PBS Kids Launches ‘City Island Sings!’ Videos Themed To Voting And Other Civics-Minded Content

PBS Kids is taking a page out of Schoolhouse Rock with a new series that aims to boost civics education.

A new video, Let’s Vote, debuted last week and pays homage to David Bowie’s Let’s Dance.

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The series is called City Island Sings! and is led by Kimia Behpoornia of Abbott Elementary and Kimiko Glenn of Orange Is The New Black. PBS Kids partnered with Augenblick Studios’ Future Brain Media for the project. The songs are written and performed by Tunde Adebimpe, lead singer of TV on the Radio, with guest performers and paying homage to Johnny Cash, The Beatles, Devo, Dua Lipa and others.

The first season will include 10 music videos, with others tied to appreciation of school workers and diversity of communities, among other topics. The visuals pay tribute to artists like Mary Blair, Keith Haring and Roy Lichtenstein, as well as the visual inspiration of Sesame Street.

City Island Sings! is a spinoff of the City Island series of animated shorts, also aimed at teaching children about civics. A new season of City Island debuts July 5, with a music focused Sesame Street series Together We Can premiering on July 3.

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