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Grammy-nominated songwriter Gunnar Madsen returns with an album of songs all about food. Witty, touching, hummable, off-the-wall, the subjects include Deli Owners, Pancake Eaters, Monsoons of Sardines, and Martin Luther's famed Diet of Worms. There's a banquet of musical styles: If you like The Doors, Tom Waits, Neil Diamond, They Might Be Giants or Bob Dylan, there's a song on this album just for you. Suitable for all ages. Special guests include Grammy laureates Bill Harley, Frances England and Justin Roberts. Gunnar's previous recordings for families have won virtually every major award in the genre and are favorites in thousands of homes.
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Gunnar Madsen is an award-winning composer, author, filmmaker, singer and actor. As the founder and songwriter for the acclaimed a capella group The Bobs, Madsen fractured and re-constructed the rules for popular music. His solo CDs have yielded critically acclaimed albums across dramatically different genres. His writing encompasses children's books, stage and screenplays. His voice has been heard in surprising places.Spanning more than 20 years, Madsen's musical career has constantly pushed the boundaries. After 10 years in the studio and on the road singing acapella with The Bobs, Madsen's first solo album, "Spinning World, 13 Ways of Looking at a Waltz" was a stunning collection of instrumental waltzes. The album has won thousands of fans worldwide. Madsen's second solo effort, "The Power of a Hat", ("David Byrne-meets-Rinde Eckert art-pop" SFBG) charted on rock and college radio. Next, he turned his creative and versatile musical vision to work for children, releasing two award-winning family CDs, "Old Mr. Mackle Hackle" and "Ants in My Pants"! A colorful new storybook adaptation of his song "Old Mr. Mackle Hackle" was recently published by Little, Brown. His latest recording, Fall of Troy, is a deliciously dark orchestral epic.He has received commissions from Lincoln Center, the Los Angeles Theater Center, the Minnesota Opera, Oberlin Dance Collective, ISO Dance Theater, National Public Radio and many others. His music is featured in many episodes of HBO's "Six and the City", and in the films "The Break Up", "Just a Kiss", "Breaking the Rules" and "A Special Providence". He is a featured performer on the soundtrack of "At Play in the Fields of the Lord", in the National Geographic Special "Asteroids: Deadly Impact", and is the emotionally charged voice of Sammy Davis, Jr. in the Emmy-award winning HBO film, "The Rat Pack".Filmmaker. Broadway composer.In the fall of 2000 Gunnar journeyed to Russia to film a documentary on a remarkable farming community for disabled people. The film, finished in May 2001, was an official selection of the Ojai International Film Festival and enjoyed a week-long run at Berkeley's Fine Arts Cinema. Gunnar's new stage musical based on the outsider group The Shaggs (with collaborator Joy Gregory) has played in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York to thunderous critical and popular acclaim. According to The New York Times, it is "Unsettling, disturbing, challenging, even a little awe-inspiring." It won Best Original Score from Entertainment Today, the Ovation Award for Best World Premier Musical, and Musical of the Year and Best Score from the LA Weekly and Backstage West.Gunnar is the recipient of numerous music and theater awards, including a Grammy nomination, Izzy nomination, Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award and the ASCAP special awar
