I’m a school librarian and Raffi is the gift that keeps on giving. I adore his melodic radicalism! He recently collaborated with YoYo Ma and gave a new verse to all us “Beluga graduates” which includes child honoring, diversity, and climate action!

Me too, was like @#_&ING  2020 seriously???? This would honestly be the last straw for me, I think I would just retire to my bunker and drink myself into a stupor for the remainder of the year (save stumbling out to vote). 

I took my toddler and brand new baby to Raffi this past November, and he was amazing! He lives nearby and came to this relatively small theatre and rocked out for like an hour (perfect amount of time for little kids). The kids were all excited, but I swear all the millennial and gen X parents were even more so, and…

Thank you. It’s a nickname from my boyfriend. I recently moved down South, but I will always be a sassy masshole.

PS- I heart your username.

Great, now I’m going to be yell-singing (in the style of my 5-year-old) DOWN BY THE BAY! to myself for the rest of the day.

In all of the love for the Portland mom’s, please remember Teal and Princess. Teal is a 21 year old black mother who is out there keeping the focus and leading chants. Princess is the young queer / femme who keeps the mood light and the energy positive. The two of them have been the voice and face of this thing, even…

Fox News: “This sick traitor Raffi singing for our children. He even condoned interspecies love. Did you ever you ever see a goose kissing a moose? Down by the bay.”

We Canadians proudly claim Raffi. His parents escaped the Armenian genocide and he’s always been socially tuned in. Much of his music has been empowering and subtly political, while being consumable for kids - “And I need some clean water for drinking / And I need some clean air for breathing / So that I can grow up…

I am glad Raffi is part of the resistance, but, dang, I’m going to have Baby Beluga stuck in my head all day now.

I’m quite convinced they were so afraid of this that they manifested it, but in a warped way- as in, they found themselves on the side of the oppressors. Just like Q Anon and their obsession with child trafficking. Where is their outrage over Epstein?

Oh my god, all the feelings with this.

Anyone else just learn Raffi’s surname?

Lil Stonky is 16mo now and Raffi is his absolute favorite. His old recorded concerts are hilarious time capsules of fashion in the late 80s. ALSO he apparently just recently recorded a 40th anniversary version of Baby Beluga with a 4th verse for “all the adult belugas out there”. Lil Stonky was confused why Baby…

Oh my god me too. The article title was a ride - I had violently inhaled and exhaled with relief all by the time I finished reading it.

I read the first four words of this title and thought he died. Don’t SCARE me like that, Rebecca! Not after Reeg, Lady Red, and Olivia deH all in one week!

How can you write an article about Raffi without mentioning Banana Phone?

Americans defending their homes from a government run amok...

I’ve disliked a good many politicians in my lifetime. I’ve never hated any as deeply as I hate Donald Trump and his pack of malevolent sniveling sycophants.

Between the wall of Moms, the Dads with leaf blowers, and the veterans, I feel proud to be American, proud of these strong folks. And I simultaneously freaking weep at what a frightening shit show Trump’s America has become.