# David Bowie Con 2023 Presents…DERYCK TODD’S BOWIEBALL On June 17th

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- Published: 2023-03-02T16:00:00-06:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

### 󠀁[󠀁[**LET’S DANCE!**

### **Presenting…⏎ DERYCK TODD’S BOWIEBALL!⏎ ⏎ Sponsored By PolaroidFeaturing Ava Cherry, Michael T, TheMenWhoFell2Earth and more!

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#### **Tickets on-sale 1:00pm EST on Thursday March 2nd.**

_**David Bowie World Fan Convention**_
**Sat – Sun, June 17 – 18, 2023****NYC’s**_**
Racket**_**Star Guests For the Convention Include:****\* **Producers** Tony Visconti,
Mark Plati **and** Tim Palmer****\* **Guitarists** Carlos Alomar **and** Kevin Armstrong****\***
Pianist** Mike Garson****\* **Bass guitarists** George Murray **and** Carmine Rojas****\***
Vocalists** Robin Clark **and** Joey Arias****\* **Compere:** Nicholas Pegg**

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**2022 Bowie Ball Pics (credit: Sam McMahon)**

Overwhelming excitement is building for the **2023 DAVID BOWIE WORLD FAN CONVENTION**
on **June 17-18, 2023 **at New York City’s _**Racket**_ (431 West 16th Street, New
York, NY 10011) and at the event’s heart is the glamourous **Deryck Todd’s BowieBall**,
an unmissable late night celebration of the music, style, and legacy of David Bowie.
Sponsored by **Polaroid**_, _the Deryck Todd’s BowieBall will be hosted by renowned
Bowie performer **Michael T**,** and features **a spectacular selection of performances
from acclaimed Bowie tribute **Sons Of The Silent Age**, special guest vocalist **
Ava Cherry **and Bowie DJs **TheMenWhoFell2Earth, **so make sure you’ve got your
red shoes on!

Marking the anniversaries of _**Let’s Dance**_** **(40th) and _**Aladdin Sane **_(
50th), the night will also see a return of the “**Best Dressed Bowie”** competition
where the Deryck Todd’s BowieBall invites all attendees to showcase their brightest,
boldest and most daring Bowie outfits to celebrate the innovative impact that David
Bowie had on the world of fashion. Promising a weekend of stardust-spangled grandeur,
performances, presentations, art installments, and panel discussions, the David 
Bowie World Fan Convention celebrates its second sell out in the convention’s two
year history so keep your ‘lectric eyes open as there’s plenty more to be announced.

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**2022 Bowie Ball Pics (credit: Sam McMahon)**

**Deryck Todd**
Since 2006, he is the founder of New York’s famed BowieBall at venues
such as Don Hills, Le Poisson Rouge and Santos Party House featuring Fred Schneider,
Debbie Harry and Chloe Sevigny. His eponymously named boutique creative agency fuses
the worlds of event production, public relations, fundraising, celebrity, fashion,
music, and art into approachable guest-focused experiences. He’s produced events
at venues such as Neuehaus, The Standard, Virgin Hotels Nashville, Public Arts and
Soho House. Clients have included Bach Mai, Pernod Ricard, Mavi and MAC Cosmetics
with notable event attendees Mary-Kate Olsen, Bailey Bass, Miley Cyrus, Janelle 
Monae, Alok V Menon, Patricia Field, Carson Kressley, Trixie Mattel, Kim Jones, 
Malia Obama, among others. His continued goal is to provide noteworthy experiences
that leave guests with memories for a lifetime.

**Michael T**
Iconic performer Michael T is part of the furniture in the Bowie world,
renowned for his memorable shows that combine his distinctive singing style and 
unique artistic showmanship. His performances draw on elements of his favorite music
heroes, using influences from Prince to Freddie Mercury, yet the music, fashion,
presence and performance of David Bowie lies at the heart of his work. From Ziggy
Stardust to Aladdin Sane, Michael T encapsulates the auras of Bowie’s myriad of 
personalities to create a mesmerising musical and artistic performance that pays
homage to David Bowie’s legacy while allowing his own infectious personality shine
through.

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**2022 Bowie Ball Pics (credit: Sam McMahon)**

**Sons Of The Silent Age**
Chris Connelly and Matt Walker are both 30+ year veterans
of the music business. Chris moved from his native Scotland in the 80’s to pursue
a career in gratuitous volume and outrage with techno-rednecks The Revolting Cocks
and Ministry. Matt has brought his formidable drumming skills to renowned bands 
over the years including Filter, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, and Morrissey. Matt
and Chris were collaborating on a song when the seed was sown to start a band dedicated
to the music of David Bowie. A stellar band was culled from Chicago’s elite musicians,
all veterans in their own right with excellent musical pedigrees. Songs from Bowie’s
canon were selected, played and honed and Sons Of The Silent Age became a living,
vital entity. In January 2013, Sons played their inaugural charity show to a sold
out crowd at _Metro _in Chicago. The benefit was so successful they decided to make
it an annual event at _Metro_. Years later, the band continues to thrive, playing
select, prestigious shows including the opening of the “David Bowie Is” exhibit 
at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and collaborating with kindred spirits
such as Shirley Manson, Sinead O’Connor, Michael Shannon and Ava Cherry. Sons Of
The Silent Age are dedicated musicians who love the material and know it intimately.
The band pour their collective talents over Bowie’s 40+ years and 30 albums of dazzling
music that irrefutably changed the face of music culture forever.

