It is time to announce the 14th Annual Fids and Kamily Music Awards, celebrating the best in music for kids and families from the past year. For more than a decade, we've tallied the votes of kids music experts across the country to name those albums deserving of highest acclaim.
This year's top spot goes to previous Fids & Kamily Award winners The Okee Dokee Brothers for their album Winterland. There are a number of other artists familiar to the winners' list as well as some Fids and Kamily newcomers making up the top 12.
You can listen to selections from the top 12 by listening to this weekend's Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child on the air or by streaming it on the show’s website starting Sunday evening.
The Top 12 albums of 2019 are (in order):
1. The Okee Dokee Brothers - Winterland
2. The Lucky Band - Buenos Diaz
3. Josh Lovelace - Growing Up
4. Sonia de los Santos - AlegrÃa
5. Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could - Under the Big Umbrella
6. Renee & Friends - Kindred
7. Johnette Downing - Swamp Romp
8. Randy Kaplan - Shake It and Break It
9. Story Pirates - Backstroke Raptor
10. Alphabet Rockers - The Love
11. Andrew & Polly - Go For the Moon
12. Oran Etkin - Finding Friends Far from Home
Honorable Mentions (unranked, listed alphabetically by artist)
Caspar Babypants - Flying High!
Jack Forman - Office Hours
Camille Harris - Baby on the Subway
Lori Henriques - Legion of Peace
Gustafer Yellowgold - I'm from the Sun
Tim Kubart - Building Blocks
Howie D - Which One Am I?
Sean McCollough - Earworm
Pointed Man Band - Amongst the Tall Trees
Jon Samson - Ageless
Lissa Schneckenburger - Thunder in My Arms
Seanster and the Monsters - Stripes with Platypus
Danny Weinkauf - Inside I Shine
Along with these 25 albums, there were another 32 albums receiving at least one vote, making a total of 57 albums receiving one or more votes from the Poll's 17 judges.
The Fids and Kamily Poll is the first compilation of year-end kids and family music "best of" lists from critics, writers, radio programmers, and others involved in the music industry. The poll was launched in 2006 and was inspired by the Village Voice’s long-running “Pazz and Jop” music poll. The poll uses the same eligibility dates as the Grammys, except that this year's F&K cutoff remained September 30 even as the Grammys shifted to August 31. The poll is coordinated by Stefan Shepherd of the kids audio website Zooglobble and Bill Childs of Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child. Fids and Kamily logo by Jeff Bogle of Out With The Kids.
This will be the final year of the Fids & Kamily awards, as we note in a separate post. Stefan and Bill thank all the judges who have voted over the years, Amy Davis for her work in the awards' early years, the parents and librarians who have looked to F&K to make sure their kids music collections are as full as possible, and of course all the musicians whose music has graced these lists. Your artistic efforts are what inspired the creation of these awards and will continue to make countless families' lives more inspired and musical for many years to come.
This year's top spot goes to previous Fids & Kamily Award winners The Okee Dokee Brothers for their album Winterland. There are a number of other artists familiar to the winners' list as well as some Fids and Kamily newcomers making up the top 12.
You can listen to selections from the top 12 by listening to this weekend's Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child on the air or by streaming it on the show’s website starting Sunday evening.
The Top 12 albums of 2019 are (in order):
1. The Okee Dokee Brothers - Winterland
2. The Lucky Band - Buenos Diaz
3. Josh Lovelace - Growing Up
4. Sonia de los Santos - AlegrÃa
5. Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could - Under the Big Umbrella
6. Renee & Friends - Kindred
7. Johnette Downing - Swamp Romp
8. Randy Kaplan - Shake It and Break It
9. Story Pirates - Backstroke Raptor
10. Alphabet Rockers - The Love
11. Andrew & Polly - Go For the Moon
12. Oran Etkin - Finding Friends Far from Home
Honorable Mentions (unranked, listed alphabetically by artist)
Caspar Babypants - Flying High!
Jack Forman - Office Hours
Camille Harris - Baby on the Subway
Lori Henriques - Legion of Peace
Gustafer Yellowgold - I'm from the Sun
Tim Kubart - Building Blocks
Howie D - Which One Am I?
Sean McCollough - Earworm
Pointed Man Band - Amongst the Tall Trees
Jon Samson - Ageless
Lissa Schneckenburger - Thunder in My Arms
Seanster and the Monsters - Stripes with Platypus
Danny Weinkauf - Inside I Shine
Along with these 25 albums, there were another 32 albums receiving at least one vote, making a total of 57 albums receiving one or more votes from the Poll's 17 judges.
The Fids and Kamily Poll is the first compilation of year-end kids and family music "best of" lists from critics, writers, radio programmers, and others involved in the music industry. The poll was launched in 2006 and was inspired by the Village Voice’s long-running “Pazz and Jop” music poll. The poll uses the same eligibility dates as the Grammys, except that this year's F&K cutoff remained September 30 even as the Grammys shifted to August 31. The poll is coordinated by Stefan Shepherd of the kids audio website Zooglobble and Bill Childs of Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child. Fids and Kamily logo by Jeff Bogle of Out With The Kids.
This will be the final year of the Fids & Kamily awards, as we note in a separate post. Stefan and Bill thank all the judges who have voted over the years, Amy Davis for her work in the awards' early years, the parents and librarians who have looked to F&K to make sure their kids music collections are as full as possible, and of course all the musicians whose music has graced these lists. Your artistic efforts are what inspired the creation of these awards and will continue to make countless families' lives more inspired and musical for many years to come.
3 comments:
Stefan and Bill,
It has always been an honor to be included in these lists. So many really fantastic albums. Thanks for all the good work over the years. For what it's worth. these Fids and Kamily lists were the ones I cared about most!
cheers!
Danny Weinkauf
I agree with DW! I’ve always considered this the most credible list out there. Grammys carry a ton of weight, but let’s be honest, this is a list you cannot really “network” your way into, which is why it’s so special. RIP K&F
Danny from The Not-Its!
Every one of your panelists listens to this music with a careful ear. Thank you so much for all of the thoughtfulness and time you spent in creating and running this poll over the years. This mattered.
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