Saturday, March 5, 2011 – Public Works Presents – Mission United:

What does a night club have in common with SFSMILES? 
A lot, as it turns out, which is why we are currently forging a unique and symbiotic relationship with one.
 

Public Works Presents
Mission United:
“A party celebrating all things Mission”

Saturday, March 5th 8 pm – 2 am

  Public Works presents an 8 hour fundraiser celebrating the melting-pot neighborhood,
San Francisco’s Mission district.
Cherry-picking some of the best in music, performance, art, fashion and food,
Mission United brings the sights and sounds of our favorite ‘hood under one roof.

Proceeds of the event to benefit:
Dr. Rick/ SF General Hospital
Psychiatric Department Volunteer & Rehab Services

Root Division
SFSMILES

 

* For $5 admission, FREE FOOD & DRINK SPECIALS (between 8pm and 10pm) click “attending” on Facebook! *

Like SFSMILES, Public Works is committed to the San Francisco community, and regularly donates a portion of their proceeds to various local non profits, in addition to assisting them with promotions and events.  They have asked SFSMILES for ideas, help connecting with local charities, and occasional support for charitable events at their venue.  Of course we are thrilled to help, as Public Works already has a huge following, which means not only more visibility for SFSMILES,  but increased public awareness of the many clients we serve. Watch out for upcoming SFSMILES donation drives and fundraisers, brought to you by Public Works! 

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Saturday, February 26 and Spring/Summer Preview – Blue Skies Coming Our Way!

Greetings!

Pleased to share a preview of what the Songbird Festival Presents will be bringing into full bloom.

A few things in the creative planters:

Three more shows in the Music to Freak to Series co-presented with Con Brio at Amnesia. – RSVP Here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=166700050032076

Kamp Americana a four month series at various venues featuring and co-presented with KAMP CAMILLE as the anchor for shows at various venues with local luminaries The Stairwell Sisters, Toshio Hirano, the smart combo Slim Jenkins and more! Kamp Americana Begins Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at Red Devil Lounge and continues through out the city with a birthday bash BBQ/show for Ms. Momo on Saturday, August 20, 2011 at El Rio. Check Out The Group and Pick Up Fun Americana Music Facts This Spring – http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_181205278584231

Indie-Cine-Shack a four month series in collaboration with Nara Denning will be a pairing of local film from dark to light and many hues on the SF Scene Cine Shack with live music. May 2011 through August 2011.

Founder Ms. Momo in addition to keeping the wheels in the sky that keep on turning behind the scene moving will be continuing to put out Local Slice Recommendations and will also be collaborating with Rupa Marya of Rupa and The April Fishes in 2011 to help get the word out on Independent Art and Media Resources and will be organizing a few panel discussions starting mid March – Stay tuned.

On the Purple slice a Prince Party with Special LA Weekend Guest is in store for July or August.

Also looking for folks to help get an SF chapter of www.booksthroughbars.org/ going on ideally by Mid September through November for the Third annual Songbird Festival Presents 4-5 Week Visual and Performance Art Series.

Also we are always looking for help w/ all sorts of Songbird Festival behind the wings stuff like: flyering, press releases, show reviews & documenting, writers to do guest blogs, general word spreading, newsletter formatting, website and social media bling, artists & graphic design skills for flyers, etc. in exchange for tix to shows, helping get the word out about your projects, providing space for tabling for community events at our shows… thanks in advance for any assistance!

This Weekend:

Con Brio and Songbird Festival Present: Music To Freak To
A Monthly Saturday Night Soulstice

Amnesia
853 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 970-0012
www.amnesiathebar.com

21 and Over

Event – 8 p.m. – 1:30 a.m.

$7-10 sliding scale
www.songbirdfestival.org
www.thebandconbrio.com

The second installation of the Music To Freak To Saturday Night 4 month concert series at Amnesia, featuring the best in the Bay Area’s soul, funk, blues, roots, folk, rock and more! To support Con Brio’s release of their debut album “From The Hip”, the band played a veritable headlining tour of San Francisco in 2010, with spots at Bottom of the Hill, Cafe Du Nord, Red Devil Lounge, Boom Boom Room, Elbo Room, Amnesia and many more. For 2011, they plan to settle into a 4-month long residency at the hippest spot in the Mission, and have teamed with the Songbird Festival to put together a series of concerts to showcase the best emerging artists in the Bay Area and beyond. With a rotating cast of local musicians sitting in on Con Brio’s sets, and talented and diverse opening and closing acts each night, you will never know exactly what to expect at this party.

