With numerous national awards for excellence in children’s entertainment, Alex & The Kaleidoscope Band engage audiences of all ages with their lively, interactive, and world-music infused performances. Songs about relationships, emotions, the natural world and just plain fun music making are included with every concert. The band includes guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, and two female jazz vocalists who also play trombone.

Alex & the Kaleidoscope Band has performed extensively in theaters, festivals, libraries and schools throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Chicago and California. The group has appeared on New York’s CW11 Morning News and has been a featured performer at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, the World Bank in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia’s World Cafe Live, Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, and The Philadelphia Museum Of Art.

Awards include a Parents’ Choice Foundation Recommendation, Independent Music Awards BEST SONG for Children, multiple Parent-to-Parent Adding Wisdom Awards, Best New Artist and Best Album for Pre-Schoolers from the Children’s Music Web, Best Album For Older Children (Ages 8-12) from the Children’s Music Web, Coalition For Quality Children’s Media KIDS FIRST Award, iParenting Media HOT PRODUCTS award and an entry of the week recognition from the NAPPA foundation.

The group’s latest CD, Animals We Dream, got rave reviews. “A myriad of multicultural rhythms and instruments highlight a peaceful safari to the animal kingdom that educates and informs in an engaging way.” John Wood, Kidzmusic.com.