You are invited to a delightful night featuring “Accordions and The Women Who Love Them!” starring accordionistas from the 2015 Accordion Babes Pin-Up Calendar.
The event takes place on Saturday, December 13, 2014 at 8:PM:
Where: Rhythmix Cultural Works, 2513 Blanding Avenue, Alameda, CA 94501
Cost: $20/advance, $25/day of show
Info: (510) 865-5060
Featured artists include: Jet Black Pearl with Charles Moselle (beat box cabaret), Tara Linda with Fistful of Stars (Tex-Mex/tortilla western), and Renee de la Prade with Whiskey and Women (cajun, Irish folk, punk).
These sexy sirens of the squeezebox have wild songs to sing and tales to tell! Come spend a little time with the Accordion Babes and prepare to be amused, astonished and inspired. On the winds of the bellows, you will travel the world, through waltzes, polkas, folk shanties, rancheras, and jigs- through cajun, Tex-Mex, gypsy rock, punk, and hip hop cabaret.
The beautiful, spunky women that grace the stage and the Pin-up calendar are more than just babes; they are super talented independent artists with wit, soul, and passion.Sassy, sensual and always entertaining, the Accordion Babes Revue shows sell out. Please get your tickets well-in advance; it is always painful to turn our friends away.
C’era Una Volta is offering a special prix fixe dinner for Accordion Babes ticket holders including an entree plus garden salad and delectable dessert — just $20! Call 510.769.4828 to make reservations for no later than 6:30 PM.
Jet Black Pearl the fabulous Accordion Diva from the port of Amsterdam has performed on more than a thousand stages all over Europe and the West Coast, singing, rapping and beat boxing about slugs in love, criminal gurus and hallucinating butterflies. ‘A formidable force of music, and truly has to be seen to be believed’ (Three Weeks, Edinburgh Fringe Festival). See her photo in article on 2015 Calendar.
This year at Rhythmix Cultural Works, Jet Black Pearl is proud to be accompanied by multi-instrumentalist Charles Moselle, a true master in the art of beat boxing, keyboards, saxophone and flute. Charles Moselle is a multi-instrumentalist (piano, saxophones, flutes, drums,) and composer, known for his unusual vocal stylings and bizarre theatrical characterizations (mongolian beatboxing, zombie operettas,etc.). He attended Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and California Institute of the Arts. Charles has performed with Robin Williams, Stan Getz, Frank Sinatra Jr., Bobby McFerrin, Stanley Clarke, Eddie Henderson, and many others.
What do you get when you blend a honey-voiced, squeezebox songstress (Tara Linda) with a wild, drumming guitarist (Rafael Herrera)? “Torch songs to light the border.” -Sound Roots, World Music Review
Tex-Americana artist, Tara Linda (accordion, bass, ukulele), dug her heels deeper into Southwestern soil to serve up more festive fair with her new band called Fistful of Stars.Tara and Rafael play acoustic border serenades with a tortilla western twist; fresh, fun takes on traditional Latin favorites; plus a plethora of new cumbias, haupangos, rancheras, polkas, and wildwest tunes that will make you forget which side of the border you’re on! Fistful of Stars offers lots of original music between this songwriting duo: stellar vocal harmonies, dancing energy, and bilingual vocals alongside bass, trumpet, and percussion.
Whiskey and Women is an all-woman trio featuring not one but TWO accordion babes! Renee de la Prade and Joan Wilson Rueter will perform alongside Rosemary Steffy flaunting accordions, fiddles, drums, foot stomps, bluesy harmonies, and a hip-shaking show to get people on their feet. Whisky and Women play cajun music, old time, rocking Irish folk songs, and upbeat originals inspired by everything from country to punk, all with plenty of spirit. The ladies are just back from another European tour, and celebrating the release of their new CD “Medicine for the Blues.”
for further information: info@rhythmix.org
