Banooba: News

Come on out for a fun weekend of camping and great music! Other artists include Max Creek, Sam Kininger Band, Ryan Montbleau Band, Melvin Sparks, Vince Herman & Great American Taxi, Blueground Undergrass, Breadbox Band, The Nate Wilson Project (featuring Steve Kimock, John Leccese, Adam Terrel, Tom Arey and Yahuba Garcia) and many more...

And if all that isn't enough, it Pete's Birthday.

To buy tickets go to http://www.campcreekonline.com

We'll be hanging with the folks over at Island 94.3 Thursday morning 6/29/06. If you do not receive Island 94.3 on your radio, have no fear, you'll be able to listen online.

To listen on line go to http://www.island943.com/listen.htm .

Make sure you guys show your support and call the radio station to request our music.

We'll provide you with more details as we get them.

SPREAD THE WORD!! The official party night of the summer is Thursdays at The Jones Beach Band Shell!!

Here's the schedule:
Thurs June 29
Thurs July 6
Thurs July 13
Thurs July 20
Thurs Aug 3
Thurs Aug 10
Thurs Aug 17
Thurs Aug 24


There will some special events, promos, and give-aways...stay tuned for more info!! Get your bathing suits ready!!

Banooba's Travels can now be streamed or downloaded on Real Rhapsody or using Real Player.

For more info on Real Rhapsody go to http://www.real.com

Congrats to those of you that were lucky enough to witness the madness that went on in St. Croix in Feb. We shared the bill at Club 54 with The Sam Kininger Band, one of the most slammin' bands around. Their line up for that tour was Sam Kininger (Sax), Nikki Glaspie (drums), Aaron Bellamy (bass), and last but not least Amy Bowles (Keys).

Kevin T got the honor to sit in one of their tunes "NY No. 1". Those weren't the only sit ins. The late, late, late night jams were the highlights of the musical madness. At one point people were switching up instruments. Nikki Glaspie was playing guitar and singing a Neptunes song at one point with Aaron on bass, our very own Pete Cunningham on drums, Kevin T on Guitar backing her up. At some other point Aaron Bellamy was on guitar and singing a Hendrix tune (I can't remember which one it was... partying to hard) with Vinny on guitar, Pete on Drums, Nikki on bass. We also got to jam out on John Scofield's "Hottentot."

Long story short this was a slammin weekdend.

We are pumped to be able to play our last show before we go away for a while @ Kenny's Castaways in NYC. Make sure you guys come out and bring the party. We have some good surprises planned for this show, so make sure not to miss it.

157 Bleecker St ( between Thompson & Sullivan)
New York NY
(212) 979 9762
Price: $8

The Dave Matthews Band is currently polling their fans to see who they want as an opening act. To help us become their opening act, just click on the link below and vote for us, Banooba. After you have voted for us, forward this information to your friends and have them vote for us as well. Thank you for your continued support!!!!

http://dmband.com/surveys/OpenerSurvey.asp

Everyone come out and celebrate the incredible role that Dave Mackie has played as the guitarist for Banooba. Sadly, this will be Dave's last show with Banooba (until we kidnap him for the occassional gig).

The party is on!! Friday, Jan 20th @ Da Funky Phish!

Dave,

We would like to thank you for the huge contributions that you have made to Banooba. Thank you for taking on the huge task of learning 25+ songs in about 2 weeks so we can pay tribute to Kevin Kershko in St. Croix. Thank you for making us realize that we have to continue playing the songs that we wrote with Kershko and not let them be forgotten. Thank you for writing the music for "Make Me Belive," one of the best Banooba songs that we have ever written. Thank you for designing such a kick ass cd cover for "Banooba's Travels." We can keep going but you'll probably get bored if we mentioned everything you've done that we are grateful for. We have definitely had our share of great times with you, both on and off stage. It was our pleasure to share the stage with you.

Enough of all the sappy stuff and let's send you off with a sick party at Da Funky Phish this Friday.

Later on,

Kevin T., Sloan, Pete and Ryan

SoundTrip.com is hosting Sinora on their weekly podcast. Cool write up too. Check it out:

http://www.soundtrip.com/

2005 has been one crazy year for Banooba. It has been filled with many ups and downs. From playing the Band Shell at Jones Beach; to St. Patty's Day in St. Croix; to jamming with Sam Kininger and Aaron Bellamy at O'dwyer's; to losing our friend/guitarist/brother Kevin Kershko, and to you our fans, friends and family helping us through the difficult time. Thank you for sharing an incredible year with us.

We plan on making 2006 an even better year for us and you guys. What better way is there to bring it in than by playing New Years Eve in the St. Croix in the Caribbean. We will be playing New Year's Eve at Club 54 with local great, Kurt Schindler sharing the bill with us. Unfortunately Dave Mackie will not be able to make it down this trip , but have no fear. Vinny Raniolo will be filling in for Dave. Thank you Vinny for helping us out.

Banooba is Traveling this month!

The Banooba Bus (which looks more like a van) is on the road and is taking off for a month long journey on Friday Nov 11th.

The trip starts Funky at da Phish on Long Island;

Down to school at Princeton, NJ;
Up to New Haven Connecticut;

Down to DC; then Thanksgiving eve in NYC;
Then the bus puts on its wings to rock in St. Croix, USVI
Back for Beery's on Long Island and finishing in NYC Dec 9th at Kenny's!!

