Hi Magpies, Summer is here and we get to play music for you. Yay! We’ve been busy learning new tunes and preparing for a recording session, some new videos and our live shows. Can’t wait to share it with you all. Here’s where we’ll be: DANCING IN THE STREETS We…
To celebrate our fine trumpeter’s birthday, enjoy this traditional klezmer piece called “Serba” from our album Naked Ladies. Mark and his son Aaron recorded and mixed all the tunes last summer. Thank you, Mark! Looking forward to more musical fun as we all spin around the sun another time.
The Mad Maggies’ sax man Ray has made it around the sun again. Yeah! Back in April 2011, Ray saw us at the downtown San Rafael farmer’s market. He contacted us saying if we ever needed another horn player to let him know. We didn’t just then, but a year…
Happy Birthday, Ned! Our trombonist, Ned Stone akas Phil VanOuse joined us back in 2012. It was Johny Blood who brought him into our musical adventure. They are longtime friends and fellow brass players. Years back they performed together as a tuba duet, Blood and Stone. Mr. Stone currently plays…
On this day, March 24, some unspecified years ago, Ruby and Kitto Luke welcomed their newborn son Ian into the world. Nothing was the same ever after. Ian joined the Mad Maggies in 2009. And nothing has been the same ever since. A loud Happy Birthday for the man who…
