TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA (Keith Grimwood & Ezra Idlet) Performance/Booksigning

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Children's Event

Start: 10/14/2011 6:00 pm

Grammy Award-Nominated Musical Duo
TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA
(aka KEITH GRIMWOOD & EZRA IDLET)
will perform and sign copies
of their new book,
Chicken Joe Forgets Something Important.

Trout Fishing in America is the long-standing musical partnership of Keith Grimwood and Ezra Idlet. The name, taken from a Richard Brautigan novel, seems almost as incongruous as a picture of this musical duo: Ezra Idlet (guitar) stands six feet nine inches and Keith Grimwood (bass), five feet five and one half inches. They have been writing, recording and performing together for three decades, and have been dubbed the "...Lennon and McCartney of children's music..." (Kathy O'Connell, NPR.)

Chicken Joe, the cat who sleeps in the hen house, is happily dreaming about rock and roll. A rooster’s raucous crow wakes him up way too early. Everyone on the farm knows today is a special day, but in his sleepy morning haze, Chicken Joe can’t remember just what it is. Even Joe’s best friend, a city dog named Miss Kitty, won’t tell him. Find out why this is Chicken Joe’s big day!

The book includes CD in the back cover that includes a home video with Keith and Ezra talking about where they live, their inspiration for writing the songs on the album, and the instruments they used to record the music, plus a live version of the original Chicken Joe song performed in Ezra’s treehouse.

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