"The mop-headed matriarch of the business...Berkner...comprises all
that is good and right about children's music."
- Hartford Courant
"Laurie Berkner's 'Victor Vito' video rocks hard. Minivan hard."
- CNN.com
"A kind of sippy-cup Sheryl Crow, Berkner inhabits a kid's curious
perspective in her lyrics and pens folk-pop melodies that bear
repeated-- very repeated--listenings."
- Time Magazine
"Her voice is so rich, so textured, so full of flavor . . . you can
almost see and taste everything as she delivers it."
- Entertainment Weekly
"Some fans bring cigarette lighters to concerts . . . At Laurie
Berkner concerts, her fans bring stuffed animals and put them on
their heads . . . A hit with the 2-to-10 set . . .Families pack her
concerts."
- New York Times
"The queen of kid rock. . .the kind of kids' singer whose songs
parents sheepishly play even when their children aren't around . . .
Unlike with some other kids' musicians, it's possible to attend a
Berkner concert, listen to one of her CDs, or watch her on TV
without wanting to gouge out your eardrums with a screwdriver."
- Child
"She's bound to win the hearts of music-loving kids (and parents)."
- U.S. News & World Report
"One of the most popular children's performers in America . . . Her
music is distinctive because it speaks to kids without talking down
to them, charming youngsters without boring grown-ups."
- The Wall St. Journal
"Jimmy Buffett has his Parrotheads. The Grateful Dead have their
legendary Deadheads. Laurie Berkner has, um, Dino-heads? Or, as
one parent described herself and other fanatics . . .
'Laurie-heads."
- The Washington Post
"Deadheads with diaper bags are camping out . . . to hear Laurie
Berkner sing. . .'Passionate' is one way to describe [her]fans."
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Laurie Berkner is such a popular act . . . the rock stars are her
fans."
- People
"Laurie Berkner has been getting plenty of attention lately and
deservedly so. . . Her albums are winsome, witty, and delightful."
- Billboard
"['Victor Vito's] title cut has already become a birthday-party
anthem."
- US Weekly
"Groundbreaking . . . Anyone who rocks out on national television
with a pig on her head is a winner with us. . .[she] has helped pave
the way for the recent surge in modern kids' musicians."
- Nick, Jr.
"One of the hippest children's artists . . . a free spirit with a
wacky wit . . . Berkner's a blast."
- Family Fun
"The biggest children's singing sensation to come along since
Raffi."
- Crain's New York Business
"Managing to avoid the saccharine music and lyrics that are found in
so much children's fare . . .Ms. Berkner instead appeals to kids'
seemingly insatiable appetite for silliness and fun without being
patronizing."
- Dallas Morning News
"I'm here to celebrate her talent as the sole great songwriter
amongst an overhyped wave of hipster kiddie musicians."
- New York Press
"Our editors (and their kids) can't get enough of Laurie Berkner's
wonderful children's music."
- Parents
"The Pied Piper of preschool . . . sure to keep wee toes tapping."
- Parenting
"Berkner knows what kids like . . . irresistible to little ones for
play-along fun."
- Los Angeles Times
"Enormously popular . . . the pre-K Carole King."
- Cookie
"In terms of sheer devotion, it's hard to beat Laurie Berkner's fans
. . . It's more than kids' monomania, though, that has earned [her]
a national following. Berkner now has four CDs, her own record
label and even legions of fans of drinking age."
- St. Paul Pioneer Press
"Not quite folk, and definitely not rock, Laurie Berkner is a Sheryl
Crow for kiddies."
- Baby Talk
"If there ever was going to be an Ani DiFranco for the five-year-old
independent music fan, it would have to be Laurie Berkner."
- Pittsburgh City Paper
"Berkner may just be the only person in the world with two
nose-piercings who's interested in entertaining your children -- at
least in a way you'd approve of."
- Creative Loafing
"A good test of a musician for children is endurability. Can
parents bear listening to the recordings again and again? With
singer-songwriter Laurie Berkner, many say they can."
- Columbus Dispatch
"There aren't any costumes, props or pyrotechnics in her act . . .
Berkner manages to captivate children around the country with only
her voice and an acoustic guitar."
- Pittsburgh Tribune Review
"Solid guitar playing, sunny, rock-tinged vocals and funny,
deceptively simple lyrics . . . a full-bodied yet not overproduced
sound that's just right for family listening."
- Publisher's Weekly
"Berkner's recordings are spare, melodic and above all, fun
departures from the more typical overproduced children's music."
- Chicago Tribune
"[She] matches fun and catchy lyrics to her beautiful voice,
encouraging kids to sing and move to the beat."
- American Baby
"Berkner is part of a new wave of children's performers who don't
adhere to the Disney-approved, saccharin-heavy and Barney-tinted
template of kids' entertainment.."
- Calgary Sun
"Laurie Berkner has become one of the hottest commodities on the
kids-music market these days."
- Baltimore Sunv
"Loopy lyrics and terrific tunes . . . a surefire mood lifter."
- Working Motherv
"Laurie Berkner is the kind of kids' musician that you hear once and
then tell all your friends."
- UrbanBaby.com
"The Bono of the under-5 set . . . If we all had as much fun doing
our jobs as Berkner does, this would be a better world."
- Newark Star-Ledger
"I have become an unrepentant Berkner fan."
- Slate.com
"Probably the biggest artist in kids' music today."
- Fresno Bee
