Summer Jam 2021
Sumer Jam with Joanie Leeds
Episode 7 | 28mVideo has Closed Captions
GRAMMY Winning, NYC based singer-songwriter Joanie Leeds.
GRAMMY Winning, NYC based singer-songwriter Joanie Leeds is a National Touring artist and early childhood educator and JKids Radio show host. Joanie has played at Lollapalooza, Clearwater Festival, The Kennedy Center & Lincoln Center, Wolftrap and Levitt Pavilion and her music has been featured in The New York Times People Magazine, Parents Magazine, Billboard and The Washington Post.
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Summer Jam 2021 is a local public television program presented by PBS39
Summer Jam 2021
Sumer Jam with Joanie Leeds
Episode 7 | 28mVideo has Closed Captions
GRAMMY Winning, NYC based singer-songwriter Joanie Leeds is a National Touring artist and early childhood educator and JKids Radio show host. Joanie has played at Lollapalooza, Clearwater Festival, The Kennedy Center & Lincoln Center, Wolftrap and Levitt Pavilion and her music has been featured in The New York Times People Magazine, Parents Magazine, Billboard and The Washington Post.
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My name is Miss Hamburg and I'm here to welcome you to this year's PBS39 Summer Jam.
We will continue to program with and for our community supported by viewers like you.
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And here's our host Kara Willey.
Thanks, Amber.
Hey, Summer Jam.
I hope you've been enjoying these wonderful shows.
If you missed any, you can catch the replays on the PBS39 website today.
We have an amazing guest for you all the way from New York City.
She won the children's Grammy this year.
It's Joanie Leeds.
Hello, everyone.
I'm Joni.
I'm so excited to be here at Summer Jam and it's been a while since we've been together.
And this is really special to be back in this beautiful studio and I'm so excited to be singing some songs today from my new album, All the Ladies.
So I'm going to sing all of the songs from All the Ladies, starting with a song about a Lyons.
So if you're at home and you want to sing a little bit about a lion, I want to hear your biggest lion roar.
OK, whenever I say Lyons, you're going to give me a huge roar.
The song is all about strong mamas and protecting their young.
Do in the hunting, doing the gathering, doing all of the things.
This is Lyons.
I will protect you.
I will keep you safe.
You don't have to worry loyal and brave Langhorne and I gather keep your Bear Lake.
Graceful and courageous labor and agile.
I will give my life for you.
Oh yes.
Since I'm the lioness.
The lioness.
Would you become a mother?
Fierceness grows inside an animal instincts to save and shield your pride Bear Lake and take a village.
Keep Nesquehoning strong when we stick together well nothing can go wrong.
I will give my life for you.
Oh yes I am the lioness.
Lioness.
Woo hoo hoo.
Oh whoa.
I will protect you.
I will keep you safe.
You don't have to worry loyal.
I'm brave.
I will give my life for you.
Oh yes.
Yes I am lioness.
Lioness.
Your name.
Yes the lioness.
All right.
That is the lioness from my new album All the Ladies is it did win a Grammy award which is really exciting.
And I'm really, really proud of the album which is all about female empowerment and breaking glass ceilings and really the music community and women and all all things ladies and girls.
But also it is also about if girls rule the world, which is the next song I'm going to sing If Girls Rule the World, I was inspired by this tribe that lives at the base of the Himalayan mountains in China near Tibet.
And these this tribe, they actually are a real true Maitri Aki, which means that women make up all of the rules and we here in America live in a patriarchy.
And since the beginning of time, as you may have noticed, all of our presidents have been men and lots of the lawmakers have been men.
So I was thinking, you know, what would it be like if we were like the Mousseau tribe if women ruled the world, would it be a little bit different?
So it got me thinking and I had the amazing Kalischer Rocky right.
An incredible rap which I will attempt.
And she's singing on this song as well as Polly Hall on the track.
So you'll have to check it out.
It's the first song on the album, All the Ladies.
Girls, girls, if Girls Rule the world, girls, girls if girls rule the world girls, girls, girls, girls rule the world stinko about how different Al lives will be.
You matriarchy Oh hell differe girls girls think girl about how different our lives will be our whole history oh so different girls girls me with jacket.
Oh no no no no need to shout.
It would be so peaceful.
Oh girls girls girls girls girls rule the world girls girls girls rule the world @girls girls if girls rule the world oh yeah think about Pen Argyl DePrince society led by empathy also deprince girls girls and girl Berks County friends.
No wars would be with other countries.
