A Mad, Mad World

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!

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Three’s the Charm

March 12 – Friday night at the Abbey Tavern on Geary in San Francisco. We play 9:30PM onward. FREE!

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. Also playing The Gas Men and Doug Martin Avatar Ensemble

March 19 – Saturday night at the Vibe, San Rafael with Miracle Mule. Show starts 9:30. We play from 10:30 onward – $10

See you in your dancing shoes and with a bit of green on ya!

yours in a mad, mad world,

Mags

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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.

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Two of our tunes, “Pica Pica Polka” and “Musical Priest S” have been nominated in the Just Plain Folks Music Awards 2009.

Only 1/3 of 1% of the 560,000 submitted songs made it to nominee status. Wow! This is indeed an honor.

The tunes are from our 2nd CD, “Magdalena’s Revenge” released in 2007.

This award period was for material released before August 31st, 2008. It takes JPF some time to sort through the hundreds of thousands of entries. Thousands of judges — industry pros, peers, fans — go through the submissions.

In celebration we give to you for your listening pleasure these free mp3 downloads:

Musical Priest S – based on a traditional Celtic reel.
Pica Pica Polka – lazy border-style polka. Pica Pica is Latin for Magpie.

Enjoy!
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“Luna Marie” & “Street Dog” from “Crazed and Enthused” were nominated by JPF in 2006 in the cabaret and cajun song categories respectively.

I’m looking forward to submitting “Skull &Magpies” for next year’s JPF Awards.

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