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2 Line Slug-fest
| Gunnar Madsen, the Grammy-nominated songwriter and founder of The Bobs, creates some of today's freshest and funniest music for families. "Uproarious", "dizzyingly imaginative" and "musically very hip". |
| Grammy-nominated composer Gunnar Madsen is one of the most singular compositional voices working today - Wry, angular, unashamed to be romantic, and a true eclectic. |
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Grammy-nominated
composer Gunnar Madsen has written for the Minnesota Opera, Lincoln Center,
NPR, and the National Beef Council; performed on PBS, the BBC, The Tonight
Show and on every “Good Morning!” show in the U.S.; founded
the acclaimed acapella group The Bobs; won virtually every major award
for children's music; provided the singing voice for Don Cheadle’s
Sammy Davis Jr. in "The Rat Pack"; had music featured throughout
"Sex and the City"; co-written the award-winning musical "The
Shaggs", which the NY Times called "awe-inspiring": appeared
in and written music for the Vince Vaughan film "The Break Up". |
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Gunnar
Madsen is a composer, writer, actor, singer, director and gadfly.
He’s
written for the Minnesota Opera, Lincoln Center, Universal Pictures
and National Public Radio; he has performed on The Tonight Show,
the Smothers Brothers Show, PBS, BBC, and major stages in North
America and Europe; he’s won nominations for a Grammy, a Bammy,
and an Izzy, and awards from ASCAP, the LA Weekly, the LA Drama
Critics Circle, the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle, and UC Berkeley.
He founded the internationally acclaimed acapella group The Bobs,
and for ten years was a driving creative force in their success.
His family CDs, "Old
Mr. Mackle Hackle", “Ants in My Pants!” and "I'm
Growing" have
won virtually every major award for children's music. He provided the
singing voice for the portrayal of Sammy Davis Jr. in the film "the
Rat Pack", and his ravishing waltzes are featured throughout
the 2nd season of HBO's "Sex and the City". He co-wrote
the award-winning hit musical "The Shaggs: Philosophy of the
World", which the
NYTimes called "awe-inspiring". His documentary film about
an organic farming community for mentally disabled people in Russia
was an official selection of the Ojai International Film Festival.
His picturebook "Old Mr. Mackle Hackle" (Little, Brown &
Co.) is called "Ebullient" by the Horn Book, and he and his
music are in the Vince Vaughan/Jennifer Aniston film "The Break
Up". |