Camping With Dads by Peter Alsop

By Moose School Productions
Price $14.98
Age 5 - 12 yrs.

With an abundance of warmth, charm, humor and humanity, Camping With Dads by Peter Alsop unfurls like a love letter to family. Throughout, we are treated to a delightful tapestry of amusing and emotionally resonant dialogue and songs that depict a camping trip joyfully populated by children, parents and grandparents who know and love each other well. The verbal interactions interspersed with the music are enormously engaging and strikingly authentic. Kids behave like real kids, periodically complaining and sniping but always good-humoredly coming together again. On the musical side, the largely acoustic instrumentation and excellent vocal work showcase a group of talented performers playing catchy and endearing genre-spanning original tunes that incorporate elements of folk, bluegrass, good old rock 'n' roll and more. Mr. Alsop is blessed with an unusually appealing speaking voice and a fine singing one. His entertaining and thoughtful songs and stories evoke feelings of human connectedness and an uplifting sense that people are innately good. That's what comes from spending time with folks who are compassionate, loving and loads of fun. And we listeners have the good fortune to be able to do that again and again simply by pressing play.