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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
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."

Among the
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.

Mercury News

When singer-songwriter Alison Faith Levy performs, her audience's receptiveness is quite obvious.

She
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."

Among the
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.

Magnet Magazine Online

From The Desk Of The Orange Peels: The Kindie-Rock Star Alison Faith Levy:

San Francisco Classical Voice

Alison Faith Levy, whose signature song “Like a Spinning Top” has become a

The Online Anteater

Giant anteaters rarely make it into song, but our furry long-nosed
friends are the subject of a sweet new tune from children's
singer-songwriter Alison Faith Levy. The number, "Baby Anteater," is one of 11 tracks on her 2012 release, World of Wonder.
Other songs on the album include "Eye of the Tornado" and "I had a
Rooster," but there's no secret as to which is tops among the lot... It
goes:

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