Music Minute: Tim Kubart - Building Blocks

Grammy Award-winning artist Tim Kubart just released an album of 12 original songs, Building Blocks, on September 28th. Building Blocks is a pop celebration all about growing: growing wiser, growing bolder, and, above all, growing our circle of caring for family, friends, and those around us. Tim Kubart is the 2016 Grammy Award-winner for Best Children’s Album, a television and podcast host, children’s book author, and Sesame Street songwriter. With joy-filled songs about events and activities from the first day of school to field trips and block parties, Building Blocks celebrates the way new challenges bring new opportunities to care. Building Blocks is about watching our hearts grow as we do,” says Kubart, who recently returned from a U.S. Embassy arts exchange tour of Nigeria. “As a society, it’s our job to nurture the good in children. We take what we learn at home to the wider community.” This is a great way to help kids either celebrate milestones or look forward to events, including field trips, school, pets, and much more. Tim Kubart Kubart won the Grammy Award for his 2016 album Home. He has worked on numerous family music projects, most notably "Sesame Street." His first Sesame composition "We Can All Be Friends" is the introduction of Julia, the first Muppet with autism. The encouraging “Oopsie-Do!” on Building Blocks is also the title of Tim's acclaimed first picture book, published by HarperCollins earlier this year. Kubart won national notice as host, producer, and writer for the Emmy Award-nominated LIVE show for preschoolers, “Sunny Side Up” on NBC-Universal's Sprout Channel. Today, he co-hosts the “Highlights Hangout,” a podcast for Highlights magazine, which brings the trusted brand of puzzles and games to a new medium. When he’s not singing and dancing for kids, Kubart is known the world over as the “Tambourine Guy” from the viral collective and internationally touring Postmodern Jukebox. Sara Niemietz and Drue Davis from PMJ also appear on Building Blocks. This fall, he’ll star in a PMJ spinoff project. To get all theTim Kubart news, please visit www.timkubart.com.

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