No Trick, Just a Treat at my Boo Carre Festival Concert!

Come dressed in costume and howl along with me at my Boo Carre concert on Saturday, October 25 at 12:30 at 916 N Peters Street in Dutch Alley in the French Market. There will be crafts and trick or treating at participating shops, so come out for a silly, slightly spooky, fun time!

Big Orange Monster Art Exhibition at Kolaj

My collage titled “Big Orange Monster Consumes the World” is part of a fun exhibition at the Kolaj Institute in New Orleans through October 18, 2025. I couldn’t resist the call to artist to create a monster out of cut-paper collage and hand-painted paper.

For more information about the show, please visit - https://kolajmagazine.com/content/content/collage-exhibitions/big-orange-monster/

Collage in the show. Photograph by Thom Bennett.

Petit Pierre and the Floating Marsh Book Video Now on YouTube!

Illustrator Heather Stanley and I are happy to announce that our book Petit Pierre and the Floating Marsh is now on YouTube as a book reading video! Watch, read and sing along with this popular book about how friends and family make a home.

Summer Reading Program Concerts!

Summer Reading Program Concerts!

Johnette will be singing animals songs during her “Down in Louisiana” concert to select libraries this summer!

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Concert!

We are thrilled to announce that we are performing in the Kids Tent at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Sunday, May 4, 2025 from 2:45-3:35 PM. This Louisiana roots music concert for children and their families introduces children to the rich musician heritage of New Orleans and across the Bayou State. It’s a romp in the swamp you won’t want to miss. Tickets available at jazzfest.com. New Orleans Fairgounds.

Tick Tock Rock Music Video Released

I hope children will enjoy learning to tell time by the hour with my latest music video titled “Tick Tock Rock.” The song is on my 2005 “Music Time” album, and I thought I would illustrate it in my cut-paper and foam collage to make telling time a snap, or in this case, a clap!

I remember when I was young, I had a hard time learning to tell time. It wasn’t the hour so much as the half-past and quarter hour that tripped me up. Maybe I need to write that song as well!

Anyway, let’s jump into this interactive song in which part of the song I tell the time, but the second half of the song, you tell the time.

https://youtu.be/Ll_BGs47BYo?si=F2BngS74ltM1fl7R