2007 Parents' Choice Silver Award Winner
2007 NAPPA Honors Award
"Victor is the polar opposite of the Wiggles and Barney"
Ed Z.
Dreamtime by Victor Johnson & Friends is more than a beautiful bedtime record for kids. It is pure magic.
The open hearted performances and lush recording make the record a true work of art. It contains playful tunes, reworked classic fairly tales, two magical bedtime stories and a lullaby on solo guitar. The tunes are gentle and laced with little pearls for kids to drift off to.
Victor Johnson has a growing international reputation for making kid's music that adults like too. Dreamtime follows suit, raises the bar and shows great music and great records can be for everyone.
Victor Johnson- Award winning writer, musician, performer and producer from the Pacific Northwest specializing in traditional styles of acoustic music and storytelling for kids and families. Acoustic music for kids and families that will please the ear, soothe the heart, stimulate the imagination, get toes tapping, hands clapping, feet dancing and faces smiling. Everyone is in the band. Come on down and have yourself a good time. Raised by folk and blues revivalists of the 60's, Victor grew up listening to the music of Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, John Hurt and Rev. Gary Davis. "We used to live in this house where all kinds of people would come over and make music in our living room. The music would go late into the night. I would sneak out of my room, make a bed in the hallway and listen to the music coming through the heating vent like radio. My shows are like it was when I was a kid. People getting together having fun making music, singing, dancing or just enjoying being in the middle of it all." In 2003 Victor started focusing on music for kids that the whole family could enjoy. Since then he has become one of the premier family acts in the Pacific Northwest and has a growing international reputation for making cool kid music. Victors music has appeared in Nick Jr., Parenting, Blues Revue and Curious Parent magazines as well as NPR and childrens radio shows nationwide. He has won several awards including 2 Parents Choice Silver Awards for his Country Blues for Kids and Kid at Heart CDs. Victor has also been featured on Oregon Public Broadcastings Art Beat television series and appears on Putumayo Kids 2006 Folk Playground CD with Dan Zanes, Leon Redbone and Eric Bibb. Irelands premier Chip company Tayto Crisps, has chosen to use Victors version of This little light of mine for their new t.v. ,radio and movie theater ads. Victor performs extensively in the Pacific Northwest at festivals, schools, libraries and hospitals as a solo, duo or with a full acoustic band with some of the Northwest's best musicians. Mandolin, steel guitar, clarinet and fiddle and string bass can sometimes be heard in the family band accompanying Victors guitar playing.
