Sugar free allstars bug-aloo, boogie at library

The Sugar Free Allstars will be hopping — like grasshoppers — from library to library in the Pioneer Library System this summer with their children’s summer program, Bug-aloo and Boogie. The Allstars will have children ages 5 to 11 and their parents wanting to dance like they’ve got ants. The summer reading program theme is “Catch the Reading Bug!”
The Allstars will perform at the Norman Public Library at 2 p.m. Monday. The library will have two programs; one at 2 p.m. and one at 7 p.m.
On Tuesday, Blanchard Public Library will host the Allstars at 10 a.m. while Moore Public Library will have the program that day at 2 and 7 p.m. On Wednesday, the show begins at the Noble Public Library, 204 N. Fifth at 10 a.m. and at the Newcastle Public Library at 2 p.m.
On Thursday, at 11 a.m. McLoud Public Library will have their program and Tecumseh Public Library at 2 p.m.
Sugar Free Allstars’ most recent studio release and the first children’s album, Dos Ninos, has received favorable reviews by national children’s music reviewers such as Warren Truitt of the New York Public Library and Fred Koch of “Chicago Parent” magazine. The album has also made it into Fids and Kamily’s top 15 “Best Music of 2007 for Kids and Families” awards list. Dos Ninos was the top selling CD on Home Grown Music Network’s website in January. The Sugar Free Allstars will have T-shirts and CDs available for purchase at the library programs.
The programs are free and open to the public. The Children’s Summer Reading Program is part of a state-wide reading initiative developed by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries with funding from Institute of Museum and Library Services and offered with the support of Sonic, Inc., America’s Drive In. Touring programs in the Pioneer Library System are made possible through the support of Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc., the Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, and Oklahoma Arts Council.
The Pioneer Library System serves more than 300,000 residents in Cleveland, McClain and Pottawatomie counties. For more information about any of the Summer Reading Program activities for children, teens, and adults, call or visit a hometown public library or log on to www.justsoyouknow.us.