Klezmer Accordion Workshop with Duckmandu!
All levels welcome. Accordions can be provided for the accordionless.
Saturday, Feb 20th, 2010 (4:00) 5:00 - 7:00PM $20
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Accordion Apocalypse
2626 Jennings Street 94124
Call (510) 601-1117 or (415) 596-5952 for more information.
http://www.accordionapocalypse.com/
http://www.myspace.com/duckmandu
Come join accordionist Aaron Seeman (also known as Duckmandu) and your fellow adventurers as we use the accordion to play eastern european folk music. Absolute beginners to more advanced students are welcome.
Come at 4:00 if you have never touched an accordion or if you need to review the bare bones basics of accordion playing!
Come at 5:00-7:00 intermediate

http://www.duckmandu.com/
http://www.amazingaccordion.com/


Accordion Apocalypse MUSIC NIGHT on Third Fridays:
Come and play accordion at the shop with Skyler Fell and friends of the Accordion Apocalypse, learn new songs and tips, share old favorites, meet other accordionists and musicians in the bay area! Other instruments also welcome. byob.
FREE
6-10pm Third Fridays @ The Accordion Apocalypse Repair Shop
Next Accordion Nights:
Friday, February 19th, 2010
Friday, March 19th, 2010

DROP IN BEGINNERS WORKSHOPS:
Learn to play piano accordion in a fun, creative, and inspired environment with other beginners. You too will soon ROCK the SQUEEZE!!! Taught by Skyler Fell.
Bring your friends & your main squeeze to The Accordion Apocalypse Repair Shop the following Saturday Afternoons at 4pm (ONLY $20!):
January 30th
February 13th, 20th, and 27th

*BEGINNERS SPECIAL* package:
Including 3 months of group lessons and a rental ONLY $149.99!
RENTAL Program NOW AVAILABLE. 12 basses Starting at ONLY $35 per month

Here's a great list of accordion, concertina, and button box teachers in California. Email me your info if you would like to be added to the list or to rave about a specific awesome teacher you have had!

The Golden Gate XPress Video & Article Nov 2009:
Smells Like Accordion Spirit Multimedia Video:
http://xpress.sfsu.edu/specials/2009f/ACCORDIAN/soundslides01/
Return of The Bellows Article:
http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/news/014056.html

Let's Polka Interview's Skyler Fell of The Accordion Apocalypse....

The Examiner Puts The Accordion Apocalypse on The Front Page, Bringing The Accordion to a New Generation....

and more...

Accordion-a musical instrument of the handheld bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accordion
Apocalypse-(literally: the lifting of the veil), is a term applied to the disclosure to certain privileged persons of something hidden from the majority of humankind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse

Women on the Way Festival!

Featuring The Digital Sense, a multimedia extravaganza of Discovery.

* Concept, Video, and Sound Design by Calypso.

* Performed by Calypso, Summer Bowie, and Skyler Fell

When: January 16, 22, and 31st at 8pm
We share the stage with different great performers each night- comedy, music, dance and theater. See www.Ftloose.org/wow for details!

Where: Shotwell Studios, 3252-A 19th St (at 19th and Shotwell) in the mission district of San Francisco

How: $15-$20 sliding scale; Purchase tickets from me to have some of the procedes benefit the artists: ContactCalypso@gmail.com; (510)334-9849
OR... Info/Reservations: 415-289-2000; Advance purchase with credit card at brownpapertickets.com/producer/5930

Show Description:
Where do you look to know who you are? In this riveting and unique multimedia show entitled “The Digital Sense,” creator and performer Calypso clowns and dances from being stardust in the cosmos to a child of the digital age, and from the live stage onto the projected screen. Influenced by her real-life experience of growing up in southern California with sitcom role-models and cartoon best friends, this show is the fulfillment of Calypso’s long hoped-for dream that the over-produced images on the screen would somehow talk back and relate to her personal moment. See Calypso be born, search of herself, play games with her digital twin, get caught in her own traps, meet characters along the way, and discover the power and beauty of magic. Created in part through a nine-month artist-in-residency at the Garage Theater in 2009, “The Digital Sense” calls attention to our culture’s stories of time and identity, and how the proliferation of the digital image is transforming our most intimate understanding of who we are. Calypso’s work examines and ignites our awareness of being alive, inspiring laughter and play in the face of adversity. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Art Practice and the Clown Conservatory of the San Francisco Circus Center. Calypso has toured nationally performing in theaters, festivals, universities and street corners. In the spring she will tour with The Dreamtime Circus to Peru to perform and teach circus skills to children while investigating clowning, ecology, and consciousness.

