Animal Faire

Folksinger and storyteller David HB Drake presents “Animal Faire” - a menagerie of songs for the whole family. We’re “Going to the Zoo” to visit “My Rhinoceros” and go “Waltzing with Bears” at “The Animal Faire”.
Magical beasts like “Puff the Magic Dragon” play with “Jennifer’s Rabbit”
in songs performed on guitar, concertina, banjo, dulcimer, and Native American flute. This program was created for the 2021 "Tails and Tales" summer reading theme at Wisconsin public libraries.
This program was recorded at a live outdoor performance of "Animal Faire" at the Ethel Everhard Memorial Library in Westfield WI on June 24, 2021.
David HB Drake has been called “the real thing” -
a musician and historian steeped in the traditions and heritage of our Midwestern Experience.
The songs include:
A Place in the Choir (Bill Staines)
Animal Faire (Jesse Fuller)
Going to the Zoo (Tom Paxton)
My Rhinoceros (Ed Lipton)
Boa Constrictor (Shel Silverstein)
Teddy Bear's Picnic (Jimmy Kennedy)
Jennifer's Rabbit (Tom Paxton)
The Food Chain (adapted by David HB Drake)
Itsy Bitsy Spider (traditional)
There was an Old Woman who swallowed a Fly (Rose Bonne and Alan Mills)
Bingo (traditional)
How much is that Doggy in the Window? (Bob Merrill)
Waltzing with Bears (adapted from Theodore Geisel)
Can You? (Story by David HB Drake)
Many Many Cows (Anna Lee Scully)
Two by Two (David HB Drake)
Puff (Peter Yarrow)
Old McDonald (traditional)