My how time flies when you are having fun! We all had a wonderful Summer playing in the water, digging in our gardens and breathing in the warm night air around the bonfire with our friends.

The Funky Mamas with Special Guest Chris Patterson from The Arrogant Worms http://chrispatterson.ca are gearing up for an exciting show at The River Run Center on Sunday November 13th at 2:00pm.

We have invited several of our very fine musical friends to join us on stage – watch out for some special storytelling, the boom boom boom of an upright Bass and a big old Tuba and the beating of some cool African Drumbeats to our old, familiar and fun new tunes.

Our dream with this show is to reflect our upcoming CD – The Funky Mamas and Friends – Pickin’ In The Garden – that is set to be released in Spring 2012 . You can get your tickets by visiting this website River Run Website or by calling The Box Office at 519-763-3000. Bring your friends along – it will be a great party!

We are also giving away tickets on Facebook so visit Our Facebook Page and tell us about your favourite veggie for your chance to win 4 tickets to the show!

Recent Mama news worth noting includes a delegation of Funky Mama volunteers at the 2011 OCFF conference a few weeks ago, fall fun shows including Carrotfest at Everdale Farm and Pumpkinfest at Sensational Elora.

Future plans see us moving into some “seasonal” celebration shows in December and some months focusing on our new CD project, a collection of songs based on growing, farming, and global togetherness.

We look forward to seeing you at the shows, we love and appreciate your comments, ideas and jokes. Hope to see you soon!

Big Warm Hugs,

Georgia, Tannis, Chantal and Kate!

The Funky Mamas

Spring has finally arrived even though the weather is still acting like Jack Frost wants to stick around for a little bit longer. But we all know that soon the spring peepers, the blue jays and the crickets will start to make their glorious sounds, the smell of mud in the garden and water spraying from the rainbarrel will brighten our days! The Funky Mamas sure can’t wait for all of that!
Winter was indeed fun – the Mamas, Papas and Funky kids spent time outdoors tobogganing, snowshoeing, skiing and just breathing in that fresh winter air during a walk in the woods. Though, like a mama bear and her cubs all four of us are keen to wake up and start a fresh new season.
This past year has been a time of great change for us. As some of you know, our dear friend and fellow Mama Alicia decided she needed to spread her wings in a different direction. This has left the four of us with the great task of redefining our band. We have started a new recording to reflect our new yet familiar sound. Last weekend, we spent some time up in a beautiful place in Huntsville – also known as Shangri La – to jumpstart this CD – keep your ears and eyes out for it – we will be working on it through the spring, summer and fall and hope to have it ready for all your curious ears by Christmas.

Last Sunday there was a launch for Grammas to Ambuyas compilation CD “Dancing Kites” in Ottawa, Ontario to benefit the Stephen Lewis Foundation.

All proceeds from the sale of this CD will go to the foundation. We are thrilled and honoured to be a part of the recording – “Rollin’ Along” – our title track from our second CD was chosen to be included. We join a long list of other fantastic Canadian artists that contributed as well, like Raffi, Maggie G, Jack Grunsky, Judy and David, The Kerplunks, Splash n’ Boots and Valdy (plus others). If you would like to purchase this CD you can do so by following this link.

http://www.indiepool.com/GTA111

We are hoping to have a release of that CD locally sometime soon with some of the musicians who live in and around the Toronto and Guelph area. This should prove to be a really great event and we do hope to see some of you there. Keep posted on our website for details.

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Have a Happy Day!
Love Tannis and The Funky Mamas

It has been a really exciting year for us and I’d thought I’d send a quick update.

First of all as some of you may know one of our founding members Alicia Miecznikowski has moved on from The Funky Mamas to pursue some solo projects. We are both extremely sad to see her go and very excited for her new adventures that lie ahead. We will miss having her performing with us in more ways than can be expressed in an email but we all live in the same town so we get to see her alot which is a small compensation at least. Of course her lovely spirit will carry on in all that we do moving forward and we will keep you posted on her projects as well!

Speaking of moving forward we are officially in the studio starting our newest CD and we can’t wait to get it out there for all of you to have a listen. We will be posting some snippets of new songs on our Facebook page so make sure you become a fan if you haven’t already (just search for us within Facebook). Our goal is to have it out ready for the CD release parties in Guelph and Ottawa by Spring 2011.

We are once again offering a special Holiday Time sale of our signed CDs for those young ones on your shopping list.
Pop us an email music@thefunkymamas.com telling us how many CDs of each kind you’d like (Mamas Fishing and/or Rollin’ Along) and we’ll give you the rate of any 2 signed CDs for $20 (which includes all shipping (within Canada) and taxes). Don’t forget to include your mailing address! If you email us before December 15th we can get it to you before Christmas.

Another highlight of our year was having the extreme fortune of playing in the far North this June in Iqaluit and Igloolik in Nunavut. We made some great friends, danced, played and sang our hearts out! Be sure to check out our website for some pics from our adventure.

Wishing you all the best this snowy season,
Chantal
The Funky Mamas