What the press is saying about Music To Freak To:
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/con-brio-with-spirit/Content?oid=2241549

Saturday, Feb 26, 8PM
Kelly McFarling – www.kellymcfarling.com
Con Brio – www.thebandconbrio.com
Ben Flax – www.music.benflax.com

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Local Slice Recommendation – Empress of Bay Area Jazz – Lavay Smith Upcoming Shows

Friday, February 25 The Burritt Room
The Cresent Hotel, Stockton Hotel at Sutter
930 to midnight (Skillet Lickers)
 Fantastic new venue with lots of room for dancing, fancy cocktails and no cover!
Tucked away up a flight of stairs in the Crescent Hotel is The Burritt Room, a rare classic hotel bar featuring a semi-private parlor, vintage couches and a long wooden bar lit by classic crystal chandeliers and backed by exposed brick. Named after the Nob Hill alley just off Bush Street that was the scene of the murder in The Maltese Falcon, The Burritt Room is refuge for hotel guests and locals alike. The extensive cocktail menu for The Burritt Room stretches from classics to seasonal takes.

Saturday March 5 Private

Sunday,  March 6 Armandos
707 Marina Vista, Martinez, CA
3pm
“Red, White & Blues:  Lavay Smith Hits The Road”, featuring Jules Broussard on saxophone and Danny Armstrong on Trombone

Friday,  March 11 Biscuits & Blues
Mason Street @ Geary, San Francisco, CA
Two shows at 8pm & 10pm
The Bay Area’s best Blues club welcomes all ages for great music and delicious Southern cookin’!

Saturday, March 12- 30-Little Fox Theater
2209 Broadway Street, Redwod City, CA
Dance and Concert!

*Friday, August 27 Red Poppy Arthouse
Red, White & Blues: Lavay Smith Sings Songs About America! Featuring Jules Broussard
2698 Folsom Street, San Francisco CA
Two shows at 8pm and 9:30pm
Take a trip with Lavay as we hit the road and perform tunes about our favorite places across the USA! We’ll be traveling around the states with our all-star quartet featuring the legendary Jules Broussard in this wonderful, intimate concert venue.



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Local Slice Recommendation – Sunday, February 20, 2011 – SeaweedSway Showcase

Sunday, February 20, 2011
SeaweedSway Showcase w/ Sugar Candy Mountain (Debut), Alameda (pdx), & Pancake Breaksfast/ Mike Midlo (pdx)
+ Ever Isles’ Chasing the Moon episode premier!
with host Jeremy Dalmas & the Absurdists

Portland Invasion!
…Sugar Candy Mountain’s Debut Show!
Birthday show (for Jessie & other February bdays)!!!
Chasing the Moon!
Potluck!! (Raw Vegan Organic is encouraged, but bring what you like!)
Too good to be true! (but it is)
$7 for a night of fun & good music – $5 if you bring a potluck item

SUGAR CANDY MOUNTAIN
Sugar Candy Mountain is the vehicle for Will Halsey’s flights of pop fancy. When he’s not drumming for Ash Reiter or The Blank Tapes, Will is concocting his own Grade A ear candy, drawing from an inspirational well filled with Beach Boys-style vocal harmonies, electronic dance-pop, sunny good vibes and songwriting that recalls the golden era of fun-in-the-sun 1960s pop music. Will and his great big band of friends and co-conspirators – featuring members of The Blank Tapes, fpodbpod, and the backing bands for Ash Reiter and Anna Ash – are plotting to win your heart with irresistible sweetness. They plan to succeed.

This show will be the live debut of Sugar Candy Mountain!
http://www.myspace.com/smokedturkey

ALAMEDA
Alameda is a five piece band composed of guitar, violin, cello, clarinet, and drums w/ members of AgesandAges, Crooked Fingers, and the Portland Symphony. They have been compared to the likes of Nick Drake and Low. They’re touring in support of their upcoming debut album. Their average national draw is: 50 people. Their myspace is: www.myspace.com/alamedaportland

“Alameda, sports a fluid lineup that crafts melancholy, atmospheric songs that teeter between folky simplicity and chamber-music lushness. Besides stepping up to the microphone, [Stirling] Myles has switched from bass to guitar; Alameda’s debut EP, The Floating Hospital, reveals his hushed and tranquil songwriting, a solid core around which revolves the outfit’s baroque yet stark multi-instrumentalism.” – Jason Heller, Westword

“You have your acoustic guitar singer-songwriter backed by a lush group of musicians. This is a formula that when done well, I do not tire of. There are a few people who do this around town, most notably Horse Feathers. But I assure you there is no Horse Feathery occuring in this music. It is its own thing. Perfect for the current cold and rain filled atmosphere that has take[n] Portland over.” – Ben Meyercord, Crappy Indie Music Blog

