Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer - BON APPETIT! MUSICAL FOOD - [CD]

Celebrate the fun of food with an eclectic and energetic music mix that encourages healthy eating and healthy kids! With folk, swing, rock, samba, Caribbean, rap and old-time country music, Cathy & Marcy share information about the Food Pyramid, the benefits of drinking water and exercise, positive attitudes about self image, healthy lifestyles, musical food fun and other delights. It's delicious! Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer are multi-GRAMMY finalists with awards for their children's and family music from The Parents' Choice Foundation, The Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, The American Library Association, Early Childhood News and the Washington Area Music Association. Their live performances have set the standard for family participation and fun, and their recordings have inspired kids, parents, grandparents, teachers and friends to sing together and enjoy the magic of music. Part of what makes Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, the Indigo Girls of the kids' music circuit, so successful (their last five albums have all received Grammy notice) is an aversion to biting off more than they can chew. So it goes with Bon Appetit, which follows the Fink/Marxer formula by deftly dipping into a range of genres that includes swing, samba, and show tunes and brightly making their points. "Water," we're told, is "like a washing machine/ It keeps the inside and the outside of your body clean." "Breakfast Power" rules, and germs have got to go. Bananas, potatoes, and big muscles also championed. In the end, thought, the track full of food jokes ("Why did the cookie go to the hospital? He felt crummy!") that takes the cake.(Winner of the 2004 Grammy for Children's Music) --Tammy La Gorce