Wavy Gravy

Amazing things happen when you let history catch up. From the I Heart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with the legendary Wavy Gravy On the flipside of the 45th Anniversary of Woodstock and his role as emcee, the original clown activist will take the stage at City Winery on October 20th in New York City to debut his One Man Show. Take a comedic and insightful trip thru 78 years of one extraordinary life by the self-described "Hippy Icon, Flower Geezer & Temple of Accumulated Error." Gravy muses on many celebrated names and seminal moments in pop culture from Woodstock to San Francisco's seminal 1960s improv group the Committee to the many stages he stood on with The Grateful Dead. Wavy is the original activist clown and former frozen dessert (a reference to his onetime celebrity as a Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor). He talks about his life and times with everyone from Albert Einstein to Lenny Bruce (his first manager) to Bob Dylan to B.B. King giving Wavy his name. "Some people tell me I'm a saint, I tell them I'm Saint Misbehavin,." Wavy says. “I love telling great stories about Bill Graham, Marlene Dietrich, Alice Cooper and Paul Krassner among others.” Hugh Romney, much better known as Wavy Gravy, already well into his official geezerhood', is more active and more effective in the world then he was decades ago. Back then when still known as Hugh Romney he stood on the stage of the original Woodstock concert and announced...." What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000!" He was at Woodstock as a member of an entertainment/activist commune known as the Hog Farm. Today, the Hog Farm still exists, collectively owning and operating the 700-acre Black Oak Ranch and hosting the annual Pig-Nic. And Wavy lives 8 months of the year in a Berkeley Hog Farm urban outpost, a big communal house he refers to as "hippie Hyannisport" But Mr. Gravy has expanded his activities over the past three & a half decades to include codirectorship of Camp Winnarainbow, a performing arts camp for children which takes over the Hog Farm for 10 weeks every summer, and the organization of all-star rock concerts to raise money for a variety of environmental, progressive, political, and charitable causes, most notably Seva, a foundation he cofounded in 1978, initially to combat preventable and curable blindness in the Third World. WAVY GRAVY’S ONE MAN SHOW: AN ORAL HISTORY on October, 20th at The City Winery in New York City begins at (6:00 PM DOORS / 8:00 PM START). Concert ticket prices are: VIP $35.00, Premier $35.00; Reserved $30.00; and Bar Stool $25.00. Tickets can be ordered thru: http://www.citywinery.com/newyork/tickets/wavygravy102014.html City Winery is New York City’s new and intimate venue and is located at 155 Varick Street, New York City, NY 10013.