Album Notes

Make a Circle Like the Sun, the award-winning CD by Barb Tilsen, is an exceptional recording of songs to sing with children, especially for ages 3-8 years, and one that the whole family will enjoy! Barb's songs come with a 100% kid-tested guarantee. Make a Circle Like the Sun was awarded the Children's Music Web's 2001 Best Recording for Young Children award.

These 19 songs featuring Barb's beautiful voice and music go easily from the playful and fun to the thoughtful and moving, touching on themes of friendship, self-esteem, and making peaceful choices.

Make a Circle Like the Sun has an eclectic mix of styles with lush harmonies, distinctive hand drum rhythms, rich a capella, gentle folk, rock & roll, and a cool Latin sound.

Made with some of the best musicians in Minnesota, including Kathy & Leo Lara, Marty Winkler, Karen Mueller, Bill Hinkley, Pete Mathison, Jim Kellerman, Michael DelMain, and Wisconsin's Bruce O'Brien, this recording also features Soaring Voices Children's Chorus, and a special appearance by poet Roy McBride with his four-year-old daughter, Lacinea.

This recording combines the creative songwriting of Barb Tilsen with unique songs by some of the best songwriters in children's music today.

It is highly recommended! Barb Tilsen has been singing and working with children for over 15 years, and has been writing songs and performing for audiences of all ages since 1971.

She can work magic with young children.

Her songs are rooted in her wonderful sense of what kids can relate to and how they feel.

Her songs and her performances are hallmarked by her great sense of fun, her respect for young children and her unique way of musically touching their hearts.

Barb teaches Sound Beginnings, a creative children's music program, in child care centers, schools, community programs and recreation centers.

She leads a community children's chorus called Soaring Voices, and offers artist-in-residence programs in the public schools as well as in-service training workshops to both teachers and child care professionals on creative music with children.

Barb has been published several times in Sing Out! Magazine and Pass It On!, as well as in Broadside Magazine, River Circular, Folkestone News, and in the books "Every Woman Has A Story," "Common Ground" and "Close to the Ground".

She is a contributing artist on several film, video and recording projects.

Her moving poem, Sacred Ground, with artwork by visual artist, Margo McCreary, was selected as one of the published pieces in the Broadside Series by the Powderhorn Writer's Festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota.