Jody Gnant: News

One of the great maxims of American culture is “you can be whatever you want to be.” For years, the MTV show Made has been capturing the process of people from various walks of life who want to become something else – whether it’s a nerdy high school guy’s journey to becoming a hot freestyle rapper or a tomboy’s quest to become a beauty queen.

Such was the goal of Arizona native Kelly, who decided she wanted to change her image to become a pageant queen and learn how to perform her own songs. She received assistance from beauty queen coach Jacqueline Brady on how to style her hair and apply makeup, and also received some vocal and performance coaching from independent music artist Jody Gnant.

Gnant provided Kelly with a base education on the craft of songwriting, but felt it was important to help Kelly compose and perform one of her own songs. She also taught Kelly stage presence, and added more style to her wardrobe by letting Kelly choose some outfits from Pathway Clothing, one of Gnant’s sponsors.

You can watch Gnant coach Kelly on her path to becoming a performer and pageant queen on Saturday, February 16, when the Made episode “Pageant Queen” airs on MTV. There will be four back-to-back episodes airing that day, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Visit www.mtv.com for local listings.

Don’t miss the chance to catch Jody Gnant’s MTV debut!

*by Niki D'Andrea

By Niki D'Andrea:

As most of you know, the Super Bowl will be in Phoenix this year, and it brings more than a hundred high-profile parties with it. I’m thrilled to be teaming up with Jody Gnant on Thursday night for “Super Thursday” at Axis/Radius.


Diddy, we're doin' your party.


The two blocks surrounding the Scottsdale venue will be closed for outdoor music performances. Diddy will be there, performing for an hour and a half. Next and Valley rapper Pokafase will also be performing. Inside the club, Nick Lachey and NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson will be hosting the Super Skins Celebrity Golf Classic Tournament. Confirmed guests include Michael Jordan, Peyton Manning, Brett Favre, Charles Barkley, Justin Timberlake, Carson Daly, Jerry Rice, Carmen Electra, Lance Armstrong, and Dale Earnhardt Jr.

And Jody and I will be there – on the red carpet, up near the front of the stage, in the VIP area. And she’s going to be recording and co-hosting video clips of the event on her Ustream for use in the Phoenix New Times Super Bowl blog. You never know who we’ll run into. Super Thursday is January 31. Be sure to hit up www.jodygnant.tv and www.phoenixnewtimes.com/superbowl for the scoop.

Gutterkitty and Gnant on the red carpet? Now, that’s entertainment.

(You can also follow Super Bowl party coverage on Twitter: www.twitter.com/phxnewtimes_sb)

ALL of the clothes that I've been wearing have been courtesy of the kind folks over at Pathway USA.

Thank you for believing in the little guy.

I will forever be a Pathway fan, because you believed when others still thought we were a little crazy.

HUGS .o/


Our tour of the Pathway offices and design facilities.

Not sure if everyone knew this... But our lyrics are available on the website in the music section.

And if you 'd like it to be realllllly easy, I'll put them here, too.

:)

Hounds of Romance
Me Who Changed
Lower Level Ghetto Livin
Eternally Grateful
Lavandaria Sucia
Song in D
Quality Time
From the Middle
Over
Great Day

Lucky Night
Take Me To My Kingdom
What We Don't
In A Sense
Boy Blue
We Meet Again
I Will Remember
The Gayatri
My Little Dancer
Prophecy
He and Beauty

Sweet! They've got a UStream Widget for the Mac!
<3's

About Ustream.tv Widget for OS X
- Live Streams List
- Favorite Streams List
- Save Favorites To Your Ustream Watch List
- Growl Notifications
- More to come…

COME TO OUR GIG DECEMBER 28TH!!!

With Mason Reed from www.thisismason.com
Friday, December 28th, 2007
The Brickhouse Theatre
Our Annual "Why Wait for New Year's Eve?" Party - 7:00 pm
1 East Jackson Street, Phoenix AZ 85004
Price: $10.00

People will probably ask, "Jody, what are you thinking?"

But really, we just want to be able to make a living making music.

To buy our new album, click on the little BUY page to your left. (See it?)

Thanks for your support - it means the world to us!

Wish us luck!

:)

www.jodygnant.net

Happy Independence Day everyone!

