Fascinating Facts From your Favorite Founding Father

 - I have two birthdays!

 - wrote a pirate song, a rum hymn and a drinking song about Noah!

 - invented an odometer for horse-drawn carriages

 - heard Handel's last performance

- learned Italian with a chess board

- saw the first balloon flight

- lied about American sheep and whales!

- was a fugitive from the law, and never married into a family of famous coffee makers!

I had am fed up hearing about my lightning bolts and glass harmonicas. I would rather you sit back  and : -   

- listen to my favorite Scottish airs played on cello and fiddle.

- hear three songs I  wrote about pirates, Noah and a ‘Hymn to Rum Punch!’ (guess which one got me  in trouble with my  father!)

- understand a musical theory I  devised by observing the concert goers and not the musicians!

- hear my 'Rules for Reducing a Great Empire to a Small One!''

- tell you how I wished to die in a barrel of Madeira!

INTRODUCING YOUR PRESENTERS
TWO GOOD FRIENDS OF DR. FRANKLIN!


 

Here we are performing Franklin at Faneuil Hall as part of
Boston's July 4th celebrations.

A lively show delivered by two Colonial edu-tainers– messieurs Tripp and Toddy who intend to bring a little 1776 to your library this year! They perform weekly at the Custom House Marriott, monthly at Bull Run Restaurant, periodically at the Old South Meeting House Concert Series and this July 4th at in Faneuil Hall!

Music, humour, fabulous clothes!
Take a look at some fabulous pictures of us in our tricorned hats
at
www. revolutionary-spirits.com

Then call me at 978 828 0037 and tell me if you think your library/historical society might enjoy a visit from Tripp and Toddy this summer and a chance to bring the good Doctor back to life through music and song!

 

Abijah Toddy and Tobias Tripp
Have been singing since 1776!

Two Boston Wags - hilarious fellows
Playing great music on fiddles and cellos.

Tales of old Boston, Songs about rum, Punch, Snuff and Swordplay - historical fun!

So let Tipp and Toddy, with music sublime, 
Transport all of you back in time!