Here is a picture of Joe sitting in a Police car at the Radio Network Special Children's Party in Auckland.
What a Fun Night!
We all agreed that people of Cambridge really know how to have a fun time. It was really cool to see thousands of people joining in singing and dancing along to our songs. Great work everyone, Top of the class!
We also caught up with Dave Dobbyn and we can tell you, not only is he an incredible singer and performer, he also plays the Funky monkey Kazoo really well.
(sun 16th Dec)
Our Visit to Kidz First Children's Hospital
Here we are at Middlemore Hospital to check out the 25 christmas trees made by local Schools to be distributed across the hospital. We sang our 'Christmas in the Summertime' song as well as a few other christmas favourites.
We also made a special visit with our friend Joe Rokocoko to the Kidz First children's hospital. It's not an easy time being in hospital particuarly during the christmas period so we hope we were able to help spread a bit of monkey fun throughout Kidz First. Get well soon !
(Fri 12th Dec)
David Beckham's Training Session!
We performed to over 6,500 excited David Beckham fans from 130 Schools at his LA Galaxy football training at the Mt Smart Stadium.
It was an incredible day and to see thousands of people in the stadium join in with all The Funky Monkeys antics was a sight to see.
(Friday 5th Dec)
Sunnynook Creche
Here we are with the amazing happy people from the Sunnynook Creche, we had a blast performing at sunnynook, Santa even turned up!
This week we have also performed at Belmont Kindercare, Greenlane Lollipops and Superstart pre School.
Chris also paid a special visit to Goodwood School as a guest judge for their talent night. He saw performances from some very talented pupils and really enjoyed seeing others get up on stage and "Give it a Go". Well Done Everyone!
(thursday 4th Dec)
Auckland Santa Parade
Check out our photos from the Santa Parade today in Auckland.
(sunday 30th Nov)
It's been another busy week for The Funky Monkeys!
We have been performing at the Aotea Centre for The Edge School Shows, it happens over 8 days and during that time over 2400 children come along and enjoy the show. Dizzy has been using his particimeter to make sure everyone is participating and we can tell you for sure, they have been. We have also performed at the Porse christmas party in Grey Lynn and Puffing Billy Day Care. Over a thousand students at our show at Papatoetoe Central School danced, sang and clapped along. A huge Hi from The Funky Monkeys to everyone at Papatoetoe Central School - Great Singing!
(friday 28th Nov)
Te Totara Primary School
Te Totara Primary School in Hamilton is the small age of one and we got to attend their celebrations. Check out who also came along and had a photo with Chris!
Hello Cambridge!
This week we had some great shows in Cambridge, we performed shows at the Cambridge Early Centre, Leamington Kindergarten and Cambridge East primary School. We had a little bit of time between shows to relax and check out the amazing trees around town. It's incredible how big some of those trees are and to think once upon a time they would have been small seeds. Amazing!
Happy Birthday Kashin!
Kashin the elephant lives at Auckland Zoo and today we got invited to perform at her 40th birthday party. Kashin looked very pretty and was painted in a traditional Thai style that symbolises a celebration. After our show we were able to spend time with Kashin and Burma, we even got to feed them sultanas from our hands, which was really cool, their trunks felt like giant vacuum cleaners.
A huge big thank you to Zoo staff for letting us have the special visit!
About Kashin
She arrived at Auckland Zoo in 1972 on a jumbo jet aged four years
her name comes from an ASB naming competition ("cash-in") and she is the elephant on the ASB money boxes
Kashin weighs approximately 3.6 tonne
she loves food, people (especially her keepers), praise and attention
she's not such a big fan of exercise these days, but does love swimming in her pool
TV2 is screening ‘Kashin This Is Your Life' on Sunday 23 November at 7pm
The Royal NZ Show Christchurch!
Our time in Christchurch at the Royal NZ Show was a very busy time for us. We performed 9 shows, gave thousands of badges away, signed lots and lots of collectors cards and met thousands of people. The weather was fantastic! We didn't know what to look at first, there was so much to do! Check out the photo's Dizzy took, he even took one of himself!
Manawatu Show
We had two really fun days performing at the Manawatu Show in Fielding. Check out some of the pictures we took. They had lots and lots of animals there including pigs, really big cats, emu, dogs, cows, ducks, sheep, alpacas and our favourite was the funny donkey that made a lot of noise.
Shirley Muir Kindy
We really enjoyed meeting the children, staff and parents at the Shirley Muir Kindergarten in Hamilton today. We all agreed that it looks like a very fun place and we had a great time performing our special Kindy show.
Family Fireworks Fiesta - Alexandra Park
Wow! we have just seen some incredible fireworks at our show in Auckland. Thanks to everyone that sang and danced during our performance especially during "Apples, Oranges and Bananas" you sounded great!
Carters Kids Gone Fishin Day- Raglan
Here we are with our fishing hero Graeme Sinclair, he knows heaps of amazing information about fish and how to catch them. Thanks to all the children that showed us their catch of the day and a special thanks to our friends from Carters -Your building partner! for inviting us along to perform.
(November 1st)
The Funky Monkeys with The Western Stars Crew!
We had a fantastic time at the Oscar conferance held in Auckland this weekend. Here we are with our friends from the Western Community Centre. Thanks to all those who came along to our music workshop at the conferance. Lot's of Fun!
We also had a great time at the Auckland USU kids day out. Great to see lots of families turn up to join in all the fun. We would like to say a huge "well done" to the organisers who did a great job putting the day together. Special Hi to our favourite Pirate! rrrrrrrrrrrrrr
The Funky Monkeys at Rainbows End!
We have been performing shows at Rainbows End these school holidays. It's been lots of fun performing every day at 12.00pm and 2.15pm. If you are looking for something to do, then come along to Rainbows End and join in on all the fun. We have been meeting lots of new friends, today we met Jamie who came all the way from Invercargill. We also had our very good friend Brenz Monkey join us, he is really good at "Heads Shoulders Knees and Toes", especially during the fast bit.
PS - Dizzy Dog has been waking up very early every morning with his bags packed ready to go. He gets very excited and loves going to Rainbows End.
Joe sings his song!
Joe sings his song at Horsham Downs School. He always gets a little bit scared performing by himself but he gave it a go and it sounded fantastic.
The Winning School!
Horsham Downs won the free concert at their School with getting the most votes on the "That's the Story" website. Check out the cool pictures some of the students made for us.
Sunday 21st September 08
We had a great time today at life church in Hamilton. The children had fantastic singing voices especially during pizza pete. Thanks Toby for inviting us along, see you next time.
The Special Children's Extravaganza in Napier!
We just spent the afternoon with 2000 amazing kids and their families in Napier!We have performed at events like this for the last 5 years, and every year we enjoy being able to meet new friends.
The coolest thing about these particular events is that everyone who is invited to the party can take a giant bag of free toys home with them.
Some very cool people turn up like our good friend Pikachu, who thought that posing for a photo was lots of fun.
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