Quinn DeVeaux's CD Release Party with the Mumlers Saturday @ the Independent! SeaweedSway Presents!

saturday will be a joyous celebration!!!

the songs are soo good! come enjoy the festivities

Saturday July 16th

SeaweedSway Presents:

Quinn DeVeaux's CD Release Party

with the Mumlers

at the Independent

Address: 628 Divisadero St. @ Hayes, SF
Time: 8:30 doors / 9pm show
Tix: $15 http://ticketf.ly/quinntix
RSVP: http://on.fb.me/july16quinn
http://quinndeveaux.com
http://themumlers.com
http://independentsf.com

Contact Jessie Woletz, seaweedsway@gmail.com, for press inquiries.

We'd like to invite you to Quinn's CD Release Party at The Independent on Saturday, July 16th. Local favorites The Mumlers will open the night with their indie-pop-folk-dance tunes.

"Under Covers" is the debut album by Quinn DeVeauxand the Blue Beat Review. The sound is "blue beat" – music that stems from the RandB, New Orleans soul, and gospel that form the roots of rock and roll.

Quinn puts on a dynamic show with his 7-piece band, which includes piano, bass, drums, and three gospel-tinged female background singers.  For the past two years he's been getting young crowds moving to his classic sounds, and is stirring up interest in roots music in the Bay Area.  Quinn has already headlined The Independent, has performed at Outside Lands, and will be opening up for Aaron Neville at Stern Grove on August 7.

His debut CD is a tribute to his influences entitled "Under Covers".  It's a very cool contemporary take on the roots of rock and R&B, with songs by Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, The Meters, Chris Kenner and the Soul Stirrers.

More about Quinn and the new album is below.  

The first video for the album is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bkQT0Pt00w

SF Chronicle Interview:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F06%2F30%2FPKAA1K28B8.DTL

To find out more about Quinn, feel free to contact him directly at quinndeveaux@gmail.com, or look him up online:
http://quinndeveaux.com
http://www.myspace.com/quinndeveaux
http://chasingthemoon.pdcst.com/2009/09/quinn

QUINN DEVEAUX - the Blue Beat & the the new album, Under Covers - Background

Qunn DeVeaux and the Blue Beat Review are on a mission to establish a new genre in modern music: Blue Beat.  This music stems from RandB, New Orleans Soul, and Gospel - the roots of Rock and Roll.  Blue Beat hearkens back to a period where musicians would actually play, and where the audience actually moved.  It's more than a throwback, however, because times have changed, and music has to change as well.

QDBBR bridges the gap between today's dance floors and those of early rock and rollers like Chuck Berry, Ray Charles and Huey Piano Smith, and Quinn has the voice for it.  He is raspy yet soothing to listen to, with declarative punctuations that let the listener know he means what he's singing about.

Their debut record titled Under Covers is a collection of grooves that the band has been playing alongside their original material to hone their sound and cement their influences.  In the fall of 2010, the path ahead became clear.  According to Quinn, "we simply had to make this record to pay homage to those who came before us, while at the same time bringing our own vibe to the mix."  In this way, Under Covers paves the way for an album ofQuinn's original material which will be released early in 2012.

The band: Quinn's singing reflects his roots growing up outside of Chicago, while his electric guitar sounds like Muddy Waters channeled through The Kinks.  Chris Siebert, on loan from Lavay Smith's Red Hot Skillet Lickers where he serves as band leader, burns up the keys.  Down in the engine room that drives this train are Matthew MacGillivray ("Mattie Mac") on drums and Kenan O'Brien ("KO") on bass.  Three backup singers, the "Quinntettes", provide warmth and movement.  They sweeten the melodies, and crowds are often seen singing along and imitating the swaying singers.

The album:  Produced by drummer Matthew MacGillivray, Under Covers features familiar tunes like "They All Asked For You" by The Meters and Sam Cooke’s "Good News" mixed in with lesser known numbers like the Soul Stirrers’ "Come and Go" and Muddy Waters’ "Tiger in Your Tank".  The album was recorded mostly live, in the tradition of the original recordings, and sounds every bit as worthy a re-telling as when the Rolling Stones covered Robert Johnson’s classic Love in Vain.  However, this record of covers also reflects trends in music which followed from these seminal tunes, from the British Invasion to recent soul revival acts such as Amy Winehouse and Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings.

