The Movement
by ALPHABET ROCKERS
The Movement
By Alphabet Rockers
Pre-K, Elementary, Family/Mixed Audience
GRAMMY Award-winning ALPHABET ROCKERS are a multi-racial, intergenerational hip hop crew, with 10 years’ experience performing for kids ages 5-10 and families. In 2018, they reached 300K kids and families touring our GRAMMY-nominated Best Children’s Album, “Rise Shine #Woke.” ALPHABET ROCKERS have headlined at Lollapalooza, Kennedy Center, Stanford Live, San Francisco Pride Festival, and the Smithsonian African American Museum, and performed in over 50 schools across the country each year.
Their newest GRAMMY-winning album THE MOVEMENT is a soundtrack for a reimagined world of belonging and justice. Building on their mission to make music that makes change, Alphabet Rockers crafted this 13-song album with the children in their collective, sparking listeners to connect their heads and hearts as we find unity in community. The songwriters reflect on real moments from their lives, and the youth ask the world to listen: “It’s our turn to speak up and be heard. Because our voices matter.” THE MOVEMENT is written for the whole family to understand their power, break biases, disrupt systems of oppression, and find community care. And "When it’s all said and done - the word is LOVE.” It’s a vibe, it’s the heart. It’s The Movement.
NPR Article | “It’s kids who are the stars of the Grammy-nominated Alphabet Rockers”
“This is important music. It creates the soundtrack for the lives of the future people that we want in the world. It creates the culture that is the reality of the world we want.”
ABOUT ALPHABET ROCKERS
GRAMMY Award-winning ALPHABET ROCKERS make music that makes change. Led by Kaitlin McGaw (she/her) and Tommy Shepherd (he/him), they create brave spaces to shape a more equitable world through hip-hop. Their 2018 GRAMMY-nominated album, Rise Shine #Woke, has reached 300,000 children and families since its release, inspiring kids to stand up to hate and be their brave and beautiful selves. Their 2020 GRAMMY-nominated album, The Love, lifts up voices of our trans, two-spirit and gender non-conforming community. THE MOVEMENT, their 2023 GRAMMY-winning album, amplifies restorative justice and is a soundtrack for a reimagined world of belonging and justice.
With headlining performances at Lollapalooza, The Kennedy Center, the San Francisco Pride Festival, Art & Soul Festival (Oakland) and Kidchella (Philadelphia), and in over 50 schools across the country each year, diverse audiences love their contemporary sound and positive messages. They were Izzy Award Winners in 2018, American Library Association’s Top Album in 2017 and 2018, and won the Parents’ Choice Award for their 5-album catalogue.
Alphabet Rockers appeal to a broad audience with lyrics like “I will stand up for you” and “I shine in my beautiful skin,” landing them in the top 5 songs of 2018 on Kids Place Live SiriusXM Radio.
Their music, videos, concerts and curriculum are designed by an intercultural team of anti-bias thought leaders, educators, artists, parents and young people of all genders.
