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By' Gerald Ochs
Rappahannock News Writer
Did they say that this couldn’t be done, too? Well, the Kid Pan Alley project has met its mark, and the “Tidal Wave of Song” album is nearing final production and should be available by early September, as promised. Project creator, Paul Reisler, recently returned from Colorado where the album underwent final mixing and mastering, and Paul reports that all is well for a September debut.
A listen to just a few cuts from this singular CD lays on chills and thrills that reverberate for some time. Not only is this album Rappahannock-kid bom and bred, but it is a work that tells you that it was extraordinarily well-conceived and produced, and it fairly screams of the harmony in this little County. Even if you live here, it makes you wish that you did.
“Tidal Wave of Song” and the whole Kid Pan Alley concept could well become a model for evoking the creativity of a community1 s children, and for engaging its adults in a cooperative effort that is of benefit to all. When those 600 Rappahannock kids hear what they have done, they will never go back to the couch to watch someone else create—they will never again buy a CD or a video without fully understanding that they too have the imagination and ability to write a song, paint a picture, start a business . . . and go through this life with interest and passion, and not only as a consumer of someone else’s inventiveness.
“Tidal Wave of Song” speaks of a community ripe with talent—those talented song-writing kids from Hearthstone, from the County elementary school, and from home-schooled community too; those young musicians in the high school band who can be heard in “We Lost the Fight Song” and other album cuts; the young voices who make up the Kid Pan Alley Choir that can be heard in seven of the album’s nineteen songs.
It speaks of artists Paul Reisler, Diane Bardwell, Dontez Harris, Smiggy Smith, Steve Van Dam, Craig Honeycutt, Warren Phinney, Nathan Brown, the world
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