Voodoo Highway Music & Post Inc.

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Voodoo Highway Music & Post Inc.
Industry Music composition
Founded1999
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]

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