Many parents and teachers are concerned about finding great spots for kids to enjoy on the internet and how to avoid colorful or inappropriate content.

One award-winning children’s performer, and frequent contributor to the Kids Music Connection blog, DARIA (Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou) has created a great space dedicated to world music called Multicultural Kids Music Videos (http://multikidsmusicvids.com ).  It’s a family-friendly place to experience world cultures through music, dance, instruments and related high quality animations and videos. In addition, viewers are invited to suggest videos and win a free multicultural children’s music cd if their choice is selected as an “Add”.

Created by 5 time award-winning children’s performer DARIA (Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou), this site now has videos from a variety of sources in over 20 languages and adds new ones approximately every two weeks. From popular bilingual songs in Spanish and English to animations of children’s rhymes from India, travel videos of Africa, Turkish lullabyes and a series of silly gummy bear videos, the site shares a rainbow of world cultures as expressed through their music and cultural traditions.  In addition, there are generally one inspiring or silly video per new installment and “how-to” videos about instruments that can be found around the world or kids who have created or perform on instruments in new or unique ways.

For complete information on Multicultural Kids Music Vid’s, visit  http://multikidsmusicvids.com .  For more on website creator, DARIA, visit her website at www.dariamusic.com.

This sleepy gem is an example of a video you can find on this site.