Sleepytime with Grandpa D. goes bilingual tonight as Susana Liberona visits and reads some beautiful children's books. Then we will finish with some wonderful Latin music including a song from Luis Miguel.

This show is dedicated to our friend Jill Miller.

All love to you and your family, Bruce.

Our prayers and our love are with you.

Sleepytime with Grandpa D. gets a special gift tonight in the form of a visit from children's author Rosemary Serluca-Foster. Rosemary conceived the character Genevieve, and wrote a wonderful story about her: Genevieve's Gift.
"I am completely dedicated to helping children stay in touch with their true selves and the voice of their own hearts, having personally lost that voice, like so many of us do, while growing up. Genevieve represents the part of us that longs for authentic expression. To live life in truth and on purpose."
An accomplished, producer, writer, actor, and children's conference leader (see credits), Rosemary is also a certified children's Meditation Facilitator from Satya International, Asheville, NC, and certified from the IM School of Healing Arts, New York, NY.
Creativity with Consciousness. www.rosedoveproductions.com

After hearing Rosemary read Genevieve's Gift and chat with us, Mickey and Grandpa D will play an eclectic blend of laid-back music.

This Tuesday at 8pm, Dick DeAngelis and his son Mickey will introduce the Christmas story of five young cousins who stow away in the world’s most fabulous toy store on Christmas Eve to meet The Real Santa Claus! The broadcast will include an interview with the authors and Ravenna founders, J. J. McLean and Gail Sforza Krebs.

In the new story from Ravenna Writing Studios, five young cousins set out to have Fabulous Toys in New York City, a store known to children everywhere,
but never more popular than at Christmastime, and their not-to-be-missed
Santa’s Workshop (including Santa) -- all to themselves on Christmas Eve. What happens after the parents discover the children are missing – and how the cousins’ wish to meet Santa is granted – are the makings of a heart-warming classic.

Don't miss this Special Holiday Broadcast of One Christmas Eve in New York along with some fun and unique Holiday songs on Sleepytime.

Sitar player Suman Sharma began studying the Sitar at age ten. Soon after she was appearing at festivals and winning awards. She went on to study classical sitar and vocal music as a graduate student at the University of Delhi, where she also holds her Doctorate in Music. There she came into contact with the renowned sitar maestro Pandit Debu Chaudhuri and established her musical career in India. Suman has taught and performed Indian classical music worldwide, including the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. She has a unique style that is flawless, enchanting and deeply rooted in traditional Indian classical music.

Like Dr. Sharma, Anup Ghosh came from artistic family and began studying music as a child. In 1981 he was awarded the prestigious National Scholarship of Music. Since then, he has performed on radio, television and many leading festivals and music venues in India. As well, he has performed at the homes of both the President and Prime Minister of India. He currently holds the distinction of having performed in sixty countries.  read more »

If you have never experienced the soothing effects of listening to 'Sleepytime with Grandpa D', connect with your 'inner child" tonight while my son Mickey and I read children's bedtime stories and poetry for the first half hour. Stick around from 8:30 to 9pm for some sweet music (tonight Livingston Taylor, Paul McCartney, Todd Rundgren, Randy Newman and Billy Joel) as you snuggle close to someone you love. "There is no sweeter time of the week than that last half hour of Sleepytime" said one listener... OK, it was me. But it's still true!) - Dick DeAngelis

Tonight from 8pm - 9pm, Sleepytime with Grandpa D will fill your hearts and young at heart.

We will read “A Great Time: Children’s Poems in English and Russion”, which is scheduled for publication October 2007. It is a collection of short children stories written by Masha Shurin and illustrated by Valentin Ginukov. The author will join us on the phone and read a few stories in Russian and we will read them in English. Join Yucky the bug, No-tail the elephant, a sailor frog and other characters for A Great Time. The fun-filled poems encourage courtesy, sharing, and friendship while upholding hope and joy.

Then, to top off our second half hour, we will present a special song which Rachel Ries recorded exclusively for Sleepytime. Let's see if you can guess which Fats Waller song she sang for us. Tonight at 8pm.

Dick DeAngelis had the great fortune of interviewing Frankie Manning recently. They spoke about his life during the great Swing Era and his innovative influence on the development of the Lindy Hop.

Manning, who is 93 years old, has toured with such jazz greats as Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and others. He performed in several films, including EVERYBODY SINGS with Judy Garland and HELLZAPOPPIN'.

No one has contributed more to the Lindy Hop than Frankie Manning. As a dancer, innovator and choreographer, he has been an unofficial "Ambassador of Lindy Hop," spreading its popularity through three continents while touring with Whitey's Lindy Hoppers in the '30s and '40s, and again teaching, choreographing, and performing in the current Lindy Hop revival since the 1980s.

Frankie Manning started dancing in his early teens at a Sunday afternoon dance at the Alhambra and Rennaissance Ballrooms. Manning "graduated" to the Savoy Ballroom, which was known for its great dancers and bands. Manning, competitive as well as gifted, became a star in the informal jams in the "Kat's Korner" of the Savoy. Manning gave physical expression to the beat, the feel, and the excitement of the swing sound played by the great big bands. He is responsible for many innovations of Lindy Hop step and styles. In a famous competition, Manning astonished the crowd of 2000 with the first Lindy aerial step ever done.  read more »