Music Briefly.Byline: The Register-Guard It's no longer just for the Lawrence Welk Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was a musician, accordion player, bandleader, and television impresario, hosting "The Lawrence Welk Show" from 1951 to 1982. fans With everyone from Norah Jones Norah Jones (born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar on March 30 1979 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and occasional actress of American and Indian descent. to Mood Area 52 embracing the accordion, it's clear that the old squeezebox squeeze·box n. An accordion. is making a comeback. On the heels of the national accordion players convention in Philadelphia (and the 65th anniversary of the American Accordionists Association, no less), the Monsters of the Accordion tour is coming to Sam Bond's Garage, 407 Blair Blvd. today. Billed as "a dream come true," the tour features three San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden area players (Jason Webley, Aaron Seeman and Daniel Ari) and one accordion repairman re·pair·man n. A man whose occupation is making repairs. Noun 1. repairman - a skilled worker whose job is to repair things maintenance man, service man (Kimric Smythe). Webley, the Tom Waits of accordion music, grunts out original songs and covers of such accordion, ah, classics as "La Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin and "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor. Ari plays with the band Bass Line Dada, which recently released an EP and a single titled "Grammarians Are Pissed." Seeman has recorded with Mr. Bungle and is the director of a punk rock string orchestra. He specializes in accordion versions of Dead Kennedys songs. Smythe, the owner of Smythe's Accordion Center in Oakland, Calif., is on hand in case the accordions break. The concert starts at 9:30 p.m. The cover is $5. The bands will be jammin' in North Plains Hippie jam bands aren't the only thing you'll find at the String Cheese Incident Summer Camp, July 31 to Aug. 3 at Horning's Hideout in North Plains. Colorado's the String Cheese Incident will perform three times. Other entertainers include Toots toots n. Slang Babe; sweetie. [Perhaps short for tootsie.] and the Maytals, Hot Buttered Rum Hot Buttered Rum may mean:
Tickets for the four-night, three-day festival are $140 and include camping. For information, go to www.string cheeseincident .com. - The Register-Guard |
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