::MAKE
MUSIC WITH JAKE THIS SUMMER!
Chances
are, if you live in Ontario, Jake will
be in your town this summer. Enjoy
an outdoor festival (Burlington's
Sound
of Music Festival , Sudbury's
Blues for Food Event, Cambridge's
Mill
Race Festival, Lanark's
Art
of Being Green), take a ride on
Thomas the Tank Engine and sing along
with Jake at Day
Out With Thomas in Winnipeg,
St. Thomas and Ottawa,
or "Laugh Out Loud with Jake"
at your local library. Check
the schedule... Jake would love
to make music with you!
:: ZIGGY ZAGGY
ROAD WINS
PARENTS'
CHOICE AWARD!
Jake's
newest album has just won a 2008
Parents' Choice Recommended Award!
"Wrapped in big, rich
layers of guitars, horns and strings,
Jake Differ's heartfelt songs go sailing,
reflect on the deeper meaning of gardens,
and celebrate todays," the Parents'
Choice review says, commenting that
Jake and his "polished fellow musicians
and singers are equally adept at upbeat
and witty musical detours for some cow-counting,
partying on the bayou, and swinging
to a hot jump-and-jive big band."
Read
the full review here.
DID YOU KNOW? This is Jake's third Parents'
Choice Award - one for each CD! "Happy
All of the Time" was given the
Approved Award and "Take
A Little Ride With Me" was awarded
Gold.
::GREAT REVIEWS FOR ZIGGY ZAGGY ROAD!
Toronto's City Parent loves
Jake's new CD ZIGGY ZAGGY ROAD! Reviewer
Diane Parent comments on the "superb
musicianship", and the "thoughtful
poetic lyrics", and says that even
though Jake has "matured a lot",
"he still has fun in him"!
(No kidding! Check out "Cow
Counting Association of North America"
or "Space",
to name just a couple of rather silly
songs on Ziggy Zaggy Road!)
Our good friend and beautiful children's
musician Jack
Grunsky said, "Wow.
What a great production and what a rockin'
band. I love the energy and fun feel
of it. The quiet songs are also quite
engaging. Congratulations on a great
job." Visit Jack's
website to find out about his latest
music releases.
Ziggy Zaggy Road features special guests
Cadence,
Silken
Laumann, Pierre
Schryer, Chris Krienke, Glenn Jennings,
the Peterborough
Children's Chorus and many more
wonderful musicians.
ORDER ZIGGY ZAGGY ROAD TODAY!
::
JAKE SONG CHOSEN FOR 2008 CALIFORNIA
SUMMER READING PROGRAM PODCAST
Jake's
beautiful song "If
I Were a Little Flea" has been
chosen from hundreds of submissions
for the 2008 California Summer Reading
Program podcast BUGS. We'll put more
details here as soon as we have them!
::
JAKE IS FEATURED IN SONGWRITERS MAGAZINE
Jake
is featured, along with prominent Canadian
children's musicians Jack
Grunsky and Charlotte
Diamond, in the current issue of
Songwriters
Magazine! Jake talks about his love
for writing children's music, saying,
""You're helping people to
define what music will be in their life
when they're very, very young and play
a positive role in it. It's the most
rewarding thing I've ever done musically."
Read
the whole article here.
::
'LULLABIES' COMPILATION WINS NAPPA GOLD
Jake's
song "Island
Dreams" is included on the
Casablanca Kids compilation "Lullabies",
which won a 2006
National Parenting Publications Association
(NAPPA) Gold Award. The
reviewers comment "This perfect
potpourri of sleepy-time tunes is performed
by a who's who of award-winning children's
artists."
Jake's are included on several Casablanca
Kids compilations (along with Canadian
musical legends Fred
Penner, Jack
Grunsky and Sharon Lois & Bram)
selling in thousands of stores across
North America.
::JAKE
IN LONDON...

...AND IN OWEN SOUND!

More photos of Jake in the Photo
Gallery!
::SILKEN LAUMANN & CADENCE JOIN
ZIGGY ZAGGY ROAD
Silken Laumann
makes an appearance on the
song "Child's
Play", which Jake wrote as
a theme song for her book of the same
name.
The song is a bonus track on Jake's
new CD Ziggy
Zaggy Road.
And
the amazing a capella jazz
quartet Cadence
recorded some great harmonies for "Three
Eggs Busy Legs Social Band",
also on Ziggy Zaggy Road. It's a crazy
swinging tune, and Cadence sounds great.
(PS - a capella means they
sing without instruments) (PPS - Cadence
was nominated for a 2006 Juno for Best
Vocal Jazz Album!)
::DOWNLOAD
JAKE!
Do you have an MP3 player? Download
Jake's songs and albums here: Apple
iTunes, emusic.com,napster.com
and musicstrands.com.
Or buy an old-fashioned CD online (see
form on this page) or at your local
store.
::HEAR JAKE ON THE RADIO!
Online at LoopyMoose
Radio
Uncle Chris' The
Kids' Show New Orleans WTUL 91.5)
Pat's All
Ages Show on WPRB New York
Jeff Brown's We Like Kids on KTOO
Juneau, Alaska
::ALL
ABOUT JAKE!
You've
found the website for children's songwriter
and performer JAKE DIFFER, three-time
Parents' Choice Award winner and Juno
nominee! His first CD TAKE
A LITTLE RIDE WITH ME won a Parents'
Choice Gold Award, his second CD HAPPY
ALL OF THE TIME was nominated for
a 2006 Juno Award (Canadian equivalent
of a Grammy Award) for "Children's
Album of the Year" and received
a Parents' Choice Award as well. JAKE's
latest CD
ZIGGY ZAGGY ROAD, released in the
fall of 2007, has just received the
Parents' Choice Recommended Award. Jake
performs
live at festivals, libraries, schools,
day cares and corporate events. Thanks
for dropping by! Before you go, take
a look around, listen to some tunes,
and by all means, say
hi !! Read
more about Jake here.