A large crowd of mostly young parents and their toddlers gathered in June Rowlands Park at Davisville Ave. and Mt Pleasant Rd. today to honour and to be entertained by Sharon, Lois and Bram. It was a remarkable turnout for the venerable children’s musical group. The crowd was estimated at perhaps as many 2,000 over the length of the afternoon. The occasion was an initiative spearheaded by Josh Matlow (Ward 22) to name the playground in the park after the Toronto group. Now aged between 73 and 77 years of age, Sharon, Lois and Bram showed they had lost none of their vitality and ability to excite kids and parents alike. The pictures inset show the group rendering “Comin’ Round the Mountain” complete with essential “toot toot” gestures. It seems likely few children’s entertainers have been able to fuse the generations in quite the way Sharon, Lois and Bram did at Rowlands Park. The group was formed in 1978 but received an enormous breakthrough when they were picked up by the CBC in 1984 and created The Elephant Show. The children of that day clapped and sang with their own kids on this fine May Saturday (picture bottom). WikipediaSharon, Lois and Bram at Rowlands Park
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A large crowd of mostly young parents and their toddlers gathered in June Rowlands Park at Davisville Ave. and Mt Pleasant Rd. today to honour and to be entertained by Sharon, Lois and Bram. It was a remarkable turnout for the venerable children’s musical group. The crowd was estimated at perhaps as many 2,000 over the length of the afternoon. The occasion was an initiative spearheaded by Josh Matlow (Ward 22) to name the playground in the park after the Toronto group. Now aged between 73 and 77 years of age, Sharon, Lois and Bram showed they had lost none of their vitality and ability to excite kids and parents alike. The pictures inset show the group rendering “Comin’ Round the Mountain” complete with essential “toot toot” gestures. It seems likely few children’s entertainers have been able to fuse the generations in quite the way Sharon, Lois and Bram did at Rowlands Park. The group was formed in 1978 but received an enormous breakthrough when they were picked up by the CBC in 1984 and created The Elephant Show. The children of that day clapped and sang with their own kids on this fine May Saturday (picture bottom). Wikipedia