A weekend boogie for good health in Seattle

Attending an event to gather tips on staying healthy amid cold and flu season may not be the type of weekend activity that makes kids jump for joy.

But when they hear the details of Dimetapp’s Breathe &Boogie Tour set for Saturday at Seattle Center’s Fisher Pavilion, they might just change their tune.

The idea behind this tour in the first place was just to make it fun for all, tour organizers say. The search for an act to play on this tour led organizers to Brady Rymer and the Little Band that Could. Rymer, who had helped start the group From Good Homes years earlier, switched from playing large rock concerts with acts such as the Dave Matthews Band to playing children’s rock concerts after he became a father.

On Saturday, he and the band will use their lively tunes to pass along some helpful tips to kids, and to show them they can have fun, even at a “health” event, while they’re listening. The noon concert will include songs like “We Are the Sniffles” and “Even the Animals Sneeze.”

Still skeptical? Other parts of Breathe &Boogie include:

Fisher Pavilion will be filled with many different health-related stations. The stations include a Moms Breathe Easy station, with several fun items like a mini-CD of Rymer’s music and a Dimetapp grape-flavored tongue depressor for kids to use; an arts and crafts station, at which kids can decorate animal face-shaped masks; The Boogie Down station, at which eventgoers are encouraged to dance along to the “We Are the Sniffles” music video, and finally, the Dimetapp Game Station, featuring a game in which players try to zap as many germs as possible off a character’s face, as quickly as possible.

Rymer’s concert, as well as most of the other activities, are geared for ages 2 and older. The concerts are considered interactive because kids from the audience will get to join the performers onstage, and all spectators will receive maracas to shake in time to the music as they listen.