A month ago Ezra came come from daycare and would be singing songs that we didn’t recognize. “Tom…Tom le cowboy” or “Whoa oh! Super Croco!”
We found out that he had been watching specials by Arthur L’Aventurier whom we weren’t familiar with.
Turns out Arthur is a child entertainer who has been working for 28 years. It seems like he started out releasing music but also released video specials that included music. For example, his latest special was him travelling to Australia and you watch an hour of him travelling around and singing songs about Australia.
Vero and I think it’s a clever way to get to travel around the world! We are jealous.
Anyhow, we started watching these specials with the kids and they were entertaining and we found out that Arthur was playing a show in Buckingham which is fairly short drive away if we take the ferry across the Ottawa river.
It was a complete surprise for the kids and I’m not even sure they understood what was going to happen when the curtain opened in the theatre. I think they were expecting us to watch a movie with him!
The show was great. Our seats were great. We could get up and dance with plenty of space. Arthur and his guitarist Pierrot (?) would ask for kids to come up on stage to hop like a kangaroo. Or parents and grandparents to come up and dance to “Super Croco”. They are catchy songs with kids in mind as they latch onto very easy words like “Koalalalala”. I think I would have loved to be a children’s entertainer. You get afternoon gigs that don’t last too long (an hour?) and you’re not playing in pubs until 2am in the morning! What more can you ask for?
The show itself was pretty good. They would sing a song and have clips from the Australia trip playing in the background. They would ask the kids questions and then sing more songs. The show was primarily from his Australia special but he played a few older tunes as well.
Ezra said he enjoyed it but he’s still at an age where in public he doesn’t dance around like he does at home. But Sierra was loving every moment of it…dancing, clapping, singing along. It’s fun watching how much fun she has at events.
We are quite lucky to be able to see these things around the Ottawa area from time to time and we look forward to the next time Arthur comes to town!
Also, the merch table was great. $5 for a DVD that I can get for $20 off of Amazon? Come on. What a steal.