Eric Nagler

A consummate musician, Eric Nagler has raised the style of children’s music beyond only a guy along with a acoustic guitar. With fiddle, banjo, mandolin, and his popular “sewerphone,” Nagler’s feeling of fun with music is definitely both educational and contagious. After discovering the folk music picture of Greenwich Town, NY, in the past due ’60s, Nagler relocated to Canada and became a member of Mariposa within the Colleges, a groundbreaking cooperative opportunity to create children’s music to Canadian general public schools. During MITS, he caused Raffi, Sharon, Lois & Bram, Rick & Judy, and a bunch of additional children’s music artists and suppliers. Sharon, Lois & Bram asked Nagler to become listed on their new organization, Elephant Information; he provided a lot of the musical flexibility within the first Elephant produces with his energetic fiddle and banjo. Nagler quickly warranted an recording of his personal, Fiddle Up a Melody. The 1982 launch featured traditional folk songs, such as for example “Barlow Blade” and “Cindy,” combined in with golf swing songs from your ’40s, such as for example “The Booglie Wooglie Piggy.” He began to tour even more broadly in Canada and in america, and was a presented visitor on Sharon, Lois & Bram’s Elephant Display on tv. In 1985, Nagler released his second recording on Elephant Information, Seriously In. The recording continued his calm yet rich plans of several initial compositions, such as for example “I Don’t Wanna (Come with an Iguana)” and “As well Sick for College,” in addition to classic folk tunes carried out in a rollicking design. Seriously In also boasted a wonderful duet of “Switch Up Your Overcoat,” offering Nagler and his eight-year-old child Christopher. The recording received a Parent’s Choice Award upon its re-release in 1996. Nagler’s touring routine expanded once more in the past due ’80s, boosted by his fun-loving design and wacky devices. One such device was the “sewerphone,” a contraption crafted from PVC tube, a washer agitator, along with a mouthpiece from a tuba. His inventiveness with devices has motivated his audience not merely to sing along, but to play alongside spoons, tips, and pocket combs. In 1989, he still left Elephant Records to become listed on Rounder Information, and released Improvise with Eric Nagler. The record featured an identical mix of outdated favorites and originals, including “Ain’t No one Right here But Us Hens” and “Dueling Tubas.” Nagler once again capitalized on his musical flexibility, playing such musical instruments as the glide whistle, the psaltery, as well as the mandolin banjo. In 1992, Nagler released I CANNOT SIT BACK on MCA. Even though album highlighted the tried-and-true mixture of classics and originals, it acquired limited product sales and distribution. He came back having a splash in 1996 having a tv situation comedy known as Eric’s Globe, and an recording on MCA of the same name.