Childrens Shows - The Animal Band concert booking information for your next corporate event

The Animal Band is award-winning family entertainment - and are available for booking at your next special event, performing arts center and symphony.

The results are in and here is what they are saying about The Animal Band:

"If Garth Brooks had a kid's show, it would be something like The Animal Band! It was amazing to see a huge crowd of both kids and adults laughing and participating in the fun dynamics of the songs. The Animal Band's winning combination of great music with memorable lyrics, colorful costumes and fun audience participation, left everyone begging for more." - Robert Reeves, NBC TV

"There is absolutely nothing like a live Animal Band show. Kids sing and dance and adults remember what it was like to be a kid" - Lottie Green, Editor-Be True Magazine

"They are consummate professionals with exceptional production quality and musicianship. Their songs explore topics near and dear to every child's heart in a particularly engaging fashion." - Family Fun Magazine

The Animal Band - Live In Concert

animal band booking info The live show is a high-energy musical extravaganza, representing the best in family entertainment for theatres, arenas, festivals and corporate events. Indoor performances may feature an eye catching rain forest backdrop with The Animal Band's colorful logo. The set includes 78 – three foot ladybugs which appear to be crawling around the numerous flowers and ferns on stage. The music is a smorgasbord of styles including pop/rock, blues, country, Celtic, reggae and New Orleans jazz. One of The Animal Band's greatest assets is their skillful use of hilarious participatory dynamics involving both children and adults. During their roller coaster song, the entire audience launches themselves skyward in a fast paced workout. Kids scream with laughter as adults, chosen from the audience, are escorted on stage to wear zany hats and air jam with inflatable instruments during the song Going To School Blues.

"They set a new attendance record for our Family Series, and even out sold a popular Broadway show. An outstanding group of entertainers! Our patrons fell in love with them and bought every CD cassette, and shirt on the concessions tables." - Joe Ferlo, Exec. Director Capitol Civic Center, Manitowoc, WI

"The Animal Band is clean, wholesome entertainment for the larger general audience that wants to have a great time. Plain old fun and lots of experimental sound combinations make for one positive project brimming to the gills with creativity." - Independent Songwriter Magazine

"Consistently one of the top family shows in America, The Animal Band delivers a great entertainment value and the audiences return year after year." - Jack Hawthorne, Show Producers

The clever lyric's to the band's songs are brought to life on stage and in the audience with the help of local actors wearing unique costumes representing animals, Blues Brothers, friendly green aliens, rainmakers and famous people from history. The festive Market-Place, pulls the audience into a south-of-the-border style celebration as the isles become filled with muchachos and muchachas with sombreros and maracas. You can hear a pin drop as Jim sings the ballad Looks Like Rain. Under the cover of darkness, as lightning flashes and thunder roars, dozens of rainmakers in yellow rain gear, quietly enter the rear of the auditorium. The song becomes reality as the unsuspecting audience is caught in a rain shower. On stage, band members laugh as they hear the screams of joy and laughterand another audience is added to The Animal Band's fan club.

The Animal Band's Dreams & Jelly Beans Tour, filled more venues in the USA than any other children's music recording artists.

Sold Out Performances

Bell Auditorium - Augusta, GA – 2690 seats
Three Arts Theatre - Columbus, GA – 1668 seats
Symphony Hall - Atlanta, GA – 3600 seats (2 sellouts)
Will Rogers Auditorium - Ft. Worth, TX – 2800 seats
War Memorial Auditorium - Greensboro, NC – 25 – seats
The Grand Ole Opry House - Nashville, TN – 4428 seats
The Florida Theatre - Jacksonville, FL – 3800 seats (2 shows)

Record Setting Performances

Second only to Amy Grant, in the number of seats sold at The Grand Ole Opry House, in the last five years, Jim has sold over 20,000 seats in five consecutive shows.

Family Series Attendance Record

Capitol Civic Centre – Manitowoc, WI

Awards

Winner of 1999 Nashville Music Awards (Children's Music Recording of the Year)
Voted "Best field trip in America" by students, teachers and parents representing over 2200 schools

Media Features

Over 140 national and local features including: Associated Press, Naps, Billboard Magazine, Family Fun Magazine, Boys Life, TNN, VH-1, Fox TV, The Comedy Central Network

Human Interest

Jim's song 911 received credit in the media for helping a four year old boy save his father's life. (The boy told television reporters he learned about 911 from his Animal Band tape).