Welcome to the super soft and cosy musical world of
Hushabye Lullabye and the calming magical landscape of Planet Dream.
In Series 1, the ever-curious Dillie Dally embarks on a journey of ten Hushabye Lullabye dreams exploring the abstract sensory experiences that tiny children love - rhythm, shapes and colours, the characters both familiar and new, voyaging into the super soft landscape of Planet Dream, and contemplating all the new experiences of life as they go, in a quiet end of day kind of way.
Hushabye Lullabye invites our contemporary CBeebies audience to enjoy the power and benefits within the tradition of listening to and singing lullabies together.
The Science and the Art Through the positive effects of music – in particular lullabies - Hushabye Lullabye encourages calm, relaxation, singing and together time between little ones and their family creating the emotional atmosphere and environment necessary for a peaceful bedtime for our CBeebies audience. Singing together – a core value of the brand - creates a stronger bond between parent and child by releasing Oxytocin 'The Love or Cuddle Hormone' enabling synchronicity by placing parent and child in the same emotional space.Through the lyrical lullaby melodies, infants receive greater emotional content and are exposed to repetitive language promoting language and cognitive development.
Familiarity Singing and listening to lullabies has been shown to decrease levels of stress and anxiety in both children and parents. The familiar, cosy, soft enveloping textures of Planet Dream reflect the haven of snuggly bed and blankets – of home, family and the grownups that cuddle and keep them warm making everything all right. The original lullabies and vocal familiarity within each unique episode encourages singing together, enabling bonding and attachment to take place in a soothing environment nurturing connection between little ones and their parents/caregivers.
Learning as we snooze. As the day draws to an end, thoughts drift back to the encounters of the busy wakeful day. Hushabye Lullabye uses the powerful effects of music and rhythm to draw little ones into the place between wake and sleep, a safe and magical space where a child can explore all of the things that captured their imagination within the every day.
Singing Lullabies is an ancient and instinctual art, Hushabye Lullabye has been created to ensure this tradition continues to a contemporary CBeebies audience of new 'millennial' parents
These positive benefits of singing and music are accessible to CBeebies audiences via the television series, access to the music from the series, and grown ups page explaining the science
Listening to and singing lullabies creates the emotional atmosphere and environment necessary for a peaceful bedtime
This is at the centre of Hushabye Lullabye and the concept and presentation has been created very specifically with the science in mind considering the use and presentation of song/lyrics/composition/rhythm/movement/characters/landscape/setting/tone to create this emotional atmosphere and environment for a CBeebies audience
When lyrics are added to the Lullaby melody, infants receive greater emotional content and are exposed to repetitive language promoting language development
Singing together creates a stronger bond between parent and child by releasing Oxytocin 'The Love or Cuddle Hormone' and creating synchronicity which places parent and child in the same emotional space (This can happen singing together during the show or after together before bedtime)
Babies can recognise lullabies that were sung to them in utero, creating a familiar sound/song to use at bedtime once they arrive into the world - Our audience is from Utero - 4
Lullabies - Stimulate language and cognitive development and decrease levels of stress and anxiety
Hushabye Lullabye: Creative Team
Hushabye Lullabye is a super soft quirky 10 x 3 minute animation series full of music, lullabies and cuddles.Full of Exploration and Discovery, Hushabye Lullabye invites the audience to experience a sense of calm before quiet time and sleep with the cuddly alien Dilly Dally and the Hushabye Rocket as they embark on a relaxing musical journey to Planet Dream.
Creator/Director/Writer/Designer of show/characters
Sacha Kyle is an award winning TV/Theatre Creator, Writer and Director & LSX/Jacobs Foundation International Children’s Fellow. Most recently she directed BAFTA nominated drama Molly & Mack for CBeebies and was nominated for the Victor Adebodun Director award at the Edinburgh Television Festival. www.sachakyle.com
Composer & Sound Design Giles Lamb - Award winning composer https://gileslamb.com
Vocalist Emma Gillespie – Emma Gillespie (born in Edinburgh, Scotland), better known by her stage name Emma's Imagination, is a Scottish singer. She first came to prominence after winning the Sky 1 TV talent contest Must Be the Music.
Animation Once Were Farmers – http://oncewerefarmers.com
Executive Producer CBeebies: Julia Bond. Executive Producer Mara Kids: Simon Parsons. Production Company:Mara Kids