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
Last year’s Accordion Babes Pin-up Calendar was a wild success so Renée de la Prade is doing it again! Advertise in or pre-order the 2010 Accordion Babes Pin-up Calendar at wholesale prices now! Advertising rates are very reasonable starting at $50. But hurry the early bird prices end today.
And to get you curious here’s a couple teaser shots from my photo shoot for the calendar.
John Clayton, photographer.
Thanks to fellow Accordion Babe, Amber Lee for this YouTube find! It’s a witty, brief timeline of the fabulous free reed instrument and ends with an au courant rap featuring two accordions. Ya gotta love it.
And did I mention Amber Lee and the Mad Maggies will be playing with Vagabond Opera at the Mystic Theatre, June 19?
Accordions Rule!
Already 2009 has been busy. Our first gig of the year was at Ashkenaz in Berkeley. This was our triumphant return to this venue and boy did we make sure that people got a taste of what they had been missing.
Tara Linda organized “Wild Accordion Women” (co-produced with Down Home Music). This Accordion Babes event showcased more talented female accordion players from the Bay Area. As we know, accordionist Mad Mags is very talented as she writes and arranges the majority of our tunes, plays with great style and looks wonderful as she does it!
The other acts really warmed up the audience for us, It has to be said that we got the place jumping; seats were for coats and nothing else! Everyone was taken by the music and just let us do what we do best- play well, play out and play often!
Marin Music Live also saw a protracted performance with other local world musicians. Once again we showed how it is done. Our friends Djiin also played – there is talk of us playing together in the future. It is hoped that video taken at the event will be shown on a local access Comcast station – dates unknown as yet but stay tuned! The event was free to all and we hope that the publicity will help secure more gigs.
We made out and as such a large group of mad musicians this is no mean feat! Go Van Gogh threw us a musical gauntlet and we accepted. The Make Out Room in San Francisco hosted this Klezmer battle of the bands. There was dancing, merriment and a fun time was had by all. JB and I took the boxing theme rather seriously and came armed with boxing gloves. I even dropeed my skirt to reveal leggings and boxing shorts- sorry you missed this gig now? There was no knock out but we are hoping for a rematch as we would like to flex our musical muscles with this fine band once again!
THE event of February is our upcoming release party which is on February 7th and promises to be a night of pirates, folk music, shanties, costumes and recreations of days of yore. More details will be posted nearer the time. The event ties in with the piratical theme of our newest CD, Skull and Magpies. Costumes are not optional and the visual extravaganza that is to be our evening of musical mayhem should not be missed.
Here is a review of the new CD from our fan, Alex:
“A big big thank you for my CD. It looks absolutely amazing! I love the artwork, the new logo and the new songs.
Studio simply cannot imitate the dynamics of a live band playing in front of a crowd of cheering audience. I would say your new album is a perfect teaser for people who can’t wait to see you playing live. I am definitely one of them. Favourite song – it must be: Morning Star!”
Come and see what he is raving about! Choose your own favourite from Skull and Magpies.
And we’ve been podcast. BilgeMunky.com played “Rough Music” (listen to show 65 ) and Wild Wilson has spun us several times on his show in Minnesota.
Meet many of the talented beauties of the Bay Area Accordion Babes Pin-Up Calendar!
Thursday November 13 8pm
Café Du Nord
2170 Market St
San Francisco CA 94114
415-861-5016
www.cafedunord.com
Big Lou’s Polka Casserole
Kugelplex w/ Isabel Douglass
Renee de la Prade and Friends
Tickets $12.00
Calendars will be on sale. Perfect holiday gift!
Big fun. Perfect sunny Sunday. Main Street was lined with folks.
Three accordions! — Amber Lee, Renee de La Prade & Mad Mags
Horses and Riders decked out in holiday colors
A masterpiece by Dana and Craig Black of
Custom Balloon Creations, Cotati Ca