The Cat's Pajamas - Shanghai Shanty

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The Cat’s Pajamas Cabaret - Monday, February 22nd, 2010. This month join us for "Shanghai Shanti" for a celebration of all things shark related. Once, a long time ago, young fellows who laid on the sauce too heavily ran the risk of ending up on a boat bound for Shanghai. An adventure sure, but a kind of hang over few would ask for. Thankfully, in these modern times, we get to choose to be shanghaied by wailing widows, pirates, sea farers, Raspy blues men who know how to roll, and a wee bit of Gospel Shanty.

Performers:
James Morrill: Young, Hot, and oh so talented, this underground sea monster of a man will be bringing you harped waves, Shark poems and a little bit of sweetness from the deep.

Barbary Ghosts: Three castaways washed up on the shores of San Francisco telling tales of whiskey, women, and mutiny on the high sea. Having no boat and no money, they took to playing the dives, dance halls, and street corners of the Barbary Coast. The rest is history...Joan - button accordion, fiddle, tin whistle, singing; Shawn Magee- guitar, singing, Jason - fiddle
They will shanghai us for sure!

Cody Giannotti:R. Cody Giannotti, M.F.A. is a Vocalist, Multi-Instrumentalist, Beatboxer, Experimental Musician, Composer, Poet/Writer, Director, Sound/Film Designer, Photographer, Activist, Educator and Producer repping the Mission in San Francisco, CA. And he is a sweet man about town employing every art and pirating hearts wherever he goes.

John Beard: A poetic comedian who has been known to talk about sharks.

Jean Ramirez: A member of Conspiracy of Venus and a new emerging performer.

Ashif Hakik: A man who takes songs you think you know and gives them an entirely new twist and what a voice! He was a pirate in a past life.

Vanessa Morrison( No relation): In her wild and passionate diversity, Vanessa is truly that rare artist who would make Al Green, Utah Phillips and Johnny Cash feel right at home. Once with Rock Me Pony, She now plies her skills in service of Music National Service that honors the work of MLK jr. and believes that Music itself played an important role in inspiring Americans from all walks of life to join the civil rights movement.

The Seth Augustus Band with Vic Wong: After haunting the outer-lands of San Francisco’s music world for the better part of two decades,Seth Augustushas emerged with a fully realized sound and perspective that seems to exist outside of time and the limits of geography. Coarse and primitive textures, pre-war blues, hypnagogic tales told over tangos by midnight buskers, Seth’s own sinister-electrified guitar and a stripped down drum kit mingle with the rhythms of early American folk and jazz and the cadences of carnival sounds. A Perhaps the music of Seth Augustus was not meant to be recorded, but played into the night under giant tents, to congregations of the afflicted and those yearning for deliverance.
And More to come.....

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