This performance was paid for through a grant from the state Council on the Arts’ Statewide Community Regrants Program, which is administered by the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts. River Jack Z is a children’s musician who has been entertaining the youth for decades.

Jenny Curtis, who works at the library, was star-struck.

“When I was in elementary school, he was in a band called the Zucchini Brothers and they used to come to assemblies,” Curtis said. “I know these songs.”

The first cassette tape she ever bought was a Zucchini Brothers album.

River Jack Z leads a group of local youngsters in a song about soup made with monkey legs, buzzard eggs and salamander eyes at the the Saranac Lake Free Library on Wednesday morning. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Cerbone)

Curtis was shouting out lyrics the song “I Like Pizza with Cheese” just as loud as the youngsters in the audience. There was a large group from the Kids R Us day care, which library workers were thankful for. They put this concert on with no idea of how many people would show up.

River Jack Z led the crowd in songs about brushing teeth, eating right and soup made with chicken lips and lizard hips and alligator eyes.

River Jack Z leads a group of local youngsters in a song about loving pizza at the the Saranac Lake Free Library on Wednesday morning. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Cerbone)