RISE SHINE #WOKE
RISE SHINE #WOKE
GRAMMY-nominated album by Alphabet Rockers, Pre-K, Elementary, Family/Mixed Audience
ALPHABET ROCKERS are a multi-racial, intergenerational hip hop crew, with 10 years’ experience performing for kids ages 5-10 and families. Currently touring their GRAMMY-nominated Best Children’s Album “Rise Shine #Woke” ALPHABET ROCKERS have performed at Lollapalooza, Kennedy Center, Kidchella, Smithsonian African American Museum, and Stanford Live, among others.
Rise Shine #Woke is a high energy, inclusive, interactive music and dance program, including group social dance, beatboxing and hip hop concert celebrating self identity and the diversity of the community. Curriculum, programmatic support and communication support are provided.y installed ice—activating and casting new light on public gathering places.
“This is important music. It creates the soundtrack for the lives of the future people that we want in the world. It creates the culture that is the reality of the world we want.”
ABOUT ALPHABET ROCKERS
ALPHABET ROCKERS make music that makes change. Led by Kaitlin McGaw (she/her) and Tommy Shepherd (he/him), they create brave spaces to shape a more equitable world through hip-hop. Their GRAMMY nominated 2018 album, Rise Shine #Woke has reached 300,000 children and families since its release, inspiring kids to stand up to hate and be their brave and beautiful selves. Their latest album, The Love (2019) lifts up voices of our trans, two-spirit and gender non-conforming community.
With headlining performances at Lollapalooza, The Kennedy Center, San Francisco Pride Festival, Art & Soul Festival (Oakland) and Kidchella (Philadelphia), and in over 50 schools across the country each year, diverse audiences love their contemporary sound and positive messages. They were Izzy Award Winners in 2018, American Library Association’s Top Album in 2017 and 2018, and won the Parents’ Choice Award for their 5-album catalogue.
Alphabet Rockers appeal to a broad audience with lyrics like “I will stand up for you” and “I shine in my beautiful skin,” landing them in the top 5 songs of 2018 on Kids Place Live SiriusXM Radio.
Their music, videos, concerts and curriculum are designed by an intercultural team of anti-bias thought leaders, educators, artists, parents and young people of all genders.
