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CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER's "Bon Appétit! Musical Food Fun" CD Wins a 2004 Grammy Award Best Musical Recording for Children Takoma Park, MD - Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer have received a Grammy Award for their CD, Bon Appétit! Musical Food Fun. This collection of good humor songs celebrates healthy eating, healthy kids and the fun of food. The award for the Best Musical Album for Children was presented at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 8, 2004. This is the first time in the history of the GRAMMY Awards that this category has been awarded to an artist who truly specializes in children's music and is not associated with a TV or movies soundtrack or licensed character. Bon Appétit! Musical Food Fun is the result of a grant from the Micronutrient Initiative to create a musical project that inspires kids towards healthy eating and healthy lifestyles. Cathy & Marcy met the challenge of making the facts fun, with great support from nutritionists at the Center for Science in the Public Interest and the World Bank. Months of research went into the researching pediatric nutrition, but the duo didn't want to lay down a nutrition textbook. The songs on Bon Appétit! are inspirational rather than proscriptive. And their new website at www.cathymarcy.com/bonappetit offers kids a plateful of related activities and place to submit their favorite food jokes! Bon Appétit!'s positive, eclectic and energetic music mix encourages healthy living. With folk, swing, rock, samba, Caribbean, rap and old-time country music, Cathy & Marcy share information about the Food Pyramid and the benefits of drinking water and exercise, while Mexican hat-dancing about potatoes, tango-tasting new foods, trading food jokes and other delights. From the call and response banjo style of the title track, to the high-energy calypso beat of "Banana," Bon Appétit! provides a juicy good time. Most of the songs are related to nutrition and wholesome foods, enhanced by tracks that celebrate "Big Strong Muscles" and the joys of the "Hula Hoop" and "Aerobics." Every Cathy & Marcy recording since 1997 has received the great honor of a GRAMMY nomination, along with two CD's the duo produced for other artists. Bon Appétit! was their ninth nomination. After the CD was featured on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition," it reached the #1 spot on Amazon.com's Best Seller list. It was selected as one of the Best CDs of 2003 by Child magazine and also won a Parents' Guide to Children's Media award. This is their 14th recording for children and families.
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer have numerous awards
for their children's and family music from the Parents' Choice Foundation,
Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, The American Library Association, Early Childhood
News and the Washington Area Music Association. For more than 20 years, their
live performances have set the standard for family participation and fun,
and their recordings inspire kids, parents, grandparents, teachers and friends
to sing together and enjoy the magic of music.
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