Local Spice Happenings this Weekend and Mark Your Calendar

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Momo

Friday, September 24, 2010 – 6pm

Catch Ms. Momo, Kate Gibson, Conspiracy of Venus and Charming Hostess at 6 p.m. at Yerba Buena Sculpture Court
Jewlia Eisenberg & Charming Hostess
The Bowls Project: Secrets of the Apocalyptic Intimate FREE – access Sculpture Court at 3rd and Mission Streets
Open during regular YBCA gallery hours
Installation extended to Oct 3!
This interactive sound sculpture/immersive performance installation is an international collaboration by visionary Bay Area composer, Jewlia Eisenberg, with her ensemble, Charming Hostess. An ecstatic investigation of sex, magic and secret desires, The Bowls Project is inspired by Babylonian Jewish women’s amulets known as “demon bowls.” Housed within a stunning double-vaulted masonry dome created by celebrated architect Michael Ramage and featuring videography by multi-media artist Shezad Dawood, The Bowls Project creates an intimate, powerful and satisfying intersection between the ancient and modern worlds. The dome is a private place to share secrets and public forum to hear live music on Thursdays, participate in rituals on Fridays and encounter embodied text on Sundays. Come and be welcome!

Songbird Festival Winter Series:

Mark Growden
Presented by Songbird Festival Winter Series

November 5 & 6, $20-100

A.Muse Gallery
614 Alabama St.
San Francisco
Doors at 7:30 p.m., Show at 8:00 p.m.

Songbird Festival and Con Brio Series at Amnesia:

November 2010 – February 2011

Follow songbird festival on twitter = SongbirdFest

 

 

The First Polk Street Blues Festival in San Francisco

Saturday, Sep 25 10:00a to 6:00p

at Polk District, San Francisco, CA

For many years, San Francisco has been known for its love of the blues. Since our company already produces one of the nation’s largest free Jazz Festivals on Fillmore Street, it made complete sense to us and our client, the Polk District Merchants Association, to create a free Blues Festival on upper Polk Street. read more

Price: Free

Phone: (800) 310-6563

Age Suitability: All Ages

Tags: blues, concerts, food, san francisco, all ages, arts and crafts, blues music, beverages, live performances, family events sf festivals

For many years, San Francisco has been known for its love of the blues. Since our company already produces one of the nation’s largest free Jazz Festivals on Fillmore Street, it made complete sense to us and our client, the Polk District Merchants Association, to create a free Blues Festival on upper Polk Street.

If people are looking to escape the crowded downtown San Francisco chain stores and want to enjoy a warm, friendly neighborhood atmosphere, Polk Street is the place. Polk Street runs from Ghirardelli Square at Beach Street at the northern end, south to Market Street near City Hall and the Civic Center. Located on the west side of upscale Nob and Russian Hills, the neighborhood is in a San Francisco micro climate relatively immune to foul weather, especially during late September.

The Festival will feature two main stages, a merchant marketplace, arts and crafts, gourmet food booths, a large family area, cafe seating areas, and much more. We expect the event will receive a huge amount of press since it is now the only free blues event in San Francisco.

Please join us and help us build this event into one of the best in the country.

Tour de Fat 2010 presented by New Belgium Brewing Company

Saturday, Sep 25 10:00a to 5:00p

at Golden Gate Park: Lindley Meadow, San Francisco, CA

Oil your bike chains and don your capes, crowns, tutus and tuxedos! Tour de Fat is going to be a hoot and holler when it rolls back to San Francisco on Saturday, September 25th at its NEW location at Lindley Meadow in Golden Gate Park. The ballyhoo of bikes & beer is sponsored by the New Belgium Brewing Company, makers of the acclaimed Fat Tire beer. read more

Age Suitability: None Specified

Tags: tour, golden gate park, fat, fat tire, new belgium brewing company

Oil your bike chains and don your capes, crowns, tutus and tuxedos! Tour de Fat is going to be a hoot and holler when it rolls back to San Francisco on Saturday, September 25th at its NEW location at Lindley Meadow in Golden Gate Park. The ballyhoo of bikes & beer is sponsored by the New Belgium Brewing Company, makers of the acclaimed Fat Tire beer.

