SiriusXM's Kids Place Live to Broadcast LAURIE BERKNER'S GARDEN: EAT, PLAY, GROW, 1/30-2/1

With a focus on wintertime and healing foods, best-selling, award winning children's musician Laurie Berkner will host the second in a series of hour-long special programs, Laurie Berkner's Garden: Eat, Play, Grow, to be broadcast multiple times throughout the weekend of January 30 - February 1 on SiriusXM's Kids Place Live. (See details below.)

Laurie Berkner's Garden: Eat, Play, Grow airs four times a year, in alignment with the change of seasons. On each episode, Laurie Berkner joins SiriusXM's Kids Place Live program director Mindy Thomas (a.k.a. Absolutely Mindy!) to help kids understand that food doesn't only come from the store.

Watch Laurie and Mindy talk about Laurie Berkner's Garden: Eat, Play Grow HERE.

The winter edition of Laurie Berkner's Garden: Eat, Play, Grow will remind listeners that even in wintertime, plants are always busy! Highlights include a chat with Lee Coykendall of the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, DC, as well as interviews with several farmers who explain what they do on the farm over the winter, especially with their animals. Special guest Catherine McCord of Weelicious will share winter recipes that use nourishing foods. Laurie and Mindy will also talk to kids about winter foods, discuss what grows in different parts of the country at this time of year, and play a round of "Two Realsies and a Whopper," offering up surprising facts about which mushrooms can actually help keep us healthy during cold and flu season.

Also featured in this episode will be a conversation with Jen Chapin of WhyHunger about how to help families who have difficulties getting adequate food. Directly following the program, SiriusXM's Kids Place Live will broadcast an in-studio concert by The Laurie Berkner Band that benefited WhyHunger.

Says Laurie, "I'm so excited about Laurie Berkner's Garden: Eat, Play, Growbecause it covers topics that are especially close to my heart: healthy eating and music! Every episode features a recipe segment ('Eat'), music between the different segments ('Play'), and a farming/gardening segment ('Grow') where we talk about how food grows. We talk, sing, welcome special guests, interview kids and share recipes and activities, with music interwoven throughout - all from my radio garden!"

Dubbed "one of the hippest children's artists" by FamilyFun Magazine, Laurie Berkner's original songs, albums, DVDs, music videos, and books leave no doubt: Laurie is the uncrowned queen of children's music and the power behind the progressive "kindie rock" movement.

Laurie's ninth album, The Ultimate Laurie Berkner Band Collection, was released this past October.

Laurie Berkner was the first artist to ever appear in music videos on Nick Jr. and was featured in nearly all of the episodes of the channel's Jack's Big Music Show. She currently stars in the animated musical short-form series Sing It, Laurie! on the Sprout preschool channel and makes regular appearances on Sprout's Sunny Side Up Show.

A former preschool music teacher by day and indie rocker by night, Laurie Berkner started selling her music more than ten years ago out of her living room on her own label, Two Tomatoes Records. The Laurie Berkner Bandhas received tremendous critical acclaim. Time Magazine lauded Laurie as "a kind of sippy-cup Sheryl Crow ... Berkner inhabits a kid's curious perspective in her lyrics and pens folk-pop melodies that bear repeated -- very repeated -- listenings." The Wall Street Journal called Laurie "one of the most popular children's performers in America ... her music is distinctive because it speaks to kids without talking down to them, charming youngsters without boring grown-ups."