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Gong Show New Year's Eve

A sponsored feature.

Published: Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Donkey Gong NYE 2010, Marketplace, December 2010

PBR Presents:
Donkey Show XXIII—Donkey Gong
December 31st, 2010—New Year's Eve
Record Bar (1020 Westport Rd.)

$10 or $8 if you dress like "It's the70's Man!"

The Columns will be the House Band during the Gong Show and will have some great musicians sitting in with us.

The Columns include, Bill Sundahl (bass and vocals), Matt Richey (percussion), and John Parker (guitar).

Other acts by:
Jamie Searle—Guitar and Vocals (Singer and Songwriter from It's Over!)
David Wayne Reed—Vocals (Playwright, Actor, Master of Ceremonies, Donkey Gong Judge, just to name a few)
Amy Farrand—Vocals (Atlantic Fadeout, American Catastrophe, EIO-Experimental Instrument Orchestra)
Josh Williams—on Trumpet (Shades of Jade, Semi-Finalist in 2010 National Jazz Competition)
Desmond Mason—Keys
They will be doing some 70's and 80's tunes to dance in the new year.

Schedule: 9:30PM—1AM
9:30 - 10:00—The Columns
10:00 - 12:00—It's a Gong Show

The Judges will be:
David Wayne Reed—Playwright, Actor, Master of Ceremonies.
Amy Farrand—Musician, Sculptor, Promoter, MC, and all around great Artist
Elke Mermis—Music Editor and Writer for Pitch Magazine.

If your not familiar, it is a talent competition with Cash Prises
$500—Grand Prize
$100—2nd Prize
$50—3rd Prize

Make it through your performance without getting gonged, and you will be scored by the judges. Highest score wins. There will also be some surprise performances from some Gong Show Favorites. With any luck you will catch a glimpse of Gene Gene the Dancing Machine and The Unknown Comic.

12:00-1:00
Auld Lang Syne
PBR Toast
$ a Crowd Operated Balloon Drop(you'll have to be there to experience it!)



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