Solano Stroll, Sunday, September 10th, 2006 from 1:00 - 2:00 pm, 3:00 - 4:00 pm, and 5:00 - 6:00 pm at Solano and Neilson (near Safeway) with Jim Nelson, Kerry Parker, and Steven Strauss playing old-time, folk, bring your fiddle and join us. Peace Symbol Golden JubileeWednesday, February 20th. CALLING ALL POETS AND MUSICIANS. The Berkeley Arts Festival and Peace for Keeps are pleased to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of The Peace Symbol with open poetry and folk music singalong Wednesday, February 20th--a full moon total eclipse at 7:45 p.m.--and Thursday, February 21st at the Festival Gallery, 2209-13 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, from 7-10 p.m. This is a benefit for the Central Committee for Conscentious Objectors. Poets and musicians are encouraged to honor the Golden Jubilee and conscientious objectors with 10-15 minute creative contributions.Tickets for audience members are $5 on up.To schedule and for further information, call Armin A. Legdon--aka Arnie Passman (510) 845-5481, pazmopa@yahoo.com.
Birthday Celebration for Martin Luther King , Saturday, January 19th, with the Peace and Justice Center at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, 505 East Charleston Road, Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-494-0541 , email: uucpa@uucpa.org, with Folk This! Our traditional sing-along celebration of social justice, bring instruments, win prizes, sing the new year in with us.
Wednesday, December 12th, 8:00 pm, Holiday Benefit for Strings, the most exquisite underground music hall at 6320 San Pablo Avenue, Emeryville...for more information call (510) 653-5700...please do not advertise.
Sunday, November 25th, 7:30 pm, Benefit for Zachary Runningwolf's Recall campaign and the Oak Grove treesitters at Green City Gallery, 1950 Shattuck Avenue, the corner of Shattuck and Berkeley Way...
Tuesday, November 13th, 5:00 pm, Fiddlers for Peace and hundreds of artists at the Make Art Not War Sidewalk Show. Place, the Marine Recruiting Station, 64 Shattuck Square, Berkeley, CA, bring your fiddle, your banjo, your trombone...
Sunday, Sept. 23, 3-5pm, benefit for Berkeley Partners for Parks and the Berkeley Path Wanderers. The Egret Center, Berkeley Aquatic Park.
Solano Stroll; Sunday, September 9th, 10:00 am- 6:00 pm with Failure to Disperse featuring Jim Nelson on banjo, Steven Strauss on bass, Kerry Parker on fiddle, Rodney Freeland on mandolin, and me on trombone disguised as fiddle, concertina or guitar. The theme is Going Green this year, so dress accordingly in hemp and bamboo. The nation's oldest, longest street party with music, food, costumes, and a parade. Bring your fiddle, join us, or just enjoy.
7:30 pm Sunday, July 29th, 2007, La Pena Cultural Center; Laborfest presents Folk This! and friends, including Marcus Duskin, Carol Denney, Steven Low, Robert Temple, Calvin Keaola. Support Laborfest, the monthlong annual celebration of local and international labor history and culture. 3105 Shattuck Avenue (at Prince), Berkeley, California. Admission: $10, student/senior/low income $5. For more information or advance tickets call: (415) 378-7235.
Strings, the premier underground club...if you have never been, you have a coveted special invitation from the artists for simply discovering yourself on this web site, visited by very, very few. Wednesday, June 20th, 2007, Undercover Night, where the show features beautiful but rarely heard material. Strings is at 6320 San Pablo Avenue, (unmarked French doors to the right of the beauty parlor) Emeryville, CA, donations gladly accepted, please do not advertise. (510) 653-5700 for more information.
San Francisco Folk FestivalSaturday, June 16th, 2007, 1:00 pm with Fiddlers for Peace, a group of fiddlers, banjo players, gardeners, computer programmers, all instruments and non-instruments welcome to come and play whatever we can dream up for an hour of archaic anarchic awe in the interest of peace.
People's Park 38th Anniversary, noon until 6:00 pmSunday, April 22nd, 2007, with Country Joe McDonald, All Nation Singers, Stratosphere68 and more, learn what the university is up to now.
Noe Valley Farmers Markets first Saturday mornings with Kerry Parker and Failure to Disperse....
Strings, the premier underground club...if you have never been, you have a coveted special invitation from the artists for simply discovering yourself on this web site, visited by very, very few. Wednesday, April 4th, 2007, featuring Carol Denney, Skip Henderson and the Starboard Watch, and Eric Von Radics (of Buzzard Song, solo and with esteemed accompaniment). Strings is at 6320 San Pablo Avenue, (unmarked French doors to the right of the beauty parlor) Emeryville, CA, donations gladly accepted, please do not advertise. (510) 653-5700 for more information. We are amazing.
Noe Valley Farmers Markets first Saturday mornings....
