Self Magazine holiday gift guide featuring Italia, India and Brazilian Café - “ Send a pal on an exotic vacay minus the layovers. Each of these dinner-music CDs includes a recipe from the featured country.”
Blogcritics on Jazz Around the World: "Eminently listenable, even luxurious, and about the only people who won’t be tapping a shoe to these rhythms are people not wearing them."
“If flamenco is your only idea of Spanish music, then Putumayo's latest CD compilation, España, will be a rush of new rhythms, rumba, and mestizo (fusion) for you. … The captivating rhythms will have you tap-tapping.” - Christian Science Monitor
DILAN, A TRUE LIFE MIRACLE
Putumayo loves to hear from the people who benefit directly from the non-profit work to which we contribute. We recently received
a letter about a child named Dilan that we thought we would share with you during this holiday season.
PUTUMAYO KIDS IN THE NEWS
Putumayo Kids celebrates the release of Jazz Playground with a special concert tour in select cities by featured artists Oran Etkin, Ingrid Lucia, Barbara Morrison and Lewis Franco. See the tour dates
The American Library Association (ALA) has recognized both Picnic Playground and European Playground with the 2010 Notable Children's Recordings Award.
THE BEST! Time Out New York Kids names Putumayo Kids a standout in their new classics list. “Since 1999, Putumayo has introduced children to exceptional music from far-flung corners, language barriers be damned.”
Sesame Street Playground is one of AOL parentdish's Best Kids CDs of the Decade! "This collection of multi-culti music was culled from different international versions of Sesame Street around the world. Both enlightening and danceable."
Picnic Playground in the Midwest Book Review: "Drawing from Australia, Cuba, Denmark, France, German, Canada, Trinidad, South Africa, and the USA, "Picnic Playground" offers a toe-tapping internationally oriented entertainment that will engage the attention and appreciation of children... Unique, original, thoroughly 'kid friendly', and enthusiastically recommended..."
