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OK peeps, just wanted to say hi and throw this out there: I've got a strong background in a cappella harmony singing, and me and three other friends who also have a similar background (we're all professional actors & singers in NYC) are starting an a cappella group focused towards kids, ages 3-9. We realized that with all the children's music stuff out there, there is NO children's a cappella singing group, and we wanted to try our hand at being the first. Two of us have been on Broadway (not me, yet)  and we've got our first gig in a few weeks - performing for a kid's birthday party on the Upper West Side. (We figure we could make a killing performing for all the wealthy parents in New York!) So we're a children's a cappella quartet.
So we've been trying for about 2 months to come up with a name for our group. Something cute but not too cutesy, something cool that gives you the sense just from the name that it's a group for kids. It doesn't have to give you the sense that it's an a cappella group, just a fun, cool, hip kid's group name. We've gone through many many ideas and haven't found one that really made us excited. So I'm throwing it out to the Barbelith community.
Something cool, maybe Dr. Suessian. We want to be fun for both the parents and the kids, like all children's entertainment (Muppets, Suess, those cool stop-motion animation Christmas specials by Rankin-Bass, good Pixar movies, etc.) - and we don't want to be bored singing cheesy kid's stuff. We're doing a lot of kid-friendly Beatles songs ("Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da", "Hello Goodbye", "Yellow Submarine"), some kid-friendly 50's rock & roll ("Rock Around The Clock", "Lollipop", "Twist and Shout"), a few kid's standards (a cool arrangement of "Old MacDonald" we came up with), maybe some novelty songs a la Weird Al or Dr. Demento, "Supercalafragalisticexpialidocious", and so on.
We thought of food-related names (cutesy stuff like "The Lemon Drops"), but we wonder if we want to have the name be so food-related. It doesn't have to be "The _________s", it could also just be a phrase. Two or three words maximum, we're thinking.
I just thought I'd see if anyone can help us with our dilemna. We'd like to have a name that we're proud of for our first gig in a few weeks, also so we can make business cards and stuff like that for networking/future gigs. So ladies and gentlemen, start your engines! Brainstorm away!! Goofy gag names are accepted but we do want something that fits with all of the above criteria I've listed. We can't believe how hard it's been for us. If it wasn't a kid's group, we would have a name by now. But it's hard to come up with a good name that tells you it's a kid's group that isn't a) too cheesy or b) already taken (we do a quick Net search after getting an idea we like to make sure no other kid's group has taken it).
*(whew!)* So thanks for listening. Any ideas! |
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