Kid Pan Alley is an organization that empowers kids around the United States to write their own songs. We’re joined this time on The Children’s Hour by Paul and Cheryl Reisler who have written more than 2,500 songs with more than 70,000 children over the last 30 years. Enjoy our Kid Pan Alley podcast for kids about writing songs.

Paul and Cheryl Reisler from Kid Pan Alley are experts at writing songs with kids. They spend the hour with our Kids Crew sharing songs, and giving us a mini demonstration of how they work inside schools. We learn about rhythm and exploration of our ideas.

We hear examples of Kid Pan Alley songs from a handful of the many schools the organization has worked with over their many decades.

The Children’s Hour is written and produced by Katie Stone, with production support from Christina Stella, Sarah Gabrielli, Gus Tafoya, McKenzie Graunke, Thaniel Lentz, and Sean Lovelace. This episode was recorded at Outpost Performance Space and was engineered by Chad Scheer. Our learning guide was written by Amber Shiel.  The Children’s Hour is produced at the Sunspot Solar Studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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