Birthday Celebration for Martin Luther King , Saturday, January 13th, Peace and Justice Center (650) 326-8837, (www.PeaceandJustice.org) at the First Baptist Church of Palo Alto, 305 N. California (at Bryant), Palo Alto, CA, with Folk This. Our traditional sing-along celebration of social justice, bring instruments, win prizes, sing the new year in with us.
Holiday Benefit for Strings Wednesday, December 13th, membership or by invitation only, a variety show with a huge cast of Strings players, come help raise some bucks for the Carnegie Hall of underground clubs at 6320 San Pablo Avenue, (unmarked door to the right of the beauty parlor) Emeryville, CA, donations gladly accepted, please do not advertise. (510) 653-5700 for more information.
Tree-sit to Save the Oaks Saturday, December 9th, 4:00 pm, near UC's Memorial Stadium with Country Joe MacDonald and various fiddlers for peace. The University has so much land to locate its fitness center that it makes no sense to destroy 43 live oaks older than the campus itself.
Telegraph Avenue Street Fair Saturdays, 11:00 am to 2:00 pm, December 9th & 16th, 2006, corner of Telegraph and Durant, Failure to Disperse Acoustic Revolt and Road Show with Kerry Parker, Jim Nelson, Pat Reed, Kate Chaitin, Stephanie Prausnitz, and nefarious passers-by, bring your fiddle.
Friday, October 20th, to Monday, October 16th, 2006, West Virginia's Augusta Music Heritage Festival, and Fiddler's Reunion in Elkins, West Virginia. Old-time music the way you will never hear it anywhere else. I volunteer for the festival and so should you. You will never regret it.
Sunday, October 8th, 2006, People's Park, 4:30 pm to 5:00 pm, live music with the Funky Nixons, Failure to Disperse, Carol Denney. Come meet the family and stop the war.
Sunday, September 17th, Campaign kick off rally for Marge Atkinson and Joanne Wile, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm, Albany Community Center, Marin at Masonic in Albany. These are candidates who will protect and preserve the Albany Waterfront.
Solano Stroll, Sunday, September 10th, 2006 from 1:00 - 2:00 pm, 3:00 - 4:00 pm, and 5:00 - 6:00 pm at Solano and Neilson (near Safeway) with Jim Nelson, Kerry Parker, and Steven Strauss playing old-time, folk, bring your fiddle and join us.
8:00 pm Saturday, August 19th, 2006 Works in Progress, join artists and art lovers at the Chamber Arts House for works in progress night, 2924 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705. Performers this month so far include Ross Halper and Eliza O'Malley, Carol Denney will close the evening.
Augusta Music Heritage Festival, in Elkins, West Virginia. Waltz Across Breakfast co-leader with R. P. Hale.
7:00 PM (Free) Tuesday, July 25th Irish Workers Cultural Video Night, Screening The San Patricios by Mark Day, music and poetry by Bob Carson, Carol Denney and others. Commemorate the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising and honor the Irish workers who helped rebuild SF. Irish workers played a key role in labor and the reconstruction of San Francisco. Irish Cultural Center, 2700 45th Ave. at Sloat Blvd., (Across from SF Zoo main gate)
Fiddlers for Peace, 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm, Sunday, June 25th, 2006 at the Long Haul's Cafe Night. The Long Haul is on Shattuck in Berkeley near the Starry Plough, across from La Pena. All instruments or no instruments welcome.
8:00 pm Wednesday, June 7th, 2006 Freight and Salvage, 1111 Addison, near San Pablo in Berkeley, with bassist Steven Strauss, fiddler Kerry Parker, and banjo/vocalist Jim Nelson. The premier folk club on the west coast, at least four new songs, please support live, poor, sparkling artists bringing it all.
Saturday, May 30th, 2006, Chalk and Chocolate Festival, 6 Degrees Restaurant (out in front) , , with the amazing Jim Nelson, the charming and astonishing Kerry Parker, and dozens of bobbing toddlers.
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006, Irish Cultural Center in San Francisco , with the amazing Jim Nelson, opening for the Black Brothers in a St. Patrick's Day celebration, 2700 45th Avenue at Sloat, call (415) 661-2495 for more information.
Saturday, March 11th, 2006, Cazadero Performing Arts Camp Benefit Auction , an effort to raise money to assist one of the oldest, most respected music camps on the west coast. Failure to Disperse will include Steven Strauss, Kerry Parker, Rodney Freeland, Pat Reed, John Blasquez, and Carol Denney, and play in the silent auction room 6:00 to 6:30 pm.
People's Park Anniversary, Sunday, April 23rd, 2006 Anchoring the southeast area of the park in an acoustic music exchange 12:00 to 5:00, bring instruments, play.
Friday, March 4, 2006 3pm - 7 pm At the Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave, near Dwight
Way, Berkeley. Join us for the 7th Annual Bay Area Seed Interchange Library (BASIL) seed swap!
Seeds! Music! Food! Gardeners!