10:00 a.m. – Bike Parade Registration
11:00 a.m. – Bike Parade
12:00 a.m. Performances Begin
2:30 p.m. – Funeral procession for the car belonging to the Car-for-Bike Trade volunteer
4:30 p.m. – Car-for-Bike Trade Celebration
5:00 p.m. – Curtain

The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition works to transform San Francisco’s streets and neighborhoods into more livable and safe places by promoting the bicycle for everyday transportation through day-to-day advocacy, education, and working partnerships with government and community agencies. Our active 11,000 members represent San Franciscans of all ages, from all neighborhoods, who are working towards more safe, efficient, and green ways to move around our city. Because of our efforts, the number of residents biking for transportation has doubled in the past 10 years.

Current San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Members (to join, go to sfbike.org/join) are encouraged to volunteer at Tour de Fat by emailing Tessa Buckley, Membership & Volunteer Coordinator, at tessa@sfbike.org.

The Bay Area Ridge Trail Council unites volunteers and agencies to plan, acquire, build, maintain, and promote a 550-mile ridgeline cycling, hikinig and equestrian trail around the Bay. When complete, the Bay Area Ridge Trail will connect over 75 parks and open spaces and serve the recreation needs of diverse communities, providing close-to-home recreation for all residents of the Bay Area. The Council works in close partnership with local governments, public agencies, nonprofit land trusts, and community members in the nine Bay Area counties to complete the Ridge Trail. Our collaborative work with these organizations helps preserve key upland natural environments and often accelerates the opening of trails on these lands for public enjoyment.

Cat’s Pajamas Presents:

Monday, September 27, 2010 – 8 pm

 
The Make Out Room ~ 3225 22nd st. $5

The Cat’s Pajamas presents Clash of the Titans. Come down and witness some of the greatest talents this city has to offer pound and prance upon the stage in a clash of styles, visions and greatness. The Gods will be showing their faces and causing a ruckus. And there will be a little Greek History too.

Performers: The Titan Ups, Harmon Leon, The Hypno Trio Cabaret Act, Diana Mangano & Keith Dion and more……

Check out http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=69037410223 for more information on Whore! Magazine and Cat’s Pajamas Presents

From Nara Denning:

Works in Progress:

A bio-luminescent torch song & the perilous shoot of The Pendulum Heart


Upcoming Screenings:

Bernal Heights Outdoor Film Fest: Oct. 4@ The EL RIO

screens Neurotique No.1, Free! http://www.bhoutdoorcine.org/

LitQuake & Caveat Lector: Oct.  9  @ Mission Pie

screens Neurotique No.6, Free!  … http://www.caveat-lector.org/ (and) http://litquake.org/

Act Write Directors Forum: Oct. 16 @ Koret Auditorium SF Main Library

in conjunction with the SFPL’s Smithsonian Singgalot exhibit -screens Neurotique No.6, 4pm … http://www.anthemsalgado.com/events.htm http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=146535782051719&ref=ts

Waylon Bacon – SEPT 26th  

premieres his latest along with his entire body of work at the Berkeley Video & Film Fest.  Possibly the youngest ever to be featured in a festival retrospective!

Spotlight: The Disturbing Short Films of Waylon Bacon

6pm @ Landmark Shattuck Cinemas . 2230 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley

Will Franken – OCT. 1st & 2nd

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Local Spice – Events Recommendations Happening in SF 9/19 – 9/27

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Momo

 

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Sunday Streets San Francisco – Western Addition
Presented by Fillmore Community Benefit District Fillmore Street Cultural performances
At the mini park by Filmore St & Turk
Our set will start around 1sh and will go for about 45 min
Renegade performance coming up on Sunday!
Fuzzpod will be performing at Rock the Bike pedal powered stage and live music.

Check out the events and rock your bike or sidewalk surf!

Other Highlights:
Church of John Coltrane 41st Anniversary Celebration (1286 near Eddy)

Home


http://www.fuzzpodmusic.com
http://sundaystreetssf.com

Sunday, September 19th, Noon – 5pm
30th Annual Comedy Day
Sharon Meadow – Golden Gate Park – SF
Free
http://www.comedyday.com/index.php

About Comedy Day
It was 1975, and comedian Jose Simon had a dream. Barbra Streisand did it. A number of rock ‘n’ roll bands had done it, too. Even the symphony gave it a go. Free outdoor concerts were becoming more commonplace in music. So, why not one featuring comedians? A free outdoor performance in The City that is considered the cradle of civilization for comedy would be a great way for local comedians to say thank you to their fans.
It took a few years and a lot of cooperation from a lot of people to make it happen, but since 1981 more than 600 of the world’s funniest comedians have performed free-of-charge for over a half-million people at the original outdoor comedy concert, Comedy Day. It started in the Golden Gate Park Music Concourse (affectionately known as the Band Shell), moved to the Polo Fields in 1987 to accommodate larger crowds and, for the past few years, has found a home in Sharon Meadow.
San Francisco’s professional comedy community joins together each year to produce the five-hour show. The Punch Line, Cobb’s Comedy Club, SF Sketchfest, Rooster T. Feathers and Comedy Day each contribute their favorite comedians to produce a highly entertaining, five-hour set.

