Trout Fishing Joins The Roots Agency Roster
After twenty years of being booked and managed by Dick Renko of Muzik Management, Dick is closing the booking arm of his business. Together we are extremely proud to announce Trout Fishing in America will join the world renowned Roots Agency roster. We join Richie Havens, Susan Werner, Vance Gilbert and John Gorka, among other great artists, represented by The Roots Agency. Dick remains our manager and we are all thrilled to have TFIA represented by the Roots Agency. Speaking of bookings, they're starting to pick up again as we head towards summer. Check out our calendar and make plans to come on out for some Trout.

Trout Fishing in America has written the music for Steve Garfinkel's play, P's and Q's: the ABC's of Manners and the world premier is at the Main Street Theater in Houston, Texas. July 5th will be a preview and July 8th is Target Family Night when Keith and Ezra will be in the audience. There will be a talk back and autograph signing with them after the show that night. The official opening is July 9th and the play will run through August 9th.

"This project is exciting and different for us because we won't be playing the music or singing the songs. That will be done by the actors and a four-piece band", Keith said.

For more information go to www.Mainstreettheater.com

http://www.performingsongwriter.com

Astronaut Pamela Melroy returned safely from the October 2007 space shuttle mission. A two-time shuttle pilot, she became the second woman to command a NASA shuttle when she led the recent STS-120 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Pamela has been a Trout Fishing fan for years. Back in 2000, she took two Trout Fishing in America CDs with her into space, "Big Trouble" and "Reel Life". One evening in Houston, Pamela brought a special package to the Trout Fishing show containing photographs of the CDs floating in space and returned the actual CDs marked with the official stamp as having flown on Shuttle mission STS-92. Keith's dad, former historian for NASA was also at the show and was very impressed.

Click here to read more about Pamela!

We have posted a Trout performance of The Day Care Blues on YouTube. This is a selection from our DVD My Best Day, filmed by AETN in Conway, Arkansas. Click here to watch the video and other Trout videos.

You can also see our fan slideshow. If you want to be included, send your photo to Karen@troutmusic.com with a short description.

Trout Fishing recently visited Sirius and XM Satellite Radio stations to record some new songs that are not yet available on CD or as downloads. They visited with Mindy at XM (pictured below) and recorded a Live in the Rumpus Room concert that aired over Memorial Day Weekend. At Sirius radio Trout recorded a set of songs live that the station will play throughout the year.

You can call or email Sirius Radio to ask them to play your favorite Trout Songs. Click here or call toll free 877-33-SIRIUS

If you would like to contact XM Radio to request your favorite Trout Songs click here and send an email or call toll free 866-328-2345.

Trout music featured in ALA Editions books by Rob Reid

Rob recently wrote us to let us know that he had picked several Trout Fishing in America songs to be referenced in his two new books.

Children’s Jukebox,2nd edition, is an updated version of Reid’s first book. It is a subject index of children’s recorded music and, as a reference tool, is aimed at libraries and schools. Something Musical Happened at the Library incorporates music with children’s literature with practical suggestions and is aimed for librarians, teachers, and parents.

"Several references to your songs appear in Something Musical Happened at the Library. For example, I recommend that teachers and librarians listen to "Boiled Okra and Spinach" after reading the picture book Princess Picky by Marjorie Priceman. I do the same with "It's Better Than That" with the book The Secret Knowledge of Grownups by David Wisniewski. I also have a short list of the funniest children's songs and 18 Wheels on a Big Rig heads that list," Reid said.

He also mentioned that he has a chapter titled Rob's Favorite Original Children's Songs that included 11 Easy Steps and Science Fair.

More information for Children’s Jukebox can found from the ALA Editions catalog by clicking here.

More information for Something Musical Happened at the Library can be found by clicking here.

Trouts latest CD receives a Grammy Nomination

Award winning duo TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA (Keith Grimwood and Ezra Idlet) were nominated for a 2007 Grammy Award for "Best Musical Album For Children" (their third nomination) for MY BEST DAY (Trout Records). MY BEST DAY was recorded live before an audience sponsored by the Arkansas Educational Television Network. The 15 songs cover a range of topics and themes, from odes to friends whom we love despite the fact they talk to much, to alien nose invasions and snowflakes named Bob. The Grammy Awards were broadcast on FEBRUARY 11, 2007 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and broadcast on CBS-TV. Keith and Ezra attended the event.