Join Banooba's friends at http://www.myspace.com/banooba

Peter is now offering lessons. Check HERE for more info!

Please welcome Dave Mackie as the newest member of Banooba.

You might be saying to yourselves, wow that name sounds familiar. That's probably because you've seen his name in the liner notes of "Banooba's Travels". Dave Mackie created all the artwork for the album. Not only is he a great guitarist, he's also an accomplished artist.

Banooba had the pleasure of having saxaphone great, Sam Kininger sit in on a few tunes @ E. O'Dwyers last Saturday 7/2/05. He played on:

• Just Kissed My Baby (The Meters)
• Sinora (Banooba)-> You Can Call Me Al (Paul Simon)-> Bake and Eat (Cousin Fungus)
• Cissy Strut (The Meters)
• No Anesthesia (Banooba)
• A Go Go (John Scofield)

Also sitting in was basist Aaron Bellamy (Sam Kininger Band). He Played on:

• Whipping Post (The Allman Brothers)

That turned out to be a crazy jam. For you music heads out there, we added a hip-hop funk groove to Whipping Post. Instead of playing it in 6/8 we played it in 4/4. I wish we had that version on tape. If anyone recorded the show, let us know.

See you at Jones Beach.

Make sure to come out and see us rocking out at The Downtown on 6/25/05.

We'll be playing with the Zen Tricksters and U-Melt. This will be a great night of music.

Tickets are $15 when purchased from us, otherwise they'll cost you $17 at the door. You can pick up tickects from us when we play Da Funky phish on 6/17. If you can't make it to the Phish, email us a banooba@banooba.net so we can arrange another way to get you some tickets.

Banooba will be playing every Tuesday night starting 6/28, at the Jones Beach band shell. More details to come

On Thursday May 12th, 2005, one and all are invited to join the entire Banooba family in a celebration of the amazingly beautiful life of Kevin Kershko. We ask that all who have played with Kevin bring what ever it is they play, as there will be several jam sessions in his honor. Even if you never had the pleasure and privilage to play with Kevin, we ask that you join in the sessions. Musicians, poets, artists... everyone, bring it to share it.

Ok its going to generally be structured like this.
Doors open at 7pm SHARP
We're asking 10 bucks at the door to be used in kevin's name somehow.If you cant swing the 10 bucks dont sweat it, this is a memorial jam not so much a fundraiser.
Ok at 8:00 pm is Kev's roomate Rob.
At 8:30 Is Brian Dugan
At 9:00 Is banooba
At 10:15 ish I would like to bring up whoever has something to say About K1. Bring a story, Bring a Poem, A picture,a song you wrote, a thought, something to makes us all Cope..PLEASE find me and lemme know you would like to say something so i can put this in order as well..

10:45is Kevin's Memorial Jam
Please sign up at the stage for the jam. If you want to be grouped with specific players please note that so I can set it up. I am going to be working on a sponsor for the food today.
**We need a couple of guitar amps So please bring them with your guitar.. I would like to have three or four guitarists on stage together at somepoint. Any questions or cool ideas call me at 516-510-1571.

Purple Haze (formerly Backstreet Blues)
60 Front Street
Rockville Centre, NY
(516)255-HAZE

As some of you have heard, our beloved guitarist Kevin Kershko has passed away. We want to thank everyone for the love and support that you have provided Alyssa and Banooba. We have all shared some great times with Kershko. Please feel free to share some of your stories with us here in the guestbook. We would love to hear about them.

The services will be held as follows:

The Wake will be Monday, May 2nd from 2-4pm and 7-9pm

T.J. McGowan 71 N. Central Highway
Garnerville, NY
(Just off the Palisades Pkwy)

The Funeral will be held Tuesday, May 3rd @ 10am at St. Gregory's Church. (We will post the address later)

Hotel Information:

The Wellsley Inn 845.368.1900
17 N. Airmont Rd,
Suffren, Ny

Once again, Thank you all for the support that you have provided for us all.

-Banooba

Make sure to check out the PRESS page to see Syl Nathan's review of "Banooba's Travels" featured in the April 12th-25th 2005 edition of Good Times Magazine.

Click here to read the review

"Banooba's Travels" is the first studio release by Banooba. We worked very hard on this album and put out an incredible album that we are very proud of.

We had the pleasure of having some really great musicians lay down some horn and hammond organ tracks. These musicians include:

• Rob Somerville - Tenor Sax (Deep Banaba Blackout)
• Donnie Celenza - B3 hammond organ
  
• Jeff Sheloff - Tenor Sax
  

You can listen to all 11 tracks, as well as, purchase "Banooba's Travels" at CD Baby.

Every week we'll be featuring a new track off the "Banooba's Travels" album. Make sure to stop by each week for a listen.

This week listen to "Wen"

"No Anesthesia" will be "Track of the Week" under the Funk Rock category on Garage Band. It will be featured on their website the week of April 4th. This is a great website to discover some good new music.

Check out Garage Band to see the other awards that "Sinora" and "No Anesthesia" have received.

Join our online community on Myspace. We currently have over 1000 people all over the nation as part of our community. If you're not a member of Myspace sign up and become one of our friends. This has become the place to talk about all things Banooba.