The State of California and The City support it, too. The Governor of California, San Francisco’s Mayor’s Office, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation, The Examiner, KGO News Radio 810, NBC Bay Area Channel 11, SF Weekly, KFOX 98.5, Gordon-Biersch, Joie de Vivre, U.S. Foodservice, Grants for the Arts (San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund) and other organizations all contribute generously to Comedy Day.

Comedy Day is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. All contributions are tax deductible.

Comedy Day also conducts an outreach program in which comedy workshops teaching conflict resolution through the use of humor are held in Bay Area public schools throughout the year. We can also arrange for comedians to perform for charitable organizations, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted-living facilities and hospices throughout the Bay Area.

Comedy Day does not have any paid administrative staff and relies solely on the efforts of our volunteers. We derive income from donors, vendors, sponsors and SF Grants for the Arts. Please patronize our benefactors! Thank you.

Sunday, September 19, 2010 – 3rd i’s Green Eye Presents: The Anatomy of a Carbon Footprint

100% of all proceeds will be donated towards flood relief efforts in Pakistan.
See Website for different start times
992 Valencia Street, SF CA
website at: www.thirdi.org
www.atasite.org

Join us for films, talks and workshops about our changing climate, how we got there and what we can do to reduce our carbon footprint.

@ ATA (992 Valencia St, SF)

3:30pm Film Screening: Climate of Change ($10)
(Brian Hill, UK, 2010)
An inspiring doc about how communities around the world are rising up to the challenges of climate change. Written by British poet Simon Armitage, and narrated by Tilda Swinton.

5:30pm Presentation: Around the World Without Flying: A Year of Carbon Footprints, Cargo Ships, and Climate Uprisings ($10)
Anirvan Chatterjee and Barnali Ghosh share their stories from a year spent traveling across continents – aviation-free – and global movements working to change the way we think about travel.

I Want to Ride my Bicycle
In anticipation of the many improvements coming to San Francisco thanks to the new SF Bicycle Plan, 3rd i puts the focus on this green travel machine on SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. Events include a Bicycle Workshop at The Bike Kitchen at 10:00am. Following the workshop at 11:30am, join us for a breezy Saturday afternoon 3rd i Bike Ride. Or you can catch us at Dolores Park at 12:30pm, where we’ll end up after the ride for food and conversation.

Only a couple of spots are left for the workshop, so RSVP today to reserve your place. Email: outreach3rdi@gmail.com

Special thanks to Artists Television Access, Tribeca Films and The Bike Kitchen for their support of this event.

For more information and the most recent updates, please visit our website at www.thirdi.org

 

Sunday, September 19, 2010 –  SeaWeed Sway Sunday Showcase

 

7:30pm to 11:00 pm

Make-Out Room

3225 22nd St. between Mission & Valencia

just $7

 

You are so lucky!! This Sunday is the third of the month, so you have the chance to come to another Seaweed Sway Showcase! This monthly show is your chance to create community in San Francisco by meeting new people and hearing the city’s best music.

Hear the Bay Area supergroup Killbossa play beautifully surreal Tropicália like ghosts from a 50 year old Brazilian nightclub.

http://myspace.com/killbossa

Hear the decade-long collaboration between Vanessa VerLee & Jeremy Rourke play like antique instruments in a curiosity shop! http://jeremyrourke.com

http://vanessaverlee.com

check out Jeremy’s music set to original stop motion animation at http://youtube.com/watch?v=PhVCi4-prAs
Hear Anna Ash sing like a well-used kettle in a mountain shack!

http://myspace.com/annaash

Your host jeremy dalmas and the absurdists, this month putting together a full-scale re-enactment of the classical Apple II video game Oregon Trail!!

http://theabsurdists.com

http://theabsurdists.com

Tuesday, September 21, 2010 – 7 pm

Viracocha – 998 Valencia st. $5 donation

Whore! Magazine presents “Lady of Leisure”. Directed by Frank Capra and starring Babara Stanwyck, this film is early in her career but features the loves and life of a call girl who is desperately trying to find her own way in the world. We will have a special guest and a discussion afterwards. Come by and celebrate classic film from the realm of the bad.

