Album Notes

El Mosquito in My Kitchen is a bilingual recording for:
People who speak English and/ or Spanish
Elementary school teachers & librarians
Elementary & pre-school age people
Parent, grandparents, great grandparents,
People who would like to learn more Spanish/English
People who speak several styles of song

To create El Mosquito, I collected manuscripts of several hundred Mexican and Latin American folksongs. After reading through the music, I selected ten pieces based on their melody and rhythmic structure, then wrote new verses in Spanish and pared the list down to six songs.

I completed the project with English language songs composed by my friends and me.

Use this recording to
Have a good time
Lead children in musical movement
Take a nap
Travel a path inside yourself
Experience the mystery of song
Remember when your children were young
Bake chocolate chip cookies

Bio:
Don has been performing since appearing at age 5 as the Littlest Angel in an elementary school pageant.

He began his professional career as a singer songwriter and recorded half a dozen LP’s. Later, he turned to acting and translating plays and then to storytelling and one man shows. Currently he travels the Southwest performing his song and story shows for schools, theaters and festivals.

Sanders’ Latin American repertoire draws on Mexican and Tejano folkloric roots and includes stories of coyotes, mosquitoes and haunted trucks.
Don’s great-great grandmother was born in southern Spain, married a Scottish sailor and settled in Florida. Her son,

Don’s great grandfather Alex McDonald, came to Texas, cowboyed, roped a bear, and worked as a Harris County Deputy Sheriff.

Sanders is a member of the honorary board of directors of the Kerrville Folk Festival and is on the Texas Commission on the Arts Touring Artist Roster.
He received a Master’s in Spanish Literature from the University of Houston and has studied in Mexico, Guatemala and Spain.

Born in Houston, Don lives near the center of town, in an old wooden house with his wife and his 16-year-old son.