Funkboy News: PBS, Kennedy Center & More!

Tune in to PBS Monday, Oct. 31 at 9pm EST (check local listings) for the premier of The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Celebrating Will Ferrell. I'm in the house band, Cracked Ice, led by Crispin Cioe, providing all of the music for the evening. Yeah, we had us some fun at the taping...

Check out the show's opening segment. Here's a video of us rocking the Kennedy Center with Jack Black:

http://video.pbs.org/video/2159512254

We're top 10! "Look at That Cookie" is #6 on the Relix magazine/Jambands.com radio chart. This is enormously gratifying:

http://www.jambands.com/radio-charts/2011/10/24/trombone-shorty-tops-the-charts

Do you have your Cookie yet?! You can preview the CD and purchase your copy HERE.

I appear with the cast of Broadway's "Rock of Ages" doing a rock/gospel version of "O Come, O Come Emanuel" on the new charity CD: Carols for a Cure, Vol. 13.

I'm humbled to be inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame. The ceremony is in NYC Sun., Dec. 4. Details HERE.

I have a new slideshow for my website of me standing next to famous people. It will take you about 4 minutes to get through the whole thing. Get out the popcorn! It's fun to look at the old holiday slides:

http://www.phunque.com/ivan/photos_ivan.html

Upcoming shows:

Sat. Nov. 12, Ms. Gloria Gaynor at BB King's, NYC
Fri. Nov. 25, Gloria Gaynor, Secrets Maroma Beach, Cancun, Mexico
Sun. Dec. 4, NY Blues Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, Kenny's Castaways, NYC
Sat. Dec. 31, Gloria Gaynor & Maxine Nightingale, Mahaffey Theatre, St. Petersburg, FL

I hope you're rocking! \m/

Your pal,
Ivan

www.Funkboy.net

Keeping Up With Funkboy!

Wow, I feel so fortunate to have been profiled in the latest edition of Bass Frontiers Magazine! Check it out:

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http://www.bassfrontiersmag.com/keeping-up-with-funkboy-an-interview-with-ivan-bodley

Your pal,
Ivan
www.funkboy.net

2010 Recap: The Adventures of Funkboy!

Typically a "year-end" newsletter would go out around December 30 or so. But it's taken until now for all of the gyroscopes to stop spinning from 2010 to even be able to assess what all happened. So here goes:

I managed to up some of my career stats last year. Number of Rock & Roll Hall of Famers performed with up to 31. Number of countries visited up to 26. Maximum crowd size performed for up to 82,000.

Thanksgiving day, Giants, um JETS Stadium, Meadowlands, the cast of "Rock of Ages" from the Broad Way.

Here's a video of what it looks like to play in front of 82,556 people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frZ3Ye3_KdI

Check out the Jumbo-tron at about 0:56 into the clip to see what it looks like to have a 3-story sized HEAD.

Here's a photo album from that day:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=344206&id=706939464&l=1d397e83ac

I've continued to sub on "Rock of Ages" for the last year and a half. It's been a total blast!


Nov. 14: Cracked Ice, PBS, Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize celebrating Tina Fey.

Videos:
Backing Jennifer Hudson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKC3TgHtDLc
Backing Jimmy Fallon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pXERqNwX9E
Backing Jane Krakowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzFJM1qZqsk

Photos:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=339225&id=706939464&l=2ebbbd8486


Oct. 9: Carnegie Hall! Alexander Markov's "Rock Concerto," sold-out, yours truly a featured soloist, 150 cats onstage....

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjzBqUsrEP4

Photos:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=304249&id=706939464&l=542a84a5e2


June 19, New York Examiner article about me and a gig I did with Barry Mann, Lamont Dozier, and Jimmy Webb:

http://www.examiner.com/local-music-in-new-york/bassist-ivan-funkboy-bodley-s-soundtrack-full-of-hall-of-famers


The rest of the 2010 recap I'll have to do in photos:


Sam Moore & The Edge, Angel Ball fundraiser, NYC, Oct. 21.
Last year we also played the Blue Note in Tokyo with Sam and the Grammy's after party.


Dee Snider, "Rock of Ages" on the Broad Way, Oct. 10.


Gloria Gaynor, Lima, Peru, Dec. 3.


Little Anthony & the Imperials, Rock & Roll Hall of Famers, April 8.

Video of me with Little Anthony & the Imperials: http://www.vimeo.com/16473613


It was awesome getting to play the Blue Note, NYC with my own band, Jan 29 & July 2.


The great Chuck Jackson in Bermuda, Valentine's Day.


Constantine Maroulis band, Highline, NYC, June 16.


Taking a bass solo at Carnegie Hall, Oct. 9. Aw, come on!


Me on the JUMBO-TRON, Giants Stadium, Thanksgiving day.


Miss Jennifer Hudson

Here's looking forward to what new adventures 2011 will bring!

Your pal,
Ivan

www.Funkboy.net