Under Covers is a party album with a broad range.  It'll make you want to see this band live where you can kick off your shoes and dance, and it'll make you want to follow this band going forward.  The party's just getting started…

Seaweed Sway Presents...
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SeaweedSway on Valentine's Day! Honeycomb, Chloe Makes Music (Album Release!), & Magic Leaves

Monday February 14th, Valentine's Day

SeaweedSway Lovingly Presents:

HONEYCOMB

CHLOE MAKES MUSIC (Album Release!)

MAGIC LEAVES

~at Cafe du Nord~

Address: 2170 Market St. SF, CA 94114

Tickets: http://bit.ly/valentineTIX

Venue: http://cafedunord.com 

RSVP on facebook: http://on.fb.me/RSVPfeb14

Time: 7pm doors / 8pm show

Press Inquiries, please contact seaweedsway@gmail.com

Beautiful poster by Emily Ritz of Honeycomb!

SeaweedSway on Valentine's Day!

What better way to spend Valentine's Day than with Honeycomb, Chloe Makes Music, & Magic Leaves singing to you??? Even better, and most importantly, this is Chloe's long-awaited album release show!!! Her new cd, The Puppeteer, was produced by Chris Chu of the Morning Benders, plus she has a new lineup and new songs, and she's taking requests for old cheesy love songs! Josh Bruner of Magic Leaves is going to play a rare mellower acousticy solo set for the occasion; and this is Honeycomb's anticipated follow-up to their recent show at the Rickshaw Stop with Sonya Cotton.

Oh yeah, and rumor has it there will be a kissing booth at the merch table! Valentine's card-makingstation as well! If you don't arrive with a date, we'll make sure you leave with one!

HONEYCOMB

http://chasingthemoon.pdcst.com/2010/04/honeycomb/

http://www.myspace.com/honeycombmusic

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Honeycomb/237454773715

Local indie-folk ensemble full of soul singing and nimble-fingered folks, with beats that you can groove to and feel down to your bones. "I was blown away at the gorgeousness of the five part harmonies of lead singer Emily Ritz, and backup vocalist Kacey Johansing. . . Those vocals combined with Nate Blaz on cello, Joe Lewis on upright bass and Andrew Maguire on vibraphone create a wall of sound that sucks you in." --Examiner.com

The band now includes local multi-instrumentalist Eric Kuhn (Silian Rail, Sean Hayes, Michael Musika).

CHLOE MAKES MUSIC

http://chloemakesmusic.com/

http://www.myspace.com/chloemakesmusic

http://www.facebook.com/chloemakesmusicfans

http://chloemakesmusic.bandcamp.com/ - Preview the New Album, The Puppeteer!!!

This is the long-awaited album release show for San Francisco folk musician Chloe Roth, aka Chloe Makes Music (CMM). Produced by Christopher Chu of the Morning Benders and recorded at San Francisco’s Different Fur Studios, CMM’s debut LPThe Puppeteer features a bevy of local musicians, including cellist Jen Grady (Adam Stephens, Emily Jane White), Sara Gambina-Belknap (The Bitter Honeys, Gamelan Sekar Jaya) on banjo, jazz great Noel Jewkes on clarinet, and Chu himself lending both instrumentation and vocals.

"…An impressive debut…Roth packs her sensitive songs with a torrent of words, line after line of images and emotions and interior rhymes in a kind of 19th century Victorian-style that sounds like a reincarnated Elizabeth Barrett Browning…All in all, a lovely package."

–The Marin Independent Journal

"Quirky and lithe-voiced…The Puppeteer showcases her talent for wordplay and storytelling."

–The Bay Bridged           

“…Lovely, haunting harmonies…a catchy melody of puppets still singing in my head.”

– The Deli SF

"…Folk-pop duos (Jenny and Johnny, She & Him, et al.) are a popular trend these days, so standing out is no easy feat. Chu and Roth’s “The Duel” holds its own against other charismatic efforts by their boy-girl contemporaries."

–TwentyFourBit

In October 2009, Deli SF readers voted Chloe Makes Music (CMM) their artist of the month. Around the same time, Chloe enlisted longtime friend, and frontman of the Morning Benders, Christopher Chu to produce her debut full-length record. The album sees a departure for CMM—from a pared down minimalism of guitar and cello to a larger, fuller sound. Chu brought his unique brand of arrangement to the panoply of instruments featured on The Puppeteer, which includes guitar, piano, violin, cello, harmonium, saw, accordion, banjo, clarinet, and glockenspiel.