Bring and get locally saved seeds. Bring and play old-time instruments. This is a great way to meet other local gardeners and trade seed. Bring
seed, envelopes and pens or just show up to get seeds with a commitment to bring seed back to the
Interchange Library. Donations of seed to our Library helps nourish this exciting project dedicated to
conserving genetic diversity of our planet's seed stock. Financial donations and plant starts for Seed
Swap raffle are welcome. www.ecologycenter.org/basil
Cost: Free.
Info: 510-658-9178.
Monday, February 20th, 2006 The gates of San Quentin, singing in solidarity with the ACLU Anti-Death Penalty Project.
Saturday, February 18th, 2006 on the sailing ship Balclutha at San Francisco's Hyde Street Pier, for the opening of "Shipping Out", Maria Brook's film about female sailors.
Saturday, January 14th, 2006, 7:30 pm Community Sing-Along with Folk This and friends, a birthday celebration for Martin Luther King, Jr. Bring your energy, enthusiasm, instruments, and sing songs of peace, labor, civil rights and utter revolt. Folk music with attitude from the people who really know how with refreshments. Proudly presented by the Midpeninsula Citizens for Fair Housing (650) 327-1718 and the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center (650) 326-8837 (www.PeaceandJustice.org) at the Fellowship Hall, 1140 Cowper Street, Palo Alto, suggested donation $7.00 to $15.00.
Telegraph Avenue Street Faire, Dec. 10th, 11th, 17th, 18th, 23rd, 24th, northeast corner of Durant and Telegraph, bring your fiddle and help, it's getting cold...
Solano Avenue Holiday Faire, Dec. 4th, 5th, somewhere on the east end of the Avenue with the amazing Jim Nelson on banjo.
Fiddlers Reunion October 29-30th in Elkins, West Virginia.
Friday, October 14th, Berkeley Arts Festival "Words and Music" event at the Arts Festival Gallery on Shattuck in Berkeley. Readings, music, and an open mike opportunity for everyone. Come sign up and bring your instrument, or just enjoy.
Old Mill Days, October 8-9, 2005, at Bothe Napa State Park, where the restored Bale Grist Mill will really grind flour and cornmeal while you watch, and you'll hear the live acoustic music you would have heard during the 1800's. Bring your fiddle or banjo.
Sunday, September 25th, 2005, 2:00 pm, Freebox Celebration Day in People's Park, corner of Telegraph, & Haste Streets in Berkeley. Bring clothing to donate, clothespins, clotheslines, and home-made freeboxes if you can make some or if you have some boxes. Help restore the tradition of free clothing exchange in People's Park, and bring your fiddle.
Saturday, September 24th, 2005, 9:00 am to 9:15 am meet for Fiddlers for Peace contingent in the SF anti-war march on the west side of Berkeley's Ashby Bart Station, or just meet us in Dolores Park, where the march begins. Anyone welcome, fiddlers or not, and if you've never played before, grab a fiddle; this is your first gig. Bring water, good humor, don't worry if you get lost, it all works out.
Sunday, September 11th, 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm, Solano Stroll, the East Bay's oldest, best street party as Solano Avenue is closed off. Failure to Disperse (Carol Denney, Kerry Parker, Jim Nelson & hopefully Steven Strauss) will be at Neilson and Solano under our favorite tree.
Friday, August 26th, 7:00 pm, AK Press, 674A 23rd Street, Oakland, CA, Stephen Dunifer's latest book release on micropower radio.
Augusta Music Heritage Festival and old-time Fiddlers' Reunion, August 7th through 14th, Elkins, West Virginia.
Wednesday, July 13, 8:00 pm, Strings, the Carnegie Hall of underground clubs at 6320 San Pablo Avenue, (unmarked door to the right of the beauty parlor) Emeryville, CA, donations gladly accepted, please do not advertise. (510) 653-5700 for more information.
Monday, July 11th, 7:00 pm, "The War Abroad and at Home" Laborfest event at New College, 777 Valencia, San Francisco with Laborfest poets, singers, troublemakers.
Monday, July 4th, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm, the Berkeley Marina Shorebird Stage with Kerry Parker and Kate Chaitin. Extra fiddlers welcome; let's jam old-time style.
Thursday, June 23, 8:00 pm, Freight and Salvage, 1111 Addison Street, Berkeley, Calif., the west coast's premier folk club, the best place to hear every inch of an acoustic performance, with Steven Strauss on acoustic bass, guest artists.
Saturday, June 18th, San Francisco Folk Festival main stage (Saturday evening), noon to 11:00 pm, Roosevelt Middle School, Arguello at Geary in San Francisco. Workshops and dancing starting at noon, come and play! The best jams are often in the stairwells. Workshop on political songs 5:00 pm Sunday, June 19th, and then let's dance.
Sunday, 12:00 to 3:00 pm, May 1st, Labor rally in Harry Bridges (Justin Herman) Plaza, San Francisco, keep the spirit of May Day alive with thousands of others through song and dance.
