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A whimsical coming-of-age story unfolding the adventures of Timothy Jones Jr. during a summer in the seventies when he and his mother ran away with a circus and traveled down the West coast of America playing Rock and Roll music.

When a troubled music promoter wraps up a young mother and her six year old son in the machinations of a traveling circus, we pull back the curtain on a place that is grotesque and beautiful, strange and wondrous to behold, where you feel more than you remember and things imagined are as real as things happened, the smoke and mirrors dissipate and we meet the reality of the flawed yet very real and entirely lovable human beings who put on the show.—Catherine Caylee Cowan

The story is set in the 1970's and is about Timothy Jones Jr. (6) and his mother Emily Walker (20) who join a traveling circus making their way from Port Angeles, Washington to Los Angeles, California. Dalton, a promoter and musician in his 50's, scouts Emily and persuades her to join the circus as an opening act for FeverDog, a band Dalton claims will be the next Led Zeppelin.—Dennis Severse

"Our Summer of Song" is about Timothy Jones Jr. recounting his summer traveling with a circus and his mom Emily Walker who was pregnant at 14 years old. She's 21 now and dreams of being a musician and escaping her small town Port Angeles, Washington. Then, the summer before Timmy starts school and just as Emily is about to join the work force a man named Dalton, a musician turned music promoter who smokes too many cigarettes and is always drunk, convinces her to join the circus as the opening act for a band called Fever Dog which Dalton says is suppose to be the next Led Zeppelin.—Dennis

A whimsical coming-of-age story unfolding the adventures of young Timothy Jones Jr. during a summer set in the 1970's when he and his mother ran away with a circus and traveled down the west coast of the United States of America playing Rock and Roll music from Port Angeles, Washington to Los Angeles, California.—Dennis Hope