Children's music superstars and Nick Jr. channel favorites Laurie Berkner, Susie Lampert (keyboards), Adam Bernstein (bass) and Bob Golden (drums/percussion) will perform a live "Birthday Party" concert on Sunday, June 27 at the Community Theatre. The band will play old and new hits, including songs from 2008's critically acclaimed CD "Rocketship Run." 

What do you bring to a Birthday Party Concert? 
1. Wear your favorite party hat. 
2. Picture of a birthday cake (go to our website to download the picture and color it in) 
3. An animal for your head because animals have birthdays too! 

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Children’s music superstars and Nick Jr. channel favorites Laurie Berkner, Susie Lampert (keyboards), Adam Bernstein (bass) and Bob Golden (drums/ percussion) will perform a live “Birthday Party” concert.  The Laurie Berkner Band will play old and new hits, including songs from 2008’s critically acclaimed CD, ‘Rocketship Run.’

Kids are encouraged to bring their favorite party hat, picture of a birthday cake from Laurie’s website and a stuffed animal for your head because animals have birthdays too!

The band will be teaming up with Kids Care Clubs for this show. The organization's "Parties with a Purpose" program promotes the giving of donations in lieu of gifts at birthday parties and other celebrations. If you would like to participate, please bring a new book to the lobby of the theatre on the day of the concert. Your donations will go to needy children in the New Jersey.  For more information on the organization, go to www.kidscare.org.

Widely recognized as one of the most popular indie children’s recording artists in the United States, Laurie Berkner was at the forefront of the current progressive children’s music movement.   Her intelligent songwriting, captivating vocals and infectious melodies have won not only legions of little fans, but also parents, who enjoy the music as much as their kids.

The Laurie Berkner Band has received tremendous critical acclaim.  Time Magazine lauded Laurie as “a kind of sippy-cup Sheryl Crow…Berkner inhabits a kid’s curious perspective in her lyrics and pens folk-pop melodies that bear repeated – very repeated – listenings.”  The Wall Street Journal called Laurie “one of the most popular children’s performer’s in America … Her music is distinctive because it speaks to kids without talking down to them, charming youngsters without boring grown-ups.”

A former preschool music teacher by day and indie rocker by night, Laurie Berkner started selling her music out of her living room on her own label, Two Tomatoes Records.  Laurie, Susie and Adam were the first artists to ever appear in music videos on Nick Jr. (formerly called Noggin), Nickelodeon’s 24-hour educational, commercial-free preschool network, and are featured in nearly all of the episodes of the channel’s “Jack’s Big Music Show.”  Laurie was featured this summer in Nick Jr.’s one-hour prime-time music special, “Let’s Hear It For The Laurie Berkner Band!”.  The special featured 17 music videos from the band, including three brand-new videos: “My Family,” which was created exclusively for the network and is not available anywhere, plus  “Five Days Old” and “Fast and Slow (The Rabbit and the Turtle)” from the band’s latest CD ‘Rocketship Run.’

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