(MAPLEWOOD, NJ) -- Sporting three Parents' Choice® Awards in her hip pocket, beloved children's musician, YouTube favorite, and Maplewood, NJ resident Nina Stone (a.k.a. Miss Nina) and her band The Jumping Jacks will blow out the all candles and pull out all the stops for a family show celebrating the release of their new album, Every Day's Your Birthday, at 11:00am on Saturday, June 4 at the Springfield Avenue Gazebo, 1688 Springfield Avenue, Maplewood, NJ. This performance is part of the Summer Concerts at the Gazebo series.
Miss Nina & The Jumping Jacks shows are interactive from the get-go, with kids waving, clapping, stomping, shaking, jumping, dancing, and wiggling like spaghetti noodles. Hip hop and rap tunes are a part of every concert, notably on a Miss Nina fan favorite, frequently heard on SiriusXM's Kids Place Live, "The Brown Bear Rap." For this, the band brings out a giant version of Bill Martin's beloved book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and, as Nina Stone raps, bandmates Matt Schlatter, Joan Chew, and Nate Terry turn the pages, rock the tambourine, and keep the amazing beat.
Following Miss Nina's high-energy, Meghan Trainor-esque, doo-wop "Freeze Dance," everyone is ready to catch their breath. Out comes the easel and another giant book (either Jane Yolen's How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? or Anna Dewdney's Llama Llama Red Pajama) for another "book song." Miss Nina & The Jumping Jacks promise to offer plenty of great tunes from Every Day's Your Birthday, and they'll close the show with the album's title track, a terrific rock 'n' roll production number filled with sound bites from the '60s.
Musically, Every Day's Your Birthday traces its roots to '60s and '70s pop and rock music -- from The Brady Bunch and The Beatles to Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead -- and also displays Miss Nina's love for dance and early '80s hip hop and rap.
The past four years have witnessed the phenomenal growth of a large and devoted following for the videos that Miss Nina regularly posts on her website and YouTube channel. Boasting more than 8,000 YouTube subscribers, The Miss Nina Weekly Video Show features Nina Stone with her trademark cotton candy pink Daisy rock acoustic electric guitar, performing sing-along, move-along songs for the early childhood set. Several of Miss Nina's videos have received more than 350,000 views on YouTube.
Nina Stone holds a B.S. in Dance Management and spent several years dancing nationally and internationally in professional musical theater productions before taking a break to earn an M.A. in Educational Theater from New York University. When not touring and recording with The Jumping Jacks, Nina Stone is a Music for Aardvarks teacher in Maplewood and Montclair, New Jersey.
Previous albums by Miss Nina include Sha Doo Be Doop (2013) and Singing and Dancing Together (2009).
