Lovejoy Lowdown http://lovejoylowdown.com Allison Lovejoy's highbrow underground . . . Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:49:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Lovejoylowdowncomhttp://feedburner.google.com Hello Music Lovers http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Lovejoylowdowncom/~3/TVzfvvQl00A/ http://lovejoylowdown.com/?p=23#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:49:31 +0000 Allison Lovejoy http://lovejoylowdown.com/?p=23 Back after a tour in Japan and New Orleans with the Grave Brothers Deluxe, a short sabbatical from the stage and the Lowdown, many hours recording in the studio, Lovejoy is back.

We’ll be looking at new venues in SF for great Jazz and more:

CODA jazz club at 1710 Mission at Duboce
Kaleidescope at 3109 24th ST. near Folsom, featuring art, performance and readings .. and a piano!

ALSO,

the Re-invention of El Valenciano and it’s Wednesday night music series.

New works commissioned for my next Nocturnes for piano CD….

Classical Revolution on the town..

Hot Stuff!

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Allison visits the FAZIOLI piano factory (summer 2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP5Zvrl9pOk&feature=email

The Edwardian Ball 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP5Zvrl9pOk&feature=email

Appearing in a Distiller Film by Nara Denning with music of the Graves Brothers Deluxe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PASoNL8_UL4

 

]]> http://lovejoylowdown.com/?feed=rss2&p=22 http://lovejoylowdown.com/?p=22 Songbird Festival and more http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Lovejoylowdowncom/~3/vVgE9RLc6Gc/ http://lovejoylowdown.com/?p=17#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:29:59 +0000 Allison Lovejoy http://lovejoylowdown.com/?p=17 Check out the last week of this San Francisco celebration of female talent:

songbirdfestival.org

Allison Lovejoy plays Cabaret Nouveau originals on WEDNESDAY, JULY 29 at BOLLYHOOD CAFE in SF.

19th st. at Mission

with STITCHCRAFT and BELLTOWER.  

 

show begins at 9 pm, cabaret at 11.. with special guests Diana Mangano, Robin Lovejoy, Therese Davis,

Samaki Dorsey, and Saramitra Payan on vocals and Mark Sowlakis on clarinet and sax!

featuring music from “the Seven Deadly Pleasures”, a cabaret-rock opera by Allison Lovejoy and Geoff Ball.

 

$8-12

 

Come hear a variety of talented participants at the closing party at Bluesix on 24th and Treat st., SF  

Sunday, August 2nd from 7-10 pm.

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Week 1 of SF Songbird Festival?:
Monday - July 13, 2009, 6 pm - 9 pm 

Birds and Dance- Folk and Bluegrass, Americana
Tribute to Buffy St. Marie and a blend of roots music fused by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the American musical ethos; specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, rhythm & blues, rock & roll and other external influential styles.

Amnesia , http://www.amnesiathebar.com
Cost: $8 - $12

Hiya Swanhuyser - Tribute to Buffy St. Marie
4 Inch Pony, http://www.myspace.com/fourinchpony
Meredith Axelrod, http://www.myspace.com/craigventrescoandmeredithaxelrod

Tuesday - July 14, 2009, 7 pm - 7:30 pm

Red Light Open Mic – Emerging Songbird Artist’s Featuring - Kaizoku
Amnesia, http://www.amnesiathebar.com
Cost: Free

Kaizoku, http://www.myspace.com/kaizokumusic

Friday - July 17, 2009, 8 pm - Close

Nina Simone & Julie London Tribute
Songbirds of the Bay Area pay tribute to Nina Simone and Julie London 

Community Music Center, http://www.sfcmc.org
Cost: $10 - $15

Nina Simone Tribute:
Sara Mitra Payan, Samaki Dorsey, Miriam Jacobson, Momo and Sara Morton
With pianist Allison Lovejoy, http://www.allisonlovejoy.com

Julie London Tribute:
HeatherVonD, http://www.myspace.com/heathervondmusic
Daniel Fabricant, http://www.myspace.com/fabdan
Darren Johnston, http://www.darrenjohnstonmusic.com

Saturday - July 18, 2009, 6 pm - 10 pm

Shake Your Tail Feathers
Baobab Village Cafe (formerly Bollyhood), http://www.bollyhoodcafe.com
Cost: $8 - $12

