They say he’s the James Brown of storytelling – the hardest-working guy in the business.
Odds Bodkin, the storyteller in question, couldn’t agree more.
“I use multiple character voices, vocal effects and tell stories while playing the 12-string guitar, a grand piano, Celtic harp, electric guitar and other instruments,” he tells The Post.
And while he doesn’t play them all at the same time, he has been known to beat a Mideastern foot-stop drum while strumming a guitar.
Bodkin will perform his Storyblast! family matinee concerts this weekend at Lincoln Center’s small (130-seat) Clark Studio Theater.
He’ll be doing four stories from around the world, including one from Africa performed on kalimba, or thumb piano, and an Aesop fable called “The Wind and the Sun,” in which he’ll play the Celtic harp.
Then he’ll end the show by rocking out with his own, rollicking version of “The Three Little Pigs,” featuring that foot-stomp drum of his and electric guitar.
Bodkin – he takes his name from the Elizabethan expression you hear in a lot of Shakespearean plays – says that stories like these “breathe music.”
“It’s like seeing ‘Star Wars’ with the John Williams score,” he says. “They’re really fun …
“I’m like your humble projector, making music and voices and sound.
“If all goes well, I disappear.”
Shows are at 3 today and 2 tomorrow at the Clark Studio, 165 W. 65th St., seventh floor. For tickets ($35) and information on additional concerts in November and December, visit oddsbodkin.com/boxoffice or call (800) 554-1333.