Listening to CMM live, it’s hard not to be captivated; she typically plays to a silent and rapt audience. Her haunting songs weave stories of memory, loss, nature, and art, with what the Bay Bridged called “agile and buoyant melodies.” In her soft, vulnerable voice Chloe takes on dark narratives (three of the songs on the album are tributes to three young people who passed away in the last few years) and renders them heartbreaking and beautiful. Imbued with imagery from her upbringing on the California coasts and in the tropics and farmland of Kauai, CMM’s lyrics are a combination of the mythic and the quotidian (the track “Apollo & Daphne” is based on the myth as told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, while the track “Wormwood” begins with a bird hitting a window). Striking a delicate balance between autobiographical and tall tales, CMM’s meditated manipulation of words and her flair for alliteration, syntax, and rhyme, make each song nothing less than a sung poem.

Growing up listening to the greatest lyricists and harmonizers of her parents’ generation, CMM lists Simon & Garfunkel and Crosby, Stills & Nash as key influences, along with folk contemporaries like Joanna Newsom and Sufjan Stevens. Combining poetic, tongue-twisting lyrics with lush, multiple-part harmonies, CMM’s music is both timeless and inventive.

MAGIC LEAVES

http://magicleavesmusic.com

http://www.facebook.com/themagicleaves

http://vimeo.com/14947419 - Ocean Mouth video!

http://chasingthemoon.pdcst.com/2010/12/magicleaves/ Chasing the Moon video episode!

Magic Leaves - always exploring new sounds, front man Joshua Bruner is leading an eclectic mix of sound flavors that include Garage Rock, Afro/Brasilian Psych, and that good ole Rock and Roll. Compare to Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, 13th Floor Elevators, Golden Dawn, the Moving Sidewalks. Band members include Shaun Elley, Henry Misner and Matt Adams of the Blank Tapes.

SEAWEED SWAY
SeaweedSway is an evolving project by Jessie Woletz & friends, with an intention to encourage, cultivate, & support community through music, yoga, & nature events. SeaweedSway presents music shows & events, featuring musicians & artists who share similar creative intentions. SeaweedSway was a term first used by Karl Blau & Jessie to describe the awesome way people danced during BrightBlack Morning Light at a Great American Music Hall show, then it became a list of recommended events in the Bay Area, and now SeaweedSway presents shows of all kinds. Get updates of future events & stay connected through the links below:

http://facebook.com/theseaweedsway

http://bit.ly/seaweedswaycalendar (google calendar of events)

http://groups.google.com/group/seaweed-sway (weekly email list of events)
http://seaweedsway.blogspot.com
http://myspace.com/seaweedsway
http://twitter.com/seaweedsway
http://bit.ly/seaweedswaystory (project background)

next UP will be:

Sun Feb 20, 2011 *birthday show!
7:30pm - 11:30pm   SeaweedSway Showcase w/ Sugar Candy Mountain, Alameda, & Pancake Breakfast! Ever Isles' Chasing the Moon episode premier
Where: Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd St., San Francisco, CA
Description: SeaweedSway Showcase w/ Sugar Candy Mountain (Debut Show!), Alameda (pdx), & Pancake Breaksfast/ Mike Midlo (pdx) with host Jeremy Dalmas & the Absurdists!  Portland Invasion! Sugar Candy Mountain's Debut Show! and it’s my birthday!!! Potluck (raw vegan organic preferred, but bring what you like)! Too good to be true! (but it is) $7 for a night of fun & good music SUGAR CANDY MOUNTAIN http://www.myspace.com/smokedturkey ALAMEDA Alameda is a five pieceband composed of guitar, violin, cello, clarinet, and drums w/ members of Ages and Ages, Crooked Fingers, and the Portland Symphony.
RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=177219588963002

Chasing the Moon TONIGHT on the FULL PINK MOON. Sonya Cotton,Honeycomb Podcast Premier, Jascha Vs. Jascha, & Kris Gruen @ the Rickshaw Stop!

hey everyone,

i hope you all are doing well & are enjoying the full moon!!

