 | Sexy Sunday with Musicians for Peace @ Peris - Fairfax | | | Sun 9 pm-close
Sexy Sunday is a female musician's showcase that happens on the second Sunday of every month and is hosted by Krickie. The local as well as traveling talent is hand picked to provide an eclectic mix of smokin' & original girl music that'll knock your sox off, or at least you'll have a great time.
This month the show will be hosted by Alan Moore and Nkechi of Musicians for Peace. Musicians for Peace has over 3350members, including Melanie, Donovan, Patti LaBelle, Melba Moore, Pete Seeger, the New Rascals, Willie Nelson's Peace Research Institute, the Dalai Lama, Holly Near, Country Joe, Wayne Dyer, Robert Muller, Ram Dass, Patch Adams, Jean Houston, Dennis Kucinich & Barbara Lee. Please see www.butterflyspirit.org and www.myspace.com/musiciansforpeace
Please come!!!
Peri's Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway, Fairfax bar phone: 415.459.9910 bar web site: http://home.earthlink.net/~mikebtl/
Nkechi (pronounced nnn-KAY-chee) is an alternative acoustic soul singer/songwriter whose evocative voice, lyrics, and melodies explore a wide range of musical territory, including indie alternative pop, folk, world, & soul all in her signature sound and style. NKECHI performs as a solo musical artist, a live vocalist with djs, a live emcee/host and as lead vocalist/songwriter of her self-titled band NKECHI LIVE! A Full Tilt Jam Band Experience. NKECHI has performed at venues such as Cafe DuNord, the Make Out Room, 12 Galaxies, Red Devil Lounge, the Make Out Room, El Rio, Hotel Utah, Rockit Room, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, and many more venues and festivals around the bay area and east coast. www.nkechi.com
Jolie DePauw - Solo performance singing songs from her group Lotus Dog www.myspace.com/lotusdog
Irina Rivkin - Outmusic Awardee Irina Rivkin’s compelling, powerful songs blend jazzy folk & rhythmic world music, with an all-original sound influenced by her Russian heritage. She layers her poetic lyrics with rich textured harmonies, swirling with vocal percussive beats, all created live on-the-spot using her loop station instrument. www.irinarivkin.com
Mia and Jonah - Mia and Jonah have shared stages, campfires and numerous song circles with artists Lucas Nelson, Toshi Reagon, Sean Hayes, Jolie Holland, Camper Van Beethoven's Jonathan Segel and Victor Krummencher, AJ Roach, Erika Luckett and Austin Willacy. www.myspace.com/miaandjonah
"Jeff Buckley-esque blend of country, folk and rock ...songs of singular beauty played and sung without pretense." - SF CHRONICLE
"Compared to artists such as M. Ward, Devendra Banhart, Martha Wainwright, and the Damien Rice/Lisa Hannigan duo, indie singer/songwriters Mia and Jonah have a live show which is “likely to stir audiences from the magical trance induced only by those special performers who create what they live and live what they create.” (Eugene Weekly)
Leila Swan recorded experimental electronica in Canada with Andrew Kohl & Kevin Hogg, played with Anton Miserak's new age band, new to the Fairfax & San Rafael bar scene!! Have played with "One Hot Mess," Michael 'Firefingers' Olsen, Andre Mottershead, Michael Welch & Damir Stosic www.myspace.com/leilaswansongs
Sofi Rox - A native of bolinas, CA. Sofi writes melodic songs layered with clever references to nature, boys & her own experiences. Her voice is clear and sweet.
Evie McKnight - a prolific and humorous singer-songwriter based in Berkeley. She performs her own folk songs and plays in a jazz band called Mother of Pearl and is currently working in local studios to complete a CD to be titled “Pirate’s Cove”. www.myspace.com/eviemcknight
Yvette O'Tannenbaum w. Winter Sunday - tuneful contemporary and traditional celtic songs of social and environmental significance with a groovey edge.
Winter Sunday is Yvette O'tannenbaum: vocals/mandolin/piano/pennywhistle, Dave Sahn: guitar/back-up vocals and Cormack Gannon on bodhran
Sugarplums - Gerry McWilliams, a multi-instrumentalist Philly native and Alzara Getz, west coast child of Rock and Roll pedigree. Together they are genre defying, yet deliciously catchy, combining old-time sensibilities that warm the soul with the newest in bohemian-pop-rock to stretch the boundaries of melody and mood.
Alzara's plaintive pipes call us back to the divine feminine that is reminiscent of Deborah Harry at her brashest, Marilyn at her most seductive, Stevie Nicks at her most mysterious. McWilliams paints the landscape with licks that are both oddly familiar yet totally unique. He owns his instrument as only someone who has played for years can do, leaving room for childlike joy and jaunty ramblings. Paying homage to Floyd, Moriccone, Sesame Street, Les Paul & Mary Ford, Sugarplums songs spring to live naturally and honestly in everyday life situations, much like a musical film. Many of their songs begin with Alzara's acappella vocals, staying little from their original improvised form.
With an obvious chemistry born from a serendipitous love affair, McWilliams and Getz take you on both a powerfully psychedelic ride and a familiar stroll down memory lane, all while keeping a handcrafted musical integrity that is hard to come by in an industry awash with largess that leans more to the side of musical malt-liquor than a more refined old world recipe. They create eccentric harmonies that combine the best of the Beatles sing-along refrains with the wide-eyed wonder of the Carpenters.
Each song stands alone as a flavorful auditory sip or taken by the pint as a full body of work, the Plums have a consistency that quenches the acoustical pallet time and time again. www.myspace.com/sugarplums1 www.sonicbids.com/sugarplums
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| The Clarences Live at the Toys For Tots Fundraiser - Sacramento 01:00 PM » 06:00 PM | | | Sat Dec 13 1-6 pm
The Clarences are playing the Toys For Tots Fundraiser, outside the Tuk Tuk Thai (4630 Natomas Blvd) on Saturday, December 13th in Sacramento (in the northwestern section of Natomas), California!!!!
Fundraiser lineup:
1-2pm Olive Drive
2-3pm Allan Lopes and The West Coast Country Band
3-4pm The Products
4-5pm The Clarences www.theclarences.com www.myspace.com/theclarences
5-6pm The Phantom Jets |
| San Bruno Mountain Hike | | | Sunday, December 13, 1 PM
If you've enjoyed San Bruno Mountain over the years, and would like to introduce it to one or more of your adult kids, we have a great walk we'd like to share with you.Young kids are OK, too!
About an hour long, we'll walk from the parking lot of the County Park, out toward the Bay, with a view of the quarry and the wonderful Buckeye Canyon where one of the 5000 year old shell mounds lies hidden in the folds of hills. We'll see San Bruno Mountain in relation to the city of San Francisco and Mt. Diablo across the Bay. There are stories about the mountain's history that beg to be told as we circle around, and arrive back where we began.
If you've never been on San Bruno, treat yourself and your offspring to a new and different vantage point of the Bay Area that you've probably driven by many times, without being aware of the amazing diversity and history of this Bayshore location. It's not often we have a chance to spring a surprise on our kids once they've grown up, but here's an opportunity to introduce them to a discovery they might not stumble on.
San Bruno Mt. County Park HQ
Take Guadalupe Canyon Parkway toward the Mountain, and meet at the parking lot inside the park entrance.
Please call Ginny Anderson at 650-323-4494 or Jo Coffey at 415-585-6506 to reserve a place. |
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