Check out http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=69037410223 for more information on Whore! Magazine and Cat’s Pajamas Presents

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Allison Lovejoy Presents:

At San Francisco’s historic Haas-Lilienthal Victorian at 2007 Franklin St.
Enjoy an early evening concert in a beautiful setting followed by a wine and cheese reception.
Doors at 6 p.m.
Concert at 6:30 p.m.

Home

Concert #2 features vocalists Lua Hadar, Indre Viskontas, Zoltan diBartolo, performing classical, cabaret, theatre, tango and Neapolitan arias by Faure, Bolcom, Weill, Lovejoy, Morricone and Tosti

Friday, September 24, 2010 – 6pm

Catch Ms. Momo, Kate Gibson, Conspiracy of Venus and Charming Hostess at 6 p.m. at Yerba Buena Sculpture Court
Jewlia Eisenberg & Charming Hostess
The Bowls Project: Secrets of the Apocalyptic Intimate FREE – access Sculpture Court at 3rd and Mission Streets
Open during regular YBCA gallery hours
Installation extended to Oct 3!
This interactive sound sculpture/immersive performance installation is an international collaboration by visionary Bay Area composer, Jewlia Eisenberg, with her ensemble, Charming Hostess. An ecstatic investigation of sex, magic and secret desires, The Bowls Project is inspired by Babylonian Jewish women’s amulets known as “demon bowls.” Housed within a stunning double-vaulted masonry dome created by celebrated architect Michael Ramage and featuring videography by multi-media artist Shezad Dawood, The Bowls Project creates an intimate, powerful and satisfying intersection between the ancient and modern worlds. The dome is a private place to share secrets and public forum to hear live music on Thursdays, participate in rituals on Fridays and encounter embodied text on Sundays. Come and be welcome!

Monday, September 27, 2010 – 8 pm

 
The Make Out Room ~ 3225 22nd st. $5

The Cat’s Pajamas presents Clash of the Titans. Come down and witness some of the greatest talents this city has to offer pound and prance upon the stage in a clash of styles, visions and greatness. The Gods will be showing their faces and causing a ruckus. And there will be a little Greek History too.

Performers: The Titan Ups, Harmon Leon, The Hypno Trio Cabaret Act, Diana Mangano & Keith Dion and more……

Check out http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=69037410223 for more information on Whore! Magazine and Cat’s Pajamas Presents

Songbird Festival Winter Series:

Mark Growden in Concerts
Presented by Songbird Festival Winter Series

November 5 & 6, $20-100

A.Muse Gallery
614 Alabama St.
San Francisco
Doors at 7:30 p.m., Show at 8:00 p.m.

Songbird Festival Winter Series:

Mark Growden Concert
Presented by Songbird Festival Winter Series

November 5 & 6, $20-100

A.Muse Gallery
614 Alabama St.
San Francisco
Doors at 7:30 p.m., Show at 8:00 p.m.

Songbird Festival and Con Brio Series at Amnesia:

November 2010 – February 2011

Follow songbird festival on twitter = SongbirdFest

 

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Local Spice – Mosquitas in yo Grill!

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Momo

Thursday, September 9th
The Rickshaw Stop $10
155 Fell St.
San Francisco, CA

Seaweed Sway and Ginger Murray present a night of four acts that are taking old style Americana and bringing it right into the 21st century. Mosquitas in Yo’ Grill is a celebration of all that is bluegrass, fiddle funk, Fab folk, and rock rippin’. Like fireflies in a jar, empty dusty roads, rusted fenders, late nights on a porch where the willows weep and the hot air smells of honeysuckle and gasoline. This show will rock your w…orld.

BUY YOUR TIX NOW & get FREE SONGS FROM EACH ARTIST: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/13851
(Check the confirmation message once you purchase your tickets, for the link.)

Buxter Hoot’n~ Psychadelic Americana blues, this band defies all genres. Hot, high energy and full of soul, they will grab your guts by the throat, wrangle em’ down and while doing it put a grin on your face wider than any desert sky. Their style is unique but never ironic and consummate musicians are they all. It is a joy just to watch them get down as it is sheer love of music that drives them.

