Kiri Rakete - Children's Concert

What's it about?

Kiri Rakete enriches the world of children's music with her wonderfully unconventional artistry. With a special gift and fundamental disposition, she approaches the musical needs of children and packages the little ones' world into catchy songs that adults also love to hear again and again. Rich answers to "why" questions As an educator, mom, and honorary child for life, Kiri Rakete is right in the thick of it. She addresses the "why" questions of kindergarten and preschool children in an incomparably loving and witty way, meeting both children and their accompanying adults fearlessly and credibly. With a calm but engaging stage presence and her charmingly distinctive, rough Kiri voice, she delivers her message emphatically but without moralizing – with strong choruses and flowery verses surrounding them. Viennese charm and child-oriented "peda-logic" In her catchy songs, Kiri Rakete dedicates herself to avocado consumption, train travel adventures, sick animals, loosening socially ingrained gender roles, or even monotonous pirate food. In an inimitable way, she manages the balancing act of meeting children and adults at eye level simultaneously, serving up nursery hits with a pinch of pedagogical amusement and Viennese charm. Catchy tunes and sing-along temptation included. On small and large stages since 2016 Kiri Rakete released her debut album RAKETENSTART in 2016 and has been an indispensable part of Austria's cabaret stages, cultural venues, and summer festivals ever since. The musician has also been a guest at the Donauinselfest, in the ballroom of Vienna's City Hall, at the Wiener Kultursommer, at the Graz Popella Music Festival, and at the Linz Pflasterspektakel as a crowd-puller for families with children. "They grow up so fast" Following the example of her fanbase, the musician constantly outgrows herself. With the album WOHNZIMMERABENTEUER (2021), she brought producer Sami Fischer on board, with whom she catapulted her musical visions into new spheres. The arrangements are well-thought-out and subtly or straightforwardly underscore the song content. This way, she manages to retain fans even beyond the fleeting early years, because Kiri Rakete's CDs are still gladly played in the car later without fear or shame. The artist definitely lives up to her personal claim of making children's music that also opens up new worlds for adults. Current album: NORMAL On her fourth and latest album NORMAL (2023), the Kiri-verse is expanded by several songs with a full band lineup – a format in which Kiri Rakete also enjoys playing live on stages in German-speaking countries to prove the absolute concert suitability of her hand-, heart-, and brain-made children's music. Together, bass, piano, and drums, or cello, trombone, clarinet, and guitar, orbit the fixed star of the Kiri Rakete performance: the lyrics that pick up children and bring adults back, uniting them in a shared world of experience, where Kiri concerts are colorful building blocks for valuable childhood memories.