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The 2012 Accordion Babes Calendar & Album is available!

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011 by madmags

Enjoy 13 images of accordions and their lovely owners PLUS a CD with a track from each of the babes.

Mags strikes a roguish pose as Ms. November and “Shake Those Bones” is the track.

$15 plus $5 shipping gets one delivered to your doorstep or mailbox or, well wherever. You can pay with credit or debit card at PayPal.

Good gift idea for music lover, pin-up lover, accordionistas!

2012 cover



‘Tis a fine night to rabblerouse

Saturday, October 29th, 2011 by madmags

Come, Me Hearts! Shake Those Bones! There’s rum and beer and wenches and rogues and fine music to stir your blackstained souls. All tonight starting at 9:30 at the Sleeping Lady in Fairfax.

show poster

What to wear? What to wear?

Monday, October 24th, 2011 by madmags

Saturday night at the Sleeping Lady in Fairfax will be hopping!

Costume Contest!

Sleeping Lady Poster

Live on KRCB – Saturday 10/15/11

Monday, October 17th, 2011 by madmags

Thanks to MJ for catching us in the act in the KRCB 91 FM studios!

We were guests on Steve Earlap’s show “Our Roots Are Showing” to promote our latest album “Shake Those Bones” and our double CD release party with Roxanne Oliva that night at Aubergine’s.

Think Eggplant!

Saturday, October 15th, 2011 by madmags

Aubergine After Dark

Tonight

Saturday

October 15

8:00pm

two bands

two new albums

BIG FUN

release party poster

On the Radio – 2:00 PM Today

Saturday, October 15th, 2011 by madmags

Getting ready to head out to KRCB radio in Rohnert Park to chat and play music live in the studio. Our time slot is 2:00pm. Steve Earlap is our host on “Our Roots Are Showing”.

Listen in at 91 FM

or

LIVE stream: krcb.org/

Roxanne Oliva and several of us Mad Maggies will be talking about our new albums and our release party/show tonight. We’ll stir up some dust ;-)

We got calendars!

Saturday, October 15th, 2011 by madmags

We will have the new 2012 Accordion Babes Calendar and Album at the show tonight.

Just $15 gets you 13 images of accordions and their lovely owners AND a CD with a track from each of the “babes”. A great gift.

Roxanne Oliva is Ms. July. Yours madly is Ms. November.

accordion babes roxanne and mags and cover photo

For those of you far away or who cannot make it to our CD release party, you can buy online via PayPal — $15 plus $5 shipping.


We’re in the News!

Friday, October 14th, 2011 by madmags

Nice shout out for our show in the Press Democrat today. Find it on page D-3

Kick Drum Looking Good

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 by madmags

Ian installed the new custom art drumhead that arrived today.

Super nice job by drumart.com

We’re getting spiffed up for our CD release party this Sat. 10/15 at Aubergine After Dark in Sebastopol.

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa Adventure — Day 3

Thursday, September 29th, 2011 by madmags

Sometime in the early morn, Jim texted asking whether we wanted to come for the Czech Village Pancake Breakfast. I texted back that we had stayed up way too late. There were snoring musicians in every room and I imagined few would be vertical before noon.

Sometime after this the house filled with the smell of onions being sautéed. Roxanne was making spinach and potato frittatas for brunch. Hallelujah!

We had time to drink tea and coffee, eat and then pack. There was a dance party to play in the Czech Village at the Red Baron pub. We would leave for the airport directly after.

rox, ian, rhian and renee jam

For this show we had even more jamming. Mad Ms whistler Rhian joined Roxanne with Ian on “cats paws” and Renée on button box for a nice Celtic jam. Toes were tapping all through the place. Corn Mo, Paul Rogers, Ron Borelli performed again to everyone’s enjoyment. Billy dished up another dance inducing set with the Mad Ms backing and Renée sitting in on squeeze and Roxanne on triangle.

billy wilson jam

Then it was up to us to wrap the party up with a bang. I had one eye on the clock because we only had minutes to get to the airport in time for checking in.

It all worked out. We would do it all again in a heartbeat. Thank You, Cedar Rapids! Thank you Jim Jacobmeyer and New Bohemia/Czech Village!

Corn Mo took a couple videos which capture the feeling. Pictures ARE worth thousands of words:


PHOTOS:

A medley of photos on our website (no FB needed)

Tim Sarter’s Album on FB

Ian Luke’s Album on FB