“Alameda’s luminous, spare melodies suggest solitude without loneliness and the peace of fruitful introspection. Like the work of early Low, the latest songs from Alameda are soothing yet haunting and possessed of a delicate immediacy.” – Thomas Murphy, Music Editor

“…currently enjoying the release of their EP The Floating Hospital, a stoic four-song set of moving, minimalist acoustic-based tunes. Vocalist/guitarist Stirling Myles (also of Autopilot is for Lovers, also a contributor to The Deli Portland) stirs lush melodies with ample yet subdued accompaniment from bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello and other various effects-laced gadgets that, when dialed in correctly, evoke a melancholy, though cathartic kind of slow-burn orchestral-folk.” – Ryan Prado, Deli Portland

PANCAKE BREAKFAST
Pancake Breakfast is a nine-member roots machine from Portland, Oregon. Most of these songs were made-up on a little farm, far away from the big city. Mike Midlo wrote them. He tested each one by singing it to the dog and chickens before playing it for the band. That seemed to work out pretty well. The members of Pancake Breakfast like to have a good time. You can hear that on their debut full-length record. Sometimes they holler and make loud noises. You can hear that on the record, too! All the tracks were recorded by Mike Coykendall (She & Him, Blitzen Trapper, M. Ward) in a comfy house near a dormant volcano.

www.myspace.com/pancakebreakfastmusic
http://blog.limewire.com/posts/51043-album-review-pancake-breakfast-%E2%80%93-pancake-breakfast-noise-nest/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+limewiremusicblog+%28LimeWire+Music+Blog%29

SEAWEEDSWAY EVENTS
http://bit.ly/seaweedswaycalendar
http://facebook.com/theseaweedsway

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Local Slice Recommendation – Tuesday, February 22, 2011 – Presented by Faultline Studios, Porto Franco Records, and UnderCover

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

UnderCover Presents:

Pixies- Doolittle

Come witness over 100 Bay Area musicians from more than 15 ensembles as they reinterpret this beloved classic album.

One group per song.  Each of the 15 songs completely rearranged to reflect the sound of that band.

Location:  Public Works SF (Mission District)

Address:  161 Erie Street (Off of Mission between Duboce and 14th Street)

Doors:  6:30 PM Show:  7:30 PM  SHARP!

Cover:  $18 for advance purchases, $20 at the door (as available)

Show is 21 and over.

COSTUMES are highly encouraged! Come in your best flannels, docs, ripped jeans, and greasy hair.

UnderCover is honored to have Aaron Novik as our Guest Musical Director for this project.

LINEUP BY SONG

DEBASER::  ALBINO!

TAME::  Seth Augustus w/ Patrick Cress & Eric Garland

WAVE OF MUTILATION::  Classical Revolution / Unwoman

I BLEED::  Doctor Edmund Welles and the Axe Wielders of Chaos

HERE COMES YOUR MAN::  Joe Bagale (featuring members of Jazz Mafia)

DEAD::  Beep!

MONKEY GONE TO HEAVEN::  Conspiracy of Venus

MR. GRIEVES::  LoCura

CRACKITY JONES::  The Japonize Elephants

LA LA LOVE YOU::  Dina Maccabee

NO. 13 BABY::  Aaron Novik

THERE GOES MY GUN::  Rob Reich Trio Featuring Ralph Carney

HEY::  Blue Rabbit

SILVER::  Karina Denike with Lily Taylor

GOUGE AWAY::  Sarah Palmer and Wiener Kids

Band interviews and select clips from Michel Hulsey’s documentary on UnderCover Presents: PIXIES’ Doolittle will be shown throughout performance.

Special VJ performance by ALL OF IT NOW!

To learn more about our next quarterly project, please become a fan of UnderCover:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/UnderCover/115819335144911?ref=ts

Presented by Faultline Studios, Porto Franco Records, and UnderCover.

 

 

 

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Sunday – 2/13 – Local Slice Recommendation – Sweater Funk’s Gotta Get Your Love – A St. Valentine’s day thing

SWEATER FUNK’S GOTTA GET YOUR LOVE
A St. Valentine’s day thing

It ain’t gonna be like the first time, by now we know what we’re doing and we’ll only get better from here on out! Bring your loved one, secret lover or just come lookin’ for love in our dark basement. We’re keepin’ it lovely all night (not so hard as most boogie is about love!) and we’re taking it deep and slow (ahem) at just the right moments! Of course, in the annual Sweater Funk Valentines day tradition, DX THE FUNKY GRANDPA will be taking it home with a set of lowrider oldies! So don’t get too wasted, bring the binaca, wear the fancy chonies and LET LOVE IN!

