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!
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!
Calling all squeezers and those who love our bellowed beauties.
Event: Accordion Day in San Francisco
Day: Friday June 11, 2010
Time: 11:30am
Location: Polk St. between Grove and McAllister
This is the 20th anniversary of San Francisco proclaiming the accordion as the city’s official instrument. Wow!
Tom Torriglia, who spearheaded the effort for SF to honor the accordion, has organized an event the City Hall steps. Mayor Gavin Newsom is expected to make an appearance at noon.
Go to Tom’s website for more info on how to participate.
March 6th – Saturday 8:30PM – Speisekammer Restaurant, Alameda.
A Side of Mad Maggies: GDub (guitars), Johny Blood (tuba), Adrian (alto sax, bass clarinet) and yours madly on accordion.
I’ve said it before 
The food is simply stellar at the Speisekammer Restaurant. And the selection of German beer is outstanding!
No Cover
March 12 – Friday night at the Abbey Tavern on Geary in San Francisco. We play 9:30PM onward. FREE!
You want a taste of Irish this is the joint!
March 13 – Saturday afternoon at the 159th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Festival, San Francisco. FREE Festival in the Civic Center Plaza starts 11AM. We play 3-5PM.
We had a blast playing this last year. There was dancing in the streets — my favorite kind of happening.
March 19 – Friday 9:30 at the Vibe, San Rafael with Miracle Mule. We play from 10:30 onward – $10.
This is our first time at this cool dance venue in Marin and it’s gonna be fun.
March 28 – Sunday – Marin Civic Center Farmer’s Market Music in the morning amidst the fruits and veggies.
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.
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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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A Bellows & Babes House Concert
Saturday night – 8:00PM
All ages! General seating
Admission is $20 and includes a 2010 Accordion Babes Calendar and CD — That’s a $20 value! So it’s like getting a free concert for the price of a calendar. Or it’s a free calendar with the price of admission — a good deal no matter how you think about it. The calendar makes a great gift!
The evening’s rich and varied entertainment includes several of the
calendar’s accordion playing lovelies and their bands: Salane C. Schultz (experimental cabaret), Amber Lee Baker, (neo-folk), Tara Linda and friends (tex-mex/musette), Roxanne Oliva and Cobblestone (celtic), Mad Mags and the Mad Maggies (rowdy, danceable folk) and Renée de la Prade and Culann’s Hounds (celtic punk.) Lux Gaxiola of Circus Finelli is mistress of ceremonies.
Studo E is special venue. Nestled in rural Sebastopol, this professional recording studio and sound stage has hosted many world-class artists in its comfortable, relaxed country atmosphere. It’s a cool, local secret you’ll want to check out.
Visual artist Sean Pete of It’s Not Art will be photographing,