in honor of this occasion, i am first highlighting the Chasing the Moon show that i helped put together that is TONIGHT, Wednesday at the Rickshaw Stop!!!! i knew it would be hard to follow-up the buffy sainte-marie show*, but this show is actually the perfect one to have next, and i think you should come for many many reasons:

1) it will be Honeycomb's Chasing the Moon podcast release, so we will all be seeing it for the first time up on the big screen. have you heard honeycomb yet?? hear some of their songs at http://www.myspace.com/honeycombmusic have you seen chasing the moon yet?? see past episodes at http://chasingthemoon.pdcst.com

2) it's going to be the FULL PINK MOON!!! how cool is that?? they (farmers almanac people) call it the pink moon because of "the herb moss pink, or wild ground phlox, which is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring." good reason to celebrate.

3) Sonya Cotton & her band will be playing their beautifully woven chill-inducing songs, including a special version of Nick Drake's Pink Moon, joined by Honeycomb'ers Emily Ritz & Kacey Johansing!

4) Jascha vs. Jascha is/are releasing his/their new album, A Cure for Sleep, joined by incredible band members Dina Maccabee (in many other bands!) & Thomas Edler (also in Indianna Hale's band) & Andrew Maguire (also in Honeycomb!)

5) Kris Gruen, recommended by the great Sean Hayes, is touring through from Vermont, so this is going to be a rare chance to hear his songs live in SF! hear some songs at http://krisgruen.com orhttp://myspace.com/krisgruen

6) I will be very happy if you can make it (just sayin')... it's only $10 for all of this great music... and what better way to spend a Wednesday night on the full pink moon? here are the nitty gritty details, & other recommended future events follow. please be there!!

Wednesday April 28th

Chasing the Moon & Seaweed Sway present

FULL PINK MOON Show

at the Rickshaw Stop

TICKETS: http://bit.ly/pinkmoontix

featuring the premier of HONEYCOMB*'s Chasing the Moon video podcast!

myspace.com/honeycombmusic

plus live music from

SONYA COTTON

Labeled "The Frida Khalo of songwriting," Sonya's compositions are deeply personal, drawing upon her dreams, family, and love; they often come from a place of profound reverence for the natural world and the creatures of the earth. "Sonya Maria Cotton ... is a really damn fine singer." --Pitchfork

sonyacotton.com

JASCHA VS. JASCHA

After using his dreams to spark a music career in Brooklyn, Jascha moved to San Francisco to record his first album. With hushed vocals and unexpected twists, his songs are vulnerable, clever and eccentric. Jascha will be joined by Dina Maccabee and special guests to celebrate the release of his album *A Cure For Sleep*—and the launch of an open-source songwriting blog.

jaschavsjascha.com

KRIS GRUEN

Born in New York City, Kris Gruen is a Vermont-based singer-songwriter. Often compared to Andrew Bird, The Arcade Fire, and The Decembrists, Part of It All, with the help of Mother West producers/engineers Charles Newman, JJ Beck and Rob Stevens, takes Gruen's songs and stories to an adventurous and fresh musical place.

krisgruen.com

CHASING THE MOON

Chasing the Moon is a monthly local music podcast that is celebrated with a live show on the full moon each month.

chasingthemoon.pdcst.com

SEAWEED SWAY

SeaweedSway is a project to promote & encourage community around Bay Area music, yoga, & nature events.

seaweedsway.blogspot.com

"Full Pink Moon: This name came from the herb moss pink, or wild ground phlox, which is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring. Other names for this month's celestial body include the Full Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and among coastal tribes the Full Fish Moon, because this was the time that the shad swam upstream to spawn."

farmersalmanac.com/full-moon-names

**Facebook invite/RSVP:

bit.ly/chasingthemoonapril28

RICKSHAW STOP

155 Fell St. @ Van Ness near Market

tickets on sale now!

http://rickshawstop.com

$10

TICKET LINK: http://bit.ly/pinkmoontix

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*secondly, thank you to all who came to the buffy sainte-marie tribute last week, & who supported it in any way. it was truly a treasure of a show, inspiring and invigorating to see what is possible w/ music. a total community effort. i still can't believe it's over and that it even happened. but there is evidence!! all the videos of the songs are up here!! http://www.youtube.com/user/jpswanhuyser#p/a thank you so much to jonathan swanhuyser for this documentation.

third, i actually haven't sent an EVENTS LIST in awhile, so i just had to compile the whole thing from scratch. but it's worth it, as there are a bunch of really really really good things happening this may & into june!! here it is:

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5-5 wednesday.

cinco de mayonnaise w/ natural bridges, paleo (NYC), FpodBpod, & sleepy todd @ blue six!

