The Okee Dokee Brothers
(Row Boat Music collaboratively booking with Dandelion Artists)
Photo Credit: Nate Ryan
As childhood friends growing up in Denver, Colorado, Joe Mailander and Justin Lansing were always exploring the outdoors. Whether it was rafting down their neighborhood creek or discovering hiking trails through the Rocky Mountains, Joe and Justin were born adventurers. Now, as the GRAMMY® Award-winning Okee Dokee Brothers, they have put this passion for the outdoors at the heart of their Americana Folk music.
Joe and Justin record and perform family music with a goal to inspire children and their parents to step outside and get creative. They believe this can motivate kids to gain a greater respect for the natural world, their communities, and themselves.
The five-time Parents’ Choice Award winners have been featured on PBS KIDS, garnered praise from the likes of NPR’s All Things Considered and USA Today, and have been called “two of family music’s best songwriters."
The Okee Dokee Brothers perform as a duo
Now booking concerts + festivals in the US and Canada
“[The Okee Dokee Brothers] remind us of the American belief that we’re bound for better weather. Their album [Can You Canoe?] celebrates everyday explorers, young and old, who rediscover that notion daily”
- NPR’s AlL THINGS CONSIDERED
“The Okee Dokee Brothers are an absolute national treasure. These songs are just what the world needs right now.”
- MiNNESOTA PARENT MAGAZINE
“These Grammy Award-winning artists, who specialize in folk music and Americana, sing of cold-weather joys. …in addition to extolling the fun of ice fishing, dog sledding and encountering a friendly yeti, the songs on Winterland deal with more serious subjects, like life cycles and tolerance.”
– Laurel Graeber, The New York Times
2013 Winner, Best Children’s Album of the Year, Can You Canoe?
2015 Nominee, Best Children’s Album of the Year, Through The Woods
2017 Nominee, Best Children’s Album of the Year, Saddle Up
2019 Nominee, Best Children’s Album of the Year, Winterland