I thought the title of this post would at least get us a few hits from family and friends – sorry Mom (x2).

Being childless and living downtown Toronto we rarely get exposed to ‘kids stuff’. Last night we went to see City and color at Massey Hall, Kathleen Edwards was the opener, and she played a little song called “You can always blame it on the letter B”. Now I know you’re thinking I’m probably pushing it here – “Kids, music…what (the heck) has any of this got to do with food and/or design…this IS WellPreserved people!”. Granted it’s a rare day when I get the opportunity to layer on another one of my obsessions – i love music, especially of the Canadian acoustic/indie type and if i can plug any of it to our ‘out of country’ readers i will – so bear with me, i’m getting there.

“Blame it on the letter B” was a ‘cleaned up’ version of Kathleen’s song “the Cheapest Key” which she was asked to perform on the CBCs show “Mamma Yamma”. The Cheapest key is a (slightly) bitter, grown-up angsty song.  But “Mamma Yamma” is a kids show, the host is a giant (slightly scary) puppet Yamm that owns a snack bar/fruit&veg stand in Kensington Market in Toronto, so she decided to rewrite it and turn it into a song about eating the alphabet. It will appear on the new fall season of Mamma Yamma this September. If you’ve got kids (or not!) there’s an album out now called “Mamma Yamma and friends” and includes past guests such as The Great Lake Swimmers, Kim Stockwood, Ron Sexsmith, Bare Naked Ladies, Amy Millan, Sarah Harmer and Bedouin Soundclash.

Here’s a clip of the show with musical guest Rupert Harvey (of Canadian Reggae band Messenjah)

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you can see a video of Kathleen Edward’s “Cheapest Key” here. She’s incredibly talented, curses and drinks like a sailor and great to see live. Checkout her album “Asking for flowers”.