Super Simple Songs live in Calgary: Caitie brings her show to the Jack Singer

With global hits like “Here Comes The Fire Truck” at 97 million views and “Boom Chicka Boom” at 35 million, Caitie from Caitie’s Classroom has racked up more than 60 billion views across her videos.

But her biggest live audience yet awaits in Calgary, where the Jack Singer Concert Hall seats 1,800 people. Caitie’s Super Simple Songs Surprise Party plays at the Werklund Centre on Monday, March 23.

“It is the biggest theater that we’ve ever played in,” she says, “It’s also probably the most beautiful like, the acoustics.”

The live show, which has already completed a tour in Ontario to rave reviews, is billed as the perfect ‘first’ live show for young children. It starts at 3:30 pm, well before the witching hour and bedtime for preschoolers.

But who is Caitie?

Before her internet fame, Caitie says she built her career in live performance for young audiences. She started out doing a puppet show at a farm, working summer camps, touring schools, and teaching her own music classes. She also went to film school. When she partnered with the children’s educational brand Super Simple, she found a way to scale her craft and lean into YouTube Live. It combined her love of performing without retakes.

Anyone familiar with Theatre for Young Audiences will tell you the audience energy can be a beast. Kids do not hold back, offering their stream of consciousness out loud whether you want it or not. Caitie says bringing the show back in front of a room full of children is a thrill.

“It’s like a rock show with an audience.”

The benefit of leaning on YouTube as a platform means her audience is global, but the platform comes with concerns. Screen time for young kids can be controversial.

Caitie says that is a huge consideration as Super Simple seeks to diversify their offerings. Beyond just Youtube, the brand now also has it’s own app, podcast, and of course — streams Catie’s biggest hits on platforms like Spotify and Apple Music.

“Hopefully it’s not, you know, mind numbing to watch and it’s entertaining. We like to put in little jokes in there to see if the parents are going to get it. You know, like I have a “Jack and Rose” spin,” she says. “Because we know co-viewing is so important, especially on YouTube, to have the extra set of eyes to make sure that what you’re watching is safe and it’s something that you want to show your kids.”

Even though her work centers on children and parenting support, Caitie says having kids herself is not a priority.

“I do not have kids. Just because I know I have been around kids for so long and been around parents for so long that I know how hard it is.” She says her goal at this point is to just help parents and enjoy other people’s kids, “now I have kids all over the world, which is very cool.”

While Caitie has vast experience in live performance and in audio and video production, she is not afraid to share a behind the scenes secret about her famous videos, including “Here Comes The Fire Truck.”

Some eagle eyed parents have noticed the slightest disconnect between sound and speech, sparking household debates of ‘Did she, or didn’t she?’

“I am lip syncing,” she admits with a laugh, adding that the audiophiles in her studio insisted on it. “They’re very particular about the sound. So when it’s a music video, I’m lip syncing. But when you’re watching Caitie’s Classroom, and I’m performing with the guitar, that’s live singing.”

Caitie’s Super Simple Songs Surprise Party plays the Werklund Centre on Monday, March 23.

Tickets are available here.