The Best Kids and Family Music of 2015: 10th Annual Fids and Kamily Award Winners

Double digits!  Yes, this is the tenth year of the Fids and Kamily Music Poll (http://www.fidsandkamily.com/).  That's ten years of celebrating the best in music for kids and families, and we're tickled pink to get to announce this year's winners.  This year's top spot goes to Molly Ledford's and Billy Kelly's Trees, with a number of names familiar to the  winners' list as well as some newcomers making up the top 12.

[Editors' note: Due to a calculation error, the original announcement post omitted Jazzy Ash's and Vered's albums from the Top 10 -- now Top 12 -- list.  We have updated the post to reflect the correct calculation.  We are sorry for, and regret, the error.]

You can listen to selections from the top 10 by streaming this week's Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child (or listen directly via the player below).

The Top 12 albums of 2015 are (in order):

1. Molly Ledford and Billy Kelly - Trees
2. Alastair Moock and Friends - All Kinds of You and Me
3. The Pop Ups - Great Pretenders Club
4. Lori Henriques - How Great Can This Day Be
5. (tie) Renee and Friends - Simpatico
5. (tie) Recess Monkey - Hot Air
7. Tim Kubart - Home
8. Josh and the Jamtones - Rocksteady
9. Red Yarn - Deep Woods Revival
10. (tie) Andrew and Polly - Odds & Ends
10. (tie) Jazzy Ash - Bon Voyage

10. (tie) Vered - Hello My Baby

Honorable Mentions (unranked, listed alphabetically)

The Bazillions - On the Bright Side
Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band - Adelante
Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer - Dancin' in the Kitchen
Gustafer Yellowgold - Gustafer Yellowgold's Dark Pie Concerns
Harmonica Pocket - Sundrops
Play Date - We All Shine
Pointed Man Band - Flight of the Blue Whale
Sunshine Collective - Up to Something Good

In addition to these 20 CDs, there were another 37 albums receiving at least one vote, making a total of 57 albums receiving one or more votes from the Poll's 22 judges. 

The Fids and Kamily Poll is the first compilation of year-end kids and family music "best of" lists from critics, writers, radio programmers, and others involved in the music industry. The poll was launched in 2006 and was inspired by the Village Voice’s long-running “Pazz and Jop” music poll.