Accordion Apocalypse DROP IN BEGINNERS WORKSHOPS:
EVERY Saturday Afternoon at 4pm (ONLY $20!)
Learn to play piano accordion in a fun, creative, and inspired environment with other beginners. You too will soon ROCK the SQUEEZE!!!
Bring your friends & your main squeeze to The Accordion Apocalypse Repair Shop
*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, 120 bass and Diatonic Button Box rentals
Private lessons for beginners ($40/hr) on Fridays & Saturdays.

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
7-10pm Third Fridays @ The Accordion Apocalypse Repair Shop
Next Accordion Nights:
Friday, June 18th, 2010
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Friday, August 13th, 2010

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 City of San Francisco Ushers in An Accordion Apocalypse
by Heather Mack & Perry Shirley
http://musezu.com/accordion-apocalypse.html

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....

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

Coming soon...
The Gobbelin Cabaret Show!
The Accordion Apocalypse Booth at The Cotati Accordion Festival! (August)
and.....
The San Francisco Squeezebox Carnival! (September)

Accordionists and Teachers Guild, International
July 21-25, San Francisco Bay Area, California
Including a spectacular outdoor Accordion Orchestra performance in California's Great America Amusement Park on Saturday, July 24.
As this is the ATG's 70th Anniversary celebration, we have many amazing events, like a Professional Symposium where you can hear the finest accordionists that are out making a living and promoting the accordion. They'll be answering questions on how they improvise, write music, get gigs...a new and fun event for the ATG.
There is also a Club Room for members and friends of all the accordion clubs from across the nation, we really want you to get to know each other and we want to get to know you!
The Anthony Galla-Rini Classical Accordion Competition to be held during the festival with competitors from around the world. The total prize money is almost $10,000!
To find out more about this year's Accordionists & Teachers Guild Festival visit:
http://www.accordions.com/atg/

The World Famous Cotati Accordion Festival!
The Accordion Apocalypse is gonna ROCK the Cotati Accordion Festival! Come and join us in Cotati (1.5 hrs N of SF).... Saturday August 21st & Sunday August 22nd!
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. Check out the Accordion Apocalypse Cabaret Show (booth #47) at 2pm on Sunday!
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.

Skyler Fell is making accordion history...KQED Public Radio
88.5 on The California Report airing this Friday 6/18 at 4:30 &
6:30pm. Tune in for an exclusive interview with Skyler Fell and her accordion
repair guru, put together by Julie Bruce & Marie Abe. http://www.californiareport.org/

The San Francisco Accordion Club http://www.sfaccordionclub.com/
Location:
The Oyster Point Yacht Club
911 Marina Blvd.
South San Francisco, California 94080
http://www.opyc.com/

Come and rock out with Thee HoboGobbelins, accordion lovers,
and all the folks at the San Francisco Accordion Club
There will be lunch provided, a great view of the bay, and
there is also a cash bar! We will be performing with
Art Peterson of The Polka Cowboys and more TBA!

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Sand by the Ton
The Roaring Twenties

Saturday, July 31, 2010 9:00 PM - 3:00 AM PDT
Age Requirement: 21+

Location:
AMERICAN STEEL
1960 Mandella Parkway
Oakland CA 94607

Join the HoboGobbelins, El Radio Fantastique, Campfire songs
with Micah and Leighton, and screaming legions of barking
lunatics on the creaky Front Porch in the bowels of American
Steele, if, that is, you hope to in any way enjoy your life,
brief though it may be.
http://www.thebigartexperience.com/


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

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

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