The Bang, 60’s Girl Group
Jessie Roadkill, http://www.myspace.com/storytimewithroadkill
Backlit, http://www.myspace.com/backlitsf

Further details are at http://www.songbirdfestival.org

]]> http://lovejoylowdown.com/?feed=rss2&p=16 http://lovejoylowdown.com/?p=16 upcoming concerts http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Lovejoylowdowncom/~3/ygcsUdHmGz4/ http://lovejoylowdown.com/?p=15#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:55:04 +0000 Allison Lovejoy http://lovejoylowdown.com/?p=15 Sunday, January 25     8 pm

Edwardian Ball   “Sunday Gorey Sunday”

Regency Theatre, San Francisco   

http://www.edwardianball.com/

Featuring a wild array of Edward Gorey inspired performance and costume.

Allison plays at I0:30

 

 

Tuesday, January 27   7:30 pm

Cheshire Rock Opera

Balazo Gallery    

Mission St at I8th   San Francisco

http://www.myspace.com/cheshirerockopera

 

 

Friday, January 30    8 pm

An evening of solo piano music by Ravel, Poulenc and premieres by Arne Oldberg

with Nicholas Culp and Allison Lovejoy, piano

Community Music Center

544 Capp St, San Francisco  $I0/5

 

Sunday, February I     8 pm

Amnesia Bar

Valencia at 20th st, San Francisco

 

Monday, February 2   8 pm

with the Graves Brothers Deluxe

Matahari Records Release Party

Make-Out Room   

22nd st at Mission

 

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**** INTERVIEW on WEST COAST LIVE!!! ****
**** SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 10-12 AM*****  KALW RADIO   91.7 FM

Listen to me get interviewed by the ever-clever and charming host Sedge Thompson!

 

**SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20 8 PM**

 

An evening of French, Spanish and Tango Music..

COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER
544 CAPP ST. (nr 21st st and Mission) SAN FRANCISCO
$5-$10

Allison Lovejoy and friends…
Karsten Windt, violin,
Holly Rae Brown, mezzo-soprano
Branislav Radikovic, baritone

Music of Debussy, Ravel, DeFalla, Piazzolla…. and more!!
Reception to follow!

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Saturday, October 25 8 pm
Community Music Center
544 Capp st. at 21st
Mission District
San Francisco

Amazing composer and multi-instrumentalist Chus Alonso is joined by his ensemble “Potaje”
this Saturday night to celebrate his CD release of original flamenco-inspired works.
DANCE Party to follow! Don’t miss this wonderful evening of music!

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Sol Crawford is one of the most interesting of San Francisco’s music promoters. He is a co-partner at Amnesia, which has earned a reputation for one of the best live performance rooms in the Mission.

Hornucopia is a celebration of any music with horns, and that’s a very broad definition. Starting September 4th 35 bands will play across 9 venues in 11 days.

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The Hornucopia Festival is also a non-profit effort to benefit community organizations through a free music workshop, an educational presentation on the provocative history of brass and horn music, and as a fundraiser for two worthy causes: delivering new instruments into the hands of beleaguered youth second line bands in New Orleans and raising money for a humanitarian circus that presents free shows and workshops to refugee children in Kosovo.

]]> http://lovejoylowdown.com/?feed=rss2&p=5 http://lovejoylowdown.com/?p=5 Nice Guy Trio http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Lovejoylowdowncom/~3/d-fD9lpkF60/ http://lovejoylowdown.com/?p=4#comments Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:13:32 +0000 editor http://lovejoylowdown.com/?p=4 Allison Lovejoy recently met with the Nice Guy Trio at the Red Poppy.

]]> http://lovejoylowdown.com/?feed=rss2&p=4 http://lovejoylowdown.com/?p=4 Reviving the Fillmore’s Jazz Heritage http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Lovejoylowdowncom/~3/fPyf2rExmX8/ http://lovejoylowdown.com/?p=10#comments Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:13:13 +0000 editor http://lovejoylowdown.com/?p=10 Allison Lovejoy to interviewed Peter Fitzsimmons, the head of the Fillmore Jazz Heritage Center. He told of plans to revive what used to be a vibrant jazz scene in San Francisco. In fact, the term “jazz” was first used here, he says, not in “N’Orleans.”

It is a controversial claim…

http://lovejoy.blip.tv/file/1220486/

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