“It’s Chanukah!” Kickstarter Campaign

Happy Holiday Season!! I hope you and your family had a Merry Christmas or a Happy Chanukah and are enjoying this wonderful time of year.

I have some some cool news. My new project, a Chanukah song and music video, has been accepted as a kickstarter project. Kickstarter is the world’s largest funding platform for creative projects. Every week, tens of thousands of amazing people (like YOU) donate to artists they like or love.

I really want you to check it out.Ideally, this music video goes viral next year during Chanukah and makes me a huge success!! YOU can help make this happen.

Watch the video: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/85423862/its-chanukah-song-and-music-video

Check out the rewards: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/85423862/its-chanukah-song-and-music-video

Make it happen: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/85423862/its-chanukah-song-and-music-video

(by the way, you’ll notice it’s the same link — please CLICK IT!!!)

If nothing else, please make sure to click and watch the video because its a fun video and I had a great time making it.

Please take a moment to view my Kickstarter page, watch my video, and check out the great incentives you’ll receive for your generosity.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/85423862/its-chanukah-song-and-music-video

Every little bit helps! If every one of my fans donated just $5 we would easily meet our goal! And $10 gets you a mp3 digital download of my original “It’s Chanukah” single before anyone else gets to hear it!

You’ll also see we have some really cool prizes for people who want to be even more generous and get more bang for their buck.

Thanks again and my best wishes to you and yours for an amazing 2012! Best. Year. EVER!!!!

With love and gratitude,

P.S. Click here and watch the video please: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/85423862/its-chanukah-song-and-music-video

Long Island Folk Festival Performance – August 6th 2011, 2pm

Jeffrey is performing on Saturday, August 6th at the Sixth Annual Huntington Folk Festival. The free event, at Heckscher Park, Main Street (Route 25A) and Prime Avenue, in Huntington, extends from 11 a.m. into the late evening. JPB will be performing from 2pm-3pm in a song swap called “All Keyed Up” (yup, all keyboard players) hosted by AcousticMusicScene.com / Michael Kornfeld. Joining him are the lovely and talented Anna Dagmar and Marci Geller.

BlazinRy Radio 1st Anniversary Show – June 20th, 10pm, NYC

What: BlazinRy Radio 1st Anniversary Show
Where: Midtown Theater @ the HA! Comedy Club, 163 West 46th Street, NYC
When: Monday, July 20th 10pm-11:45pm
Facebook Event Link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115239248564451

There will be a $10 Cover and a 2 Drink Minimum. Cash only at the door. Please email Blazinryradio@gmail.com to make a reservation with your name and the number of people in your party. Or, you can likely just show up!

The following performers are scheduled to appear: Jake Silbermann (Gossip Girl, As The World Turns), Ben Cameron (Wicked, Aida), Celina Carvajal (Legally Blonde: The Search for Elle Woods), Cait Doyle (Hot Mess in Manhattan), Ashley Austin Morris (Love, Loss, and What I Wore, PBS’s The Electric Company), Misfit Dior (VH1′s The White Rapper Show), John Anderson (30 Rock), Michelle Kinney (Drift), Jeffery Paul Bobrick (Michael: The One and Only), Steve Hofstetter (National Lampoon, Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson), Matt Leisy (Off Broadway’s The Fantastics) + special guests!

Winter Wonderland – Happy Holidays!!!

My first holiday single, “Winter Wonderland” is out! NOW! YAY!

You can see a fun video on youtube and you can buy it on on iTunes. It costs $.99. Making $1 may not be a big deal to you, but it is to me because it means that I’m in the music BUSINESS rather than the music hobby.

Here’s the link to click and pick up my song “Winter Wonderland” right now: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/winter-wonderland-single/id410792212

If you don’t like iTunes, you can buy it directly on my web site at: http://ilovejpb.com/store

Also, if you like it, please share the youtube video with anyone you think will like it. You know, Facebook wall, email, etc. That’s free, after all. Here’s that link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e70UfikI1Tg

In fact, here’s a link to SHARE directly on your Facebook wall or with a Facebook friend: http://bit.ly/sharewonder

Thank you for supporting independent music.

Many thanks and Happy Holidays,

Jeffrey Paul Bobrick

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!! 

HAPPY CHANUKAH!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

HAVE A GREAT KWANZAA!

and RAMADAN

Jeffrey Paul Bobrick Wins Cyber Pr Holiday Songwriting Contest!!!

I’m excited to let all of you know that I just WON the Cyber Holiday Song Contest. The contest asked songwriters to take a holiday song and wrote original lyrics to it about Ariel Publicity, Cyber Pr and online marketing. If you don’t know, Cyber Pr is one of the top online marketing companies for singers and songwriters. I’m very happy and honored to be the WINNER!

My song has been distributed to all their friends and colleagues as their HOLIDAY VIDEO CARD, on their @cyberpr and @podsafe twitter accounts and included in their Holiday Songs Pre-Cleared newsletter that goes out to 16,000+ social media makers. Plus, I’ve won a 2 month Cyber Pr campaign from the company! Yay!

These are the lyrics (to the tune of…you guessed it…”Winter Wonderland”)

Tweeting in a Cyber Pr Land
Original Music by Felix Bernard, Lyrics by Richard P. Smith
New Lyrics by Jeffrey Paul Bobrick

On the net, are you tweeting
‘Cause your pitch bears repeating
People will look
At your Facebook
While Tweeting in a Cyber Pr Land.