Oh dear friends girls girls.
We TikTok it.
Oh no no no no need to shout.
It would be so peaceful.
Oh oh girls girls girls girls girls rule the world girls girls girls rule the world girls girls if girls rule the world but the girls in charge and you won't regret we make everything better.
Yeah that's right I said it we lift each other up and we work to change the world to honor those who came before.
Send all the girls because we lead with love and we follow our joy.
We potentially truly inspire not just girls but even boys.
No matter how you identify.
I just want to justify if you give the girls a chance to rule the world, it could be super fly girls.
Girls, if girls rule the world, girls, girls, girls rule girls, girls, girls, girls, girls, girls, girls, girls, girls, girls, girls rule the world girls, girls, girls rule the world.
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All right.
If girls rule the world oh my goodness.
It's been such a really fun experience to finally start singing live a little bit in front of audiences.
And today it's so special that we get to do this on TV.
So that's also really special.
But I released all of these songs and won the Grammy all in my living room.
So it was a little anticlimax that I didn't get to perform these songs in person.
But now about a year later, I'm finally getting to do that and the next song that I want to sing is a song called Anything and it's about being anything you want to be.
So you have to think about it and you can change your mind.
So if you at home are watching right now, I want you to think about a profession, something that you want to be when you grow up and it can be more than one thing and aim aim high and dream big because you never know if you keep following your dreams, you can be anything.
And before you start the song, I just wanted to I did not want to forget that today is actually an inspiring woman's birthday.
It is my grandmother, my bubbies birthday.
She's turning 96 years old today and she is an amazing person and she did genealogy research and anyway I wanted to mention her so happy birthday baby.
If you're watching this song is called Anything.
Don't let anybody tell you can't be.
What's your what needs to be.
Don't let anybody stand in your way.
You will be what you're wanting to be if you want to be a pilot then fly one and be a racer then try want to be a doctor.
APLA high you can be anything.
You can be anything.
Don't let anybody tell you can't be what you want to be.
Don't let anybody stand in your way.
You will be what you're wanting to be scientists lawyer, investor, singer, painter.
Inventor, software engineer or teacher.
You can be anything.
You can be anything.
Don't let anybody tell you can't be what you want to be.
Don't let anybody stand in your way.
You will be what you want to be.
You can be anything you can be anything you can be anything you can be anything be what you want to be.
You can be an they be what you want to be.
You can be anything.
All right.
And you can dream big.
You can be anything.
All right.
So speaking of somebody who could be anything, I want to talk about somebody that's really important to me and I started learning a little bit about this woman.
Oh, well, a couple of years ago and I knew about her, but I really, really started to do some research on her because she's not just important to me, but she was really important to our whole country.
When she was younger.
And I'm going to tell you her name in just a second.
But when she was younger, she grew up at a time where it wasn't really that normal for women to attend college and it wasn't really that normal for women to go to law school and certainly not become a judge and certainly not the Supreme Court justice of the United States, which is like the highest judge you could possibly be.
So you may have guessed it, but I'm talking about Ruth Bader Ginsburg and she had a mother who was actually always telling her to be anything that she wanted to be and to be independent and to follow her dreams.
So from a young age, she did just that and she succeeded against all odds with everybody telling her you can't do that.
You're a woman.
Women have never been you know, they don't go to law school.
So, you know, that wasn't the that wasn't the way it was back then.
But she followed her dreams and she never listened to anybody.
And I wanted to tell the story about her in a song.
So I wrote this song called RBG and you can watch the video for it, which we actually filmed right before the world shut down.
And so it's really easy.
So at home you want to try the chorus, it goes, I want to be just like our big RBG are the initials for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Ruth was born in Brooklyn in 1933.
No one could lock that.
She'd grow up to be that fiery, clever justice.
The Jabot fighting for equality, dissent, saying no takes a lot of courage to stand to disagree here.
Come and meet my idol, my fighting for our rights and shining truth.
I want to be just like RB see the glory.
No Reading is ruffle some feathers while studying the long Harbor took just nine smart women 500 men in all Ginzberg was on fire twice made the law review graduated no one was a mother to and the for women soon to bring equality choosing strategically and flew illegal Lehigh.
I want to be just like RBOC fighting for our rights and shining true.
I want to be just like RPG with glorious notorious.
She never stopped.
She never quit.
While on the highest court stitz to pave the way for other women.
Men like you and me, she.
I want to be just like RTG fighting for rights and shining true.
