SteveSongs, consisting of Steve Roslonek and his accompanying band, kicked off his East Coast tour at Wesleyan University’s Crowell Concert Hall. Roslonek is a multi-award winning children’s songwriter and performer celebrating the release of his fourth album "Little Superman." The concert was organized through the university’s alumni relations department.

Roslonek, and most of the band members, are Wesleyan University graduates and they performed to a nearly filled concert hall of parents and children ranging from 2 to 10 years old. Many of whom were dancing in the aisles near the stage and near their seats.

Roslonek started getting laughs and giggles out of the children when he told them to say "Hi Frank," which they repeated. He then said that wasn’t his name; that it was "Samantha." Roslonek followed up telling the children his name was Steve.

Roslonek and his accompanying band had the children participating in several of the songs either by shouting out words or moving their bodies. Some of the songs were educational including "The Gravity Song."

"Gravity, what would we do without it?" Roslonek told the children. The song went into how Isaac Newton discovered gravity.

After a few more songs, Roslonek asked the children how they could show kindness.

One shouted out "share," while another shouted out "help somebody." Roslonek asked what if a person was sick. One child shouted out "a get-well present."

SteveSongs then went into performing a song from the new album called "Kindness."

Sonia Sultan and her husband Kendall Baker brought their 3-year-old daughter Jasmine Baker to the performance, which was their first for SteveSongs.

Friends told them about the event, and they decided to bring Jasmine because they thought children should be exposed to musical performances, Sultan said.

"It’s great. She’s happy," she said. "The songs are interactive. He involves the children in every song. They’re good musicians.

"It costs less than a movie, and it’s real," Sultan said. "It’s fun for all the kids in the room to be together, and they know it’s for them."

Roslonek has performed since 1998 entertaining children and their families with original children’s music and stories to educate them about the world.

To contact Amy L. Zitka, call (860) 347-3331 ext. 211 or email azitka@middletownpress.com.