10 Years Old and Still Growing Up

Dog on Fleas

10 Years Old and Still Growing Up

Dog on Fleas is a unique beast with equal parts brains and muscle. They have been performing and recording intelligent, gutsy music for kids and adults since 1999, and have no plans to stop. They revel in diverse sounds and styles of music, and you can feel their excitement in every note. In performance, Dog on Fleas is a tornado, sucking up fans and whirling them around in a frenzy of fun. The whump of the bass and drums, the sass of the trombone, and the wow of the guitar and keyboards will convert you. Kids and critics all agree.

If you have been to a Dog on Fleas show, you probably came up after the show and said “hi” because those Fleas look so friendly and nice. You probably danced with abandon, sang along, laughed and maybe cried (usually not the band’s fault), and you probably marveled at this quintet’s musicality. You heard the Fleas play their hits in fresh and exciting ways, and perhaps an unrehearsed cover song. Surprises are the norm for the Fleas.

Dog on Fleas have released 4 critically acclaimed CDs!

The latest CD, “When I Get Little”, is chock full of hits: 13 originals and 2 traditional tunes and not a dull minute. It was #2 on the2006 Kid’s Music That Rocks Top 20, and one of the Top 5 CDs of the year by Kathy O’Connell of WXPN in Philadelphia. “Cranberry Sauce Flotilla” is #1 on the 12Kids’ Albums You Can’t Live Without list in the School Library Journal (7/1/07)

What’s the Dog on Fleas recipe? In a very large saucepan mix equal parts Cab Calloway and Woody Guthrie. Stir in a pinch of Spike Jones, Ray Charles, NRBQ and Sun Ra. Top with a sauce of calypso, cajun, highlife, soul, and reggae. Stir with Ringo’s drumstick and simmer. Brigitte Bardot will serve you from John Cage’s hat.

Here is the name-dropping part: Members of the band have played/recorded with the following: P-Funk All-Stars, Taj Mahal, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross, Elizabeth Mitchell, Varnaline, the Felice Brothers, Hubert Sumlin, Johnny Johnson, Sonando, and Harmonica Virgins. Ella Fitzgerald kissed Dean on the cheek.

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