I want to be just like RTG glorious new Tory is through the glorious notorious.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
May her memory be a blessing.
I will remember her and actually I just made some new shirts, some aaberg shirts in a couple of other designs as well that you could be anything they just came out.
I just started a clothing line.
It'll be available my website soon.
So I should mention my website.
It's Joanie Leeds .com.
Thank you.
Might be seeing it on your screen.
You are perfect.
So you could check that out.
They're going to be up very, very soon.
If you want to get in touch with me through all of the internet in ways the Instagram and the Facebook and Twitter, I'm barely on.
But the other ones you can follow me and send me a private message and I'll hook you up with the shirt all right.
So the next song I want to do is a song called Beautiful and it's about looking at everybody, not by their appearance and way.
They look on the outside, but by the way, they look on the inside, which is really hard to see.
So you really need to get to know the person, but to treat everybody with kindness and respect, obviously the most important thing.
But until you really get to know somebody, you don't really you don't really know them.
So that's what this is about, not judging appearances and this song on the actual album is sung by my producer of All the Ladies and her name is Lucy Contar.
And she is a fabulous children's musician as well.
So you should all check her out and she is a jazz musician and she produced the album and she sings this track was like this.
Inuvialuit DeFries you can see it on the outside.
You don't know it's on the inside.
So I hope you get to know me.
Every woman has a history you can't see it on the outside.
It's heated on the inside and I want to know your story no matter who you love, where you come from, tell them every DCNR you're beautiful just the way you are with don't change a thing and you'll go Willey your beautiful just the way you are.
Everything you need.
Sinur heart your beautiful, just the way you.
It takes a little practice.
Stop looking at the outside and focus inside if you want to get to know me beneath the surface, I'll stop looking at the outside.
Get a window to your inside eyes.
So I can learn you still me no matter what you wear and where you come from, I'm then every woman listen up.
You're beautiful.
Just the way you are.
Please don't change a thing.
You'll go far.
Oh you're beautiful.
Just the way you are every thing you need is in your heart.
You're beautiful.
Just the way you are.
You oh your beautiful.
Oh you're beautiful.
Your beauty just the way you are.
That is beautiful.
Sung by the amazing my producer Lucy Karl Terry.
And you can check that out on my album All the Ladies.
I just wanted to first of all, because I know that the end of my time is approaching.
I want to say thank you to everybody here at PBS39.
And this is so lovely being back.
I really look forward to playing here and it is really, really special.
So thank you to Kira and Kate and Katie and to all the incredible camera people that are here today.
And thank you so much for having me.
I'm working on a couple of different things, including a book based on the next song I'm about to play, which is called Glassey Links.
Glass Ceilings is an invisible barrier that a lot of women have to overcome, specifically when we're talking about jobs and high jobs like executive level jobs.
And so you might hear that term breaking glass ceilings and how difficult it is for a lot of women.
So I read this article when my daughter, who's now six, was just a baby about not looking at appearance is, but also telling a girl from a young age to compliment them on what they're doing instead of what they're wearing.
And if you do that from a very young age, it actually changed their whole outlook.
And so that's what this song was inspired by.
It's called Glass Ceilings and it will someday be a book.
So.
From the moment your book, your little girl, you will hear your so pretty you're so precious, aren't you a darling from the moment your book Little Girl made to think a princess will come save me for ever be happy just like the movies I know you don't need a light shining remember it's true that you My Body to work harder to prove that you are just as strong you can get along without glass slippers, breaking glass ceilings, glass ceiling, glass ceiling breaking glass, the glass ceilings Deer Lake from the moment your Bucks little girl.
You should be told you're so clever.
You're so inventive.
Aren't you expressive from moving your little girl?
You should be told what you're up to.
I know you can do it.
You are brave one Hellertown Pen Argyl don't need a light shining armor.
It's true that you might need to work harder to prove that you are just as strong you can get along without glass slippers breaking glass ceilings, glass ceilings, glass ceiling breaking glass ceilings, glass ceiling glass ceiling.
It doesn't matter what you're wearing or what you look like.
So the power believe you feel lonely inside and will break glass ceiling.
Breaking ceilings.
Wu Luzerne Glassey ceiling breaking glass ceiling glass ceiling las Yardley oh writes Well that was so much fun.
I want to thank everybody so much.
Again, my name is Joanie Leeds and you can check me out at Joanie Leeds .com and follow me on all of the things until next time.
Thanks everybody.
Have a good one.
Wuz.

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