StarFish at Brooklyn's Carroll Park kids' series
Wed., July 29th at 3:30 pm!
Lead vocals and guitar - StingRay
Favorite Ice Cream: Americone Dream
Favorite Color Converse: Red, White and Blue
Favorite Song:Here Comes Trouble
Lead Guitar - Moose
Favorite Ice Cream: MooseTracks
Favorite Color Converse: Purple
Favorite Song: Stop, Drop & Rock 'N Roll
Keyboards and vocals - Dr. Yes
Favorite Ice Cream: New York Super Fudge Chunk
Favorite Color Converse: Red
Favorite Song: My Baby Brother(He's a Wolfman)
Bass Guitar - AntFarm
Favorite Ice Cream: Jamacian Me Crazy
Favorite Color Converse: Black
Favorite Song: Sick Day
Drums and vocals - Grateful Dave
Favorite Ice Cream: Cherry Garcia
Favorite Color Converse: Tie Dyed
Favorite Song: Joshua's Treehouse
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Influences
The basis for StarFish is, even though we play kid friendly rock & roll, we play rock & roll in the style of the guitar driven rock bands of the 60’s and 70’s from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Yes and Jimi Hendrix to The Who, Led Zeppelin, Phish and even up to U2 and Tom Petty. Other bands/musicians with heavy influence over our tunes include Billy Joel, Styx, Steely Dan, Joe Jackson and James Brown.
Sounds Like
PLACES WE'VE PLAYED:
Children's Museum of Manhattan, NY, NY
Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
State Theatre, New Brunswick, NJ
Newark Bears Baseball Game, Newark, NJ
Kids Kingdom Traveling Jubilee
National Night Out Crime Prevention Night
Turtleback Zoo
Cranford Music Fest
Hoboken Arts & Music Festival
Ultrasonic Superfantastic Kids Day Weekend
Atlantic Health System NICU Reunion
Children's Museum of Manhattan contracted Halloween Parties, Tribeca, NYC
Congregation Beth El in South Orange, New Jersey
World Cafe Live in Philadelphia
First Night Maplewood/South Orange
Pine Brook Jewish Center
Liberty State Park Earth Day Celebration
The Wacky Gym
Yes, yes, YES! The first official StarFish CD, Rocks, is finished and available for purchase! (See the rocks on the front cover... get it? Rocks!) Ten stellar tracks of great rock’n’roll from the greatest rock band in the world... for kids!
You can buy the entire disc from CDBaby to have it mailed to you.
Or, you can buy downloads of any of the six original tracks and
the album artwork (which is pretty cool) from Digstation.
Everybody loves this record! (Duh.) Check it out!
Laurie Berkner says: "Looking for a true rock band with talented musicians and lyrics made for kids? You'll find it in Starfish!"
StarFish is a fun, hip, rockin’, jammin’ kids/family music band, born and based in Maplewood, NJ, that is currently taking over the world of family friendly entertainment. If you are between the ages of 2 and 92, get ready for a new musical adventure that will rock your world. StarFish has landed. Please note; this band is NOT a Wiggles cover band, this band knows how to rock!
After playing music in various capacities for most of his life, Ray Leone discovered a whole new genre after becoming a dad; kids music. Ray started bringing his guitar into his wife’s Kindermusik classes and his son’s pre-school and combined the kids tunes they all knew with “jamming” tunes such as “I’m a Believer” and “Yellow Submarine.” “I also started checking out some kids performers and I always felt the kids wanted to let loose a little more (and their parents too!), you know, they wanted to rock out a little more.”
So, Ray recruited Marc Stern, and Dave Hartkern, both Dad/musicians from the Maplewood area, and StarFish was born. “These guys are awesome musicians, We’ve all been playing in bands and playing music forever and now that we all have kids, We’re learning from them and bringing their experiences into our music. It’s great to get the whole family together and sing and dance and, well…you know, rock out a little too.”
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