Summer concerts: The Candy Band

by Melissa Summers (Subscribe to Melissa Summers's posts)
Aug 18th 2005 8:52AM

Filed under: Media

This summer, my favorite thing has been day long playdates and outdoor concerts at our zoo. If you haven't heard of The Candy Band, you're going to want to check them out. Our local zoo hosts a concert each week, featuring music for kids and adults. There are some 'Kids' bands which, how to put this delicately…make me want to put hot candle wax in my ears to keep the sound out of my ears. But The Candy Band is different, they are pleasant to listen to and make children dance and when children dance they get tired and go to bed easily. The Candy Band is made up of four Detroit area moms who churned out, according to the New York Times, "One of the best kids' music cds of 2003". I went up to talk to the band after the show and they were busily signing autographs for their small fans and I felt a little like a groupie. A stay-at-home mom groupie. I ask you, these are musicians who do it for the music and the music only because what kind of band has stay-at-home mothers as groupies? Boring.