Feist Duets With Elmo On Sesame Street

Since Feist has a thing for puppets and counting — evident in the title and lyrics of her most popular song to date — it may be no surprise that the singer/songwriter is going to appear on Sesame Street.

Feist was in New York this week taping an episode where she duets with Elmo. The two sing a song she wrote specifically for herself and the loveable, ticklish, furry guy. An air date hasn't been set.

The episode furthers Feist's puppet connection, which dates back to her days when she was known as Bitch Lap Lap, a rapper with a jones for sock puppets and leotards. We're willing to bet she won't resurrect Bitch Lap Lap for her Sesame Street appearance. Feist recently shot a video for "Honey Honey" that features Calgary's The Old Trout Puppet Workshop, who've contributed puppetry to Walt Disney's Honey I Shrunk The Kids.

"I've always been really obsessed with the naivete of puppeteering," Feist recently told The Calgary Herald. "It's a hand pulling a string at the exact right moment or it's personifying a piece of wood.

"There are no computers, no buttons. It's just ingenuity and timing and the humanness of the moment. The joints of wood mixed with the joints of blood and bone."

Feist has been nominated for five Juno Awards, including best artist and songwriter, album for The Reminder and single for "1234." The Juno Awards air on CTV on Sunday, five weeks before Feist plays Toronto's Sony Centre For The Performing Arts on May 13.

Kimya Dawson, the former Moldy Peaches member and Juno songstress of the soundtrack variety, recently received a call from Sesame Street producers.

"I might do some music work with [Sesame Street], which is like my dream," Dawson told Billboard.com. "I'm a kid of the '70s, and I definitely grew up with Sesame Street — the old Sesame Street. I'm just a huge, huge fan."

Dawson just finished recording an album of children's music called Alphabutt, which she hopes to release in August.