GUSTAFER YELLOWGOLD'S SHOW Opens 1/9/2010 At The Fillmore at Irving Plaza

GUSTAFER YELLOWGOLD'S SHOW - a multimedia "musical moving storybook" concert experience for all ages - will greet 2010 in NYC with a "Happy New Year!" show for all ages at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 9 as part of the House of Kids Series at The Fillmore at Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Plaza, NYC.

The REAL Gustafer is rumored to be coming to this show! Fans will have a chance to meet Gustafer "up close and personal," shake his hand, and perhaps even persuade him to pose for a photo.

At this performance, which represents Gustafer Yellowgold's debut at the renowned rock venue, Irving Plaza, the wonderful Yellowgold Band will be enhanced with the addition of a string section, for a fuller, richer, "soft-rockin'" sound.

Named "Best Kids' Performer" by New York Magazine, Morgan Taylor developed the Gustafer Yellowgold experience as equal parts pop rock concert and minimally animated movie. Gustafer (a friendly creature who came to Earth from the sun) lives out an explorer's life in a slightly psychedelic version of the Minnesota woods, where he resides in a cottage with his menagerie of friends, including a pet eel, a tuxedo-wearing pterodactyl, and a dragon named Asparagus who inhabits the fireplace and loves corn on the cob. For recreation, Gustafer enjoys jumping on cake. Taylor has dreamed up a whole world of catchy and original story-songs about Gustafer, performing alongside a large screen displaying vividly colored animations with karaoke-style subtitles.

Gustafer Yellowgold is not just for kids! Possessing an unusual crossover appeal, GUSTAFER YELLOWGOLD'S SHOW has performed as the support act for Wilco and The Polyphonic Spree. Gustafer recently made his off-Broadway debut in a new production, Gustafer Yellowgold's Mellow Sensation. Tours to performing arts centers, concert halls, theatres, festivals, museums, libraries, and cinemas have taken Gustafer across the U.S., the U.K., and even to Korea.

Since his creation in 2005, Gustafer Yellowgold has become an international phenomenon, praised by Newsweek as "full of great pop tunes and hand-drawn animation about a li'l fella from the sun." The Los Angeles Times enthused, "Taylor's whimsical, lightly psychedelic world forms an interesting bridge between adult and kids' music." The Chicago Tribune wrote, "Gustafer Yellowgold has made kids' music so cool that teenagers and ultra-hip bands such as Wilco want to get in on the act ... a shiny blend of pop art and pop tunes." Parenting magazine called Gustafer "The coolest little space invader since E.T. ... a hip and trippy sunsation. Parental warning: You, too, will become hooked on the tunes."

Morgan Taylor was a recent Grand Prize-winner in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. His other activities have included playing bass for The Autumn Defense (John Stirratt and Pat Sansone of WIlco) and a recording project with Tony Award winning songwriter Duncan Sheik.

 

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