A Mad, Mad World

Just heard there’s a write up about the Mad Ms in today’s SF Examiner on page 26

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Three’s the Charm

March 12 – Friday night at the Abbey Tavern on Geary in San Francisco. We play 9:30PM onward. FREE!

March 13 – Saturday afternoon at the 159th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Festival, San Francisco. FREE Festival in the Civic Center Plaza starts 11AM. We play 3-5PM. Also playing The Gas Men and Doug Martin Avatar Ensemble

March 19 – Saturday night at the Vibe, San Rafael with Miracle Mule. Show starts 9:30. We play from 10:30 onward – $10

See you in your dancing shoes and with a bit of green on ya!

yours in a mad, mad world,

Mags

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Speisekammer Restaurant tonight 8:30PM.
GDub, Johny Blood, Adrian and Mags are playing.

Hope to see you there!

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Connecting the Polka Dots

“Polkaholics”, the new documentary by filmmaker Wes Hranchak premieres this Friday at the Chicago International Movies and Music Festival. This loving tribute and celebration of polka tells the story of L’il Wally Jagiello and his coming together for a show with the Polkaholics at Zakopane Lounge in Chicago.

I have had the pleasure of sharing the stage with the Polkaholics. They dish up high octane rock polka. Leader Dandy Don Hedeker, besides being a shredding rock/polka guitarist and professor of biostatistics, is a super knowledgeable polka fanatic historian.

The Polkaholics most recent CD is “Wally!” – an original Polka-Rock Opera that tells the story of Li’l Wally’s Chicago polka glory and Florida sunset.

Read the cool Chicago TimeOut article.

I highly recommend catching this band in the act!

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March 6th – Saturday 8:30PM – Speisekammer Restaurant, Alameda.

A Side of Mad Maggies: GDub (guitars), Johny Blood (tuba), Adrian (alto sax, bass clarinet) and yours madly on accordion.

I’ve said it before The food is simply stellar at the Speisekammer Restaurant. And the selection of German beer is outstanding!

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Get Your Green On!

March 12 – Friday night at the Abbey Tavern on Geary in San Francisco. We play 9:30PM onward. FREE!

You want a taste of Irish this is the joint!

March 13 – Saturday afternoon at the 159th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Festival, San Francisco. FREE Festival in the Civic Center Plaza starts 11AM. We play 3-5PM.

We had a blast playing this last year. There was dancing in the streets — my favorite kind of happening.

March 19 – Friday 9:30 at the Vibe, San Rafael with Miracle Mule. We play from 10:30 onward – $10.

This is our first time at this cool dance venue in Marin and it’s gonna be fun.

March 28 – Sunday – Marin Civic Center Farmer’s Market Music in the morning amidst the fruits and veggies.

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GDub and I met Stefan Hiss and his band “Hiss” back in 1997 when we were in Germany visiting my sister who is a friend and fan. In fact, Stefan played her wedding 2 years later in 1999. They dished up a rousing night of music and I danced like a wild woman.

We’ve stayed in touch since and whenever we travel to my sister’s home outside of Stuttgart we usually get a visit in with Stefan to talk “music” and swap our current CDs.

Stefan’s latest band is “Los Santos” and he just mailed me their new CD entitled “Blue in Hawaii”. It’s a Western/ Tex-Mex celebration performed by stellar musicians. Instrumentation includes pedal steel, ukulele, dobro, banjo, and of course, accordion – Stefan Hiss is an amazing accordionist!

The fifteen tracks include, “My Wife Thinks Your Dead”, “Rag Mop” and “Deja Que Salga La Luna” plus three Hiss originals, “Blue Hawaii”, “Twisting in the Taiga” and “El Mezquite”.

One of my personal favs on the album is “Johnny Guitar” (a great tune written by Peggy Lee and Victor Young for the 1954 movie). They’ve capture just the right amount of “Out West” surrealism.

And their version of “Rag Mop” swings!

So LISTEN to THIS: “Blue in Hawaii” by Los Santos.
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Los Santos play “Rag Mop”:

Stefan Hiss playing one of his original tunes: “Tanz aus meinem Grab” (Dance on My Grave):

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Mad Ms own tubist extraordinaire, Johny Blood joins his former band, Magnetic Fields tonight at the Herbst Theater in SF. Sold Out Show! (Though I did see some tix on craigslist …)

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Mark your calendars! Saturday March 13th.

We have the honour of playing the 159th San Francisco St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Festival. Festivities begin 11AM. We play 3-5PM on the Civic Center Plaza. This is a free outdoor concert!

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Celebrate Accordions and the Women who play them!

Hope to see you at this free in house concert at Down Home Music in El Cerrito this Saturday afternoon from 3PM till 6PM.

Babes perfoming are Renée de la Prade, Nada Lewis, Big Lou, Salane C. Schultz, Marla Fibish, Sabra Daly and me with GDub.

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