Robin Klinger Entertainment - A cappella, classical, opera, big band

Robin Klinger Entertainment agency, in Great Neck, New York, represents artists that perform in a variety of music genres: sopranos, baritone, and a cappela vocalists and vocal groups, a Big Band Orchestra featuring 3 vocalists and songs from Johnny Mercer, classical and opera.

Show Description

THE BLUE BARREL SHOW

A one hour performance that will leave the audience with only one wish… MORE!!! The art of comedy-percussion. From beginning to end, The Blue Barrel Show electrifies the crowd with its powerful rhythms and its deliriously funny sketches. The pulsating energy of BAM is contagious: through drumbeats and laugh, it overwhelms the audience. What is BAM’s formula? Side-splitting comedy and savage drumming virtuosity! The BAM characters, who look like they walked straight out of a mad cartoon, speak a unique language: BAMspeach, spoken only by them, but understood by everyone from 3 to 83 years old. Add to this a transcultural humour and a lot of rhythm and you get a truly universal event. BAM has performed in schools, theaters, concert halls, festivals and outdoor stages before crowds of 5 000. The Blue Barrel Show has toured Canada, the United States, South America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, New Zealand and no less than eleven European countries, making everybody laugh in their own language!

BIO

BAM Percussion was created in February 1999.

During the 1999 Just for Laughs search-for-new-talent Contest, BAM, performing for only their second time as a group (the first time being the audition for the contest), achieved 2nd place at the national level.

Since then, BAM has toured nationally and internationally, visiting 26 countries on 5 continents.

Here are some of the highlights.

In 2002, BAM finished a three-and-a-half month European tour, performing more than 120 shows.

Voted ''Best Show'' by the public of the International Showcase in Valladolid, Spain (a competition that included 35 other international acts).

May 2003, BAM was recruited to work on the new Cirque du Soleil TV series 'Solstrom', in Montréal.

April 2004, BAM is a sold-out hit at the Philadelphia
International Children's Festival.

June through September 2004, the group completes yet another successful European tour, visiting Hungary, Belgium, France, Norway, Italy, and the UK, as well as performing in the Middle East at the Bat Yam festival in Israel.

October 2004, BAM completes a 3-week eastern Canadian tour with RADARTS in the Maritime Provinces. The show is 100% guaranteed by RADARTS, which gives the members of the audience the right to obtain a full refund if they are not 100% satisfied with a given performance. BAM performs 18 shows in a row on this tour and not one person asks for a refund!!

March 2005, after returning from a stretch of great
performances in New Zealand, BAM prepares, with the support of Foreign Affairs Canada, for a tour of West and Central Africa. The group performed in the following countries: Gabon, Cameroon, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal and Guinea. BAM also looks for new inspiration from the incredible world-renowned African rhythms provided by the best percussionists of the visited countries who share the stage with BAM.

In April and May 2005, BAM visited Asia for the first time. More precisely, the BAM Boys perform in Japan and South Korea.

In 2006, the group unveils its newly updated show and
costumes, much to the delight of the Showcase 2006 audience in Philadelphia, PA. * Please take a look at the ''Past Performances'' page at www.bampercussion.com for more complete and updated touring info.

Individually, the group members have all achieved success in different fields: talent contests, television appearances,
freestyle skiing and martial arts competitions, and many years of drum studies... Put all that together and you have BAM, an explosive force in the world of percussion and impeccable comedic timing.

The BAM Team:

Jean-Sébastien Dallaire
Cofounder, Creator, Comedian, Percussionist and Manager.

Jean-Sébastien Dallaire made his debut on the professional music scene in 1994 with the alternative rock band STUM. From 1995 to 1997, the group is quite active in the Montreal and Outaouais regions alternative scene. The group released two independent albums and produced a video, which was aired on MuchMusic. In 1998, Jean-Sébastien won the CEGEP Public's Choice award with a first version of BAM. A year later, with the help of Steve Burman, a new version of BAM is created. From 1999 to 2007, BAM tours 26 countries and 5 continents.

Denis Richard Jr.
Comedian, Percussionist.
Denis Richard Jr. joins BAM in 2001. His experience as a professional drummer and his numerous trainings in jazz, rock and African music, not to mention his openness to try something different and his natural talent for physical comedy, made Denis the perfect partner to complete the trio. Between 2001 and 2007, they toured together in no less than 12 countries.
www.denisrichardjr.com

Vincent Boudreau
Comedian, Percussionist.
The proud owner of a diploma for superior studies in percussion at the Québec Conservatory of Music, as well as the owner of a Masters degree in percussion from the University of Montreal, Vincent Boudreau had great credentials to join the group and was hired without delay. From the end of 2003 to 2007, they visited no less than 20 countries together.
www.vincentboudreau.com

Today, BAM continues to grow on an international level while perfecting their art, to offer a high-quality product available worldwide.

BAM dedicates every show to the life and formidable energy of their friend and BAM Percussion co-founder Steve Burman,

Video

BAM! Live

Letters of Recommendation

A letter from the Jefferson Center

Some Great Comments at the BAM! website

A letter from Patchogue

A letter from the Shea Center

A letter from Philadelphia, PA

A letter from Doylestown, PA

A letter from Ottawa, Canada