A Happy Compilation of Songs

Audio

Bright Spaces. Children’s Music to Benefit the Homeless. Rounder Kids/Rounder Records. CD: $13. Cassette: Ages 2 to 8. https://www.rounder.com and https://www.shopbrighthorizons.com.

What a terrific compilation of evergreen, kid-friendly songs for at-home listening or traveling time. Some of the tracks: Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land,” which includes added vocals by his son Arlo; Jessica Harper’s outstanding, warm harmonies in “This Happy House”; a capella group Sweet Honey in the Rock’s “Still the Same Me”; Raffi’s gentle “Everything Grows”; Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer’s lovely lullaby “Moonlight.”

Other artists heard here are John McCutcheon, Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers (“Arthur’s Theme Song”), the Crawdaddies, the Dream Project, David Mallett and Si Kahn. Proceeds will benefit Bright Horizons Foundation for Children’s Bright Spaces, a community-based program that helps provide play areas and activities to children in homeless shelters.