Buxter Hoot’n’s homegrown sound had its start in America’s heartland, in Indiana, where brothers, Vince and Jimmy Dewald grew up and played music before moving to San Francisco. Songwriter, Vince Dewald, has since put together an ever-growing catalogue of songs that is both lyrically poignant and stylistically diverse.

From virtuosic violin and guitar riffs to guttural lyrical poetry in the tradition of Bob Dylan and Townes Van Zandt, Buxter Hoot’n sets itself apart by combining rock ‘n roll musical complexity and intricate harmonies with traditional backporch roots and soul. Living and working together since the creation of the band they have created a cohesive and familial sound you can hear in the music and see on the stage.

Ben Andrews, lead guitarist and violinist, is one of the best young multi-instrumentalists in rock music and performs with that rare, fiery brilliance that can take over an audience in a moment. Drummer, Jeremy Shanok adds rhythmic sophistication and improvisation that often brings the band interplay to ecstatic heights. Vocalist, Melissa Merrill, is a star in her own right. Her blues soaked country vocals are instantly recognizable and uniquely her own. Vince Dewald’s provocative vocals and guitar work, along with Jimmy Dewald’s explorative bass style, perfectly completes the soulful, musical-stew that is Buxter Hoot’n.

Their first album, Here in America, released in 2007 was hailed by RELIX MAGAZINE as having “the independent rawness and creative brilliance that leads to a cult classic.” Their new album, In Another Life, is a complete next step for the band. Recorded on the same 2-inch tape machine owned and used by The Grateful Dead to record their classic 1987 album, In the Dark, In Another Life, “is heavy with stellar musicianship and delivers a potent message… Buxter Hoot’n is single-handedly redefining contemporary Americana music and is the voice of their generation.” (Ammuse WordPress, NY)
http://www.myspace.com/buxterhootn#ixzz0v7qiIBMc
http://www.buxterhootn.com/

Emily Bonn & The Vivants – Largely inspired by the energy of old-time dance tunes, honky-tonk country and western swing, The Vivants play their own brand of American roots music, shining up dusty melodies with modern arrangements. They recently returned from a Spring tour of the Netherlands, Belgium and France, where they had audiences dancing from Amsterdam to Paris promoting
Bonn’s debut CD, Songs from Alabama Street, a mixture of original foot stompin’ tunes about riots, hollers and hopping train cars.

In former incarnations, Emily performed in San Francisco subway stations, Belgian prisons, Appalachian corner stores, and at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. As a former member of the critically acclaimed country band The Whoreshoes, she shared stages with the legendary rockabilly singer, Wanda Jackson, Old Crow Medicine Show and Devil Makes Three.

Here are a few things music critics are saying about Emily Bonn:
“Bonn has a charismatic old school country vocal you just don’t hear any more outside the phony imitations of the plastic-coated reverb-drenched Nashville scene.” — Americana UK
“Bonn breaks new ground as a musician on upbeat tunes like “Big Apple” & “Accidental Stomp”, finger-picking guitar ballad “RC Cola”, the swinging “Georgia Johnny” and the rapid dueling banjo/fiddle song “Lazy Gal”. These are catchy and brilliant original songs that capture the roots of bluegrass, country and oldtime music.” — altcountryforum.nl
Musically, the starting point for songs is bluegrass, but she always manages to give every song its own identity by delivering a pinch of cajun, country, folk and swing to add. Thus begins the record, with authentic accompanIment by washboard on the Cajun song “Riot At The Rite Spot”, the highlight of this album immediately.” — Rootstime.be
http://www.myspace.com/emilybonnmusic

Brown Chicken Brown Cow String Band ~ Hailing from West Virginia, these on tour cats have that true sound many try to copy, but they take that old string, raw wood beat and give an authenticity not seen in a long time. They kick ass but they’ll give you a kiss and maybe a piece of pie afterwards. That is if if you wouldn’t rather have a good mud wrassle in the backyard and eat fried chicken in a tree. “Our Music is writen to create a relationship with the listener, in the end relationships are the core of our musical inspiration… relationships with people, music, and places.” Indeed.
http://www.myspace.com/brownchickenbrowncowstringband#ixzz0v7rMtZEk