General Festival Information:
Footloose presents the 10th Annual Women on the Way Festival at three venues in San Francisco during January, 2010: Each night female artists share the bill in a different combination of innovative theater, dance, comedy and music. Check details at ftloose.org.
Make your reservations early because the buzz is building that this year’s Women on the Way Festival is the hot ticket to see so much talent on one stage. Please go online for complete articles and see why the critics agree that “WOW is an obsession among Mission district scenesters and lovers of inventive entertainment on a budget…it’s a funky blend of theatrical storytelling and movement.” Nirmala Nataraj, SF Weekly
THE GARAGE: 975 Howard Street: Thursdays through Sundays, JAN 14-31
SHOTWELL STUDIOS: 3252-A 19th St: Thursdays through Sundays, JAN 14-31
ODC THEATER, 351 Shotwell Street: Fridays through Sundays, JAN 22-31
Most Shows at 8 PM; Check website for matinee and complete schedule, descriptions, photos and more at: ftloose.org; Facebook: www.artist.to/footloosepresents; Twitter.com/ftloose

Tickets: $15-$20 sliding scale; Info/Reservations: 415-289-2000

Advance purchase with credit card at brownpapertickets.com/producer/5930

Or call 1-800-838-3006

Women on the Way artists for January, 2010:
ODC DANCE COMMONS: Amy X Neuburg and Solstice, Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers, Christine Cali & Dancers, Koechlin Sisters, Sonya Smith & Dancers

SHOTWELL STUDIOS: Calypso, Cynthia Brinkman, Olivia Hallie Lehrman, Theater of the Crackpot Crones/Terry Baum/Carolyn Myers, Stephanie Teel, The T Sisters; PLUS the West Coast Premiere of the play: "I used to write on walls" by Bekah Brunstetter; directed by Allison Troup-Jensen

THE GARAGE: Dark Porch Theatre, Open Experiments Ensemble/Terre Unité Parker, DOUBLE VISION/Pauline Jennings, Dana Lawton Dances, Jessica Damon & Dancers, Alyce Finwall Dance Theater, Miriam Wolodarski

Footloose is funded in part by grants from the Zellerbach Family Foundation, Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax, generous businesses and individuals. Corporate sponsor is the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

The Accordion Apocalypse is gonna ROCK the Cotati Accordion Festival! Come and join us in Cotati (1.5 hrs N of SF).... Saturday August 22nd & Sunday August 23rd!

Featuring amazing bands and performers like Culann's Hounds, Jason Webley, The Mad Maggies, Gaucho, Gabby La La, Those Darn Accordions, Tara Linda and Nueva Luna.

Swing by and visit the Accordion Apocalypse Booth #47 and try out our awesome accordions, buy straps and gig bags, find out about repairs or tuning, and make sure to get a new Bay Area Accordion Babes Calendar and have your photo taken with the accordion babes in person at our photo booth!

Check out the Accordion Apocalypse Circus Cabaret Show (booth #47) at 2pm Saturday & Sunday with:

Skyler Fell & Melody Guzman
Slim Chance & Kristin Wondersquirl of The Secret Circus
Luz Gaxiola & Friends of Circus Finelli
Amber Lee Baker
Salane Schultz & Friends
Amber Amnesia
and more!!!!

For more info on The Cotati Accordion Festival:
http://www.cotatifest.com/
Visit the Accordion Club in your area: http://www.accordionusa.com

For Repair Estimates please bring your accordion by the shop. I cannot give repair estimates over the phone or via email - I must see the instrument first. Email Skyler for an appointment at accordionapocalypse@yahoo.com or call (415) 596-5952.

Come and join The Hobo Gobbelins, 1-Man Banjo, and The Blue Bone Express in their natural habitat for a Marti Gras party at The Stork Club in Oakland!

Tues, Feb 16th, 2010 8pm
$5 in costume/ $7 without
Stork Club
www.storkcluboakland.com
2330 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland, CA 94612-2421
(510) 444-6174

Hobo Gobbelins
myspace.com/hobogobbelins
hobogoblins.com

Blue Bone Express:
blueboneexpress.com

1-Man Banjo:
1manbanjo.com
myspace.com/1manbanjo
www.nme.com/artists/1-man-banjo (video blog)

East Bay Mardi Gras Parade:
berkeleymardigras.org
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=248517466909&ref=ts

Check for other upcoming gigs and awesome videos at:
The HoboGobbelins-
http://www.myspace.com/hobogobbelins

Accordion Apocalypse-
http://www.myspace.com/accordionapocalypse
http://www.facebook.com/skylerfell

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