Sunday, April 24th, People's Park Anniversary in People's Park, 10:30 am Poetry Fish project (cardboard painted fish decorated with slices of poetry hanging from trees, an annual celebration of...well, something), 3:00 pm acoustic jam.
Friday, March 4th, 7:00 pm, Ecology Center Open Old-Time Jam and Seed Swap. Got seeds? Got banjo? Come on along and check out the music and the preservation and exchange of vintage seeds and plant cuttings at the Ecology Center, 2530 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley, California.
Saturday, January 15th, 2005, 7:30 pm Community Sing-Along with Folk This and friends, a birthday celebration for Martin Luther King, Jr. Bring your energy, enthusiasm, instruments, and sing songs of peace, labor, civil rights and utter revolt. Folk music with attitude from the people who really know how with refreshments. Proudly presented by the Midpeninsula Citizens for Fair Housing (650) 327-1718 and the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center (650) 326-8837 (www.PeaceandJustice.org) at the Fellowship Hall, 1140 Cowper Street, Palo Alto, suggested donation $7.00 to $15.00.
Friday, December 24th, Telegraph Avenue Holiday Street Fair, Berkeley, California
Thursday, December 23rd, Telegraph Avenue Holiday Street Fair, Berkeley, California,
Tuesday, December 21st, in front of Foam Creations, 1120 Solano Avenue, Berkeley, California
Monday, December 20th, in front of Andronicos, 1850 Solano Avenue, Berkeley, California
Sunday, December 19th, Telegraph Avenue Holiday Street Fair, Berkeley, California,
Saturday, December 18th, Telegraph Avenue Holiday Street Fair, Berkeley, California,
Sunday, December 12th, Telegraph Avenue Holiday Street Fair, Berkeley, California,
Saturday, December 11th, Telegraph Avenue Holiday Street Fair, Berkeley, California,
Sunday, December 5th, 3:00 pm, in front of Half Price Books at 1849 Solano Avenue,Berkeley, California,
Tuning is essential, and requires a lot of very exotic equipment.
Elkins Community Center,Tuesday, October 19th, 2004, Elkins, West Virginia, a benefit dinner for all breast cancer survivors.
Brazenhead Inn, Friday, October 15th, 2004, near Mingo in West Virginia.
Solano Stroll,Sunday, September 12th, corner of Neilson and Solano, 3:00 to 4:00 pm and 5:00 to 6:00 pm, the Bay Area's oldest, longest street party with music, food, crafts, parade, costumes, and general mayhem.
Augusta Music Heritage Festival, August 2nd through August 15th in Elkins, West Virginia.
Unconventional Cabaret 7:30 pm Sunday, July 25th, 2004, La Pena, 3105 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, a kicking pre- Natl. Democratic Convention show with Folk This! and comedic guests, call (510) 849-2568 for more information.
San Mateo Unitarian Universalists Peace Action, 8:00 pm, Friday July 9th, 2004, 300 E. Santa Inez at Ellsworth in San Mateo.
4th of July Parade 11:00 am Sunday, July 4th, 2004, Calistoga, California, as part of the fiddling contingent of the Bothe-Napa State Park and Bale Grist Mill volunteers.
Fiddlers for Peace 2:00 pm Saturday, June 26th, 2004, Workshop at the San Francisco Folk Festival, fiddle-based jam, any instrument, any style, no style, whatever, get silly, goof off.
CD release Wednesday, June 9th, 2004, Freight and Salvage, 1111 Addison St., Berkeley, California, for the new studio recording "You Are Spending Too Much Money on Your Hair," with accompaniment from Steven Strauss and Jim Nelson. Steven Strauss' UKEBOX will play a short opening set. (510) 548-1761 for more information.
Chocolate and Chalk festival, Saturday, May 29th, 2004, Solano Avenue in North Berkeley/Albany, with Jim Nelson on banjo.
Fiddlers for Peace workshop, Sunday, April 25th, 2004, 2:00 pm, People's Park 35th Anniversary, bring an instrument and jam on fiddle tunes, any style, any instrument
8:00 pm, February 28, 2004, 2nd Annual West Coast Student Summit on Hunger and Homelessness, Pauley Ballroom, University of California, Berkeley
Thursday, February 19th, 6th Street Books, 7:30 pm, 144 Mission Street in San Francisco (between Mission and Howard, two blocks from either Powell or Montgomery Street Bart Stations) with Folk This!
"How Much Is That Doggy In the Window" jam in front of the meeting on the proposed canine patrol at ....Don't miss the auditions for the proposed Canine Patrol!
Bring your dog Wednesday, February 11th, 2004, 7:00 pm, to the West Berkeley Senior Center 1900 6th Street in Berkeley, California to audition for the canine unit.
