You and Us
🎶 Kindie Rock music for Children of All Ages 🎶
Join You and Us to elevate Child Mental Health Advocacy
& Creative Arts Therapy Mass Child Trauma Response
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2023 NEW Album, Calming a Panic
Like the band’s critically acclaimed 2022 release, For Children of All Ages, Calming a Panic applies art therapy experience to upbeat rock and pop music with a lighthearted, feel-good vibe of caring and belonging.
You and Us aims to raise awareness of early childhood intervention and advocacy. Amidst today’s global child mental health crisis, Nicole Porter says her “greatest hope is to elevate joy and open hearts to the transformative power of creativity and the riches that can be uncovered through arts therapy. Our band creates fun children’s music with a deeper intention for transformative growth.”
With arrangements that incorporate elements of rock, jazz, classical, and show tunes, Calming a Panic reflects the human experience in a child-friendly way. The album deals with overcoming the small moments in a child’s world that can seem large and sometimes frightening. You and Us faces this with enthusiasm, helping families engage, acknowledge, change for the better, and live in the moment.
“As an ensemble, we brought our most joyous moments from this past year to Calming a Panic,” says Nicole Porter. “You can really hear the love in these tunes, with all the musicians having the time of their lives performing vibrant songs that will help families build memories together.”
Debut Album, For Children of All Ages, released February 2022
You and Us is my musical collaboration with Wyndham Garnett, that applies art therapy trauma response sequences to rock and pop music. Our debut album is a gentle touch into a vast stream of consciousness and possibility on how art therapy heals humans.
The sequence of songs takes the listener through the various stages of Art Therapy Trauma Response for Children that I developed following the Sandy Hook School tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. Coupled with this, my experience as a parent throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and waves of disruption in American culture since 2020 inspired me to create everyday tools that could exist outside of the clinician’s office and help both parents and children.
Our tunes are designed to uplift the internal mind-body processes of children and families experiencing difficult or painful times, foster wellness and a greater sense of security, and introduce therapeutic techniques that can be used for and by all children.
The full album, For Children of All Ages, is available to stream on all major music platforms.