The Logan Whitehurst Memorial Award for Excellence in Comedy Music

4th Annual Logan Awards to be held at FuMPFeST 2014 in Chicago, with host Dr. Demento

The 4th Annu­al Logan White­hurst Memo­r­i­al Awards for Excel­lence in Com­e­dy Music will be held at FuMPFeST 2014 at the West­in Chica­go North Shore in Wheel­ing, IL, the week­end of June 20th through 22nd, 2014. Our MC for the con­cert & cer­e­mo­ny will be leg­endary com­e­dy music DJ, the one and only Dr. Demen­to, the Guest of Hon­or of FuMPFeST 2014, who has also served as a per­ma­nent juror of the Logan Awards since it start­ed in 2011.

FuMPFeST 2014 is the first con­ven­tion being put on by the Fun­ny Music Project web­site, also known as ‘The FuMP’ dot com, and is chaired by Tom Rock­well, who is the web­mas­ter of the FuMP, as well a com­e­dy music per­former who under the stage name ‘Devo Spice’ has been mak­ing com­e­dy hip-hop albums for over 20 years, and is a sta­ple act cur­rent­ly heard on “The Dr. Demen­to Show”. Our mas­ter of cer­e­monies for the week­end will be Insane Ian, anoth­er reg­u­lar FuMP / Demen­to artist.

At FuMPFeST 2014, Dr. Demen­to also be giv­ing pre­sen­ta­tions, play­ing fun­ny music, sign­ing auto­graphs, and join­ing in all the fun that we have planned. We’ll also have live com­e­dy music con­certs being per­formed all week­end by such artists as Devo Spice, the great Luke Ski, Worm Quar­tet, Pow­er Sal­ad, Car­rie Dahl­by, Insane Ian, Tony Gold­mark, Pos­si­ble Oscar, Tom Smith, Ray­mond & Scum, Sea­mon­key, Gar­den Fresh, Dan Hart, and more! For infor­ma­tion on reg­is­tra­tion and book­ing a room in our hotel block, vis­it the FuMPFeST web­site at http://fumpfest.com .

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2013 Logan Award Winners

We are proud to announce the win­ners of the 2013 Logan White­hurst Memo­r­i­al Awards for Excel­lence in Com­e­dy Music…

Out­stand­ing Com­e­dy Music Video:
Beau­ty and the Beat — Todrick Hall 

Out­stand­ing Orig­i­nal Com­e­dy Song:
29/31 — Gar­funkel and Oates 

Out­stand­ing Par­o­dy Song:
When You Wish Upon A Death Star — the great Luke Ski 

You can see the con­cert & cer­e­mo­ny via the fol­low­ing video links:

Jered Perez’ YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNenkl6dTDM 

Pow­er Sal­ad’s Ustream: Part 1:
(skip ahead to the 12:00 mark­er for actu­al start of the event)
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/29682317

Pow­er Sal­ad’s Ustream: Part 2:
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/29684075

The Fun­ny Music Project has post­ed a stu­dio ver­sion of the Logan White­hurst med­ley which opened this year’s Logan Awards, fea­tur­ing 10 dif­fer­ent acts from the FuMP. You can lis­ten to and down­load it here.

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