Wanted:
"find and bark" dogs
"find and bite" dogs
dogs that speak German
dogs that like police
dogs that know right from wrong
Freight and Salvage benefit show "Shelter from the Storm", Wednesday, January 28th, 2004, benefit with Country Joe MacDonald for the Chaplaincy to the Homeless, 1111 Addison Street in Berkeley, California, call (510) 548-1761 for information.
Saturday, January 10th, 2004, 7:30 pm, Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Sing-Along with Folk This! at the First Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall, 1140 Cowper Street, Palo Alto, $7- $15 sliding scale. Classic songs of the Civil Rights and Peace Movements and some just plain old favorites. No one turned away for lack of funds. Proceeds benefit the work of Midpeninsula Citizens for Fair Housing and Peninsula Peace and Justice Center. For more information call MCFH (650) 327-1718 or PPJC (650) 326-8837. Bring your own instruments for the rousing "people's orchestra" finales.
Half Price Books, at the top of Solano Avenue, 3:00-5:00 pm on Monday, Dec. 22, Tuesday, Dec. 23rd, and Wednesday, Dec. 24th, for the Solano Avenue holiday entertainment, fiddle with Jim Nelson on banjo, come, sing, and shower us with money.
Strings Benefit, Wednesday, December 17th, a variety show with a huge cast of Strings players, come help raise some bucks for the Carnegie Hall of underground clubs at 6320 San Pablo Avenue, (unmarked door to the right of the beauty parlor) Emeryville, CA, donations gladly accepted, please do not advertise. (510) 653-5700 for more information.
McGraths, Wednesday, October 1st, 2003, 8:00 pm, 1539 Lincoln in Alameda, California, with the incomparable Jim Nelson, banjo king, Larry Johnson on bass, David Strong on fiddle, and various nefarious guest stars. Old-time, sea chanteys, fiddle tunes, sing-alongs, originals, general foolishness, no cover, bring your fiddle. Call (510) 522-6263 for more information.
The Bistro, Monday, September 15th, 9:00 pm til 10:00, 1001 Main Street at B Street, Hayward.
Solano Stroll, "Imagine" Mile-long Block Party, Sunday, September 14th, 2003 on Solano Avenue in Berkeley/Albany, parade at 11:00 am. Our group (Carol Denney, Jim Nelson, David Strong, and the occasional Steven Strauss, who is double-booked at the Stroll) will play at 11:00 am, 1:00 pm, 3:00 pm, and 5:00 pm at the corner of Neilson (next to Safeway) and Solano. We are "Failure to Disperse Acoustic Revolt and Road Show", the only acoustic band on the stroll for the sheer wondrous natural sound of it. Come throw us money.
Augusta Music Heritage Festival July 27th through August 10th, 2003 in Elkins, West Virginia.
Strings 8:00 pm, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2003, with Ove Michaelson and Van Rosay, check out the Carnegie Hall of underground clubs at 6320 San Pablo Avenue, (unmarked door to the right of the beauty parlor) Emeryville, CA, donations gladly accepted, please do not advertise. (510) 653-5700 for more information.
Simple Pleasures Cafe, Friday, July 18th, 8:00 pm, 2003, 3434 Balboa (between 35th and 36th Ave), San Francisco, CA (415) 387-4022 for more information.
LaborFest Bastille Day event Monday, July 14th, 2003 at 7:30 pm at the South Of Market Cultural Center located at 934 Brannon at 8th Street in San Francisco...more details soon...
LaborFest Opening Night, Saturday, July 5th, 2003, South of Market Cultural Center, 934 Brannon, San Francisco, California.
Memorial for Kevin Freeman, Saturday, June 28th, 2003, march at noon from People's Park to 1:00 pm service at the Unitarian Fellowship Hall at Cedar and Bonita in Berkeley, California.
San Francisco Folk Festival, 2003June 21-22, 460 Arguello at Geary in San Francisco, CA. "Politics and Song" Workshop with Ramsey Kanaan and Susan Appe of "Folk This!", schedule to be arranged...
Wednesday, June 18th, 2002, Strings, 6320 San Pablo Avenue, (unmarked door to the right of the beauty parlor) Emeryville, CA, special benefit for Strings with an all-star lineup. Bring your friends, donations gladly accepted, please do not advertise. (510) 653-5700 for more information.
Freight and Salvage show with John Palme, Jimmy Bruno, and Carol Denney, Tuesday, June 10th, 8:00 pm, 2003, 1111 Addison, Berkeley, California. Simply the best local songwriters on the same bill.
KALX, 90.7 fm, Tuesday, May 20th, 2003, noon till 12:30 pm,Ginger Lee's show on Women in the Arts.
Saturday, May 3rd, 7:00 pm, Berkeley Folk Festival, 2003, Malcolm X Elementary School, 1731 Prince Street, Berkeley, California, noon to 9:00 pm Saturday and Sunday, workshops all day and, for the first time, complete accessibility after a hard-won seven-year battle with all of the previous and even the current director...yes, it is a first.
