Space Balloons (our music for kids band from outer-space) was very excited to to kick off LIVE MUSIC WEEK on WERS on Saturday 10/19! photos from the gig: Space Balloons at WERS Space Balloons at WERS Space Balloons at WERS … Read More
Hello Earth children! We Balloononians are in the final stages of completing a music-based TV show for your Earth television. In the meantime, we thought we should share some home videos we took while on an excursion in our favorite … Read More
Tiny Festival of Huge ProportionsSaturday, August 24th2:00-6:00pmThe Lily PadInman Square1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139 A family garden party to benefit HOPES music therapy program at MGH All ages welcome (under 15 free) http://tinyfestival.eventbrite.com/https://www.facebook.com/events/477256492368947 Light refreshments will be provided, including … Read More
Instrumentals of our music. Primarily for licensing, but perhaps for your amusement as well. More of our music to be added as we get to it! The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library – Volume One (instrumentals) by Michael J. Epstein … Read More
While napping after a particularly hearty meal of grapes, Balloononians Admiral Sophia (Sophia Cacciola), Science Officer Michael (Michael J. Epstein), and Navigator Joe (Joe Kowan) drifted a bit too far off course in their balloon spaceship. Now they wander the … Read More
Recently, Space Balloons were summoned to Earth to play the Balloon-Day party of an Earthling child’s celebration of his third rotation around the Earth-Sun. It was such a fabulous time that we are now available to play Balloon-day (or as … Read More
As it turns out this year, it was too expensive for us to actually make it down to Austin, so instead, we have been creating more than we ever could have created if we had gone… For The Michael J. … Read More
Space Balloons‘ debut album arrives officially in May, but interstellar technology sometimes allows things from the future to appear before they even exist! One of the things that helped inspire the release of our album was an event for which … Read More
Travis Simpkins delighted us a few months ago with an illustration of Michael and I in our various attires for three of our bands: Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling, The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library, and Space Balloons. … Read More
Earth Children, Space Balloons appeared in your Earth newspaper, The Boston Herald! 2011-BostonHerald Earth children, Space Balloons are now beaming photos to your computer…they have arrived: Space Balloons are also proud to beam to you our visit to Planet Allston … Read More
We are very excited to report some Space Balloons news! This week, the Balloononians make a rare live appearance with a short set at Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt: A Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Tribute, Thursday Sept. 22nd at Precinct (70 Union … Read More
Photos by Rachel Blumenthal
Some awesome photos of Space Balloons at The Rosebud via Daykamp Music. Space Balloons has lots of behind the scenes excitement brewing, but for the moment, we thought you’d just enjoy some photos of a rare live performance.
Navigator Joe and Admiral Sophia sat down to draw out plans for their new hovercraft – and only copied off each others plans a little bit! Navigator Joe’s Hovercraft Admiral Sophia’s Hovercraft Here’s the song! Hovercraft Full of Eels: Hovercraft … Read More
Much awesomeness in music this Summer. Friday, August 5th was the Full Body Anchor Spectacular at TT the Bears- with: Full Body Anchor (video), The Future Everybody (video), Young Adults (video) and the local return of The New Collisions (video … Read More
The 2nd release from Balloononian rock stars Space Balloons is here! Two more tales of Balloononian culture featuring new band member Captain Joe K! Don’t forget about our previous, Welcome to Balloononia (just reviewed on Daykamp Music) and join the band this Saturday … Read More
Sophia Cacciola and Michael J. Epstein spent an hour talking about all of their projects and playing special ukulele versions of songs from Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling, The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library, and Space Balloons on … Read More
We explain a bit about the origin of Space Balloons here. The characters were created for Rob Potylo‘s children’s show, Worried All the Time. While napping after a particularly hearty meal of grapes, Balloononians Sophia (Sophia Cacciola) and Michael (Michael … Read More
Space Balloons is the children’s songs project from Michael & Sophia (see previous bit about it). It was created as part of the pilot for a new show by Rob Potylo called Worried All the Time. They just released a teaser … Read More
Space Balloons is yet another project from Michael J. Epstein and Sophia Cacciola. This one, though, is for the kids. We’re working on a collection of children’s songs, primarily on ukulele. Space Balloons was created as part of a TV … Read More
As always, you can find other weeks of The Beat here. This week started out with Boston Band Crush’s One Night Band night at the Enormous Room. The ladies from my One Night Band from last Summer (10 Hours of … Read More
Right before I left for Switzerland, Sophia and I discussed the mustache situation in the best way we know possible, we communicated by song. It was mostly her idea and she started writing this number about wanting a mustache back … Read More