Voodoo Highway Music & Post Inc.

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Voodoo Highway Music & Post Inc.
Industry Music composition
Founded1999;26 years ago (1999)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
FounderBrian Pickett
James Chapple
David Kelly
Website www.voodoohighwaymusic.com

Voodoo Highway Music & Post Inc. is a collection of music composers based in Toronto, Canada, with additional studios in Seattle, Washington and Hollywood, California. The team consists of Brian Pickett, [1] Graeme Cornies, David Kelly, and James Chapple.

The company has composed theme music for Almost Naked Animals , Total Drama , Stoked , Peg + Cat , [2] Noonbory and the Super Seven and MetaJets . Most of the music on Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood is produced by Voodoo, [3] [4] with the rest taken from the Mister Rogers' Neighborhood library of songs. [5] The company also produced an original score for a $100,000 stop-motion recreation of Jurassic Park . [6]

Voodoo Highway received a 2009 Gemini Award nomination for the original score of World of Quest . [7] In 2016, the organization received two awards from the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada for its music on PAW Patrol and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood . [8] [9]

References

  1. Sperounes, Sandra (July 21, 2016). "We got Strumbellas in our heads and they won't go". Edmonton Journal .
  2. "PBS Parents: About Peg + Cat". PBS.org .
  3. Angela Santomero. "The Music Behind Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood".
  4. Owen, Rob (September 2, 2012). "TV preview: Daniel Tiger, friends new to WQED-TV neighborhood". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette .
  5. Cutler, Jacqueline (September 3, 2012). "'Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood' puts on Mr. Rogers' red sweater and sneakers". Zap2it . Archived from the original on September 6, 2015.
  6. Joseph, Devan (March 23, 2015). "This incredible 'Jurassic Park' short used $100,000 worth of Legos". Business Insider .
  7. "24th Annual Gemini Awards: Full List of Nominations & Winners" (PDF). Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-11-22.
  8. "SOCAN 2016 Award Recipients". Broadcaster Magazine. June 21, 2016.
  9. "PAW Patrol Wins the International TV Series Music Award at 2016 SOCAN Awards Ceremony". CCS Rights Management. June 23, 2016.