Sunday, April 27th, Peoples Park, 2003, (Bowditch and Dwight Way), Berkeley, California. The yearly anniversary of the founding of Peoples Park, 12:00 noon to 5:00 or 6:00 depending on the weather and the police.
Saturday, April 26th, San Francisco City Hall steps, 12:00 noon, rally against the FCC, sponsored by Media Alliance, Global Exchange, CodePink, Jewish Voice for Peace, International Action Center, Network against Disinformation and others. For more information, 415-575-5555, info@media-alliance.org.
The Freight and Salvage, 8:00 pm, Wednesday, April 16th, 2003, CD release for "The Cruel Lullaby", with opening act Folk This!, 1111 Addison St., in Berkeley, CA. Discount advance tickets, call (510) 548-1761.
Vive la France picnic francais, 2:00 pm, Sunday, April 6th, 2003, Willard Park (Derby at Regent in Berkeley), my French, she suck, but join Fiddlers for Peace for a picnic anti-war salute to France. Bring French bread, French songs, French maid's costumes, French wine, French cheese, Joan of Arc, the Eiffel Tower, Charles De Gaul, speak French, French horns, haute couture, instruments, berets, etc.
Fiddlers for Peace, 8:00 pm, Wednesday, March 19th, 2003, candlelight vigil (plus fiddling) at the downtown Berkeley Bart Station in Berkeley to stop the war..this one may just be me but that's enough.
Fiddlers for Peace, 7:00 pm, Sunday, March 16th, 2003, candlelight vigil (plus fiddling) at the Ashby Bart Station in Berkeley to stop the war...
Women's Building Theater, "The Love Show" (it's free!), a tribute to work, love, and solidarity at the San Francisco Women's Building, Sunday, February 16th, 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Featuring Carol Denney and Jim Nelson (Failure to Disperse), Folk This!, Samsara, Puppetarium, not to mention Marcus and Christy's 10th anniversary and Marcus' 50th birthday. Call (415) 431-8485 for more details. The Women's Building is at 3543 18th Street in San Francisco between Guerrero and Dolores.
Fiddlers for Peace, Sunday, February 16th, 2003,San Francisco march against the impending (but not inevitable) war with Iraq, meet between10:00 am and 11:00 am at the Vallencourt Fountain in Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco, where we'll warm up and play a little. We fiddle for peace the whole parade, bring water and your case. We have a permit to stop the war. All instrumentalists/non-instrumentalists welcome.
McGraths, Tuesday, January 14th, 2002, 8:00 pm, 1539 Lincoln in Alameda, California, with the incomparable Jim Nelson, banjo king.
Martin Luther King Radical Sing-Along with Folk This!, Saturday, January 11th, 2002, 7:30 pm, Peace and Justice Center in Palo Alto, call (415) 431-8485 for more information, everyone welcome to bring instruments, play, and sing-- celebrate the best holiday we got.
Christmas Eve street concert..., Tuesday, December 24th, 2002, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm, 1849 Solano Avenue in Berkeley in front of Half Price Books just for the sheer holiday hell of it.
Solano Stroll, Sunday, September 8th, 2002, corner of Nielsen and Solano Avenue (Berkeley/Albany) with the incomparable Jim Nelson, Skip Henderson, and David Strong, come join the wacky parade at the Bay Area's best, longest running street party.
Mock City Council, 8:00 pm, Tuesday, August 13th, and Tuesday, August 20th, 2002, at the Berkeley City Council Chamhers at Center St. and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenues in Berkeley, a theatrical production by George Coates and a cast of the foremost satirists and comedians in the Bay Area.
Augusta Music Heritage Festival in Elkins, West Virginia.
Radical Folk Show, Sunday, July 28th, 2002, with Folk This!, a CD release party at La Pena, Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley. Part of LaborFest...
SF Folk Festival, 2002
Wednesday, May 8th, 2002, Strings, 6320 San Pablo Avenue, (unmarked door to the right of the beauty parlor) Emeryville, CA, special line-up with musicians Jimmy Bruno and John Palme, special guests Jim Nelson. Want to hear the best, funniest, most unsung songwriters in the Bay Area? This is the show. Bring your friends, donations gladly accepted, please do not advertise. (510) 653-5700 for more information.
Wednesday, May 1st, 2002, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868 Mission St @ 25th, San Francisco, CA, an international solidarity celebration with music, poetry, "May Day Struggle in Iran" first US screening, and more. Call (415) 282-1908 for more information or check www.lvpsf@labornet.org
Sunday, April 28th, Peoples Park (Bowditch and Dwight Way), Berkeley, California. The yearly anniversary of the founding of Peoples Park, 12:00 noon to 5:00 or 6:00 depending on the weather and the police.
Sunday, April 28th, 7:30 pm, Benefit for the Middle Eastern Children's Alliance,Plough and Stars, 116 Clement St., San Francisco.
