Rise + Rhyme: Storytelling/Performances for Ages 5 and Under featuring MR. KNICK KNACK!
Date and Time
Mar 3, 2015 8:30 am
Location
Shirlington
4251 S. Campbell Ave, Arlington, Virginia, 22206
Mar 3, 2015 8:30 am
Shirlington
A Busboys and Poets in-house series! Rise + Rhyme is a weekly morning storytelling and performance series for children ages 5 and under, stay-at-home parents, and early rising families of all kinds.
Singer-song writer Steve Rossi, a.k.a. Mr. Knick Knack!, was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Northern Virginia, a typical rock ‘n roll-loving teenager. Steve taught himself guitar and piano at 16 and has proved to be a veritable apple tree of original songs – some golden, all delicious!
Mr. Knick Knack takes marriage, children, family and the human heart seriously. They are what Mr. Knick Knack! sings about and celebrates at his legendary shows to the growing delight of thousands of Knick Knack Kids and their families. Mr. Knick Knack! is named “Favorite Children’s Entertainer” by DC Baby – A Handbook for Parenting In (& Around) the Capitol City. He has been featured twice in The Washington Post, once in The Washington Times, and has been interviewed as Mr. Knick Knack! on the NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw. Mr. Knick Knack! has been the featured entertainer at Tysons Corner Center for well over a decade as well as the featured weekly entertainer at Reston Town Center and Market Common Clarendon in Northern Virginia for many years and counting. Mr. Knick Knack! has performed on separate private occasions for two vice presidents of the United States, one U.S. Senate majority leader, an ambassador to the United States from the Middle East, the president of the oldest Jesuit and Catholic university in the United States, three little ones taking their very first steps, one child losing its first tooth, and thousands of additional shows at D.C. area schools, daycares, offices, charities, institutions, retail outlets, houses of worship, festivals, including over 1,600 birthday parties.
$5 admission per child. Additional donations for the performer are much appreciated.
Rise + Rhyme is held every Wednesday morning at 9:30 AM at Busboys and Poets in Shirlington and every Monday morning in Hyattsville.
