Christylez Bacon Banjo To Beatbox CD

Children’s Music GRAMMY® Award winners CATHY Fink & MARCY Marxer fuse their talents with Washington, DC’s hip-hop sensation Christylez Bacon in a fresh new recording for kids & families. What happens? Beatbox (mouth drums) meets the banjo, nursery rhyme meet the hip-hop fractured fairy tale and tradition meets the next generation of contemporary “hip” with the new video-enhanced EP and music download - Banjo to Beatbox, available May 2009.With nods to folk, rap and imagination, these artists show us that through music, our different neighborhoods (and musical styles) can come together.Christylez Bacon is a hip-hop artist you WANT your family to see and hear. He rhymes, raps, beatboxes and plays percussion and banjo ukulele in the trio.CATHY & MARCY'S preeminence in family music has been recognized with over 200 Awards, including 2 GRAMMY® Awards in Children’s Music. Their reputation for bringing new music with ever-broadening appeal continues with this collaboration. www.cathymarcy.comSo, how did Cathy & Marcy, internationally renowned folk and children’s music veterans, connect with a 23 year old hip-hop artist from SE Washington, DC? Cathy & Marcy were artists in the first residency program in 2005 at the Music Center at Strathmore in Maryland, continuing with the program as artist mentors. In 2007, Christylez Bacon became an artist in residence at the age ...