Taylor Barton

Pedro 'n' Pip (eBook, ePUB)

A Rock 'n' Roll Odyssey for Eco-Kids

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Pedro 'n' Pip was conceived over twenty five years ago on a vacation in Cozumel Mexico. I was sunbathing while my friend went scuba diving and I heard the raspy voice of Pedro, an imagined octopus, in a dream while napping. I wasn't a scuba diver, and have always been afraid of deep water and oceans.

I was half awake, lucidly streaming thoughts about blaring an electric guitar right off a coral bank somewhere near by. I had no reference for this idea, nor did I pay much attention to the electric sound of a telecaster. Nevertheless, the idea was planted in my mind and gestated there until I got my job on Saturday Night Live.

It was on SNL that I met GE Smith started traveling with Dylan all around the world. I slowly conceived my characters. A charming little girl and a reclusive rocker who had lost his fans because of the contamination. The book wrote itself.

When I first started living with GE Smith, I started singing the melodies and what would become the score. The songs just poured out of me without any effort. It culminated in a staged show and was presented "live" in the legendary theater, the Village Gate. The amazing, talented Patricia Birch (GREASE) directed the show and years later directed me through the audiobook.

As anyone in theater knows, songs are used to move the story along, so this fourteen song score, was an amazing thing to create. I was supported by the very best musicians and singers who put their heart and soul into the soundtrack.

While all of these songs were originally sung live, it was because of Skype and garage band that we were were able to record Robbie Wyckoff from LA, and David Broza from Tel Aviv. So, this is a worldwide effort.

What inspired me to recreate this project and recreate was another oil spill in the Gulf. Thousands of people lost their jobs or livelihoods as fisherman. I was working with Environmental Defense Fund to come up with a concert series to address folks who lived on the Mississippi, and they wanted something educational to give to the kids in the community. Thus, Pedro 'n' Pip.

Pedro 'n' Pip is a tale of an innocent, brave girl, who knows in her heart she can make a difference in the world. She takes on all of her fears and challenges them and then challenges her parents and scary sea creatures to cross barriers so the world can become a cleaner and more tolerant place. Most importantly, "Pedro 'n' Pip" teaches us how we can transform our world if we make an effort.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BookBaby
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781483569185
• Artikelnr.: 45030913

Autorenporträt

Taylor Barton is a smart, multi-talented, singer-songwriter, writer and film producer. She has spent over three decades traversing the arts and culminated into a 21st century Renaissance woman. Born in Baltimore, Maryland she started her musical training with piano lessons at age six. She enrolled in the Peabody Institute at age thirteen where she studied dance until her high school graduation. During a fortuitous appearance on Saturday Night Live, she met bandleader GE Smith. Smith later became her husband, co-producer, and partner in their independent label, Green Mirror Music. Smith was instrumental in jump-starting Barton. Her songwriting was deeply influenced by her exposure to an array of legendary performers from Dylan to Garcia, and everyone ultra-talented thereafter. She has clearly succeeded in creating a distinctive body of work that is highly accessible - very unique and original. Vanity Fair calls her voice beautiful and seductive. Rolling Stone calls her beguiling. Frank Hadley of The Boston Herald describes her voice as achingly superb. David Sprague of Newsday - she waxes poetic without slipping into pretense and uses decidedly non-hallmark phraseology. Barton's music is memorable, haunting, and deeply mysterious. "Taylor Barton writes from the trenches of the self-examined life; motherhood, sobriety, vision-quest, rock wifedom, grief, longing, beauty, meaning... --Paula Cole Her film, 50 Watt Fuse, documenting her husband's career as a sideman, was an Official Selection of the Mill Valley Film Festival in 2006. Written and directed by Barton, cameos from Lorne Michaels, Jimmy Buffett, to Bob Dylan and Hall & Oates, Barton received a standing ovation. She has released eight solo CDs, covering all of life's betrayals, infidelities, and her music evokes the complexities of tragedy. She also has written plays that were produced at The Village Gate, (Pedro 'n' Pip) La Mama, Musical Theatreworks, and The Woman's Project. She is the author of an award winning play, The Eric Clapton Breakfast Club. Her debut novel Hotheaded Saints is available on IBOOKS. "Mystery, mayhem and humor ensue in Taylor Barton's fabulous Hotheaded Saints. --Adriana Trigiani. Taylor Barton has drawn a compelling and fascinating portrait of the underbelly of the Hamptons --Rosanne Cash Singer-Songwriter. Taylor Barton has performed on Conan, Saturday Night Live, VH1, Bravo's Broadway's Best, After Breakfast, Mountain Stage, BET, World Cafe, Poughkeepsie Live, Acoustic Cafe, Westwood One Radio, House of Blues Radio, and ABC radio, WFUV, and more. She resides in Amagansett, NY where she lives with her husband and daughter.