It's me Barry your editor in chef of the BMIFC Barry Gram. This is the holiday issue 2017 cover. The photo on the cover is a fan favorite. Most of the holiday issue is finished. I'm putting the last bit of finishing touches to this issue. I chose to introduce you all to someone I met in 2003 when I did my A&E A Barry Manilow Christmas Live By Request Special. My guest for the special were my friend an saxophone player Kenny G. and female singer Cyndi Lauper. Cyndi and I instantly became friends after that.special In January I'm headed to the UK for my Williamsburg autobiography book signing tour. I am also taking part in a concert at the O2 to benefit "Don't Bully Me." an anti-bulling campaign. Cyndi and I are going to be on stage together to sing one of her songs True Colors. At the end Cyndi, myself and all the rest of the artists are coming out to one more song. Together we will all sing my song One Voice. I will come out first to star singing my song One Voice. Then Cyndi will come out to join me. Then all the rest of the artists will come out and join us as we all sing my song One Voice. A local London church chorus will also be singing with all of us on One Voice. The "Don't Bully Me." anti-bulling benefit concert will take place the Sunday before I go on my book signing tour. Now before I leave London I'm doing two night at the O2. I wanted UK fan to see my Williamsburg Tour that I did last summer. That's when I played all the outdoor amphitheater's. I had a blast last year on tour. So thanks to all my US fans for filling each outdoor venue to capacity. Every night the pavilion was filled and so was the lawn. The BMIFC Denver Convention was great. The barbecue on Saturday was a blast. I did get yelled at for eating a hotdog. Barry your Jewish and Jewish people don't eat pork. I told them it was a Hebrew National hotdog. Their slogan is "We speak to a higher authority." That's because Hebrew National is a kosher all beef hotdog. I had ketchup, mustard and relish on mine. Then after the concert we all went back to the place where we had our barbecue. A bonfire had been built there and we toasted marshmallows. We put the marshmallows in between two graham crackers and some Hershey's chocolate to make s'mores. Boy were they good . Yum! We did a three part round on Brian Murphy's song Can't Smile Without You. Now a three part round is where you split a large group into three equal groups. The first group starts then in comes the second group and finally the third group comes in. We had blast doing that. I truly enjoyed being on the road this summer. I haven't played the outdoor sheds as I use to call them in a long time. Next year is the Australian and New Zealand leg of my Williamsburg Tour. The BNIFC is having their convention down under in Melbourne. The convention will be Thursday June 14th thru Sunday June 17th. I learned my dear friend John Denver's song Sing Australia so I can sing it while I'm on tour down under. I'm also going to sing Calypso and Leaving On A Jet Plane by John Denver too. I'm bring my Yamaha LS-TA transacoustical guitar with me. I played it the five nights I was at Red Rocks Amphitheater. Surprises the heck out of the fans who were there. None of them knew I could play an acoustic guitar. Everyone knows I can play assorted types of pianos and keyboards. They also know I prefer Yamaha brand keyboards and pianos. Before I went on my four city concerts to benefit Hurricane Nate. I went to Jack Feldman's house to see the new piano he got. It's Sauter Anbiente elegance purisum piano designed by Peter Maly. Sauter pianos are made in Germany. I loved the feel of Jack's new piano. He told me where he got his Sauter piano at. I went to the Sauter dealer in New Jersey. I ordered the Sauter Ambiente piano for myself. It came a week before I went to do the four benefit concerts. I took that one with me when I did the four benefit concerts. Now all my fans know that besides playing keyboards and pianos I can play an acoustic guitar. All five nights at Red Rocks I opened with a tribute to my late friend John Denver. John had a home up in Aspen Colorado. The top floor of his house was glass enclosed on four sides. John would go up there to write his songs. The views were breath taking. You could see hawks, eagles and other birds flying around. I visited him twice while he lived there. John is sorely missed by me and all who loved him his family, friends and fans. When I sang Rock Mountain High I could feel his presences there. both John and I got to meet Jacques Cousteau. I got to go on two expeditions with Jacque Cousteau. One was to the Alaskan coastline the other was off the coast of Australia and New Zealand. On my bucket list of albums to do is a tribute album to my friend John Denver. Carly said one of her friends Kathy Rooney Henry sent her this article on Brian Murphy. She passed the article on to me so I could see the photos that went with the article. I could not believe how tight Brian's face looked. Carly said she figured with a tight face like that he must have recently had more plastic surgery. One of the other photos in the article was a head to shoe photo. It showed how super skinny Brian is. I know that Brian does not like to eat. So that's why he's super skinny said Barry. Me I consider myself a foodie
that's because I love eat. That's why I don't consider myself super skinny like Brian Murphy. I don't consider weighing 170 pounds being super skinny do you? Being 6'1" and weighing 145 to me is very skinny in my book. One other thing I discovered that my once friend Suzie told the website Vegas Chatter that I had signed to do a residency at the Westgate Casino Resort starting in April of 2018. Brian Murphy is going back to Las Vegas. He was at the LV Hilton from February 2005 to December 2009. Then he signed with the Paris Casino Resort which is on the strip. Brian signed a two year contract with the Paris. Starting in April of 2018 Brian Murphy will once again be a headliner in Las Vegas. The Westgate Casino Resort use to be the Las Vegas Hilton Casino Resort. Elvis Presley played there in the seventies. But then Elvis finally left there after seven years.
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