Ezra meets NBA star Bill Walton at the Nominees party. Bill was there celebrating with the Grateful Dead as they received a life time acheivement award.

Beth, Keiths wife, meets Grammy nominee Weird Al Yankovic at the party.

Trout Fishing's music is now available for download from the brand new Fisher-Price Song & Story Online Store!! It's like an "i-Tunes" for kids! You can download your child's favorite tunes and stories onto their Fisher-Price Kid-Tough FP3 Player. It's like a kid's MP3 player, but it's made by Fisher-Price, so it's really fun and made just right for kids ages 3-8. It has simple controls and a durable drop resistant design so it stands up to rough preschooler use. Just like i-Tunes you add content to your Kid-Tough FP3 Player by downloading songs and stories from today's popular children's artists and authors from the safe, user-friendly Fisher Price Song & Story Online Store - the first online store of its kind to specifically offer only child appropriate content!

For those of you who own a Fisher Price Kid Tough Song and Story Player, we'd like to let you know that three Trout Fishing albums are available for downloading, My Best Day, inFINity and our Christmas album, Merry Fishes To All. All three are Grammy nominees.

www.fisher-price.com/kidtoughplayer and click on Browse Song and Story Online Store

Something's Definitely Fishy as Trout Fishing in America Celebrates the Holidays

Merry Fishes to All, the holiday CD release from Trout Fishing in America, was nominated for a Grammy Award, according to news announced by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. Merry Fishes To All was selected as one of five nominees in the "Best Musical Album for Children". The Award ceremony was broadcast on February 13, 2005 on CBS TV from the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Merry Fishes to All has already angled other national awards and acclaim. Disney's Family Fun magazine called it "the Year's Best Christmas CD," saying that the songs are "so fresh they practically wiggle." Ben Fong-Torres wrote in Parade magazine about its "comic sugarplums such as 'I Got a Cheese Log.'" Child and Chicago Parent magazines chose Merry Fishes as one of the best holiday CDs this year, and it also won a Parents' Choice award. Trout Fishing in America's holiday songs are also featured in a current National Public Radio program called "NPR presents: A Holiday Folk Music Tour with Judy Collins."

This is the second Grammy nomination for Trout Fishing in America, also known as guitarist Ezra Idlet and bassist Keith Grimwood. For more than 25 years they have been playing music that delights children and astounds parents.

PARADE MAGAZINE PICKS
"...Trout Fishing in America offers Merry Fishes to All, with comic sugarplums such as " I Got a Cheese Log." The CD was reviewed with 3 others including Frank Sinatra, Emmylou Harris, and Dianne Reeves.

FAMILY FUN MAGAZINE
The Year's Best Christmas CD "I love Christmas music, but it's easy to think that this well-worn genre has used up every last possible angle. Think again; those great anglers of children's music, Trout Fishing in America, now give us Merry Fishes to All, a collection of 12 rootsy, funny, lovely Christmas songs, so fresh they practically wiggle. Singer-guitartist Ezra Idlet and singer-bassist Keith Grimwood joyously go from offbeat ("I Got a Cheese Log") to all heart ("The Christmas Letter")."
Moira McCormick

NPR's Renee Montagne profiles the musical duo Ezra Idlet and Keith Grimwood, also known as Trout Fishing in America. The two perform for children, but try to avoid songs that tell kids what to do or think. Instead, they compose the ditties that kids want, including: "It's Mine," "Why I Pack My Lunch," and "My Hair Had a Party Last Night."

Audio Interview available at: http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1590440.html

Acoustic "power" duo TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA have received a 2002 GRAMMY NOMINATION for "BEST MUSICAL ALBUM FOR CHILDREN" for "inFINity," the 10th release on their own Trout Records (September 2001). The album recently received three other top honors -- A 2002 American Library Association (ALA) Notable Children's Recording, a 2001 Gold National Parenting Publications Award winner, and a 2001 Parent's Choice Gold Award Winner. "Just to be nominated is such a win right there," Keith says, "I've looked at the other candidates and to be mentioned in the same sentence is really impressive." Grammy Awards were announced on February 27, 2002 and Keith and Ezra were in the audience. "Elmo and the Orchestra" received the Grammy.


Keith and Ezra use Elixir Strings!