Can you really sing about peas and get away with it? Sarah Palin yes, but peas? Well Tom Chapin intends to try. He’s coming to sing for us.
He’s the brother of the famous Harry Chapin, who died over 30 years ago. Tom’s coming to Westminster at the Carroll Arts Center on January 7 from 8 to 10.
Oh, that’s 2012, by the way. And pm.
Like his brother, Tom Chapin cares about things, like feeding people, and has a new album called Give Peas a Chance.
Well, okay, Tom. But I draw the line at lima beans.
Oh, he has a message for Sarah Palin. It’s funny, but you know, she just won’t listen.
Imagine an album described this way.
14 brand new songs about Good Food and the Green Earth,
including locally grown and eaten food, Farmer’s Markets,
school lunches, the joy of slow food, junk food, picky eating,
home gardening, honey bees, the food chain, hunger.
So Give Peas a Chance is sort of a concept album.
Tickets are $19, except for you students and people over 65, who can in for $17. Oh, and preschoolers get in free as long as they bring a responsible adult. For more information and or tickets, visit www.commonground onthehill.org or call 410-857-2771.
The Carroll Arts Center is at 91 W. Main St., Westminster. Bring your own peas.
Here’s young Harry Chapin singing his greatest song a long time ago.
You see, she was gonna be an actress
And I was gonna learn to fly.
She took off to find the footlights,
And I took off for the sky.
And here, she’s acting happy,
Inside her handsome home.
And me, I’m flying in my taxi,
Taking tips, and getting stoned,
I go flying so high, when I’m stoned.
Harry Chapin died in 1981. He was in a car wreck, possibly caused by a fatal heart attack.