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"With
a terrific voice, she is also a great mimic. Besides
camels with runny noses, her other original tales introduce
young audiences to red raincoats, the boy who loved
sticky plasters (band-aids) and the girl who found
dinosaurs in her back garden. In an age when girls
and boys pass so swiftly from Humpty Dumpty to Lara
Croft, it is time they were allowed to feel it's cool
to enjoy stories set to music... no one does it better
than Courtney Campbell."
The London Daily Telegraph
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A singer, songwriter and storyteller, who has captivated
young audiences around the world, Courtney Campbell heads
up a fun-loving puppet family on MUSTARD PANCAKES,
a half-hour series airing on the ION Network. MUSTARD
PANCAKES uses the magic of storytelling and the joy of
song to share lessons about everyday experiences with its
young audience. Campbell also serves as the series co-creator.
Early in Campbell's singing career she opened for artists
such as The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and John Denver, while
sharing bills with Lyle Lovett and Jackson Brown. A single
mother, Campbell moved around the country in pursuit of her
career participating in the thriving music scenes in cities
like Austin, Boston and Los Angeles. Campbell moved to Los
Angeles in 1987 and was presented with an opportunity that
totally changed her career path. She was invited to sing at
a friend's pre-school and received such an amazing response
that she started performing exclusively for children. That
first performance resulted in a song about "Mo",
one of the puppets in Courtney's MUSTARD PANCAKES household.
In fact all the characters in the series, except Mr. D., were
derived from songs Courtney wrote. The name, MUSTARD
PANCAKES,
comes from a song on Campbell's first CD entitled, "Mustard
Pancakes."
In 1993, Courtney moved to Holland and began performing
for schools in many countries around the globe. In addition
to
her young audiences Campbell also gained a following among
educators. She developed a widely respected reputation giving
workshops for teachers and speaking at conferences, both
in the United States and Europe, on the power of songs and
stories
in education. To date she has performed in Holland, Germany,
Italy, France, England, Scotland, Norway, Poland, Egypt,
Iceland,
Austria, Hungary, Turkey, The Czech Republic, and
Japan.
Courtney returned to LA in 1996 at which time she added two
more CDs to her collection, "The Camel With a Runny Nose"
and "Red Raincoat". In 2002, Campbell met Joel Wertman
and began developing MUSTARD PANCAKES.
In 2008 & 2009 Mustard Pancakes begins shooting
it's fourth season. It has received many awards and has
many enthusiastic
and devoted fans throughout the US and Canada.
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