Standing here like a Tree...

Well Hello there.

Summer is coming to an end and soon the leaves will be changing colour.

We, the Roberelli's, do love a good tree of colour!

We love this tree that Sophierelli drew for our album art. What a corker.

This is one of Shellerelli's favourite trees.....

One of the little Roberelli's found this interesting little nest amongst the roots of a tree near to where we live.  I wonder who made that?

Roberelli has some favourites as well..... 

Here he is under a One Tree Hill beauty.....

And here he is exploring a pretty big Morton Bay Fig with some little Roberelli's.

This is a lovely thicket of trees at our local arboretum...

The boys tend to get a bit carried away when we visit the arboretum...

Send us a photo of your favourite tree to us here.

Rob has written some lovely tunes about trees.  

Have a listen here to a tune about a tree wanting to be stationary but not stationery!

Happy Sunny Days!

The Teddy Bears are coming

Well hello there!

What a busy time we are having getting ready for the Teddy Bears Picnic....

Paul has been busy practising...

So has Shell...

Paul has also taken his favourite toy to Free FM in Hamilton for a wee chat about the Teddy Bears Picnic.

Soggy really enjoyed the bike ride...

And thought he might have a go at the Radio DJ's job!

See you at the Picnic!

Happy Days!

Naughty Little Bears

Well Hello there!

We have two concert's at the Teddy Bear Picnic at 10am and 12.15pm on Saturday 14 February, on the

Rhododendron Lawn, at the Hamilton Gardens.

You can find out more about the festival here.

We are going to bring our favourite teddy bears!

This lovely blue ted was Shellorelli's favourite as a little girl.

This little orange cutey was also high up on the list of favourites!

This is Paulorelli's favourite 'Ted'.  He called it 'Soggy French Vanilla' when he was a little boy.  Its more of a bunny than a ted.  I hope the teddy bears don't mind!

Rob has written a song about a couple of very naughty little teddy bears.

Its called 'Bad Teddies'.

You can hear it here or on Spotify or itunes.

Send a picture of your favourite teddy bear to our Facebook page here, or bring it along to show us at the Teddy Bear Picnic.

Happy Days!!

Summer in the Square

Well hello there.

The Roberelli boys had a fun time before Christmas at the Summer in the Square concert at Aotea Square in Auckland.

Here they are planning their moves!

The sound team were great...

The boys had a fun time...

So did the crowd judging from all the noise!!



Paul was a happy Roberelli at the end of the show.

A big thankyou to the Auckland Summer in the Square team for asking us to play!

And a big thankyou to Lisa for organising all the fliers!


HAPPY DAYS!

Photo Fun

Well hello there.

We thought it was high time that we had some decent photos taken of our instruments..and us!

So we tootled along to the lovely Corban Estate Art Centre in West Auckland.



A nice photographer called Mike took the photos.

And a lovely lady called Lisa helped the day run smoothly.

The weather was perfect...

The little Roberelli's were perfect...

And we think the photo's are perfect.

What do you think?




Or black and white?!



Thanks Mike and Lisa!!!


Send us a photo of you playing your instrument to our Facebook site here.  We would love to see it.

HAPPY DAYS

Holiday for the Roberelli's

 

Well hello there. What a long time its been.

School is out, so we thought that we would go on a little holiday.

We packed our car, and drove to the far north to a lovely beach that had a lot of birds, sand and sea.

Here's our camp spot at the beach.

Here's our tent, green and orange, because these are Shell's favourite colours.

Here is Shell doing a spot of camp cooking.

There was a lot of sand at the beach. Here's a couple of little Roberelli's enjoying the sand.

Imagine counting all those grains of sand.

Rob has written a song about counting things like sand.

You may like to have a listen.

It's called 'Thankless tasks' and its on our new album, 'Skinkypants'. You can find these tunes on our website at mrroberelli.com

 

Here is a photo of Rob on his holiday. He likes to do lots of exercise on holiday!

Send us a picture of your holiday spot. We would love to see it.

You can post your holiday photo on our Mr Roberelli facebook page. 

HAPPY DAYS

Drawing for Mr Roberelli

Well, hello there.

Today I thought you might like to have a wee look at how all the artwork for our CD covers and website happens!

We have two talented girls in the Roberelli family. Sophie and Jessica.

They took up the challenge to create Mr Roberelli and his friends on paper and wow - what a result!

This is one of the first pictures that were drawn, of our five little ballerinas.

Sophie started way back when she was 9.  She is 14 now.

Here she is using her pencils at our table.

She is drawing a little ladybird.

'Doctor Doctor' is one of our favourite songs - and a cool cowboy was drawn for it.

Little Jessie did a lovely job with the painting of all the characters, she is now 10.

Here she is drawing some pictures of a flower.

Library is one of my favourite songs - and here is the picture - a little girl taking her books home from the library.  She is walking past some compost that has been drawn for the 'Creepy Crawly Crew' song.

The coolest moment was when the Mr Roberelli character was designed by the kids.  We love it!



So, a big thankyou to the two girls - Sophie and Jessica - for bringing Mr Roberelli and all his friends into colour!

Happy Days

Roman Sandals

We all had to wear Roman Sandals at intermediate school.
Rob still wears sandals to the school he teaches at!

Here is Rob wearing his favourite footwear!

Rob was so inspired about Roman Sandals that he wrote a song about them.

Rob still wearing his sandals!

We really wanted to make a video about the sandals to show on Youtube and that's where the kind folk at 'Douglas Sandals' (New Zealand's own Roman Sandal factory in Balmoral, Auckland) agreed to help us out with the cost of making the video! Yay for them!

Jamming outside the Douglas Sandal factory.

Still roaming around!

We were also lucky to have friends with friends who could help out with the making of the video.  You will see lots of these lovely people who helped out in the music video, dressed up as school kids and Romans. 

Enjoy! 

Let's start at the very beginning ...

It all began one wintery evening - Paul and Shell were having a meal with Rob and his lovely family.  After dinner, Rob pulled out his trusty guitar and played a few of his tunes.  Paul and Shell were so impressed, that they encouraged Rob to record them.

Here is Rob - doing a bit of his guitar and singing stuff.

So, we got together in our spare time and in between fruit cake and cups of tea recorded 15 songs we thought kids might really enjoy.

There is our lovely Thermos!

In order to make the recording we splashed out on a microphone and we borrowed a computer in the Music Department (Education) at the University of Waikato. Hooray!

There's that computer.

Spot the new microphone.

The sound was far from professional but we thought it would give folk a good taste of our music.

This is the 'sh sh sh' at the start of L-I-B-R-A-R-Y

Paul doing his guitar thing.

 Shell doing her double bass thing.

Discs got passed around from family to family, gifted to friends and sent to distant relatives. We thought the songs were fantastic and pretty funny too. What would others think? .......

Rob doing some moves.

It wasn't long before parents were telling us that the songs were being listened to and sung non-stop. They didn't seem to be complaining either, but said things like - "The whole family knows all the words." Mums and Dads were waking up in the morning to the sounds of Mr Roberelli in the living room.

Rob playing the ukulele ...

 ... and the guitar.

And now Paul on the tambourine.

One Dad was so impressed that he decided to help us do things properly.

Thanks to his support we're now out in the world and working on our fifth CD!

Here is a video from a couple of our awesome young nephews out in the world doing cool stuff to Mr Roberelli.