Showcase the Music
Making Kids' Songs Work
By Mark Zaslove
September 2006

What goes into creating a kid song that works? TDmonthly Magazine talked with the creators and distributors of children's CDs and found that hitting the right “note” often starts with the kids themselves.

Listen to the Kids
Kathy Byers, singer-songwriter for KT Music Productions Inc. (ToyDirectory), recently came up with a song while surrounded by kindergarteners. “I was in a class where there was a large book on crabs. … I got the chalkboard going, and asked the kids how crabs act, what they look like. I put it all on the board, then asked for rhyming words. We wrote the Mr. Crab song and the kids performed it at a concert at school.” Read more >

Songs for the Kid in All of Us:
Chatham Artist Encourages Youthful Self Expression
By Kathy Gilligan
March 2005

Just as much as any in the adult world, kids like their own concerts too... What makes a great concert for a young child? It can be as simple this: one woman, one acoustic guitar—and a five foot fire engine red toothbrush. Musician recording artist Kathy Byers of Chatham... read more >

CHATHAM GIRLS FEATURED
ON AWARD-WINNING CHILDREN'S MUSIC CD

(Chatham, NJ) - Six Chatham gradeschool girls are credited with recording their "precocious and precious" voices, as producer Kathy Byers says, on 'Round the Campfire - Songs for the Scout in All of Us, a compilation of classic, family favorite campfire songs which has earned an All-Star rating by KIDSFIRST! (The national, non-profit Coalition of Quality Children's media based in Santa Fe, New Mexico whose mission is to teach children to make good media choices and to increase the visibility of quality children's media)... read more >