Mardi Gras w/ Blue Bone Express, Hot Pink Feathers, & Red Light

Sun, Mar 5

On Sunday, March 5th, Oakland-based brass band Blue Bone Express and
SF dance troupe Hot Pink Feathers team up once again to bring their
New Orleans meets Rio best to the Mission District's offbeat bar
Amnesia. This will be the Second Annual Mardi Gras Extravaganza
hosted by Amnesia.

Led by pianist and trumpeter Jara Queeto, Blue Bone Express places a
raw and timeless spin on traditional jazz music. Their music seeks to
summon the original musical cross-streams that came together to
create the birth of jazz in New Orleans. They play a varied
repertoire of old rags, stomps, and shuffles, dipping into black
spirituals, blues-brothel hollers, and good-time second line Mardi
Gras music. They also re-visit some more modern pop music and throw
in some of Jara Queeto's originals, always ready to keep the party
going strong.

Hot Pink Feathers is a samba burlesque dance ensemble directed by
choreographer/dancer Kelly "Kellita" Garton. Founded in 2000, the
Feathers have graced the stages of favorite Bay Area haunts such as
Bimbo's, the Odeon, and the Great American Music Hall and performed
repeatedly at notable festivals and events such as Tease-O-Rama, the
Miss Exotic World Pageant, and SF's Grand Carnaval. The Feather's
aesthetic is at the crossroads of carnaval and cabaret. Their
colorful, latin-flavored bump 'n' grind has made them "leaders on the
scantily-clad front" according to Theatre Bay Area. Hot Pink
Feathers earned First Place in Original World Dance at SF's 2005
Carnaval Parade. As a duo, Blue Bone and the Feathers took home five
awards from that same event. This celebration at Amnesia will mark
the first anniversary of the collaboration of these two song and
dance units.

The evening will be opened by Scott Larson's Red Light Abatements,
another young and fine traditional jazz band. For the last six
months, they have been steadily putting the Jass back in Jazz on
first Sundays at Amnesia, playing arrangements of Louis Armstrong's
original Hot 5 and Hot 7 bands mixed with fine originals by
trombonist Scott Larson. They feature some of the best Bay Area
musicians playing in a traditional jazz configuration, complete with
tuba and banjo.

The cost for this year's Mardi Gras Extravaganza is $6 and the show
will begin at 8pm. Amnesia is located at 853 Valencia, between 19th
and 20th, in San Francisco.

Venue:

Amnesia
853 Valencia
San Francisco
415-970-0012
http://www.amnesiathebar.com/

On Valencia between 19th and 20th

Additional Info:


http://blueboneexpress.com