Will your friend count get much higher
‘Till myspace is retired
We’re having some fun in Reverb Nation
And Tweeting in a Cyber Pr Land.

Go online to update your press kit
Making sure your music is podsafe
Email your 1,000 true fans with wit
So they’ll enjoy the music that we make.

Then we’ll share Derek Sivers
His blog always delivers
We’ll blog and retweet Music Success In Nine Weeks
Tweeting in a Cyber Pr Land.

There are more in-jokes there than you can shake a stick at! Last week I went to Cyber Pr headquarters in Brooklyn, NY for a wonderful holiday meal made by Ariel Hyatt. While there, we shot a fun little video to the song.

I hope you enjoy the song and the video and wish you a Happy Holiday walking in a Winter Wonderland and a Cyber Pr one too if you want!

Links: Ariel Publicty / Cyber Pr and sivers.org (his blog always delivers!)

Health and Hope for Haiti – JPB Vlog

Well, it’s beginning to feel a lot like…Winter here in New York City. And I’m feeling a little under the weather. “Pobrecito,” as my high school Spanish teacher used to say. But I’m not too sick to move forward with a holiday song for you. It will be online soon. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions and ideas!

I hope all of my “mishpucha” had a very Happy Chanukah. Around the holidays, I always make sure to be thankful for what I have. This is more true this year than ever. My friend Andy was recently volunteering in Haiti, which, as you may know, was devastated by an earthquake last January and is currently under seige from cholera and disease. After returning from Haiti, Andy told me: “We live in a paradise.”

This week’s video is a “vlog” (Video Log, like a blog but with video instead of words, for the uninitiated) from the fall, directly related to this thought. I went to Miami as a volunteer to sort clothing, food and medicine for Angel Wings International, a non profit sending medical relief to Haiti. I was asked to perform in front of all the other volunteers, especially since i wrote the jingle for the organization. Part of this performance can be viewed in the video, in which I perform REM’s “Everybody Hurts.”

If you are so moved, you are more than welcome to contribute to this amazing cause. I know you likely contribute to MANY causes, so no pressure. But their web site is: http://angelwingsinternational.org. If you do contribute, please let me know and I’ll send you a free mp3 as a thank you!

NERFA 2010 Music Conference Video

JPB Vlog for NERFA 2010 Music Conference. This video will take you inside a conference showcase and features performances from a number of singer-songwriters, including yours truly. I hope you enjoy this inside look at the “Songs In The Key of Life” Showcase hosted by Lucky 13.

Featuring Music Written and Performed by:

Kevin So http://www.kevinso.com/

Allison Tartalia http://www.allisontartalia.com/

Allison Scola http://www.allisonscola.com/

Anna Dagmar http://www.annadagmar.com/

Jeffrey Paul Bobrick http://www.ilovejpb.com

Lucky 13 http://www.lucky13.fm/

Thank you for supporting independent music!

Special Thanks to all my friends at NERFA!

JPB Performance Tonight 11/18 7pm at Christopher Street Coffeehouse

Jeffrey will be performing two songs as part of a special evening of music at the Christopher Street Coffeehouse.

Where: Christopher Street Coffeehouse, 81 Christopher Street
(at 7th Avenue right near the 1 train and close to the West 4th station and the PATH train)
When: Thursday November 18th 7pm
Cost: $5 donation + a can of food if you have one

Friction Farm will be hosting this fine evening, playing songs from their new CD and taking donations of non-perishable food items.

First half of the night will feature music by:

Jeffrey Paul Bobrick
Carolann Solebello
Jean Rohe
Mark Allen Berube
Friction Farm

Second half:

Meg Braun
Marc Balck
Elaine Romanelli
Robert Katz
Robin Greenstein

NERFA Music Conference Set Lists

Wicked Pissah Showcase (11/12/10):

The Pieces
The Game
Nothing In The World

Songs In The Key of Life Showcase (11/13/10):

Home Away From Home
The Game
The Pieces
Nothing In The World

Zippiddy Do Da Showcase (11/13/10):

Pictures
The Game

JPB Live at NERFA Music Conference

Jeffrey will be attending the NERFA Music Conference for the 4th time this weekend. The event will be held at the Hudson Valley Resort, 400 Granite Road, Kerhonkson, NY. He is “Looking forward to giving and receiving lots of love and great music!” Jeffrey has been selected to perform in three “Guerrilla Showcase” performance slots at NERFA. This is his performance schedule:

When: Friday/Sat am from 1:10am-1:30am
Where: Wicked Pissah, Room 1524

When: Saturday 2pm-4pm
(with Anna Dagmar, Lucky 13, Kevin So, Allison Tartalia, Allison Scola, The Yayas)
Where: Songs In The Key of Life, Room 1521

When: Saturday/Sun am 1:15am-2am
(Song Swap with Kathy Moser and Chuck Schaeffer)
Where: Zipiddy Do Da, Room 1516

Here’s some concert footage live at Garden Stage in Long Island: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOYVIruCjeY

Billboard Award Winning singer/songwriter Jeffrey Paul Bobrick performs throughout the east cost, creating a buzz with his “very clever, bright, intelligent songs” (Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame DJ Joey Reynolds, WOR radio). He is “a singer with great vocal control who tells a story with an honesty and sincerity that makes his music strangely appealing” (Sandie Reilly, co-producer, Horses Sing None Of It).