Chris Tokalon Live at the GL Theatre

Don’t Tune Me – I’ll Tune You
One man music comedy show

“If music be the food of love, play on”
“Laughter is the best medicine”

At Greyton Lodge, Friday 7th August 20:00pm Tickets R70 sold at Greyton Lodge

A Wacky one-man show, where you get to see Chris abilities to imitate instruments, people and himself, using a multi-tracking pedal which creates a backing band – all played by him! Music and Comedy by a one-man beat box orchestra who also plays real sax, flute and a spaceship.

Christopher Tokalon is a musician, composer, performer, sound therapist and recording artist. He has played sax and flute since 1979 in a wide variety of jazz ensembles, musicals and cabarets, as well as being constantly involved in and performing local original music with bands and artists such as Peto, the Jazz Hounds, Steve Newman, Tony Cox, Drum Cafe and his own world music project, Soulbird.

Also with the nickname the Marvelous Mouth he presents a one man comedy show entitled “Don’t Tune Me, I’ll Tune You”, in which he is known for his astonishing ability to mimic musical instruments, birds, animals and people in performance.

He has developed a natural ability for overtone singing and creating evocations of natural sounds as part of a Sound therapy process. About ten years ago Christopher started specializing in Sound Journeys, a process where “passengers” lie down and receive a wonderfully calming, energizing sound bath. The effect of this cellular massage is to shake loose stress and trauma and create a balance between body, mind and spirit. Journeys can be done for groups or individuals and Chris has taken literally thousands of people on transformational Sound Journeys.

Christopher is also an expert in facilitating interactive music sessions and performing inspirational music and comedy for teambuilding in corporations, on holistic retreats, children's playshops and as a supplement to other workshops. He has produced two CDs of specially composed music for relaxation and upliftment. His work has received acclaim from therapists, health journals and basically everyone who has been on a magical sound experience with him.CHRIS “THE MARVELLOUS MOUTH” TOKALON presents “DON’T TUNE ME – I’LL TUNE YOU”

You might have seen him in recent years alongside Steve Newman and Tony Cox as a saxophonist, flautist and funny front man in the musical comedy "Don't Tune Us - We'll Tune You"; imitating instruments and impersonating a couple of well-loved public figures with hilarious results. He returns to the stage with a solo show, quite aptly titled "Don't Tune Me - I'll Tune You!" This is where he gets to show off and combine all his talents as a comedian, musician, composer, sound therapist and whacky, walking windbag – in this highly entertaining show he calls himself ‘the Marvellous Mouth’ because of his astonishing abilities to mimic musical instruments, people, birds and animals. All these skills are put to good use in a dazzling array of musical events and ‘tunes’.

The show consists of snappy and witty comedy, in various accents and characters, which are accompanied by his ‘tunes’, that display an unbelievable range of vocal gymnastics. This is all woven together with a nifty technical device called the DD20 Loop Sampler; a foot pedal which enables Christopher to record or loop his voice live in front of his audience. He adds layer after layer of bass, drums, guitar, trumpet etc., etc. and all the sounds are produced from his big fat marvelous mouth.

Basically he multi-tracks himself to create his own backing band and then adds on vocals and lyrics which contain silly and /or inspiring messages which are funny and potentially life changing to the listener. Some tunes have no silly lyrics in them, instead they have melodic and haunting interwoven melodies from vocals, sax and flute. Sax and flute are his real life instruments which he mastered when he was a more ‘serious’ musician. His show is suitable entertainment for any celebration or event, private or corporate and it appeals to all age groups. It is child friendly as well! Two popular sayings will endorse this show; “If music be the food of love, play on” and “Laughter is the best medicine”. So as he says, “Don’t tune me – I’ll tune you!”

christopher@wam.co.za

072 220 3736

Intntnl : +27 72 220 3736

http://www.soundman.co.za/