From reggae to folk, hip-hop to gospel, with rollicking good fun and dreamy ballads, this album is a celebration of musical traditions. This fine array of professional musicians have created music the whole family will enjoy.

12 MP3 Songs
KIDS/FAMILY: General Children's Music, KIDS/FAMILY: Children's Pop



Details:
We All Live in the World is the collaborative effort of husband and wife team, Bob Brookens and Colleen Ovelman, as well as a host of highly talented friends. Colleen is a freelance writer who spends most of her time taking care of her three children and assisting Bob with the Kids Creating Music classes that they created. Colleen wrote most of the lyrics on the album. This gave the songs their original shape. Then Bob, the musician of the pair, composed the music and produced the album.

Bob is an extremely versatile musician, playing guitar, cello, saxophone, drums, piano, clarinet, and more on the album. Bob has been performing professionally for 20 years. As a performer, he has played music from genres across the board: folk, hip-hop, reggae, jazz, funk and straight up fifties rock, as Chubby Checkerâs saxophonist. Bob currently performs professionally with two local bands, and this past summer his reggae band, the Irie Warriors, opened up for Jimmy Buffet at the Tweeter Center. The Bob's hip-hop band, Diatribe, opened up for saxophonist Karl Densen, as well. Bob also teaches music, works as a music therapist, and created and facilitated Kids Creating Music classes with his wife, Colleen, for the past four years.

The mission of the children's album is to familiarize children with many genres of music, while entertaining them and their parents. The title track, We All Live in the World, which is complemented by the sounds of Middle Eastern music, embodies the essence of the album. Like That is a hip-hop song featuring a local MC, which brings contemporary music to young ears in a fun, authentic way. Vroom, Vroom is produced in the style of a gospel chorus, while If I Had a Wallaby might well be the only Klezmer song about an Australian bush animal, but it is a rollicking good time.

This is Colleen and Bobâs first musical collaboration. Their other collaboration is a family, which includes Eli, Maya, and Xavier, the inspirations for the album.

You can check out the other bands Bob plays with to hear music and find out about upcoming live shows at: www.myspace.com/thesermonband, www.myspace.com/iriewarriors, www.myspace.com/onwa, www.tribesound.com