Kamp Camille ~ They describe themselves as “guy/girl duo bliss.” And they are. Songwriters Nathan Hughes and Chantelle Tibbs met while Nathan was performing in San Francisco. Off stage Chantelle complimented Nathan on how wiggly his knees are and the creme of collaborations was born. Two voices that were meant to be together under any circumstances. They are Americana Folk full of tall terrible tales, ambient passion, emotive smoke filled mirrors, rainwashed train windows and just a touch of moth flutter. For a little romp through the lives of cops, whores, one armed men, petrified poets and wayward woman listen deeply to their words beneath music that swells, plucks and will ultimately leave you hazy, summer day dreaming.
Nathan Hughes…co lead vocals, guitar, harmonica
Chantelle Tibbs…co lead vocals, various instruments
Kenan O’Brien…Upright Bass
Hoan Ton-That…Lead Guitar
Nathan Heintz…Keys. http://www.myspace.com/kampcamille#ixzz0v7t4ps4J

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Thanks and Grattitude

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Momo

Dear Supporters,

Thank you for your important contribution of time and energy! The Songbird Festival would like to thank all of you for the seen and unseen support and time you have provided to the Summer Session of the 2010 Songbird Festival 3rd ries. Big thank you and gratitude to the patrons, venues, musicians, graphic and technology volunteers, visual performance artists, co-presenters, emcees, promoters, stage managers and humble swans “you know who you are”.

Activities such as this really make a difference in making diverse programming from emerging to virtuoso performance and visual art accessible and affordable.

The first year of planning started in 2008 and each year as the founder of this festival I gain so much positive insight, knowledge and new life skills from working with such a diverse group of individuals who may be strangers, acquaintances, new friends, old friends, creative counterparts or simply folks just sharing in participating in the programming.

Once again, thank you for your time. The Songbird Festival will continue to support efforts across the bay area to make music, visual and performance art accessible for participants and patrons.

The 5 week series ends 8/22.

Throughout fourth quarter of this year a “new layer of skin” will be added to keep the birds humming that will involve a virtual community space where co-presenters and performers can keep the spirit of pushing the enveope and creating a space for performers of various levels to dialogue and recommend performance and visual art venues, performers and events.

The Fourth round of series will begin in November 2010 that will include a four month co-presented event in the Mission and a few co-presenter series throughout 2011 leading up to the fifth round of the Songbird Festival Present series to be held next November.

Hope to see you at the closing party on 8/22 at Amnesia. For more info check out www.songbirdfestival.org you can also get information about all of the amazing performers and what they are up to next by checking out the urls listed on the festival website see week by week for their specific contact info.

If you have photos, mp3s, jpegs of flyers or any form of visual documentation please share it so that it can be used to obtain funding in the near future for this non-profit project.

Sincerely,

Songbird Festival Founder

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Con Brio

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Momo

Con Brio

Sunday – August 22, 2010


Songbird Festival Presents | Early Show
Americana, Roots, Jazz and Blues Songbirds
Venue:

Amnesia

853 Valencia Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

6-9 Early Show $8-10 Cover

Hanna Rifkin

Emily Anne’s Delights

The Crow Quill Night Owls

Sunday – August 22, 2010

Songbird Festival Presents | Late Show
Guitar Haydey, Funk, Soul, Rock, Rock, Rock
Venue:

Amnesia

853 Valencia Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

9:30 -Close – $8-10 Cover

Hazy Loper

Con Brio

Shakewell

9-Close – $8-10 Cover

Born in San Francisco, Con Brio’s songs feature powerful, soulful vocals backed by a no-nonsense, deep-pocket rhythm section.

“Xandra Corpora’s vocals are stunning….The band, tight as a bungee cord, is a funky, acoustic, jazz/blues casserole. That’s right-casserole. What’s more, they kill it live.”
-Bricks and Mortar Media

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Shakewell featuring Robin Croomer and Eric McFadden

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Momo

Sass n more Sass!

Sunday – August 22, 2010


Songbird Festival Presents | Early Show
Americana, Roots, Jazz and Blues Songbirds
Venue:

Amnesia

853 Valencia Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

6-9 Early Show $8-10 Cover

Hanna Rifkin

Emily Anne’s Delights

The Crow Quill Night Owls

Sunday – August 22, 2010

Songbird Festival Presents | Late Show
Guitar Haydey, Funk, Soul, Rock, Rock, Rock
Venue:

Amnesia

853 Valencia Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

9:30 -Close – $8-10 Cover

Hazy Loper

Con Brio

Shakewell

9-Close – $8-10 Cover

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The Crow Quill Night Owls embrace old weird America

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Momo

Sunday – August 22, 2010


Songbird Festival Presents | Early Show
Americana, Roots, Jazz and Blues Songbirds
Venue:

Amnesia

853 Valencia Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

6-9 Early Show $8-10 Cover

Hanna Rifkin

Emily Anne’s Delights

The Crow Quill Night Owls

Sunday – August 22, 2010

Songbird Festival Presents | Late Show
Guitar Haydey, Funk, Soul, Rock, Rock, Rock
Venue:

Amnesia

853 Valencia Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

9:30 -Close – $8-10 Cover

Hazy Loper

Con Brio

Shakewell

9-Close – $8-10 Cover

In The Press – at Straight.com
“Kit “Stymee” Stovepipe fell in love with early-20th-century American jug-band music after dabbling in Swedish metal and crusty punk. And who among us hasn’t done that?
“It was ’99 or 2000,” the guitarist recalls, from his home in Port Townsend, Washington, “and I saw a busker, an older guy playing an old, beat-up National steel guitar, doing all these old obscure songs. Some went back to the 1890s, and there were a lot from the ’20s and ’30s, and he was doing music from old cartoons. And I was like, ‘Who is this guy? He’s amazing.’ ”
The guy was Seattle’s Baby Gramps, a long-bearded outsider legend who’s been carrying the torch for pre-electric Americana for almost 50 years. For Stovepipe, a brand-new obsession was born, and he makes the leap from Carnal Forge and Aus-Rotten to Charley Patton and washboards sound almost rational.
“The thing was,” he relates, “when I saw this guy, I went, ‘Oh, my God, what he’s doing is insanely technical.’ That’s what I liked in all those metal bands. I liked all the technical stuff. And I liked how raw and aggressive it was. It was like the same thing, but Baby Gramps was ancient and doing it. And I thought, ‘Oh, it’s sustainable.’ It’s a different style, but it’s the same thing.”
The dusty ephemera of old weird America has sustained Stovepipe and his life and musical partner, Caliope Kane, for some three years now, since the two hooked up to form the Crow Quill Night Owls. Stovepipe handles the National steel guitar and Kane pilots the tenor banjo, and the duo will be joined by washtub bassist Devin Champlin and Lucas Hicks on a suitcase contraption kit when the Night Owls shuffle like some real-life Max Fleischer cartoon up to Vancouver for this year’s Under the Volcano Festival of Art and Social Change.
They might not be sitting in the most crowded field with their brand of music, but the Owls swing hard enough that no less than Maria Muldaur tapped Stovepipe, Champlin, and Hicks when she was putting together her Garden of Joy Jug Band for a two-month tour in 2009. Moreover, the outfit’s 2008 album, Mechanical Unicorn, is a great primer for newbies, with sterling covers of obscurities like Arnold and Irene Wiley’s “This Sweet Reedie Brown” (1931), and slightly more familiar material in the shape of the Mississippi Sheiks’ “Jake Leg Blues”.
But as enchanting as Mechanical Unicorn is, it bothers Stovepipe that his country’s musical history still occupies the margins for most of his compatriots. “There’s a small and dedicated group that are way into it, and maybe it’ll gain more recognition one day,” he says, “but most Americans aren’t aware of the rich musical and cultural heritage, and it’s very sad. ’Cause this stuff rocks.” ……..” from straight.com

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Hanna Rifkin

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Momo

Sunday – August 22, 2010


Songbird Festival Presents | Early Show
Americana, Roots, Jazz and Blues Songbirds
Venue:

Amnesia

853 Valencia Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

6-9 Early Show $8-10 Cover

Hanna Rifkin

Emily Anne’s Delights

The Crow Quill Night Owls

Sunday – August 22, 2010

Songbird Festival Presents | Late Show
Guitar Haydey, Funk, Soul, Rock, Rock, Rock
Venue:

