Suzi Shelton's first video is a high energy, visually stimulating, concert in your own living room. Suzi plays the guitar, while her band consists of another guitar, bass, keyboard, and drums. Her 8-year-old son also leads the back-up singing on a few songs with the group four youngsters, Sebastian and the Gumdrops. The video concert features a mix of songs from Suzi's albums.

Your child will love watching Suzi smiling and dancing while she sings their favorite songs directly to them! Between songs, viewers get to hear Suzi tell a short story on stage about the inspiration of the next song or joking around with her band mates. When Suzi asks her guitarist, Dan, what he wants to be when he grows up, he gets some giggles from the audience with his response of "A kung fu master!" This lead into Suzi explaining how a conversation with Sebastian about what he wants to be when he grew up inspired the song, One Day On the Porch. There are also a few brief clips of Suzi or Sebastian candidly talking about their favorite songs from the concerts and albums. We learn that Suzi's favorite part of any concert is when the crowd start singing and dancing along with her. Sebastian shares that his favorite part about performing is when "you get to sing and show the happiness that you have while you're singing." Sebastian leads three of his female classmates, called The Gumdrops, in singing and dancing on stage, encouraging everyone in the audience to mimic them. The camera frequently cuts to the audience showing kids twirling, swaying, and gyrating any way they are inclined, as children do so well.

Suzi provides explanations and cues to her young audience throughout each song, encouraging a very interactive experience. In Time to Say Hello, Suzi has everyone claps their hands, stomp their feet, shake their shoulders, jump, and spin! Can your little one keep up? In Can You Imagine? Suzi calls everyone to their feet and asks them clap their hands to the beat, while she dances around making gestures with the lyrics. She flaps her elbows behind her ears as elephant ears, wiggles around like a rattle snake, and boogies to the easy-to-sing-along-with chorus of "ba, ba, ba ba." Your little one can also shake their fist in excitement with Sebastian and the Gumdrops yelling, "Roadtrip!" in Goin' on a Road Trip. Sebastian names No Ordinary Day, a song about a special day with just him and his mom, as his favorite song; You and child can talk about special days you've had together too! The concert ends with The Lion Sleeps Tonight, a lullaby-rock hybrid. Suzi asks all the little lions in the audience to lay down, relax, and enjoy the lullaby, but before each verse she pauses for a moment before excitedly exclaiming, "Wake up lions!" All of the children jump up off the floor and begin dancing to the "Wema wehs" in the chorus. Don't be surprised to see your little one laying down and jumping up along with Suzi's cues.

My three-year-old friend Sam had a blast watching this DVD. He was quickly dancing with the kids on the screen, spinning, and bopping around. His favorite song was Scooter Boy. Suzi introduced the song and explained it was written about her son. "I want a scooter," Sam immediately decided. I told him he could ask for one for his birthday once he learned all the words to the song. That only took about three times listening through...now I have to tell his mom about the scooter!

--Audra

Suzi Shelton's CDs and DVD have won awards from Parents' Choice, the Children's Music Web, iParenting Media and a 2007 Gold Award from the National Parenting Publications. "Live at Southpaw" was taped at Southpaw, Brooklyn in February of 2007

Shelton got her professional start in New York as part of children's music band, called The Imagination Workshop. She left the band to pursue her solo career, and gleans song ideas and inspiration from her husband and two children. On her albums, Shelton is often accompanied by Steve Elliot on the guitar, Matt Clohesy on the bass, and Rob Heath on the drums. Shelton's backup singers include her 11-year-old son, Sebastian, and/or the enthusiastic group of child singers, "The Gumdrops".

Suzi and her accompanying musicians have performed at impressive venues such as The Lincoln Center Tree Lighting Ceremony, Cain Park, Symphony Space, 92Y Tribeca, The Knitting Factory, The White House, Madison Square Park, Battery Park City, Tribeca Film Festival, Bethlehem Musikfest, The Jewish Museum, The Brooklyn Children's Museum, The Portland Children's Museum, The Bell House and Southpaw.