For Christmas, Santa brought Matteo his first guitar, a cool little acoustic uke-like thing made by a Kickstarter’ed company called Loog. Like seemingly everything else these kid/music-related these days, it’s not only a physical instrument, but a complete learning system including an app and all the requisite social properties. The YouTube channel features a bunch of demos, featured user vids, highlights from something called Loog Fest, and a series of instruction vids called Loog Academy hosted by a fella named Tim.
Tonight, Matteo was watching his favorite show “Caitie’s Classroom”, an educational series from Super Simple Play hosted by the brilliant, tirelessly enthusiastic Caitie Claessen. (Caitie will certainly be featured in another gratitude at some point soon, as she has been an incredible gift to the Basiles!) From the kitchen, I heard Matteo say “that’s Tim from the guitar videos”. I came out to see who it was that looked or sounded like the Loog Academy guy and it was our buddy Tim! I was far more delighted than Matteo, which made him excited too.
As it turns out, Tim Kubart is an impressive children’s music celebrity in his own right, with the Loog series being only one of his (lesser known) credits. I have enjoyed a look at Tim’s website and have previewed to his stuff on Spotify. The kids will get to know Tim’s positive vibes better in the coming months. I’m eternally grateful for spirits like Tim who have made it their vocation to support parents like me.