San Francisco Arts Festival: "HERE"

Several friends are featured in the San Francisco International Arts Festival taking place today through June 5. This weekend CALI & Co and Matt El bring there HERE show to Cowell Theater.

CALI & CO dance/
Matt EL
with guest collaborators
Kyoungil Ong and
Sooyeon Lyuh (USA, Korea)

HERE

Friday May 20, 7:00pm
Saturday May 21, 9:30pm
Sunday May 22, 2:30pm
Duration: 80 minutes (both companies)

Shared bill with Dana Lawton Dances

Cowell Theater
Tickets: General Admission
$20 in advance, $25 at door

HERE captures the rapture of existence through a new piece de resistance by CALI & CO dance/Matt EL music with guest collaborators Kyoungil Ong/Ong Dance Company and Sooyeon Lyuh. HERE is a rare, creative amalgamation of identity and culture through traditional Korean dance and music with American modern dance and rock music. Coursing shadow and light through its structure, HERE seeks to highlight the beauty and soften the pain of existence. 

Read.Eat.Listen: Full

Read: The dear writing-group friend LJ recommended 'Things I Don't Want to Know: On Writing' by Deborah Levy and I ate all but all of it up on the flights to and fro LA a couple weeks back. A free night looms and I'm about to devour the rest. Any writer/creative sort will appreciate her eye for detail, hard-stories-to-write-when-it's you material. This books isn't so much about how to write rather than the mysterious why we write (her chapters are titled 'Political Purpose' 'Historical Impulse' 'Sheer Egoism' and 'Aesthetic Enthusiasm.'

Eat: Oakland's Eat Real Festival is a foodie's dream (9/19 – 9/21) Oakland Local -  This weekend marks one of the quintessential Bay Area foodie events of the year as the 6th annual Eat Real Festival sets up in Jack London ...

I was one of the musical acts at the first year of the big foodie shindig that is theEat Real Festival. I'm returning to play at Jack London Square during the party this coming Saturday, Sept. 20.  Look/listen for us  2:30-3:30pm on the Lot Stage. There will be plenty to eat. I'll report back on what I actually ingest while there.

Listen: I'm a sucker for the ever-prolific, heart-on-his sleeve,  perhaps 'hard'-songs-to-write/writing-them-anyway truth-telling badassery of Ryan Adams whose got plenty new music with which to fill one's ears.

Americana Hustle: A mini MUMfest day of Americana music in Modesto

Last year, we played at MUMfest, the Modesto Unplugged Music Fest produced by (seemingly) tireless music promoter Aaron Rowan. Showcasing the music of  the San Joaquin Valley and beyond, we were part of a diverse line-up of bands and songwriters that shed new light on what's going on in musically in California. It really is amazing how much music is being made everywhere if you decide to look and what Rowan is doing in Modesto is a case in point.

The MUMfest attracted so much interest, he's doing it again this year, with the added feature of several one-day 'extension' events leading up to the main festival in April. We're heading back to Modesto this weekend to take part in one of them, Americana Hustle, running all day February 17, 2014 in Modesto. Here's the skinny:

In the first of a series of daylong extension events of the Modesto Unplugged Music Festival, come enjoy a lineup of great local Americana-esque artists from around the San Joaquin Valley, and beyond.

Americana Hustle: a mini-MUMfest showcase Saturday, February 17. 

• Cafe Deva (1202 J St.), 3pm-6:30pm, no cover: 3:00 CJ Bradley 3:30 Shawn Michael Allen 4:00 American Spring Machine (Erin Odessa & Ben Vogel) 4:30 Andrew Alvarez 5:00 Hushed & Guilty 5:30 Chris Farris Music 6:00 Sue Dean Peer Recovery Art Project (1222 J St.), 12pm-6pm, $10 at door: 12:00 Tractor-boy Chris Ward 12:40 Deborah Crooks 1:35 Ron Roy 2:25 Sue Ray w/ Melissa Fraser 3:20 Carrie Henschell of Carrie and the Cut Snakes 4:15 Vagabondage 5:10 Bethany & The Pick 'N Pull

October Music: East Bay Harvest Sat. 10/6

October music performance life kicks in with a two-gig day in the East Bay. If you're in Alameda or Concord, please come by! Food, music, community is the call.

Saturday, October 6th, 2012

First up, I'm playing the Alameda music party that is the High Street Station Harvest Festival.

High Street Station Harvest Festival - 1-6pm

1303 High St
Alameda California 94501
Uni 415 3557888

Price: $10-15

Part of a full afternoon of music (&BBQ) at High Street Station in celebration of the season. Come hear Alameda artists Steve Witt, Deborah Crooks, The Sheets, Bad Ass Boots and more. I play with the band 2-3:15pm 

Then I go North to play a set at 

Ale Industries "First Saturdays" Artist Market - 6-9pm

975 Detroit Ave
Concord California 94518 

 

Part of a full evening  Live, Local, and Independent ART, MUSIC, AND FRESH CRAFT BEER from 6pm - 9pm! Local Concord favorite Taqueria la Soledad will be serviing delicious Mexican food as well.

Part of a full evening of Live, Local and Independent Art, Music and Craft Beer. Americana / Folk / Outlaw Country musician friends PETE AHONEN and ANDREW GIBSON invited me along to play a set. 

Join us!