Recess Monkeys Perform at Madison Square Park Today

Poised to launch a delicious bouillabaisse of aquatic adventures, kindie music icon Recess Monkey takes to the sea with the band's ninth studio CD, Deep Sea Diver. Recess Monkey's Deep Sea Diver Tour will come ashore in the Big Apple for a high-energy, all ages, kindie rock show at 10:30 a.m. today, July 16 on the Oval Lawn at Madison Square Park, between Fifth and Madison Avenues at 25th St., NYC. This free show is part of the Madison Square Kids concert series.

Recess Monkey presents insanely catchy, up-tempo songs for the whole family. At their Madison Square Park show, they'll travel deep beneath the sea as Deep Sea Divers, exploring the lesser-known creatures that live beneath the waves, all with Recess Monkey's trademark, pitch-perfect understanding of what gets kids excited. In addition to oceanic tunes like "Fish Sticks," "Tambourine Submarine," "The Deep End," "Shrimp," and "Choral Reef" from Deep Sea Diver, Recess Monkey will play a "greatest hits" collection of singable, danceable songs from all of their albums.

Kids and their parental units will zoom around the lawn with Jack, Drew, and Korum on "Jet Pack," put on their "Moon Boots" for a space-age, zero gravity moon bounce, laugh along to the most outrageous knock-knock jokes on "Knocktopus," join a foot-stomping hoedown with "Flapjacks," and pop around the dance floor like kernels of corn as the band gets popping on "Popcorn." From flapjacks to jetpacks and everything in-between, families should be ready for more disco dancing, knock-knock jokes and catchy sing-alongs than you can shake a stick at!

Giving an eye-popping, fantastical edge to the "everyday lives of kids," Recess Monkey weaves puns, jokes, stories, and shenanigans into its shows. No play on words is too much of a stretch, and no rhyme schemes are out of bounds for the group's genre-bending set of catchy ditties that NPR described as "inventive, brilliant, multilayered." Audiences call Recess Monkey's shows "a great way to spend an hour rocking out!"

Sirius/XM's Kids Place Live Program Director Mindy Thomas enthuses, "These guys are able to tap into elementary school so well that it's like they never left. In this never-ending nationwide talent show of kid and family music, they are most definitely at the top."

Photo by Kevin Fry

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