Farming
and Animals
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Delight in heartwarming songs of farming
from bygone days and lighthearted animal songs
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Delights the listener with images and stories in song and plenty of great choruses to sing along.
Entertains and informs with a mix of songs and ballads introduced with interesting historical details.
Program is typically one hour, but may be longer or shorter to suit your needs.
Program selections include:
Farmer's Boy: A fatherless tyke works hard
to achieve success, love, and a happy life
in this great 19th century chorus song.
Tails and Trotters: the young pig's grit & determination overcome all odds.
Pleasant Country Life: in the midst of this song from a 1706 comic opera we suddenly find "here a quack, there a quack, everywhere a quack." Now where have we heard that line?
Bill Hopkins' Colt: heartwarming narrative song of a rejected colt becoming winning racehorse. The ugly duckling rides again.
* Historical Societies * Arts Centers *
* Festivals * Folk Clubs*
* Museums * Concert Series *
* Libraries * House Concerts*
* How a rejected colt became a winning racehorse.
* What happens when an old cow tries to sing.
* That, years after Tails and Trotters was written, a true incident with close parallels took place and received great publicity.