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**2022 Bowie Ball Pics (credit: Sam McMahon)**

**Ava Cherry**
Ava Cherry is a singer and model. Her breakthrough as an artist began
in 1972 when she met David Bowie in New York City while Bowie was touring for _The
Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars_. It began with a period
of personal and artistic collaboration that heavily influenced the “Young Americans”‘
blue-eyed soul’ era of Bowie. Following this, she struck out as a solo artist and
background singer for musicians such as Luther Vandross and Chaka Khan. Growing 
up in Chicago with significant exposure to the local African-American music culture,
Ava Cherry became an influence in the works of a number of pre-eminent artists, 
as well as a respected musician in her own right. Ava Cherry’s influence on “Young
Americans” through her connections to major soul music institutions such as Sigma
Sound Studios and the Apollo Theater has proven a particularly noted part of her
legacy, as has her contemporaneous work with proto-new wave band the Astronettes.
Ava Cherry’s solo career has been long-running, with her first album _Ripe!!!_ released
in 1980. Her solo work, known for its disco influence, has received a lot of positive
critical reception. Ava Cherry is still a recording artist and seems to not age 
at all. She sounds great, has incredible work ethics and has not lost any charisma
as a person, singer and model. “Love Shines So Bright” is a collaboration with writer
and producer Rob Hardt and David A. Tobin. This exclusive production marks a new
phase and brings along a modern Soul tune with a vintage touch.

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**The Bowie World Fan Convention 2022 Pics (credit: Jazamin Sinclair)**

**TheMenWhoFell2Earth**
For many years, TheMenWhoFell2Earth DJ’s have been bringing
Bowie to the dance floor. From the now infamous indie night _Rebel Rebel_, which
rocked London’s West End in the early naughties, through to their collaboration 
with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, _Modern Love _at Soho’s Madame Jojo’s. More recently they
have been found guesting at parties like _Sink The Pink_, _Guilty Pleasures _and
_Horse Meat Disco _and venues like Koko, XOYO & The Clapham Grand (featuring as 
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[[**More On Bowie Ball:**
Bringing together a cornucopia of collaborators from every
period of Bowie’s multi-faceted career, The David Bowie World Fan Convention will
be sponsored by **VEVO **and **Waterloo Sparkling Water. **The exclusive VIP experience
with event partners **Hard Rock Hotel New York **will include exclusive panels, 
conversations and music only for VIP ticket holders, with more to be announced…

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**The Bowie World Fan Convention 2022 Pics (credit: Jazamin Sinclair)**

VIP event partners .**  **It will welcome a host of luminaries including acclaimed
producer **[Tony Visconti](https://www.nyrdcast.com/2022/10/david-bowie-convention-2023-announces-speakers-including-producers-tony-visconti-mark-plati-tim-palmer/),**
whose partnership with Bowie across five decades spawned fourteen classic albums
from 1969’s _Space Oddity _to 2016’s _Blackstar_. Joining Tony are other long-time
collaborators including pianist **Mike Garson**, whose association with Bowie spans
30 years from _Aladdin Sane _to_ Reality_, and guitarist and bandleader **Carlos
Alomar**, a veteran of eleven albums and the co-writer of Bowie’s first US number
1 single, ‘Fame’. Fans will be thrilled to learn that Carlos is to be reunited with
his bandmate **George Murray**, the bass guitarist who played with Carlos on two
world tours and six albums including the legendary Berlin trilogy – this will be
George’s first ever appearance at a Bowie event. Other guest speakers include guitarist**
Kevin Armstrong**, who played on ‘Absolute Beginners’ and led Bowie’s band at Live
Aid; **Carmine Rojas**, who played bass on the classic _Let’s Dance_ album and the
Serious Moonlight tour; multi-instrumentalist and _Earthling_ co-producer **Mark
Plati**; Tin Machine producer **Tim Palmer**; and performance artist **Joey Arias,**
who appeared alongside Klaus Nomi during Bowie’s groundbreaking _Saturday Night 
Live_ performance in 1979. And there’s more!   [](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=78a2645cef&e=615f2b8493)

A rousing and exciting sold-out success, the first ever David Bowie World Fan Convention
in June 2022 gathered 1,500 fans in Liverpool, England from as far afield as Japan
and the US to meet each other and celebrate David Bowie. Moderated by author and
Bowie expert extraordinaire **Nicholas Pegg** (_The Complete David Bowie_) who returns
for the second convention, The David Bowie World Fan Convention immersed attendees
into his hidden, hilarious, and sometimes heartbreaking world. Fans were able to
come face-to-face with many of his friends and colleagues including Carlos Alomar,
Robin Clark, Gail Ann Dorsey, Donny McCaslin, Woody Woodmansey, Jonathan Barnbrook,
Kevin Cann, Chris Duffy, and John Cambridge.   Fans are urged to connect with the
event online for the most up-to-date information by signing up for mailing list 
updates and following on social media at:

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