If you are interested in booking John Boda, he is available in two different
venues. John Boda - The Music Man is mostly for the senior market and
involves great standards, jazz, swing, ballads from the Tin Pan Alley era,
as well as incorporating many great songs from the 50's - 60's - 70's for a
variety of events.
John Boda - Acoustic Boomerang Solo Rock is his venue performing a wide
variety of contemporary songs from classic to modern rock! (If you're
interested in this venue please visit his other site:
www.johnboda.net
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John Boda - The Music Man |
Performing songs from The Great American Songbook
for the senior and active adult market
Jen Radtke - Contact Manager
815-439-6877
Most recent
comment:
Dear John,
Thank you for the wonderful musical tour through the US.
We so loved your playing on your new guitar and the rattle of the tambourine.
Rest Haven is still tapping to the beat of your marvelous musical performance.
Sorry if we held you over but we so sure cared for your music and jocularity.
Please come back again.
Hugs, Loves and Prayers,
Betty Cramp
Resident Council Secretary |
John Boda - The Music Man
John Boda Brochure
John Boda is considered the premier singer/guitarist of this music in the
Chicago area.
Hello John! Just a note to say hello.
I received many "hello messages" from you in the field. Every facility
loves you! Each and every 36 hour course.... I tell
everyone about you and activity directors shout out loud.... he comes
to our facility....our residents love him. We Xerox your business card
and give everyone in the class a copy.
Take care and hope to "run into you" soon! Best Wishes, Susan
Quattrochi-Tubin
(Susan Quattrochi-Tubin owns and manages
Quality Care Consultants in Chicago. She is an outstanding, and very popular
consultant and instructor to hundreds of activity directors who regularly
schedule entertainment in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs)
Special programs available such as: George Gershwin - The Man and Music / Irving
Berlin - Mr. American Song / Hoagy Carmichael - Stardust Memories / Cole Porter
- It's Delovely! / Stephen Foster - American Popular Music Foundation / The Ship
of Dreams - Songs & stories about Titanic and era.
In addition to his many special music shows, John Boda also is available for
special speaking only programs providing very interesting historical information
along with many large print handouts of the topics. This program is called his
"Lecture Tour" and is constantly growing but currently the covered topics of
each for an hour program are:
1. The Eastland Disaster - July 24th 1915 / 2. Titanic - Ship of
Dreams / 3. The Lincoln Assassination / 4. Wild Bill Hickok / 5. Crop Circles /
6. The Endurance Adventure / 7. JFK Assassination / 8. The Chicago Fire 1871 /
9. The Iroquois Theatre Fire in Chicago 1903 / 10. Chicago World's Fair 1893
He has performed for senior groups, retirement communities, health care
facilities, women's clubs, and many other venues full time for the past ten
years. While some performers of this venue learn and play just a handful of the
same old songs over and over at the same places, John Boda's repertoire is
nearly 1000 songs and he also keeps notes of each group as to requests and set
list that was played so the next booking will be different each time. Just
as each group is different, each performance varies as to tempo, songs and
energy level. He can play quiet dinner instrumental mood music...or high energy
swing and dance songs, or any combination depending on the crowd
John Boda strongly feels that three things are important in successfully
performing this music venue; 1. A high level of musical skill is needed along
with and ever growing knowledge and understanding of it's original writers.
performers and history. 2. An up-beat and energetic personality is needed to
both interact and entertain with the audiences. 3. Lastly, and maybe most
unique, a person needs an acute sense of "reading" the crowd and choosing an
appropriate set list of songs. John Boda excels in all three areas.
(Please don't miss two more produced videos featuring John Boda performing "I'm
Old Fashioned", "Cheek to Cheek" and "The Folks Who Live on the Hill" by
clicking on the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers poster on the previous page!)
Videos
Click below for Video Playlist;
John Boda Music Man Videos