So welcome back to another shine your light bonus episode and today I'm very very excited to share this amazing young couple with you.

The Banana Band is a children's band that focuses on inclusion and music for all ages, abilities, and identities.

Both members, Ben and Anna, work in the fields of early childhood education and music therapy.

So their music as the Banana Band reflects their experience and passion for learning, fun, and

growth, adding a hearty dash of good old-fashioned silliness, while being auditory and sensory

aware of their audience's needs.

Banana Band was created in September 2019 and has evolved through the past two years

to continue to provide musical resources for kiddos, families, teachers, and therapists around the nation

that promote self-love, acceptance, and silliness, while addressing developmental and

academic skills and goal areas.

Banana Band is on all music streaming platforms

with their original music, including

their most recent release,

Sounds of the Seasons.

Welcome, Ben and Anna. Thank you so so much for coming on with me today.

Oh, our pleasure Denise. Thank you for having us. We've been looking forward to this for a very long while.

Yeah. So one of the things and I've for a very long while.

So one of the things and I've shared this openly on the show is that I think music is one of the greatest healers that we have available on the planet.

And it just, it revives memories, it holds heart.

Years and years ago, I taught it a preschool

and it was half-identified children and half not and I took a music therapy

workshop it wasn't like a it was a graduate level workshop but and just the difference in

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