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sic for a living, I’ve been playing for kids. Performing in a school is much more satisfying and gratifying than playing in a bar,” she noted.
Of her six albums, three are children’s records. The first, I’m Gonna Tell, was recorded in a single afternoon before a live audience of “dogs, cats, babies, moms, pops, grandmas and grandpas.”
Her most recent, Grandma Slid Down the Mountain, received Ms. Magazine’s Top Ten Toy award of 1984, a Notable Record Award from the American Library Association and an Indie from the National Association of Independent Record Distributors.
How does she reach young listeners who’ve been blasted by synthesizers and electric guitars and dazzled by Michael Jackson and Madonna? She does it with humor and an invitation to sing along.
“The music I play is foreign to most kids, but if I can get them laughing and singing with me, they’ll listen. It almost always works,” she said. “Basically, kids like to sing. They have it in them and I give them a chance to let it out.”
Like the kids who squeal with delight when invited to try yodeling, Ms. Fink has always had music in her. She started playing the piano when she was about 3 years old and began formal lessons, which lasted for three years, when she was 8.
“Then I lost interest in the piano.
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