Certainly one of the best things about our performing a Halloween children’s concert, other than the fact that we get to dress up in costume ourselves, are the many opportunities to shout “Boo!”. “Again, again!” the kids will shout, and over and over, in varied yet still very similar ways, we will sneak up on the part of the song with the “Boo!” in it, tension rising, everyone in the room knowing exactly what is coming next yet, wait for it, here it cooooomes: “Boo!” say we and “Yikes!” say the kids, and “Do it again!” they shout. Then we do a different Halloween song that does much the same thing! It never gets old…
Some of the Halloween songs we sang included "There Was An Old Lady All Skin And Bones" and "Black Bat Farm" (from Carol Peterson's H.U.M. CD) and our Halloween children's song called "On Halloween Night" (from our Pizza Pizzazz CD) and Stirring The Brew (from our Sing it! Say it! Stamp it! Sway it! Vol. 1 CD).
Kids love to be pretend to be scared. In safety. Especially when they know it’s coming. On this day, dressed as pirates and super heros and vegetables and princesses and train engineers and butterflies and aging 80’s Rock Stars and Flower Power Girl, the kids and adults were able to indulge in the thrilling side of Halloween spookiness, safe within the group, all singing and moving and laughing and parading and breathing and seeing and being together. This audience was comprised of about one one hundred 2-4 year olds, and their adult caregivers numbering about 50+. We made a mighty noise!
Together, at the Fitchburg Public Library, people gathered from the Fitchburg area to attend a Halloween Hullabaloo Children’s Concert and explore the darker, ooey gooey side of life, and we had a great time doing it. Mwahhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaa...
