A Mad, Mad World

Rocker Oysterfeller’s
Oyster & Fog Festival 2010
September 5th from 2:00 p.m. to 9:00 pm

We’ll kick off the event with a 90 minute set starting at 2PM. Come early, stay late. This is a very hip, out of the way spot with excellent food and good drink, located in a beautiful old hotel with a lovely outside patio.

$10 per person.
Children six and under enter free.
A portion of these proceeds will benefit the Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health.

Live MUSIC: There will be several local bands performing live music on the rear patio after us — The Stratospheres, Mr. December and Way To Go Joe’s. Music will begin promptly at 2:00 p.m.

DRINK: Lagunitas beers on draught, a variety of local reds, whites, roses, Hurricanes and hand squeezed Margaritas.

FOOD: BBQ’d Tomales Bay Oysters and a variety of Po’ Boy sandwiches will be served with choices of Local Roast Beef Debris, Fried Oyster, Fried Gulf White Prawns or Fried Green Tomato. Seafood Gumbo will also be available with local halibut, crayfish tails and andouille sausage.

This is the third annual Oyster & Fog Festival. We played the first one back in 2008 and are looking forward to rocking Rocker’s again!

Rocker Oysterfeller’s Kitchen + Saloon
the Valley Ford Hotel
14415 Highway One in Valley Ford
Brandon Guenther, Chef / Owner
(707) 876-1983
brandong@ffrsi.com

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City Rats,

Spread the word. We’ll be at Embarcadero 3 between Gap and Ann Taylor facing Sacramento St. tomorrow at noon.

This is a People in Plaza gig and is a FREE out door concert. We play from 12-1PM.

The weather should be lovely!

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The 2010 Cotati Accordion Festival was two days of squeezin’ bliss and a chance to hang with friends and fans and make new ones. I’m collecting all the photos and video and will be posting asap.

Meanwhile …

Death really, really liked this artwork and insisted that I get a snapshot. The owner was kindly accommodating. (Andrew if you email me your tattoo artist’s info I’ll be sure and give proper credit.)

UPDATE 8/30/10
Thanks, Andrew! The artist is Jeff Rassier at Black Heart Tattoo in SF.

And you can hear my pre-festival interview on KSRO here:
Mags on KSRO

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We play the Cotati Accordion Festival this Sunday at 1PM.

This two-day festival is one of the very best local live music events. Don’t miss it!

We have new beautiful t-shirts that we will be selling along with our CDs. So come by and say hi before or after we play.

And the new 2011 Accordion Babes Album and Pin Up Calendar will be available.

Gates open 9:30
Single day rates at $17 ($15 Advance)
Two-day rate of only $25
Children under 16 (w/ adult) are FREE!
Buy tix online.

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I’ll be on KSRO Morning News tomorrow morning around 8:45 talking up the 20th Cotati Accordion Festival. That’s Wednesday August 18th on KSRO 1350AM.

Listen live at: http://www.ksro.com/STW-PopUp.aspx

There will be a ticket giveaway so tune in!

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The Mad Maggies Live @ Blackthorn Tavern, SF
(around 1AM Sunday 8/1/10)

“Vitamin A” ©Baba Brooks from “Skull & Magpies”

Thanks to Sean Pete for taking this HD Flip Video

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The Mad Maggies Live @ Blackthorn Tavern, SF
(around 1AM Sunday 8/1/10)

“Dark Matters” from “Skull & Magpies”

Thanks to Sean Pete for taking this HD Flip Video

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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!

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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!

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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.

Take a look.

While you’re looking at our gallery check out some other great photos Sean took of us at Studio E in Sebastopol.

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