy Larry, Solar Steve and Marine Mark – bring out their latest collection of earth-loving songs about understanding and caring for our precious watersheds. As Slug fans across the country know, the Banana Slugs' music is contagious! Children can't help singing, dancing and laughing along… all while learning important science concepts. From ""We All Live Downstream" and "Thankful for the Watershed " to "One Little River" and "Storm Drain Blues," this newest recording – as with all Banana Slugs' music – has a lot to show and tell about this home we call Earth. |
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| Check out the great review of our new CD in the Chicago Parent Magazine | ||
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“We All Live Downstream,” like the Banana Slug CDs before it, is being released through the small, independent Slug Music label. This is grassroots at its grassiest, folks! Because the Slugs would like to get the CD to as wide an audience as possible, we’re calling on you, our friends and colleagues, to spread the word. This CD is an excellent vehicle for classroom and outdoor educators. The band can perform the material at school assemblies, bus-in school performances, public educational events, and conference workshops. Any and all promotion from our friends is warmly welcomed. Praise for the Slugs and We All Live Downstream! "The award-winning Banana Slug String Band ... excel in presenting their environmental message with enthusiastic vocals and excellent musicianship …. An equally superb youth choir joins in on these ten bright and bouncy songs…. This outstanding album features catchy tunes that teach youngsters about the importance of a healthy environment, and teachers and librarians can use it to enhance the curriculum or for story times." "The 10 content-rich, catchy tunes introduce watershed issues and help youngsters to gain a deeper understanding of them."
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“We All Live Downstream" has been two years in the making. The process of researching, writing, and recording the album started with an Ohio EPA grant that launched the Slugs on a series of watershed concerts, workshops and interactive family performances.
2008 National Association of Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) - Honor Award
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We are looking for a million friends to declare their support for New Orleans and surrounding parishes. Please join Friends of New Orleans!
Check our out DVD!! "Dancing with the Earth" is now on DVD, featuring 10 minutes of fresh Slug music video footage and our 20 year retrospective Slide show. Visit our products page to order!
Support Slug Music! Order Slug merchandise online at our "products" page. Or, by phone 888-32-SLUGS (888-327-5847). We accept credit cards.The Banana Slug String Band is a group of lovable musicians and educators from the coastal redwoods of Northern California. The Slugs are "Airy" Larry Graff, Doug "Dirt" Greenfield, "Solar" Steve Van Zandt and "Marine" Mark Nolan.
With vocals, guitars, mandolin, bass, harmonica, banjo and percussion, Slug songs range from rockin' boogies to sensitive ballads; folk songs to reggae and rap. Music, theater, puppetry and audience participation create a fun-filled learning experience.
Have you seen the Slugs
in your area? They play at
They will even come out
to your school! If you would like to see the Slugs play live at your school
or other event, please contact
us with this online form!
Environmental educators, interpreters and teachers: The Banana Slug String Band also develop curricula and provide trainings and workshops in your schools so you can learn how to do the Water Cycle Boogie and create a rainstorm right in your classroom.
The Banana Slug String Band bring the FUN-damentals of science and ecology to you with characters like Big Red, Zee Professor, Mr. Dirt and The Nature Man.
Ask your local venue or school to bring the Slugs to your community for a magical musical adventure!
So Come on! Their shows are filled with great music, humor and most of all FUN!!
The Banana Slug String
Band Mission Statement
The Banana Slug
String Band is committed to educational entertainment for children and
families through interactive music and performance. We are dedicated to
fostering positive attitudes about the environment, providing accurate
information about natural history and science, promoting music appreciation,
building self esteem in children, honoring creativity, supporting the
arts in education and sparking in people a joyful sense of wonder. Through
the production of tapes, CD's, videos, songbooks, picture books, curriculum,
activity guides, teacher workshops and concerts, we hope to make these
values accessible to an increasingly wider audience. We endorse and support
collaboration with other individuals and organizations that promote the
well being of children, family and the environment. We believe that music
is a powerful instrument for honoring diversity while uniting people for
the common good.
Banana Slug String Band awards:
For "River Song" (Book and CD set)
| 2008 | Skipping Stones Honor Award - exceptional books and teaching resources that encourage an understanding of the world's ecological richness. |
| 2008 | Moonbeam Children's Book Gold Award |
| 2007 | iParenting Media Award |
For "Wings of Slumber"
| 2005 |
Wings of Slumber CD winner of, a 2005 NAPPA Gold Award,
* a 2005 Earlychildhood NEWS Director's Choice Award,
* An iParenting Award,
* A 2005 Parents's Choice Silver Award, and
* A Creative Child Magazine Seal of Excellence Award |
| 2003 | California Arts Council (CAC). Selected for the 2004-06 Touring Artists Directories/Performing Arts Roster |
| 1996 | Howard Bell Award for Outstanding Contributions in Outdoor Education |
For "Goin'
Wild"
| 2000 | AFIM Indie Award, Children's Album of the Year |
| 2000 | National Park Service Audio Interpretive Excellence Awards |
| Amazon.com 5 Star Rating! Entertainment Weekly 4 Star Rating! |
For "Penguin
Parade"
| 1996 | National Association of Parenting Publications Honor Award |
| 1996 | Parent's Choice Audio Approval |
| 1997 | American Library Association's Notable Children's Recording |
For "Slugs
At Sea"
| 1991 | N.A.I.R.D. Children's Album of the Year (Nominee) |
