'MERRY FISHES TO ALL' WINS GRAMMY NOMINATION

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

Merry Fishes to All, the bright new holiday CD release from Trout Fishing in America, has been 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 will be broadcast on February 13, 2005 on CBS TV @8PM, ET/PT.

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

CLICK HERE to print lyrics for entire Merry Fishes CD (PDF - 80k)
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Chocolate Christmas  

My First Christmas  

Snow is Falling  

Santa Brought Me Clothes  

Snow Day  

The Eleven Cats of Christmas  

Just Because, Mrs Claus  

I Got a Cheese Log  

Bob and Bob   visit Snowcrystals.com

You Gotta Get Up  

My Birthday Comes on Christmas  

The Christmas Letter  

CREDITS
Produced by Fred Bogert/Briarpatch Audio Productions, Inc., Hendersonville, TN
Snow Day by Henry L Hipkins
You Gotta Get Up by Rich Mullins
My Birthday Comes On Christmas by Louis Bush and Leon Pober

Released in 2004

AWARDS
47th Annual Grammy Nominee

A 2005 Gold National Parenting Publications Award Winner

Winner of a 2004 Parent's Choice Approved Award

For more awards go to the awards page.

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