Elizabeth Mitchell and family

Posted on 27 August 2007 | 3 Comments

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Elizabeth Mitchell & Family
Amy, Hailey, and I went up to Ravinia this weekend to catch a rare Chicago performance from our favorite children’s artist Elizabeth Mitchell. She performed songs from all three of her albums including many from her latest, You Are My Little Bird. For those that don’t know, she (along with her husband Dan) are both members of the superb indie-pop band Ida when they aren’t being parents and singing kids songs.

Elizabeth performed a few songs with a full band, but was mainly accompanied on stage by Dan and their daughter Storey who managed to pull off a few great harmonica riffs. Anyhow, the kids were dancing, laughing, clapping, and (of course) crying. We briefly talked to Elizabeth and Dan after the show and (much to our amazement) she sang a little lullaby of “Ladybug Picnic” directly to our visibly exhausted daughter Hailey. It was a wonderful little moment that made us love Elizabeth as a person as well as a performer. Support these wonderful musicians by buying their albums and seeing them live. They totally deserve.

MP3 | Elizabeth Mitchell – Freight Train You Are My Flower
MP3 | Elizabeth Mitchell – Ladybug Picnic You Are My Sunshine

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Comments

1  Anonymous - 330 days ago Ida was always so underrated, I think. It's too bad they stopped progressing in that last album, maybe they'll come back again?
2 Amy - 330 days ago Thank God we like cool people and bands. Liz and Dan will always be two of my favorite musicians.

The scored some extra brownie points for singing to Hailey too. =)
3  Anonymous - 228 days ago I too was at the Ravinia concert and unfortunately forgot all the actions to the song "Peace Like a River." Can someone help me remember the actions? Thanks!
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