The Review Broads
Alison Levy (also known as Sippy Alison of The Sippy Cups) shares her
wonderful sounds of music with our little ones ages 3 to 8 years old in
The Start of Things, her new solo album.
Press
Zooglobble Christmas & Holiday Music 2014
This year Hanukkah runs almost concurrently with Christmas, and Alison Faith Levy
offers up a fun new song titled "All I Want for Chanukah is a Ukulele,"
strumming on a uke (natch) with fellow Bay Area musician Karla Kane
A Moment with Kindie Rocker Alison Faith Levy!
Kindie music trailblazer and founding member of The Sippy Cups,
Alison Faith Levy knows how to get the entire family moving and
grooving. With her Big Time Tot Rock Band, she brings dynamic
musicianship and live beats from World of Wonder, her forthcoming album.
From Lollapalooza to Austin City Limits, Alison loves performing, and
the San Francisco Public Library is her favorite performance venue.
Through an interview with Mariea Whittington, Millbrae Library Intern,
we learn more about Alison and her music!
At-Home Dad Matters
There’s Magic In The Music: Alison Faith Levy’s Big Time Tot Rock
One of the other dads bends down to hear my daughter over the
band’s acoustic euphony. She blurts out her excitement, her phone chord
curls bouncing in time with the beat.
“{{I have magic in
my hands and I can touch the walls and turn them different colors but
ACTually the magic is in my WHOLE body and if I want to I can BLAST it
all out but there will always be moooore!}}”
Mother's Day, Big Time, with Alison Faith Levy - SF Classical Voice
This is how it often starts. In the early morning hours kindie rock
favorite Alison Faith Levy wakes up with a tune in her head. She throws
off the covers, hubby still pulling zzzz's, runs into her San
Francisco living room, and furiously writes down some lyrics and chords.
Then the creative process grinds to a halt temporarily while she
readies her family for the day, often singing that morning's tune into
her smartphone while driving her son to school.
Zooglobble: How I Got Here - Alison Faith Levy (The Who: Tommy)
Alison Faith Levy first came to attention of the kids music world as one of the members of the Bay Area band The Sippy Cups,
which started out as a '60s-inspired band and eventually incorporated
that sound into a big circus-like stage show and pulling in inspirations
from the '70s and even the '80s.
3200 Stories: Tradition Re-imagined with Alison Levy
Alison Levy is always game for a musical adventure.
Best known as “Sippy Alison” of the legendary kids group The Sippy Cups as well as one half of McCabe & Mrs. Miller (along with Victor Krummenacher of Camper Van Beethoven), Alison has recently released World of Wonder, a perfect mixture of kids anthems and pop song mastery.
School Library Journal Pick of the Day
San Francisco-based singer/songwriter Alison Faith Levy, formerly the lead singer
of the kindie band The Sippy Cups, returns to the kid music scene with her
first solo album. Each song has Levy’s trademark big production sound, whether
a sensitive ballad, an up-tempo rocking number, or a middle-of-the-road tune.
Lyrics of the ten original songs are smart and have lots of kid appeal.
Highlights include a large-sounding rendition of “Itsy Bitsy Spider” with
Automatic for the Little People
This Sunday, the place to be with your preschooler will be the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Singer-songwriter Alison Faith Levy and her Big Time Tot Rock band will be doing three shows, headlining the Yerba Buena Family Day Festival.
Levy is a local phenomenon, a veteran entertainer whose first solo CD, World of Wonder
(2012) hits you with great songwriting and unexpectedly full
production, which had rock critic Greil Marcus invoking Phil Spector’s
“Wall of Sound.”
Mercury News
When singer-songwriter Alison Faith Levy performs, her audience's receptiveness is quite obvious. She Among the
tells The Daily News, "When I see a huge crowd all crawling around on
the ground like zoo animals, that thrills me to no end."
5-and-under set, Levy is a superstar. "If they're having fun, jumping
around, laughing, dancing and being silly, then I know I'm doing my
job," Levy says, laughing.