RSVP here! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=339465654177

NATURAL BRIDGES

http://myspace.com/naturalbridges

PALEO (NYC)

http://myspace.com/paleo

FPODBPOD - returning to SF show!! will be joined by Matt Adams of the Blank Tapes, Indianna Hale, & maybe even Sleepy Todd

http://facebook.com/fpodbpod

SLEEPY TODD

http://myspace.com/sleepytodd

at BLUE SIX

http://www.myspace.com/bluesixcenter

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5-9 sunday.

annah antipalindrome, ilo mar, clide vs. crocodiles, & the mallard at bluesix. a night of singing ladies! check http://myspace.com/vanessamicale for songs & cool pegasus flyer.

5-16 sunday.

Seaweedsway Showcase! w/ Trainwreck Riders, Jen Grady, & one more TBA. at the Make-Out Room. 7:30-11pm. $7 http://makeoutroom.com http://myspace.com/thetrainwreckridershttp://myspace.com/jengradyoly

5-19 wednesday.

Kacey Johansing album release w/ Honeycomb, Dovekins, & the Range of Light Wilderness. http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/7377 http://kaceyjohansing.com

5-20 thursday.

sean hayes, laura goldhamer & the silvernail, plus multiple sets by DJ Harry D, including an aftershow soul music dance party. http://bit.ly/ax5Fyt tix also available at the independent box office.http://independentsf.com

5-29 saturday.

SummerCamp Fashion Show @ the Blue Macaw. w/ designs from Isabelle Le, Claire Fong, Letty Huerta, Crystal, & more! This is the video of their last fashion show. It is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. You have to watch! & come to their show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acEUWu8lodI

6-11 friday.

Mariee Sioux, Foxtails Brigade Album Release, Judgement Day (Acoustic!), & fashion show by Isabelle & friends at the Swedish Music Hall. Silhouette. tix on sale soon, stay tuned. checkhttp://myspace.com/lauraweinbach for updates.

6-16 wednesday.

WomenRock's 4th Anniversary Show w/ Conspiracy of Venus (our season finale!), Stripmall Architecture, Bernadette Bohan, & Ziva Hadar! http://womenrockmusic.com http://conspiracyofvenus.comtix on sale http://theindependentsf.com

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fourth, yoga!! starting this week, i am teaching restorative yoga on sundays at the yoga loft from 6:30-8pm. (except for the third sundays of the month because of the seaweedsway showcase, meg will be teaching that class!) so this is the last week of the friday 11-12:30 restorative class there. saturday's gentle hatha yoga class for $10 is still on, 12:45-2pm every week. caretakers house yoga classes are 1st & 3rd tuesdays of the month... if you're up for it, sign up to get yoga email updates (once a week or less) at http://groups.google.com/group/seaweedsway-yoga

on the topic of movement, i also highly recommend a new class at the yoga loft. axis syllabus fundamentals, liquid bodies, w/ kira kirsch. http://corpiliquidi.com 7-9pm on fridays at 321 divisadero. learn to fall & walk & move in a more fluid way.

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OTHER STUFF:

HOUSING LIST: if you're looking for housing in the sf bay, you can sign up to receive emails or browse recent posts at http://groups.google.com/group/looking-for-housing it's a google group i started to make it easier to pass on housing announcements that i see. please send me any good room openings you see so i can pass them on to everyone who's looking! if you join the group, you can post your housing opening directly to the list.

JOB LIST: I also have a job list - let me know if you have job announcements that I should forward. this list is just getting re-started so will hopefully be more active soon. http://groups.google.com/group/looking-for-jobs-in-sf-bay-area

EVENT SUBMISSION: if you'd like to submit an event, please write to seaweedsway@gmail.com and send a short description in the format above (2-5 lines please) 2 weeks or more before the event. if i left your event out of this list, it usually just means i ran out of time to re-format it & add it. please remind me of it and i'll try to add it or possibly promote it in other ways...

thank you for reading & participating !!

xo

jessie

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