Where Music Lives

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

BONGO BOY ROCK N’ ROLL TV SHOWS LAUNCHES KICKSTARTER TO CONTINUE TO SHOW UNDISCOVERED TALENTS ON CABLE TV

With their first TV episode that aired in December 2011 Bongo Boy Rock n’ Roll TV Show Series as grown to a 10 cable TV channel syndication entertainment/talk show.

In their first year they produced 12 new original TV episodes with no financial support. They had great and talented guests on their shows like recording artist/songwriter Gar Francis/ Plainfield Slim, American idol Contestant Kelly Caruso, The Gripweeds, Dixieland Crackersjacks from The Netherlands, Genya Ravan ,The Doughboys, Pat Dinizio of The Smithereens and many others.

BBRR TV covered in other episodes Art and Entertainment topics like the annual events at the Tribeca Film Festival, NYC in April of 2012; where Bongo Boy TV was invited to the red carpet for the premiere of the Movie Fairhaven. In September of 2012, they were welcomed in beautiful Victorian homes at the Van Wyck Historic District in Plainfield NJ and the Annual Victorian Days in Belvidere, NJ. That episodes was officially added to the public library archive of Plainfield NJ, so it would be preserved for generations to come; a great accomplishment from a small production team.

Many non-for-profit organizations were guests as well, like the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Skylands Rollergirls, and the volunteers at the Shippen Manor in Oxford, NJ.

BBRR TV can proudly say they had a successful first year. But now with a second year already started and new monthly productions are being delivered to 5 major cable companies each month, BBRR TV has come to the conclusion that they need financial support in order to continue with producing better quality TV shows. In May 2013 they are launching a fundraising campaign with the assistance of an international well accredited organization called Kickstarter.com. BBRR TV’s Kickstarter campaign gives you the opportunity to be a part of their upcoming episodes and with their wide range of pledges listed on their websites here http://www.bongoboyrecords.com and here on http://www.kickstarter.com there will be something for you where you can be a supportive financial contributor of their upcoming productions.

“What is The Bongo Boy Rock n’ Roll TV show series?”

The Bongo Boy Rock n' Roll TV Show is a music orientated TV series that educates the viewers about upcoming indie artists and their quest to greater success. The show is dedicated to exposing the arts to new and old fans alike by featuring original music, videos, Art, and history from different cultures with each new episode. Guest interviews are done in the studio of SHOWTIME in Belvidere, NJ or remotely with modern technology medias like Skype.

Their second year has started already with great productions. In house studio guests like rocker Palmyra Delran from NYC, New York Institution of Razzamofunk Milo Z and a wonderful production of their coverage of Art & Music with episode No. 1013, by which they visited duCret School of Art and the Morris Museum. Their next production is going to be an episode about Robotics and how our youth learns about robotics from great mentors and coaches.

Other guests that you will see on the BBRR TV show this year - Mark Lindsay the former lead singer of Paul Revere & The Raiders, the cast members of the Broadway hit West Side Story and plenty of indie artists that will shine in front of our cameras.

BBRR TV has grown with their broadcast distribution from 2 channels in Dec. 2011 to a syndication of 10 channels across the country today. Cable companies like Comcast, CableVision, RCN, Time Warner Cable, Verizon FiOS broadcast the Bongo Boy Rock n’ Roll TV show weekly. BBRR TV is now 6 days a week, 60x per month on these 5 major cable companies as of May 2013.

BBRR TV is excited to announce the most recent plans to be added to BCAT TV in Brooklyn NY. And they just received confirmation that their first year of all their TV episodes are now on Comcast channel 8 in Los Alamos New Mexico and in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on channel 20.

Each produced episode can also be watched around the world via the Internet. Bongo Boy can confidently say that they have audiences around the world like in Hong Kong China, Rotterdam the Netherlands, Santa Cruz Aruba, Dominican Republic just to name a few. You can replay their monthly TV episodes on their website here http://www.bongoboyrecords.com/TVSHOW.html

Bongo Boy Rock n' Roll Staff
Host - Wayne Olivieri
Producers - Gar Francis & Monique Grimme
Stage manager/lighting - Tod Olivieri
Wardrobe/Make Up - Johanna Van Der Heyden
Email info@bongoboyrecords.com
##