Thursday, March 14th, 2002, Freight and Salvage 1111 Addison St., in Berkeley, CA
Tuesday, February 12th, 2002, 7:30 pm Benefit for Krug wine workers, New College, 777 Valencia Street in San Francisco, California, all-star locals join traveling musicians to support Krug workers, locked out for six months.
Saturday, February 9th, 2002, Rhythm and Muse series at Berkeley Arts Center, Open mic sign-up 6:30 p.m., reading 7 p.m. Berkeley Art Center, 1275 Walnut St., between Rose & Eunice Sts., Berkeley, California, behind Live Oak Park. 510-644-6893. For more info: 510-527-9753 or 352-6643. Free admission; donations appreciated.
The Humbug Show, an utterly irreverent and even sacrilegious anti-holiday celebration, Saturday, December 15th, 2001, at Shotwell Studios, 19th and Shotwell, San Francisco, Calif. Featuring Folk This! and vast and dangerous amounts of audience participation...bring instruments and leap wildly into the fray.
LaborTech Conference, USF in San Francisco, Saturday, December 8th, 2001,
Homeless Rights Protest, 5:00 pm, Tuesday, November 13th, 2001, Berkeley City Hall, Martin Luther King Way at Center Street join BOSS (Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency) and others to lobby the Berkeley City Council for more homeless services, and if you're game, join the sleep-out on the City Hall lawn to highlight the need for a public campground in Berkeley.
World Trade Organization Protests, Justin Herman Plaza, Friday, November 9th, 2001 Rally for economically fair and environmentally sound trade policies and a sustainable world.
MUD Campaign rally, SF panhandle near Golden Gate Park, Sunday, November 4th, Rally for a Municipal Utility District.
Tenants' Rights Rally, Thursday, November 1st, 2001, corner of Martin Luther King and University Avenue in Berkeley, California. Rally to help Michael Delacour and Gina Sasso in their tenants struggle.
"Undercover Song Night" at Strings, Wednesday, October 31st, 2001, 6320 San Pablo Avenue, Emeryville, California. Undersung songs celebrated and sung by local artists.
"Day of Dead Air Street Fair" on Sunday, October 28th, 12:00 noon to 6:00 pm, 2001, 8th Street near Dwight in Berkeley. Food, live music, and dancing, a conjunction of Day of the Dead and a recognition that there is nothing on the air waves sponsored by, among others, Free Radio Berkeley.
"How Berkeley Can You Be" parade, Sunday, September 30th, 11:00 am to 6:00 pm, 2001, starting at University Avenue and Sacramento in Berkeley. Listen to the East Bay Accordion Circle float and you will suddenly find yourself in a dnagerous tango with a stranger.
Redwood Sequoia Congress, Saturday, September 29th, 2001, at 12:45 pm at the Unitarian Fellowship, 1606 Bonita Avenue in Berkeley. Human rights and environmental activists will gather in an annual blah blah blah...but at least Carol Denney and Darryl Cherney will sing funny songs.
Solano Stroll, Sunday, September 9th, between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm, on Solano Avenue at the edge of Berkeley and Oakland in the East Bay. Hang with us; we're going to do an acoustic reconstruction of the Sells-Floto Traveling Circus pick-up band complete with as many adventurers as possible...bring your euphonium...
People's Park Memorial for Rosebud Denovo, 12:00 noon Saturday, August 25th between Haste, Bowditch, Telegraph and Dwight in Berkeley. Bring instruments, memories, and your love for the park in honor of the anniversary of the police shooting in 1992 which took the life of a warrior.
Gallery 21 Grand, Saturday, August 11th, 2001, 5:00 to 11:00 21 Grand Avenue in Oakland, California, between Telegraph and Harrison St. Metal reed fest in a rocking collective artists' space. Call (510) 444-7263 for more information.
Bay Guardian Block Party, Sunday, July 29th, 2001, noon to 6:00 pm 520 Hampshire in San Francisco, celebrating the winners' circle of the Bay Guardian's Bay Area best.
The Magnes Museum, Tuesday, July 24th, 2001, 7:00 pm 2911 Russell St. (near College) in Berkeley, a special show on time and timelessness.
The San Francisco Folk Festival, June 16th, 4:40 pm at the Cafe Stage (and Sunday the 17th, 2001) (check the schedule) don't miss this festival, the best example of what a festival can be if everybody gets to come and everybody gets to play. Come fall in love.
Benefit for Susan B. Rodriquez, Friday, June 15th, 2001, Unitarian Church in Oakland, California. Call (510) 528-6983 for more information.
San Francisco City Hall Steps, June 11th, 12:00 noon, with Elliott Kenin and bunches of bigwigs kicking off a campaign for public control of energy.
LISTEN UP!; Voices from the People's Movement, The Luggage Store, Friday, May 25th, 2001, 7:30 pm 1007 Market Street near 6th in San Francisco, along with labor poet Jack Hirschman, Sarah Menefee, Louise Vaughn, Scott Thompson, and a cast of nefarious roustabouts...
