Storyteller Bill Harley at Rowan Public Library

Rowan Public Library welcomes storyteller Bill Harley on Thursday, September 19^th at 7:00 pm at RPL Headquarters, Salisbury.   Bill is a Grammy award winning artist, who uses story and song to paint an entertaining picture of growing up, schooling, and family life.  The event is free and all are welcome.

But you can find out more about Bill Harley by checking out  his CD “The Town Around the Bend” or the DVD “Yes to Running”  from Rowan Public Library. 

 Bill’s live performance was  recorded for the DVD  and features songs children can appreciate, such as “Grown Ups are Strange” and a song about fighting over the car radio. Bill also tells stories through song, like the ballad of Dirty Joe, the pirate who steals dirty socks, and his battle with another underwear stealing pirate. 

Bill grew up in Indianapolis, and in “The Great Sled Race” he recalls the winter he received a special Christmas gift of a new sled. His friend also gets a new sled, and together they race down Mammoth Hill, with disastrous results.  

The CD offers bedtime stories and songs about  the children who live in a town called Around the Bend. The children also have unusual names, like Bucket of Beans, who discovers his parent’s magic bubble machine, and Twizzlesticks, who decides children should read bedtime stories to parents, instead of the other way around, because the parents fall asleep before they finish the story. 

Check out Bill Harley’s CD and DVD at Rowan Public Library, and don’t miss him live at Rowan Public Library on Thursday, September 19^th at 7:00 pm.