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Don't Forget The Donut!
" Don't Forget The Donut!" is Wayne's new
family music album, and it's been getting rave reviews. You can also purchase this album from Amazon and CD Baby
USD $ 15.00
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Singer/Songwriter Wayne Potash performs sensational participation style family shows throughout New England.
His fifth album, Don�t Forget the Donut! is featured on children�s radio programs across the country. His music features a unique blend of folk, bluegrass, pop, and blues styles. Wayne accompanies himself on banjo, guitar and ukulele. He is on The Massachusetts Cultural Council�s Touring Roster. Performances include Boston Harborfest Children�s Day, Boston and Providence Children�s Museums, The Lowell Music Festival, The Cambridge River Festival, Boston Children�s Hospital, and many other events.
Wayne leads the fabulous Music Fun Band, a quartet that is tons of fun for all ages. This versatile group includes award winning banjo player Paul Sedgwick (also on ukulele, didgiridoo, spoons and vocals); John Wiesner on bass guitar, harmonica, and vocals; and Bryn Carlson on drums, percussion and vocals. The Music Fun Band features kid and grown-up friendly music in folk, bluegrass, pop, blues, and world beat styles. The group can be augmented by Amy Basse on fiddle and vocals, and mandolin player Glen Scott.
The band members are great musicians and friends. They�ve played together for over ten years and love making music together. Enthusiasm and sincerity comes through at every show!
Wayne Potash Biography
Wayne Potash's music career had its origins early on in life. He learned to play the guitar at the age of six (picture a little boy playing an oversized Gretch!) from his mother, who was heavily involved in the folk scene of New York City in the '50s and '60s and exposed Wayne to such artists as Pete Seeger and others. By the fifth grade, Wayne joined a neighborhood rock band. As a young teen working as a summer camp counselor, he loved leading sing-alongs with the campers. Throughout high school he played in numerous folk, pop and rock bands, expanding his musical repertoire.
When it was time to consider college he applied to only one - Berklee College of Music in Boston. His courses included guitar, voice, songwriting, arranging and studio production. To relieve some of the exhaustion and drudgery of school, he volunteered to play music once a week at a local daycare center for fun.
After graduating from Berklee, Wayne began performing with several local bands in Boston. He joined the group X-Dreams, which became a fixture on the Boston scene. Brett Milano proclaimed their first release as "without a doubt the gem of the month." The band's first EP received airplay around the US and in Europe.
Around this time, Wayne met the director of the Cambridge Nursery School and was given the opportunity to play for the kids there. After a few visits to the school he was asked to play his original tunes for the kids. Wayne was skeptical, but eventually played an X-Dreams tune called Dogs In Outer Space that had already won over audiences in the Boston bar scene-the crowds always sang along at the top of their lungs-and to Wayne's surprise and delight, the kids also sang along with wild abandon. Parents began requesting tapes of the songs he sang with the children. It was thus that the first of Wayne's children's albums came to fruition: Wayne self-produced "The Wayne Tape" on a shoestring budget to satisfy the demand for his original children's music.
In 1990 Wayne began hosting the Midday Show once a month at Boston's Children's Hospital in addition to outreach program and guitar lessons at the Community Music Center of Boston. It was here that he received the Marilla MacDill Award for Teaching Excellence and Community Service. Wayne was playing over a hundred family shows a year, sometimes with the Music Fun Band (named after his second CD, Music Fun). The band includes Bryn Carlson on drums, John Wiesner on electric bass and harmonica, with Paul Sedgwick playing the banjo, didgeridoo and ukulele.
Wayne's third album, Yodel For A Fish, was his first release to get nationwide airplay on children's radio shows. Yodel's big production was followed by the Living Room Demos, sort of a "Wayne unplugged" CD. These were song and story requests from his two sons, teachers and children at the schools.
For his new CD, Don't Forget the Donut!, Wayne enlisted many fine musicians, including jazz man Tad Hitchcock on guitar and vocals, top-notch fiddler Amy Basse, and the rockin' Alizon Lissance on accordion and piano. His wife, Sherrill, even plays penny whistle on one track. The album's name derives from an incident in the classroom: While singing (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66 one morning, the kids started laughing wildly, much to Wayne's confusion. When the song came back around to the line "don't forget Winona!" the kids all went nuts again. It turned out that they thought he was singing "don't forget the donut!" They sung it that way from then on.
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