A professional musician and activist for 34 years, Steve Elci’s love for catchy hooks and his soaring vocal style have won acclaim from fans and critics alike, including an Emmy nomination for his 2013-14 children’s web series, Kidsploration, and induction into the New England Music Hall of Fame in 2024. Steve is just as thrilled to entertain local fans in Connecticut as he is when performing as far afield as Franklin, Tennessee’s Pilgrimage Festival, where he shared the bill with Justin Timberlake and Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder.

Since 2009, award-winning family recording artist and activist Steve Elci has created rocking music with positive messages for children and adults. On his sixth album, All Together Now, Steve’s inspiring songs encourage kids to “imagine a world like never before.” All Together Now, with special guests, Grammy-winning Alphabet Rockers, will be released on July 19, 2024. 

“All Together Now represents my vision for family music, and in many ways, it pushes the genre’s boundaries,” says Steve Elci. “Lyrically, the album is poetry that speaks to children with passion, promise, and comfort, while resonating with parents through hope and love. This dual layer of writing weaves a musical tapestry that forms the foundation of my efforts. The album also broadens the scope of my musical style because today’s young listeners are very hip and savvy to contemporary sounds. But most of all, All Together Now is a call to action!”

All Together Now covers topics as wide-ranging as saving the environment, working toward peace, fighting bias, loving yourself for who you are, chasing your dreams, and the fulfillment inherent in friendship, love, and hope. A standout is “We Rise Above,” with its compelling vision of a world without war, hunger, bias, or pollution.

The message being that you can be happy with who you are. We are all unique. Therefore, we are all different. Don’t make any judgements based on what someone looks like because things aren’t always what they seem. “4th of July” is a song about patriotism. “I Won’t Say Goodbye” deals with endangered species and conservation. We are all here and have to share the earth with everything else.