Saturday,
December 10, 2016 at 8 pm-11 pm
Rhythmix
Cultural Works,
2513
Blanding Avenue,
Alameda
The
Accordion Babes are BACK for a night of squeezebox whimsy featuring Women of
the famous Accordion Babes Pinup Calendar. After a short hiatus traveling
states and Provinces; evading authorities; accepting marriage proposals; and
touring the world—all with accordions in tow. This special show features
several “babes” in celebration of the 2017 Accordion Babes Pin-up
Calendar/CD—now in its 8th year with new musical releases!
Join
us for an evening of seriously fun musical diversity, where the accordion rules
the night while crossing musical landscapes as varied as French border towns,
Tex-Mex cafes, Absinthe parlors, and Cajun and Rock dance halls. Featuring 4
acts, and 5 Accordionistas, come see how the accordion has evolved in the arms
of these seriously talented female-fronted bands.
Accordion Babes Artists:
Tara Linda
Torch
singer Tara Linda keeps her heart in the desert and her heels in the city.
Armed with button accordion, a sultry voice, and baritone ukulele, Tara fronts
both jazz and Americana bands around the Bay, writing original music and
touring her favorite places across the American Southwest and the EU. Tara is a
Hohner and Lanakai endorsed Artist, and asks you not to hold that against her (Bass,
Accordion, Uke, Voice, Percussion)
Jet Black Pearl
Could
Nina Hagen and Tom Waits have a secret daughter, born in Caravan Palace, with
Björk as a babysitter? This fabulous accordion diva from the port of Amsterdam
has performed on more than a thousand stages all over Europe and the USA West
Coast while singing, rapping and beat boxing about slugs in love, criminal
gurus and hallucinating butterflies.
Hobo Gobbelins / Skylar Fell
Proprietress
of the famous SF Accordion Apocalypse Repair Shop (now located in Petaluma,
CA), Skylar Fell is the Smokin’ accordionist and singer for the otherworldly
jug band The Hobo Gobbelins.
The
Hobo Gobbelins incorporate traditional sounds of Americana with Old World
charms where freight-train spirituals meet absinthe bars. Emerged from the
pulsing art vortex of Oakland, CA, these children of punk rock, rose up to
create avant-garde performance art with hobo soul. Onstage they weave a
wickedly catchy mixture of ancient pirate curses, orcish vaudeville, and
eldritch hobo semaphore into junkyard cabaret (Instrumentation: Banjo,
Accordion, Guitar, Vocals).
Whiskey and Women/ Renee de la Prade
This
rousing Cajun/Folk/Punk trio Features Three punky women from California who
share a passion for American roots music and rock-n-roll. Celtic fiddle tunes,
blues, and hell-raising Cajun accordion music all get wrapped up, soaked in
whiskey, sprinkled with beautiful harmonies, and delivered with the explosive
energy of a Molotov cocktail.
Joan
Wilson Rueter: fiddle, baritone ukulele, vocals
Renee
de la Prade: accordion, stomp, vocals
Rosemary
Steffy: percussion, fiddle, vocals
Cost:
$25/advance, $30/day of show.
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