Season 2 Premiere Episode "Hopscotch"
Features
Iconic Canadian Rock Band,
Barenaked
Ladies
"Hopscotch" is Title Track of
New
Jeremy and Jazzy
Album
Launching September
2
Throughout September, Jeremy and
Jazzy Launch
#Hopscotch4KidsChallenge
on Instagram and TikTok
to Raise Funds for Childhood
Cancer Research during
Childhood Cancer Awareness
Month,
in Support of SickKids Foundation
TORONTO, Aug. 14,
2024 /CNW/ - Jeremy and Jazzy and
SickKids Foundation challenge kids and families to take
part in the #Hopscotch4KidsChallenge to raise funds for
SickKids in support of childhood cancer research in September,
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. The
#Hopscotch4KidsChallenge marks the launch of Season 2
of Jeremy and Jazzy, the CBC Kids
original JUNO and Canadian Screen Award-nominated series for
children and families about how music and friendship create
joy. The series stars four-time JUNO-nominated
singer-songwriter Jeremy
Fisher (Jeremy) and Aiza
Ntibarikure (Jazzy), the award-winning Afro-pop music
sensation who performs the official theme song for the 2024
Canadian Paralympics Team campaign, "Greatness Moves Us." Season
2 is set to debut in Canada on the free CBC
Gem streaming service and the global
Jeremy and Jazzy YouTube channel on
Monday, September 2, 2024. Beginning
Monday, September 9,
2024, Season 2 will air Monday through Friday at
8:07 a.m. local as part of the CBC
Kids morning schedule.
Season 2 of CBC Kids original series Jeremy
and Jazzy debuts Labour Day with appearance by iconic band
Barenaked Ladies
The animated members of Barenaked Ladies join Jeremy and
Jazzy in the Season 2 premiere episode "Hopscotch." L to R:
Tyler Stewart, Jim Creeggan, Jeremy, Ed
Robertson, Jazzy, and Kevin
Hearn. Credit: (CNW Group/Vérité Films Inc.)
Season 2 brings to life a new collection of children's music
written by Fisher with 70 new episodes launching this fall,
including 28 two-minute Jeremy and Jazzy episodes
where every song becomes a story; one 30-minute Halloween special;
one 30-minute holiday special; and 40 one-minute episodes of
Playing With Stu, the brand's
first spinoff series about discovery and play, also debuting
Monday, September 2, 2024, on
CBC Gem and Monday, September 9,
2024, following Jeremy and Jazzy on CBC Kids. The
season launches with 40 episodes and the remaining episodes
will broadcast later this fall. Watch a Jeremy and Jazzy
episode and Playing with Stu episode here.
The Jeremy and Jazzy Season 2 premiere episode, titled
"Hopscotch," guest stars the multi-award-winning rock
band Barenaked Ladies (BNL). Music for the
song "Hopscotch" is co-written by Jeremy Fisher and Ed Robertson, BNL founding
member, lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist, and sung by
Fisher, Ntibarikure and all members of BNL. Watch the Season
2 premiere episode "Hopscotch" behind-the-scenes sneak peek here.
BNL has previously released family content, including "Snacktime!"
(2008), a JUNO Award-winning children's-themed album and companion
book, and "Barenaked for the Holidays" (2004), a Christmas and
Hanukkah-themed album.
"Hopscotch" is also the title track of the new
Jeremy and Jazzy album featuring 10 new songs,
to be released worldwide September 2,
2024, by Jeremy Fisher
Music, Hidden Pony Records and Universal Music
Canada on all streaming services. Pre-save the album here.
The #Hopscotch4KidsChallenge
To mark the launch of
Season 2 and Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in September,
Jeremy and Jazzy and SickKids Foundation
invite kids and families everywhere to accept the
#Hopscotch4KidsChallenge. From September 2 to 30, 2024, the producers of
Jeremy and Jazzy will donate $5 for each hopscotch video using the hashtag
#Hopscotch4KidsChallenge, up to $10,000, in support of world-leading paediatric
cancer research at SickKids. To take part, participants can
record themselves playing hopscotch (whatever that might look like
for them) and challenge others to do the same, then upload the
video to Instagram or TikTok using the song "Hopscotch"
(feat. Barenaked Ladies) by Jeremy and Jazzy, found in the
Music Section of Instagram or TikTok. Entries must include the
hashtag #Hopscotch4KidsChallenge and tag @jeremyandjazzy (IG) or
@jeremyandjazzymusic (TT) and @sickkidsvs (IG/TT). Additional
online donations may be made to SickKids Foundation
Hopscotch4KidsChallenge page. Details are available on
jeremyandjazzy.com/hopscotchchallenge/.
COMPLETE MEDIA RELEASE (with performer quotes and
additional details) available here.
Media Kit, High-Res Art, Photos & HD MP4 Clip
available here
Press contact: Margaret
Sirotich, Publicist, cell 647-466-1746,
msirotich@sympatico.ca
SOURCE Vérité Films Inc.