Saturday Art Saves: Benjamin and Adelaide Ames

Benjamin J. Ames

 

Every Saturday I focus on a different artist that I admire. From potters to painters, chefs to collectors, seamstress to songwriters, lifestyle to lovers… anyone who set the paintbrush, pastry brush, hands and heart on fire to create.

Those who inspire art to flow where it may…

 

 

 

 

"Adelaide Ames was scared, and wanted to stop hearing fireworks. So her dad replaced them with a song, sung together to a bright pink ukulele.  

His technique may not have stopped the 4-year-old’s imaginary fireworks from exploding at regular intervals throughout their duet, but it has enchanted YOU TUBE along with Adelaide's singing.

The three-minute performance of the vintage classic "Tonight You Belong to Me" finds Adelaide and her dad doing a charming stop-and-start duet, as Adelaide explains to her webcam that "Tssst!" means there's a firework going off.  She proceeds to inject fireworks in regular rhythm, along with impromptu commentary. Her dad, the perfect straight man, rolls with her interpretation.

It’s pretty much a cute overload."

 

To watch their video click here.

 

"The three-minute performance of the vintage classic, "Tonight You Belong to Me" finds Adelaide and her dad."

 



Comments

15 responses to “Saturday Art Saves: Benjamin and Adelaide Ames”

  1. Corey, did you realize that the ukulele descended from instruments brought to Hawai’i by, ahem, Portuguese immigrants?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukulele

  2. Thank you!!!

  3. This is so sweet! Thanks for sharing 🙂

  4. It’s been a favorite – thanks for finding and showing.

  5. I’ve seen this before and think it is absolutely adorable! 🙂

  6. becky up a hill

    ~Joy~

  7. Wonderful!!! Now I’ll have that song in my head all day…
    🙂

  8. That’s about the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. What a great Daddy to let Adelaide have center stage and do it her way!

  9. This is just adorable! I love it when parents teach their kids old songs, and the dad…what a great dad he is. Thanks for sharing this – it made my day!

  10. I came across this about a month and a half ago or so, and have watched it so many times that I can follow along word for word and, ” Sh!” for “Sh!” It is delightful and will never grow old!

  11. i have heard + seen this before but it never gets old. thanks. xxpeggybraswelldesign.com

  12. Love it. Sent it to friends, the father and daughter are very much like Adelaide and her papa.

  13. Susan young

    I love how she tells her Dad what to do and he does it so seriously. Just adorable!

  14. LOVED it. Thank you Coco!!

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