Profiled: Judy Pancoast
Effervescent, eccentric, energetic….all of these words describe Judy Pancoast, one of the most well-known and beloved children’s entertainers of our time. For the past 16 years she has crafted clever songs with infectious melodies that delight the young and the young at heart, as evidenced by the 2011 Grammy Award nomination for her one-of-a-kind CD, Weird Things Are Everywhere!.
Profiled: Judy Pancoast
Effervescent, eccentric, energetic….all of these words describe Judy Pancoast, one of the most well-known and beloved children’s entertainers of our time. For the past 16 years she has crafted clever songs with infectious melodies that delight the young and the young at heart, as evidenced by the 2011 Grammy Award nomination for her one-of-a-kind CD, Weird Things Are Everywhere!.
Judy’s outrageously fun performances have created a ruckus throughout the USA at festivals, performing arts centers and wherever children and families gather. She’s performed twice in concert at the request of President Clinton. The organizers of the New York City fundraiser for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation and Robert DeNiro’s Tribeca Family Street Fair know the effect she has on audiences and have asked Judy to return year after year to create a ruckus in their neighborhood. The children at the Nyumbani Orphanage in Kenya experienced the joy of working with Judy when she traveled twice to Nairobi for week-long songwriting workshops. The songs are available on a fundraising CD for the orphanage.
Judy’s holiday hit, “The House on Christmas Street,” is a favorite among “extreme” decorators and can be heard each Christmas season on radio stations across the country. A search on www.youtube.com currently turns up nearly three thousand videos of houses all over the world that feature the song in their animated lighting shows, including the acclaimed Holdman video, which currently has nearly 200-thousand views.
Listen to her interview from 11-18-2011
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