Amnesia

853 Valencia Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

9:30 -Close – $8-10 Cover

Hazy Loper

Con Brio

Shakewell

9-Close – $8-10 Cover

Hanna Rifkin began her singing career fronting the rock band “Roxy.” While belting out guttural tones in the fashion of Janis Joplin and Debbie Harry was fun, she fell in love with the playful trumpeting of Louis Armstrong that underscored the horn like purity of Ella’s Fitzgerald’s voice on their recording of “They Can’t Take That Away from me”. Hanna immediately recognized in Jazz a greater opportunity to grow as an artist. “When I sang rock I felt like I was trying to replicate, but with jazz I got to give it my own spin.”
She later spent a year in Italy where through a strange turn of event, met and formed a strong musical bond with renowned guitarist Francesco Lesi. After earning her degree in Italian, she sang her way across Europe crooning old standbys like “Lover Man” and “la Vie en Rose” from the street corners and cafes of Paris, Budapest, Rome and Barcelona. She also speaks Spanish and a bit of French. Back in the states, Hanna moved to Santa Cruz where she studied jazz improvisation, theory, and piano under the direction of trumpeter Ray Brown.
In San Francisco, she’s played with Chris Siebert, Allen Smith, Sameer Gupta, Mitch Marcus, Howard Wiley, BJ Papa, Michael Coleman and many other cats in the San Francisco scene. “I truly adore picking up a song that I’ve done so many times, and loved singing, then the player I’m with wants to do it in a different way, and it completely changes my perspective on the song. This often happen spontaneously during a performance, and it’s so satisfying. I feel as if I’m giving the song respect and that is part of the beauty of jazz.” She also has a debut CD titled “Apples and Oranges” available through this website.
Hanna Rifkin serves up a jazz cocktail that mixes the wit of Bette Midler, the confidence of Anita O’Day, and the melancholy of Billie Holiday with the smooth as butter tones of Chet Baker. My own personal testament is that I met my husband at one of Hanna’s shows. Coincidentally, neither one of us would have gone out that fateful night except to see Hanna sing. We met, we danced and before I knew it, Hanna was singing “Nature Boy” at my wedding. I really think you could attribute my current happiness to Hanna’s voice or you could argue that may be going a little too far, but whoever says music can’t change a person’s life just never heard Hanna sing.

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Emily Anne’s Delights

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Momo

Sunday – August 22, 2010


Songbird Festival Presents | Early Show
Americana, Roots, Jazz and Blues Songbirds
 
Venue:

Amnesia

853 Valencia Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

6-9 Early Show $8-10 Cover

Hanna Rifkin

Emily Anne’s Delights

The Crow Quill Night Owls

Sunday – August 22, 2010

Songbird Festival Presents | Late Show
Guitar Haydey, Funk, Soul, Rock, Rock, Rock
 
 
 Venue:

Amnesia

853 Valencia Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

9:30 -Close – $8-10 Cover

Hazy Loper

Con Brio

Shakewell

9-Close – $8-10 Cover

Emily Anne’s Delights

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Working Man Music and Songbird Festival Show at The Blue Macaw

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Momo

“Art Rock-East Euro-Polka-Surf Throwdown”

“Grass Roots”, Bay Area-based art and concert promoters The 2010 Songbird Festival holds true to is promise of presenting diverse, eclectic, and expressive live performances by assembling a rarely seen “Hydra-like” rocking monster of Mid East Psychedelia, Punk Surf, and Hardcore Polka.

POLKACIDE: SF’s only Hardcore Polka band, celebrating 25 years of non-traditional traditional sweat and beer soaked revelry. 

“It’s like a disease…no, it’s like an apocalypse…no, it’s like your worst nightmare of a Midwestern family reunion! It’s Polkacide.”-Music Calendar, SF Chronicle

KHI DARAG: Inspired by Persian classical, late 60’s acid garage psychedelia and surf mayhem, traditional Armenian and Jewish dances, Cambodian street music, Gothic art rock, and Bollywood soundtracks, SF Bay Area based ensemble Khi Darag walks a thin line between the modern and archaic.

“…this is exactly the kind of band Mike Patton or John Zorn would want playing at their wedding with a dancefloor of weirdos having the time of their life. So fun!- Aquarius Records, San Francisco

SPACE BLASTER: Made up from some of the most frighteningly talented members of the Bay Area avant garde Jazz and experimental rock scene, this black caped quartet serves up a set of unrelenting post-punk surf rock best described as “Dick Dale colliding head on with Ennio Morricone in a tragic collision involving two semis trapped in an atomic particle accelerator!

Loop!Station: 

SF-based cello and vocal duo LOOP!STATION has been captivating audiences since 2002 with their deftly stacked and carefully interlocking live sampled phrases that create a truly unique and haunting soundscape “….Think the Cocteau Twins with PJ Harvey at the controls.  Think hallucinatory aural investigations.  Think great mea-out music…” – SF Weekly

Workingman Music and Songbird Festival Presents

Venue:
Blue Macaw
2565 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94110-2511

Show at 8 p.m. $8-12 Cover

LOOP!STATION
Polkacide

Khi Darag

Spaceblasters

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