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MUSICIANS MEET THE MUPPETS - Jay Allen Sanford 12.14.7
"Kiosko is a magical land of puppets, people, and music, with a mosaic of instruments from around the world," according to the intro of Kiosko, a new children's TV show that debuted August 20 on KPBS Channel 15.
The program's co-creator Miguel-Angel Soria and music director/composer Kevin P. Green are former members of the hip-hop collective Taco Shop Poets. Tim Foley from the band Skelpin is Associate Producer, as well as writing and acting in episodes.
The Sesame Street-like program features puppets and humans in skits and songs instruct children in the fundamentals of multicultural music, including jazz, hip-hop, classical, pop, far-eastern Sitar ragas, Norteño, and even punk rock music.
Muppet style characters include a white-haired rat DJ, a punk girl whose shirt reads "Punk," and a Dr. Teeth-like band called the Dynamics, featuring a rasta-haired fox drummer and blue-haired singer of indeterminate species and sex. Live action sing-a-longs in the pilot included "Harmony, Hang With Me," and several animated segments.
Program co-creator Miguel-Angel Soria served as the Taco Shop Poets' Artistic Director for around thirteen years. He's been a major proponent of the local Straight-Edge punk movement, as well as being credited as one of the first - and only - hip-hop performance artists.
Soria's appearances with Taco Shop Poets often included activities reminiscent of children's TV. He would whisper a "secret" to an audience member, and have patrons pass it along in "whisper waves."
He also tore pages from books, passing them to attendees to read aloud in short segments comprising a spontaneous "collage poem." He sometimes presented his own poems written on long rolls of paper, that he proceeded to wrap around show patrons.
http://www.kioskoproductions.com