Recipient of Parents Choice Gold Award
	DEBBI FRIEDLANDER has been involved in the performing scene for over fifteen years, and has been making music with children even longer. She has a clear, energetic voice, plays guitar and piano, and puts action, enthusiam and expression into her songs... almost like each one is a tiny theatre piece. Audiences stand, sway, clap, giggle and join in singing. MS. FRIEDLANDER was the recipient of the Massachusetts Artist's Foundation finalist (1989) award for music composition. Her artist residencies include songwriting with elementary age students, and concerts featuring songs written by children. SOMEWHERE IN A CORNER, a full-length audio cassette (Dolby B), features songs written by children, and includes original material by Friedlander and friends.
	Her songs tell tales, teach lessons by Veta L. Weir The Recorder - Greenfield, Mass. April 15,1989 SHUTESBURY - A musician is traveling to Wendell and Leverett to give concerts of children's songs composed both by herself and youngsters. Debbi Friedlander of Leverett Road sings songs of bluesy, folksy and even calypso style to tell tales - some of them tall - and teach lessons. The songs, whose topics range from a pilfering worm ("Ballad of Bugsy the Worm") to the poignant reality of a child's optimism in looking for the good in seemingly not-so-good situations ("Somewhere in a Corner"), were performed at the Shutesbury Elementary School earlier this week to an enthusiastic full capacity crowd of about 140 students sitting on the floor of the library. Quick to give credit to children who composed the songs, Friedlander encouraged the attentive Shutesbury youngsters Monday afternoon in to try their hand at writing songs about people, places and things that interest them. Friedlander, 33, received a $500 finalist award in the musical composition category of the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Program sponsored by the Boston-based Artists Foundation.