Sweater Funk
(is every Sunday)
Li Po Lounge
916 Grant @ Washington
In SFs Chinatown
9:30ish til 1:30
ALWAYS FREE

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Friday, 2/11 – Local Slice Recommendation – Bay Area Derailleurs Present: Freak Bike Cabaret!

Bay Area Derailleurs Present: Freak Bike Cabaret!

Cyclecide Swearhouse

1660 Jerrold Ave @ Phelps St.

San Francisco, CA

ADVANCE TIX & DONATIONS: http://tinyurl.com/derailleursgogo

* The Nerv live set (punk rock jams from Derailleurs and friends)

* Thee Hobogobbelins (steam punk underworld porch music)

* Lucabrazzi (rippin’ rokkers)

…* The Can-Cannibals’ Grotesque Burlesque (this is the Cabaret part)

* DJ 0.000001 (of Th’Mole rap dynasty)

* Derailleur Date Auction (that is, if you think you can handle one of us for a whole evening)

* Kissing booth (if you’re more into quickies than dates)

* Wrestle A Derailleur (glitter lube optional)

* Bitchin’ raffle (prizes from Box Dog, Ritual, Shipyard & more!)

* And of course: a mind-blowing, car-destroying Derailleurs dance performance!

After working hard for months, we’re ready to make our 2011 debut at the event of the season: the Derailleurs’ Freak Bike Cabaret!

And why, you may be wondering, is now the perfect time for a Freak Bike cabaret? The Derailleurs are blazing a trail up to Portland for Mini-Bike Winter (the Northwest’s only mini-bike festival)

February 17-20, and we need your help to get there! Proceeds from the Cabaret will help us fix up our bus, make merch and fuel our trip so we can spread Bike Dance joy all up the West Coast.

We’ve got an incredible line-up, all for just $7!

Doors @ 8, show at 9, with DJs, dancing, and surprises throughout the night. Bring all your friends!

*ABOUT THE DERAILLEURS*

Our mission:

We are a group of cycling-obsessed ladies spreading the joy of bikes to the Bay Area community and beyond. We dance on, with and about bicycles and inspire people of all ages to get on their bikes and join the alternative transportation revolution with the power of community involvement!

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Sun. 2/27 – Local Slice Recommendation – Om Shan Tea presents: Heartform

Check website for details, photos: http://www.heartform.com/

  Om Shan Tea presents: Heartform

 

Sunday, February 27th, 7pm-2am

Before 8pm: $10 / Before 9pm: $15 / After 9pm: $20

Grand Ballroom, 420 14th St, Oakland, CA, 94612 [map]

All Ages Welcome. Drug & Alcohol Free Event.

More info & Updates:

http://www.heartform.com/

Music By:

Sukhawat Ali Khan

Kaminanda

DJ Dragonfly

Jef Stott

Sasha Rose

Oshan Anand

Alxndr

Dance Performance by:

Foxglove Sweethearts

7pm: Heart Sutra talk by Lama Tröma Rinpoche

9pm: Opening Ceremony

Arrive Early & Stay For Dinner:

Organic Vegan Meals & Chocolates Available

Henna Body Art by:

Robyn Jean

Donation based bodywork will be available.

Free Gourmet Tea Lounge

 www.omshantea.com

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Thurs 2/10 – Local Slice Recommendation – Eric Moffat Music Series

Eric Moffat’s – Mish Mash Live Music Series:

 Mish Mash Live Music Series continues on Thurs Feb 10th. Pianist Nick Culp and his quartet kick off the night from 7-9/the classic country sounds of Joe Goldmark and the Seducers follow @ 9pm/guitar slinger Lee Vilensky and his Trio @ 10pm and classical chanteuse Allison Lovejoy @ 10:45. More music will follow after Allisons set….$7 cover. Come and check out the Missions best kept secret @ 1153 Valencia between 22nd and 23rd……..

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Kamp Americana Series – Presented by Songbird Festival and Kamp Camille

April 2011 – August 2011

Stay tuned for a series of great collaborations with Kamp Camille and The Songbird Festival this Spring. 

You can stay in the loop and get the latest info on the series by joining one of the following groups on facebook:

Ongoing Series – The Songbird Festival Group

New series starting in April – Kamp Americana Group

Follow us on Twitter – SongbirdFest

KICK OFF SHOW:

Kamp Americana presented by Kamp Camille and The Songbird Festival – Preview

Wedsnesday, April 27th

Special Guests
Kamp Camille

The Stairwell Sisters

Red Devil Lounge
$5 Cover
Doors at 8 pm
1695 Polk Street
San Francisco, California 94109

RSVP Here:

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