The Mad Maggies play Baghdad by the Bay this weekend.
An afternoon quickie and an all-nighter:
July 30 – Friday Noon-1pm – 555 Mission St – People in Plazas – FREE & Outdoors!
July 31 – Saturday 10pm – Blackthorn Pub – a happening local pub at Irving and 9th Avenue. NO cover!!
Special shout out to our city friends — Come on down to this show!
I’m happy to be one of the babes in the new, upcoming Accordion Babes Pin Up Calendar and CD for 2011.
I knew I wanted to go “classic” pin up, black and white, round toe pumps, gams, nice naughty. Photographer John Clayton (claytonshot.com) loved the idea. We shot in his home studio on June 25th in the afternoon. We kept it simple, one outfit, one backdrop so we could concentrate on getting the right twist to the body, the right expression etc. I am particularly fond of his lighting which captures the vintage feel perfectly.
In the process I discovered that there are b&w lovers and those that much prefer color. Do you have a preference?
Ultimately editor Renée de la Prade chose color for the calendar. John gave that color shot what he called a “kodachrome” look. You can see the shot in both b&w and color and the other shots here in our gallery: Mad Mags Does Vintage Pin Up.
The 2011 Accordion Babes Calendar will be available to the public beginning on the weekend of the Cotati Accordion Festival, August 21 & 22. Note: The Mad Maggies play Sunday 8/22 at around 1PM. 
Of course I’ll be talking the calendar up once I have them in hand. It’s going to be a real good one judging by the sneak preview I got to see. 13 squeezebox goddesses!
Photographer Sean Pete (itsnotart.com) scouted the location — the Sutro Baths ruins on the coast of San Francisco — and somehow got us to behave for these fun shots. It was a fantastic, rare sunny day at the beach at a fascinating historic location.
While you’re looking at our gallery check out some other great photos Sean took of us at Studio E in Sebastopol.
Plenty of chances over the next few weeks to get crazy and dance like wild folk.
First up is our show tonight (7/15) starting at 6PM on the plaza off Fourth Street in San Rafael. We’ve been playing the San Rafael Downtown Farmer’s Market since 2005!
We have three People in Plazas gigs lined up. These are free and in the streets of SF — my favorite kind of gig. Also up in San Francisco is our first time at the Blackthorn Tavern, a cool neighborhood pub you’ll want to check out.
And we are very pleased to be back at the Cotati Accordion Festival. It’s the 20th annual. Wow!
So come out and enjoy the weather and yours madly. We love playing music for you!
Of course we’ll be playing some of the tunes from our new CD “Flashbacks – the Mad Maggies play vintage hits”.
yours in a mad, mad world,
Mags
July 15 – Thursday 6-9pm – Downtown San Rafael Market – FREE & Outdoors!
July 30 – Friday Noon-1pm – 555 Mission St, SF – People in Plazas – FREE & Outdoors!
July 31 – Saturday 10pm – Blackthorn Pub, SF
August 26 – Thursday Noon-1pm – 3 Embarcadero Center, SF – People in Plazas – FREE & Outdoors!
August 22 – Sunday 1:15pm – Cotati Accordion Festival. One of the very best local music fests!
September 16 – Thursday 6-7pm – 85 McAllister St, SF People in Plazas – FREE & Outdoors!
