Sing Through the Year - A Little Wild Childhood

Songs of the seasons, weather and growing up with the rhythms of nature

With tree songs, rain songs, songs for all four seasons, garden days, beach days, snow days and lucky rainbow days this collection of 25 singable songs is designed to be enjoyed day by day, season by season, for musical fun all through the year. You’ll find a gust of weather songs, a shower of seasons songs, a sparkling of nature songs and songs about time and generations. 

The collection is a selection from Claudia’s kids songwriting notebooks, inspired by bright moments and experiences through the years as her children have grown. The double album and songbook are designed to help inspire families into making their own musical diaries as they dance through life, whether singing along with these tunes, or making up their own playful songs with their kiddo’s.

Here’s a wish for everyone to enjoy skipping through Spring, swimming through Summer, drifting into Autumn and sliding into Winter with these songs.

The album was funded by Creative New Zealand through their 2020 Continuity Grants, which allowed Claudia to work virtually with producer Tom Fox through the winter lockdown to complete these 25 songs. Funding also supported the visual work for this album, with illustrations for every song by Elise De Silva, a friend, artist and fellow school mum with Claudia in Cockle Bay, Auckland.

You can access all the songs on streaming platforms, as well as download the album and songbook at Bandcamp. The illustrated digital songbook features lyrics, chords and liner notes on each song plus a bonus section of new poetry. 

If you’d like a copy of the digital songbook on its own, you also find it on Amazon Kindle and as an ebook at Blurb.com.