Ahhh, the sweet smell of freedom...

I've decided to start keeping a blog - one that's separate from the website news.

Something a little more appropriate for rambling about anything in general.

Here it is, if you're so inclined...

:)

There are so many people to thank for coming together to create such a special video.

Roger Belfiore at The Brickhouse Theater - for doing such an amazing job directing.

Bryan Miller over at Archetype HD and Bill Fenster at Fenster Productions.

Brian Ronalds and Jaime Leigha for being an amazing leading couple.

Julian Goldenthal for coming up with the initial concept.

Nephi Thomas for some amazing sound and Chris Broadman for the awesome
lighting.

Dawn Rosa-Cole for taking amazing photos (again) of the entire event.

Katerina Dimitrov for being there for everybody and everything (and for
taking video of Roger pretending to sashay.)

Ralph Patlan for being the most amazing engineer on the planet.

And of course, to Adrian, Julian and Kris - for being the best and only group of guys I could imagine having this much fun with.
:)

The Brickhouse Theater
9:00 pm
1 East Jackson Street
Phoenix AZ 85004
USA
602-258-7880
Price: FREE

Thanks to Chris LaMont for producing and directing our very first music video.

Chris is an amazing director in addition to being one of the founders of the Phoenix Film Festival.

Thanks Chris - you rock!

:)

Check him out at www.myspace.com/chrislamont

A lot of people have asked, and so here it is.

If you've already ordered Pivot, shoot me an email if you'd like me to send you an Mp3 of Hounds of Romance.

Meanwhile, the album is almost finished... It's been a long road, but what a ride!

From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

Your support means the world to us.

As the band and I get ready to release Pivot, we're excited to play our creation live for ya'll in other cities.

If you'd like us to come to your town, feel free to demand it below...

Or, shoot me an email.

Or, do both. Actually, both would be rad.

Happy New Year!

:)

<a href="http://eventful.com/performers/P0-001-000019008-3/demand?from_sticker=300x325_darktransparent"> Demand Jody Gnant with Eventful! </a>

We're having a "Why wait for New Year's Eve?" Party and at Trax on December 29th. (Trax is the old Sail Inn)

The band and I are playing, as is Gavin Weiser and Page the Village Idiot.
Starts at 8:00 p.m...

If you got a gift for the holidays, you don't like it, bring it in and trade it for a new one at our holiday gift exchange.

Hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday season! :)

Click here for map

Trax Directions:

From I 10 or Loop101:
Merge to Loop202
Take the Priest Dr exit 6 to Center Pkwy
Go South on N Priest Dr
Turn left at W Rio Salado Pkwy Turn right at W 1st St Turn right at S Farmers Ave
26 S FARMER AVE
TEMPE, AZ 85281

From University Dr:
North on Farmer Ave.
Drive North for ¼ mile 
N.W. CORNER OF FARMER & 1st ST.
26 S FARMER AVE
TEMPE, AZ 85281

If you get lost call Trax at (480) 966-9565 

Thanksgiving weekend was full of surprises.

Our good friends Scotty and Fiddy dropped by a while back on their quest to hitchhike to all 50 state capitols in 50 days or less.

You can see more about their adventure by going to their website: Hitch50.com

I learned something about myself that weekend during the fun at the capitol steps, jams on the front porch, partying at ALICE COOPER'STOWN, and jump shots in all of their glory.

And that is - not to be afraid to be on the top in a human pyramid.



Seems small, but there's a sticking-your-neck-out-there metaphor in there somewhere.

The truth of it is, I never would have done it if Scotty hadn't double-dog dared me to. So thanks, Scotty. Anything IS possible.

A double-dog dare is also the reason they were able to convince me to come to Hawaii with them to celebrate the big 50.

Wow - Dawn over at DRC Media took some amazing photographs on Saturday.

If anybody needs photographs taken - message her here...

Big thanks go out to The Brickhouse Theater, too!

They let us use their beautiful building as the backdrop for the photo shoot. If you ever get a chance to come to downtown Phoenix, definitely try and see a show there. It's a beautiful venue!



To see more photos like this one, visit the photos page.
To see even more photos visit the Flickr page.

XOXO,
Jody
P.S. - Janelle, you are an absolute rock star. Thanks for everything.