January + music = GO!

[Dina Maccabee]

2011 is here!

holy moly. that means the Beth Custer ensemble is back from a smashing success in Georgia (the country), Real Vocal String Quartet has just finished taking the Big Apple by storm. Actually, the storm took us by storm.  But we made it. 

So... let’s keep doing what we know how to do!

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Tonight 1/13:

Folk Rock: Michael Musika, Obo Martin, & F pod B pod

all of these bands are FUN AND GREAT and all the music is written by masterful poet storyteller wizards so please come. 

9:00pm 

the Hemlock Tavern

1131 Polk st

San Francisco, CA

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Tomorrow (friday) 1/14

Tartine!

with Dina Maccabee, Rob Reich, and Lisa Mezzacappa

5 - 7 pm, 18th and Guerrero, SF.  

Your favorite combo of musical and baked treats. Well, if it's not your favorite, it should be. 

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Sunday, 1/16:

Dina Maccabee Band opens for Foxtails Brigade

8:00 pm

The Church House

Santa Cruz, CA

$5 doation

On wednesday 1/19 I'll be recording my contribution to the UnderCover "Doolittle" album. Wish me luck!

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January 21 - 23 brings the first Evie Ladin Band tour of 2011.

JANUARY 21 | FRIDAY

Evie Ladin Band

The Roosthouse | Carmel, CA

8pm, $10-15 sliding scale

JANUARY 22 | SATURDAY

Evie Ladin Band

LIVE on KCBX | San Luis Obispo, CA

2:30pm with Sonnie Brown

JANUARY 22 | SATURDAY

Evie Ladin Band

Red Barn Community Music Series | Los Osos, CA

6pm potluck and jam session; 7pm concert

JANUARY 23 | SUNDAY

Evie Ladin Band

House Concert | Santa Cruz, CA

2:30 Old-Time Harmony Singing Workshop

4pm Concert

(skipping forward:  JANUARY 29 | SATURDAY

Evie Ladin Band

Fiddling Cricket Concerts | Santa Clara, CA

Mission City Coffee Roasting Co.

8pm )

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And then…

a REAL DOOZY of a week featuring shows by Killbossa and the Floating World CD release.  Yes you read this right!

January 27

Killbossa in Oakland (check back in on Facebook or Myspace for details)  This supergroup features Dave Mihaly, Aaron Novik, Roger Riedlbauer, Eric Perney, Melody Ferris, and Dina Maccabee performing their favorite Tropicalia hits.

January 28

THE FLOATING WORLD: CD Release Party

Friday, January 28

Tonight the Red Poppy celebrates Floating World’s Floating World Vol. 1—original songs set to the poems of three Mission District outsider poets. The Floating World is a suite that pays homage to the hidden souls and secret stories that drift through the streets of San Francisco. Composer and bass clarinetist Aaron Novik has composed serenades for this imaginary, yet authentic, space, invoking the spectral, carnival-like atmosphere of San Francisco. The music was inspired by poems from three Mission District poets who inhabit the fringe of this unseen territory: Bart Alberti, Swan and Michael B. Loggins.

Dina Maccabee: viola 

Marie Abe: accordion

Lisa Mezzacappa: upright bass 

Jamie Moore: drums 

Kasey Knudsen: alto sax 

Melody Ferris: vocals

Aaron Novik: bass clarinet, compositions

Floating World Vol. 1 is being released on Porto Franco Records on CD and two vinyl records (the second titled Don't Call Life a Bad Word), with jackets printed by hand on a letterpress by Bay Area artist and printmaker Rebecca Peters.

From Bart Alberti’s “Bataille”:

“A ladybug lights on a sheet of paper;

Elsewhere a train pulls into a station. These

Are so many wounds inflicted on the system.

At the summit of its insignificance

The sun shines down its deadly laughter.”

www.portofrancorecords.com/floating-world

$10-$15 admission. Doors open at 7:30 pm. Show at 8:00 pm.

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What else could there possibly be, you ask?

Tartine for Dessert!  Special sunday Tartine session on January 30 featuring GUTS AND BUTTONS reunited, with Lisa Mezzacappa, Marie Abe, and Dina Maccabee.  Time TBA.

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In the midst of all that, Ramon and Jessica is almost finished mixing (or rather, appreciating the mixing done by Mark Orton) on the NEW album for 2011.  We can't wait to share it with you soon!