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.
February 6th – Saturday 8:30PM – Speisekammer Restaurant, Alameda.
GDub (guitars), Johny Blood (tuba), Rhian (whistles/clarinet), Adrian (alto sax) and yours madly on accordion.
Come early and eat — the food is simply stellar at the Speisekammer Restaurant. And their selection of German beer is outstanding!
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February 13th – Saturday 2:00PM – Down Home Music Store, El Cerrito — an Accordion Babes happening. GDub & I will be playing along with several of the 2010 Accordion Babes.
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Oh my, this night was a wild one. When we arrived at 8:45 to set up the Sleeping Lady was packed and it stayed packed all the way past the last note of the Hounds’ set. We began to play at about 9:50 and stirred up a nice batch of tunes including some good rebel songs — “Óró ’sé do bheatha ‘bhaile” and our own “Rough Music.” We tried out our new (and soon to be recorded) version of the ska classic “A Message to You Rudy” and we sang the “High Seas Lament” for those who have passed in the recent earthquake in Haiti. Hounds’ drummer Chris sat in on snare about halfway through our set. (Thank you, Chris!) Toes tapped, beer bubbled!
The Hounds took the stage at around 11:20 and kicked into a rousing set full of reels, jigs, original tunes and stalwart Pogues covers. Our whistle player, Rhian sat in on a few tunes. People pushed tables aside to make more dancing room. There was at least one woman who really did know how to Irish step-dance so she took Renée’s challenge to do a Riverdance imitation seriously
The windows fogged up completely from the heat of bodies having a good time. We sold Accordion Babes Calendars, CDs and most definitely made new fans. Yep, a very good night!
There’s talk of doing this double-bill again. You won’t want to miss it.
Return of the Accordion Babes
Accordionist, Renée de la Prade with Culann’s Hounds just asked us to join them on Friday, January 15th at the Sleeping Lady in Fairfax. We’ll be a Mad Maggie’s “Lite” for this show. GDub (guitars), Johny Blood (tuba), Rhian (whistles & clarinet), Miguel Ashby (bass) and yours madly on squeeze.
Come early and eat — the Sleeping Lady has great food. Stay late for the show which will run from 9:30 to 1. This is a rollicking, foot stomping double bill, sure to shake off any post-holiday dreariness! Definitely worth pulling yourself off the couch and venturing into the night air
Enjoy fantastic holiday fare and beautiful music performed by several Accordion Babes from the Accordion Babes Pin-up Calendar which just happened to be selected by the Bohemian as a must-have gift this season.
The Speisekammer Restaurant has a lovely bar with a large selection of beers including excellent German ones. Bar is open from 4-12PM. Dinner is served from 5-9PM.
Music starts at 8:30.
Johny Blood (tuba), GDub (guitars) and Mad Mags (squeeze) will play a set around 9:30.
Line up includes:
Amber Lee and the Anomalies
Salane C. Schultz
Renee de La Prade & Joan Wilson Rueter
This will be a family friendly, gemütlichkeit filled holiday evening.
We’ll have calendars on sale for those last minute gifts
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We are joining Amber Lee and the Anomalies at The Last Record Store in Santa Rosa this Friday night to promote the 2010 Accordion Babes Pin-up Calendar & CD. We’ll play one set at 7PM and Amber will follow at around 8PM.
The Last Record Store has a grand selection of vinyl. So come on by and treat yourself to free live music and while you’re there, pick up a calendar or two — they make great gifts!
GDub and I are ready to head down to the Sleeping Lady in Fairfax. I’ve got a fresh battery in my golden squeeze, our gear and swag is packed in the car, my hair is braided, nice pre-show cup of Pu-Erh brewing (love it with fresh lemon and turbinado sugar) and my new-to-me dress is very comfortable though tight-fitting. GDub is wearing an elegant, warm all wool kilt. He tells me there may be a few kilted fellas coming. That will be a treat!
Yep, it’s going to be a good night of music making and crowd pleasing.
Sleeping Lady Café, Fairfax
with Renée de la Prade and the Hounds
We will have Accordion Babes Pin-up Calendars with CD for sale — the perfect gift!
This Friday night, December 4, we play the Sleeping Lady Cafe in downtown Fairfax with Renée de La Prade and the Hounds. Talk about foot stompin’, rowdy, rockin’ live music!
We start the show off at 9:30pm. The fun goes till after 1:00am at this pleasant, local spot.
And if you’re looking for eats, the Sleeping Lady Café serves great food before the show.
West Coast Accordion Babes Revue will be on Sunday afternoon on September 20th between 3-6pm at the Lagunitas Brewing Company.
5 accordion goddesses from the 2010 West Coast Accordion Babes Pinup Calendar will be playing:
Amber Lee,
Kitten on the Keys,
Renée de la Prade,
Roxanne Oliva
and yours madly (with several of my musical cohorts).
We’ll have calendars for sale & will happily sign them.
Come spend a Sunday afternoon listening to live music and drinking delicious locally brewed beer. Then pick up a few calendars as gifts for your accordion goddess loving friends!
More upcoming Accordion Babes Revues:
September 22nd at the Toad in the Hole Pub, Santa Rosa
October 16th at the Sleeping Lady Cafe, Fairfax