Peter Jaques

upcoming performances

December 2007

• Brass Menazeri at Sebastiani Theater with the Indigo

  Saturday, December 8

  Sebastiani Theater
  476 First St. E (at E Napa), Sonoma.
  2-5pm; $15 advance/$17 door/$10 kids.
  For advance tickets, call 707-996-9756 or drop by the theatre.
  Categories: Brass Menagerie ~ All More»

  Hey all you North Bay Balkan Brass & Bellydance fans! This Saturday we’ve got a real exciting show for y’all! And you don’t even have to wait long: it’s this Saturday!

  First, start with the location location location: the Sebastiani Theater, one of the oldest & most purty movie houses in the country. Now, add one part unicycle & one part ukelele, and you’ve got Uni & her Ukelele!

  Now as if that weren’t already enough, why not add a dash of two of the world’s best (I’m not kidding (I’m really not (really))) bellydancers, Rachel Brice & Mardi Love of the Indigo, fresh off a tour with Bellydance Superstars. Of course that raises another question: what music will they dance to?

  A fine question indeed. And now a fine answer: the Brass Menazeri Balkan Brass Band will shake and stir and roll their booties & yours like you haven’t experienced since you half awoke drunk in that south Serbian Rom street wedding. Now THAT was embarrassing. This might be too but who cares?

  NOW stir. Garnish with the Ding String Trio of harp, violin & cello.

  Quel magnifique! I’m so excited for this show, I can’t wait to play with the Indigo, er, girls & all the others in this amazing space! Really really you don’t wanna miss it. Oh wait that’s me, I don’t wanna miss it. That would be embarrassing.

  Brass Menazeri: brassmenazeri.com The Indigo: rachelbrice.com Uni & her Ukelele: myspace.com/uniherukelele (Don’t have a link for Ding String Trio, sorry)

• Brass Menazeri at Amnesia with Indigo & Dan Cantrell

  Sunday, December 9

  Amnesia
  853 Valencia (at 19th St.), San Francisco.
  9pm; $6-8.
  Categories: Brass Menagerie ~ All More»

  Oh yeah. You ain't gonna believe this.

  Sunday, a mere one day after we conquer Sonoma's Sebastiani Theatre, Sol's gonna let the Brass Menazeri come back to Amnesia, foolhardy so(u)l that he is. That's right, even after we blew up Amnesia's sound board last New Year's Eve, he thinks he can take us.

  But guess what: we've got reinforcements.

  Dan Cantrell's new Gigaband will really balk the house in an all-original way you ain't likely heard before. This all-star (if I say so myself) ensemble features Eric Perney on bass; Lila Sklar on violin; Sean Tergis, David Satori & Evan Frasier on percussion; Briget Boyle on vocals; Eric Oberthaler on trumpet; and Peter Jaques on clarinet.

  So yeah. Pretty much worth coming, pretty much a mortal danger to Amnesia's roof's ability to stay on. But guess what else?

  Amazing (as in, world-famous) bellydancers Rachel Brice & Mardi Love of the Indigo are gonna dance with both bands! And also members of Fou Fou Ha will debut an original choreography to the Brass Menazeri's version of Minderia! I've never seen it, but Dan Cantrell said it made him cry & a lot of other things all at once.

  And if you're early, you can catch Emily Anne with her lovely vocal stylings before the Apocalypse.

  Amnesia ain't never gonna be the same. Better, but not the same.

• Brass Menazeri & Aphrodesia at the Independent

  Saturday, December 22

  The Independent
  628 Divisadero (at Hayes), San Francisco.
  9pm, $12 advance/$14 door.
  Categories: Brass Menagerie ~ All More»

  

  Well the peace talks might, or might not, be sputtering in other parts of the world. It seems the smallest, minorest differences--Pope vs. Patriarch, Coke vs. Pepsiarch, Dope vs. Cokey narc--get people all riled up & ready to tussle. But there is hope, brothers & sisters & siblings of indeterminate gender. I'm here to tell you of an as yet unheard of conciliation, a collaboration between three such disparate (yet unified in bootyshakinness) groups that it would scarcely even occur to any rational mind! And just wait until all three join forces on a tune, it's like when Rick Moranis, Dan Aykroyd & Bill Murray crossed the streams in Ghostbusters.

  APHRODESIA afro-beat + highlife + dub + funk
  
  CD release party for Lagos by Bus!
  
  &
  
  BRASS MENAZERI balkan brass band
  
  +
  
  the INDIGO tribalfusion bellydance troupe
  
  y
  
  DJ Pleasuremaker