(Long Island, N.Y.) Grammy award nominees Brady Rymer and The Little Band That Could will be playing a free family concert at Buckley Day Camp in Roslyn on Saturday, November 9 at 10:30am.

The energetic, rocking music is infectious and appeals to kids of all ages, Rymer said.

Rymer, who lives in Southold, has been writing children’s music ever since his son Gus was born in 1996.

“My son was the initial inspiration,” he said. “I wanted to write for him, about him and about the family.”

Gus is now 16 and has a 14 year old sister, Daisy.

Prior to becoming a children’s musician Rymer played in a band called “From Good Homes,” which recorded with RCA records and shared the stage with the likes of Bob Dylan, Dave Matthews and the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir.

“The band started dissolving at the same time I was starting a family,” Rymer said. “I started writing songs for Gus. I volunteered at his pre-school because they didn’t have a music program. The next thing you know I’m a children’s musician.”

As a gift to Gus, Rymer made a CD called “Good Morning Gus,” filled with the songs he wrote for him.

“People said that’s a great kids CD why don’t you press it up, and that’s how it all began,” Rymer said. “I realized when Daisy was born that if she didn’t get songs that would be a problem.”

“I was off the road and at home more,” Rymer said. “I was writing songs about that experience through the eyes of my kids. It was a magical time.”

Rymer takes typical experiences with his kids and turns them into relatable songs.

“I wrote a song called ‘Look at my Belly.'” Rymer said. “Gus was about one and a half. He was at the stage where he was running around and becoming self-aware. We went out for a Mexican bean delight dinner – the kind where your stomach becomes distended. We got home and he ran up to the mirror and lifted up his shirt and said, ‘Look at me!’ He was really proud of himself.”

Rymer takes his personal experiences with his kids and turns them into universal moments. He wrote a song called “Walking Shoes” about getting Gus’s first pair of walking shoes. He wrote a song about being in the rocking chair at night with his kids and having that quiet time. He even wrote a song called, “Last Night in Utereo,” when Gus was still in his mom’s belly.

“Having kids was a brand new experience,” Rymer said. “You can write about anything as long as it’s true to you. You can’t just be silly. It’s got to come from a place that matters. From the heart. If it’s fun, creative, catchy and has good energy kids will enjoy it.”

“For example, when Daisy was in kindergarten she was eating animal crackers. She was enjoying biting the heads off the giraffe and the other animals,” he said. “I wrote a song called ‘Animal Crackers.’ It was playful, imaginative and it came from the heart in a sweet kind of way.”

Rymer loves playing for kids.

“It’s exciting,” he said. “It puts a smile on your face. It’s a really engaged audience. You come off the stage really happy.”

Writing music is a family affair.

“When the kids were little we would all write the songs,” Rymer said. “In the same way other people would paint or build things with their kids, we would write songs.”

Rymer and The Little Band That Could are featured on an album called “Songs for a Healthier America,” which was sponsored by Hip Hop Public Health and Partners for a Healthier America. The proceeds for the album go to helping kids exercise and learn healthier eating habits. It’s a part of Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign.

Other artists on the album include Jordin Sparks, DMC of Run DMC, Ashanti and Doug E. Fresh.

Rymer is looking forward to the concert at Buckley Day Camp.

“The show will include lots of singing and dancing!” he said.

Buckley Day Camp is located at 2 I.U. Willets Road, Roslyn.

Tickets are free but reservations are required and can be reserved at www.buckleycamp.com or by phone at 516-365-7760.

(Long Island, N.Y.) Stay-at-home mom Naomi Yochai of North Woodmere loves to fly. But not in a plane. Naomi flies through the air on a flying trapeze, and so do her three kids ages 14, 11 and 6. Naomi and her clan do their flying at I.Fly Trapeze School at both of their locations in Long Beach and Eisenhower Park.

Naomi first experienced the trapeze while on vacation at Club Med in Mexico. She thought it looked like a fun challenge. After the first time she was hooked.

“I like that when I’m on the trapeze nothing else matters,” she said. “It’s all about being free. It’s a big rush. It only lasts less than a minute but it feels like you’re up there forever. It’s an amazing feeling.”

“Everybody gets a different thrill out of the trapeze,” said Marco Rosamilia who owns the school with his brother Anthony. “For some people it’s conquering the fear of heights. For others it’s something that was on their bucket list.”

And he assures that flying the trapeze is perfectly safe.

“A lot of people consider it an extreme sport like bungee jumping and sky diving,” Rosamilia said. “But it’s extremely safe. You’re attached to a safety line and you fly over a net. One of the instructors is pulling the line. That same instructor tells you what to do and when to do it. He also controls your descent to the net. It’s unlike snow skiing or water skiing where you can slam your face into the snow or the water.”

Lessons are about 90 minutes and have five to ten people in them. After watching a demo, beginners climb right up the platform and jump off.” “In your first lesson you swing with your legs on the bar to free up your hands,” Rosamilia said. “Then you meet an instructor in the middle and catch, wrist to wrist.”

It’s not a sport that you need any experience for and believe it or not, it does not require upper body strength.

“It’s all about timing and technique,” Rosamilia said. “It’s a misconception that it’s dangerous.”

The school takes kids as young as 4 and their oldest flier, Joe Malcomson of Lynbrook was 89 the last time he flew. He made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for being the oldest man on the flying trapeze.

Naomi’s six year old daughter Jayden first went up last summer and now is obsessed with flying, Naomi said. She’s in all the school’s performances.

“I like heights, I like to swing and I like jumping on the net,” Jayden said. “I like the people.”

Her favorite trick is the Birds Nest where she swings out hanging from her hands then lifts her feet and arches through so that her feet and hands are touching the bar.

“Then I let go and fly (to the instructor) like a bird.”

Like Mom, Naomi’s son Jonah, 11, and 14 year old daughter, Jodanna first tried the trapeze at Club Med. They both have been flying with I.Fly for about a year, attending classes once a week.

Jordanna’s favorite move is the Gazelle.

“You put one leg on the bar, arch your back and extend the other leg.”

“There’s nothing else you can do that’s like the trapeze,” said Jordanna who brought ten of her friends to the school and most of them have returned. “You feel alive when you get up and jump off the platform. The people who work there make it feel like a party.”

All of the instructors have circus and trapeze backgrounds, Rosamilia said. Some have been trained directly by the brothers.

For more information go to Iflytrapeze.com.