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MEET LEGENDARY SINGER JUDY COLLINS This is a ticketed event and all books presented for signing must be purchased through the Clinton Book Shop.  Tickets are $25.00 and will admit two.  Tickets can be purchased through the Clinton Book Shop by calling 908-735-8811, or from the box-office at the Theatre at RVCC by calling 908-725-3420. Please note that this event will be held at the Theatre at RVCC, address is listed below.  This is not a musical performace event.  We have heard though that Ms. Collins has, if encouraged read from and even performed her version of Over The Rainbow at previous events.     Now, the classic song, Over The Rainbow. has been transformed into a magnificent picture book and CD set. Breathtaking and magical artwork by Eric Puybaret—who painted the critically-acclaimed illustrations that helped turn Puff, the Magic Dragon into a blockbuster bestseller—will carry young readers from a little red farmhouse up over the rainbow, into the sky where bluebirds fly and castles rise high in the clouds, and beyond. The extraordinary soundtrack for this book is performed by Judy Collins, who has recorded what might be the very best version of “Over the Rainbow” ever sung. The winner of a Grammy Award, Collins’s glorious voice is one of the most admired of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her version of this classic will delight and touch the heart of every parent and child who listens. As an added bonus, the enclosed CD also contains two delightful additional songs recorded by Judy Collins: White Choral Bells and I See the Moon. Ranked #1 on the “Songs of the Century” list compiled by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts Ranked #1 by the American Film Institute as the greatest movie song of all time on “AFI’s 100 Years….100 Songs” list An exquisite rendition of the song by Judy Collins, who will promote the book across North America A critically-acclaimed and best-selling illustrator First printing of over 150,000 copies Amazing price point of only $17.95. Superb production values—special art book quality paper, linen binding, double-thick hardcover boards, oversized, with a debossed illustration. ABOUT THE PERFORMER: Judy Collins has thrilled audiences worldwide for nearly five decades with her magnificent voice and thoughtful interpretations. Many of Collins’s albums have been certified platinum and her version of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” has been entered into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Her rendition of Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns” won Grammy’s Song of the Year in 1975. Judy's film about Antonia Brico, co-directed by Jill Godmillow, was nominated for an Academy Award in 1974. Brico was Judy's classical piano teacher when she was young and was the first woman to conduct major symphonies around the world. In 2000, Judy founded her own record label, Wildflower Records. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E.Y. Harburg were two of Broadway and Hollywood’s most popular songwriters. They wrote the songs for the classic film The Wizard of Oz, for which they won an Academy Award®.