01.21.12 Accordion Babes Revue
Fais Do Do, 5253 West Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
8:00pm, $10 in advance (see below)/$15 at the door

This night is going to be off the hook!

THE ACCORDION BABES REVUE is a night of diverse musical revelry celebrating the accordion, featuring Accordion Babe Pinup Calendar girls Mrs. Hobbs of Ketchup Soup, Renee de la Prade, and Amber Lee Baker.

This is the fourth indie release of the provocative, girl-powered, ultimate tribute to the squeeze box, created by Renee de la Prade. The Accordion Babes Album & Pinup Calendar is sultry, sexy, sassy, silly, sweet, and impassioned. The women are not only beautiful, they are damn fine musicians, playing one of the world's greatest instruments.

The evening’s audience will be enchanted by three calendar girls and will be joined by a multi-musical line-up from the alternative accordion scene that has colored Los Angeles music in recent years. From blues to punk, experimental to jazz, Latin to gypsy, Bulgarian to Klezmer, opera to cabaret—this ain’t your grandfather’s accordion music!

Your Evening’s Hostess, Mrs. Hobbs of Ketchup Soup: Ketchup Soup is a stripped down duo with a unique pairing of eclectic instrumentation that offers a speakeasy, jazz-folk style to satiate those with a gourmet music palate.
www.mrshobbs.com | www.ketchupsoupband.com

Touring Accordion Babe, Renee De La Prade: The San Francisco-based Accordion Babes Pinup Calendar creator, this one-woman powerhouse combines rock, Cajun, Irish, French and punk music in a rollicking, foot-stomping show. www.squeezeboxgoddess.com

Touring Accordion Babe, Amber Lee Baker: Northern California’s Amber excites audiences with her sweet original songs in a sometimes sexy, sometimes silly way. www.amberleeandtheanomalies.com

Los Angeles Accordion Mob

• Timur & The Dime Museum: Dark glam opera, profiled in LA Weekly's Best Of People Issue 2011 www.timurandthedimemuseum.com
• Dorian Wood: Avant-garde troubadour www.dorianwood.com
• AK & Her Kalashnikovs: International — Opa! www.facebook.com/AKandHerKalashnikovs
• Seeing Thingz: Rock-gypsy-experimental-punk-funk www.SeeingThingz.com
• Salt Petal: The Smiths meet Os Mutantes in a dark alley in Buenos Aires www.saltpetal.com
• The Shpil: A cosmopolitan klezmer quintet www.theshpil.com
• Cat Hair Ensemble: Dada Cosmopolitan www.cathairensemble.bandcamp.com
• Demonite Na Khaosa: Bulgarian vocal & accordion harmonic beauties www.facebook.com/demonitenakhaosa
• princessFrank & the Killsisters: Accordion & drumming frenzy www.facebook.com/pages/_princessFrank/200185170025845
• Rattlesnake Charm School: Old-Time Revival, Sea Shanties, Murder Ballads www.facebook.com/rattlesnakecharmschool
• Two-Bit Opera: 1 bit, 2 bit…Cabaret! www.twobitopera.com
• Count Smokula: 496 year old Smokesylvanian musical comedian www.countsmokula.com
• Danny Kopel: Blues www.facebook.com/danny.kopel1
• Amy Denio's Trio: Experimental www.AmyDenio.com

Fais Do Do is located at 5253 West Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90016. Tickets are $10 at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/220107 or $15 at the door. For more information, photos or interviews, please contact Diana Hobstetter aka Mrs. Hobbs at 310-913-0806 or music@mrshobbs.com.

12.17.11 Christmas With Bessie
HM157, Los Angeles , CA

Many of the most talented local artists celebrate the music of jazz and blues legend Bessie Smith!

From last year's LA Weekly ...

"The groundbreaking song stylist Bessie Smith, universally acknowledged Empress of the Blues, has rarely been accorded the veneration and recognition she earned. Hell, you hear people raving about Robert Johnson every 15 minutes, but in Smith's case, her historic rep is centered far more around her tragic 1937 death than her artistic achievements, and even then, it's been straight-up short shrift: Smith lay in an unmarked grave until 1970. She was a singer of mesmerizing intensity and flabbergasting color and atmosphere, and her stunning, soul-deep blues have been righteously upheld each recent Yuletide by the local cult of cognoscenti who bring us the annual Christmas With Bessie revue. Always featuring a far-ranging, free-thinking gaggle of performers who do everything from rock, jazz and dance performances to old-school blues and indie-experimental eccentricities-- with each act focused on reinterpreting Smith's rich catalog of indigo masterpieces-- the third edition boasts some powerhouse artists ... Christmas With Bessie goes a long, loving way to reasserting the singer's magnificent legacy. Pig foot optional."

Christmas With Bessie Starring: (Not in order of appearance)

Mysterybau
Ketchup Soup
Princess Pangolin
Evangina
Sunny War
Lisima
The Dawn of Sequins
The Receptionists (starring Jessica Catron (experimental cellist of the wonderous Missincinnati and once of VOCO)
Marissa Gomez and the Ghosts of Echo Park
Dorian Wood
Suzy Williams
Cat Hair Ensemble
Two Bit Opera
Mr. Adrien Marbek - wonderful classical guitarist visiting HM157 from France

Performance Archives: 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007

Mrs. Hobbs has performed at: (all shows in Los Angeles area unless otherwise noted)