All God's Critters

We took a day off to visit the Philadelphia Zoo. And who did we find in the Monkey House? None other than Terry Hendrix and WXPN's Kathy O'Connell. WXPN is the University of Pennsylvania's celebrated radio station, where we first heard Terri's music. Kathy is the host of XPN's "Kids Corner" show - a truly unique and fun radio show for kids of all ages.
We said hello to Terri and Lloyd Maines when we first arrived at the zoo. They were setting up for their show - part of the zoo's Rock 'n' Roar concert series. They smiled at our shirts and we talked briefly about seeing them at the Tin Angel.

We let them finish setting up and visited some of the animal exhibits. When we arrived about 10 minutes before the show, we saw Terri and Lloyd talking with Kathy. Lloyd waved us over and we said hello to Kathy, who says she has the best job in the world. Terri asked to take a picture of us with Kathy. Then we took some snapshots of them.

We talked about seeing Terri and Lloyd in Amenia. Lloyd remarked about how beautiful that area was. He also really enjoyed New Hampshire, where they had recently performed at an area the reminded him of On Golden Pond. Kathy O'Connell is originally from Long Island, and has family in Beacon and Fishkill.

Marsha told Terri that we wanted to see them in Texas sometime (although they said it was too hot in San Antonio during the summer - come in the spring). Terri recommended coming for one of her "Life is a Song" workshops, or one of the festivals in the area that, feature other Texas musicians, as well.
The concert was a mix of many of the songs from her children's CD, with a few other songs thrown in (notably, the zoo themed "I Found the Lions", "Wallet", and the fun "Wind Me Up").
Terri got all the kids to roar like lions and make their favorite critter sounds.

Get on up and dance everybody, get on up and dance . . .

. . . and get your goat on!

All us critters clapped and sang along to "Play Ball", "Car Car", "Celebrate the Difference", and more. What a wonderful day at the Zoo! And we didn't even get to the animals yet. More pictures to come!