The Bolshevik Cafe 8:00 pm Saturday, May 19th, 2001, Finn Hall, 1819 10th St., Berkeley. A benefit for the Committees of Correspondence. Cafe opens 7:00 pm, show at 8:00 pm (food separate). Show donation $5-$15 sliding scale. Putting the social in socialist since the Reagan era (the emphasis is on humor).
Strings, Double CD Release Celebration, Wednesday, May 16th, 2001, 8:00 pm 6320 San Pablo Avenue, Emeryville, CA 94608. Come to the East Bay's premiere underground house concert. One of the few places you can actually hear every note and nuance. Featuring Carol Denney, Philip Rosheger, and Megan McLaughlin.
People's Park, Friday, May 11th, 2001, :30 pm to 4:00 pm Celebration of a bunch of activists and homeless people making the Berkeley City Council declare 647J, the "trespassing" law, a very low priority; it ain't much but it's something and it matters. More on homelessness in Berkeley.
LaborFest May Day Celebration, La Pena Cultural Center, Tuesday May1st 7:30 pm, 2001, 3105 Shattuck (at Prince), a video screening of Sri Lankan "Slaves of Free Trade" by Yappa Kashyapa, poet Jack Hirschman, singers Carol Denney, Larry Shaw and The La Pena Choir. Also a report on Turkish hunger strikers and the general strike against privatization and IMF. $7 donation (415) 642-8066.
People's Park Anniversary Sunday, April 29th, 2001, noon until 6:00. People's Park is one block east of Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley between Dwight and Haste. Set time to be arranged...stay tuned.
Special concertina concert with Riggy Rackin, Tuesday, April 3rd, 2001, 7:30 pm, 2001 at Boaz Accordions, Sacramento at 67th in Berkeley. Two of the Bay Area's most innovative concertina players playing new and traditional music with plenty of singing-along. Riggy Rackin is one of the Bay Area's foremost concertina players, and both he and Carol have recently released CDs. Refreshments provided, $4.00 at the door, come early and pick up an instrument; life is too short not to play the accordion. (510) 845-1429 for more info.
Rally Against Tritium and the Tritium Labeling Facility Monday, 5:30 pm, April 2nd, 2001, North Berkeley Senior Center in Berkeley at the corner of Martin Luther King and Hearst. Community effort to support shutting down the Tritium Labeling Facility near the Lawrence Hall of Science.
PG&E Protest Saturday, March 24th, 2001, 1:30 pm Civic Center Park. Rally against PG&E in front of their headquarters (across the street) to oppose the bailout and support taking over the utility.
LaborFest "Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win" event Sunday, March 18th, 2001, 6:00 pm at La Pena, Berkeley. sing some tunes before the showing of an historic 1 hour 25 minute documentary on the May through June 1968 General Strike in France. Filmed from the point of view of militant workers in the factories by Jean Pierre Thorn. Both Thorn and general strike organizer and participant Jean Michel Normand will also be participating in a discussion following the film.
Benefit for San Francisco Liberation Radio, Friday, March 9th, 2001, at Cell Space in San Francisco, 2050 Bryant St. Reading by Richard Edmundson from "Rising Up", his book on micropower and political struggle in San Francisco. Also playing: Oria & the Gas Men, Chemystry Set, Mobius Operandi, Inch Connecticut. Call (415) 386-3135 for more information.
CD Release party, Wednesday, March 7th, 2001, 8:00 pm at the Freight and Salvage, 1111 Addison Street, Berkeley, Calif. Release party for the world at large, but especially welcoming all those who hung in there through the injunctions and the cancer treatments waiting for the recording that almost didn't happen. Special guests Folk This!, J.D. Nelson,and Rob Sherman on bass. $16.50 at the door, $15.50 in advance. For advance tickets call (510) 548-1761.
Monday, January 15th, 2001, 7:30 pm, Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Sing-Along with Folk This! at the First Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall, 1140 Cowper Street, Palo Alto, $7- $15 sliding scale. Classic songs of the Civil Rights and Peace Movements and some just plain old favorites. No one turned away for lack of funds. Proceeds benefit the work of Midpeninsula Citizens for Fair Housing and Peninsula Peace and Justice Center. For more information call MCFH (650) 327-1718 or PPJC (650) 326-8837. Bring your own instruments for the rousing "people's orchestra" finales.
Saturday, December 16th, 2000, 8:00 pm "The Humbug Show" at Shotwell Studios, 19th and Shotwell, San Francisco, Calif. A satirical and sacrilegious view of the Christmas tradition with vast and unqualified amounts of audience participation, however dangerous this might be.
Sunday, December 31st, 2000, 8:00 pm, on New Year's Eve, the Strawberry Creek Lodge, 1320 Addison, Berkeley, Calif., (510) 841-8330. A sing-along with special guests to kick off the real new millenium with the most radical old-timers in the Bay Area.