Baby Beluga

Baby Beluga

A Musical Revue Featuring Songs by Raffi

Arranger: Mark Brymer

Shake your sillies out and wiggle your waggles away! Baby Beluga is going on a new adventure down by the bay! Rediscover the delightful music and hilarious lyrics of popular children's songwriter, Raffi, with songs that have entertained toddlers to grade schoolers for years. His skillful combination of rhythm, rhyme and repetition makes singing loads of fun and builds speech and listening skills! Perfect for a short program in the classroom or on stage, this 15-minute revue features five songs by Raffi, piano/vocal arrangements with simple movement suggestions, reproducible singer parts and easy-to-learn, rhyming narration that is adaptable for groups of all sizes.

Kit Includes: Teacher Edition, Performance/Accompaniment CD

Approximate Performance Time: 15 minutes.

Suggested for grades K-2.

I purchased Baby Beluga: A Musical Revue Featuring Songs by Raffi for use with my 1st grade students. I am a music teacher and it is exactly what I expected it to be. It has recordings of both the full performance and instrumental only versions of all five songs in the revue. The recordings have cute orchestrations and are in a very singable range for young voices. High quality children's voices are used for the full performance versions, which is great! I love Raffi, but having children sing along with his adult male voice doesn't always work so well. Plus, the rhythms are simplified slightly from his recordings to make it easier for young children to perform. The Teacher's Edition that comes with the kit has the piano accompaniments, singer song sheets, and lyric only pages for each song, which also comes in handy. The narration prior to each song is six rhyming couplets that tie all of the songs together that can be spoken by several different children or the same six students each time. A bonus was that I saved $15 by buying it on Amazon compared to another online music catalog where I had also seen it. All in all, I would say that if you are a music teacher looking for a reasonably priced program with cute songs that comes complete with a performance/accompaniment CD for your lower elementary students to perform in concert, this is a very good buy.