I'm playing this coming Wednesday at the Fox and Goose, 1001 R St, Sacramento, Ca. Here's a flyer I made for the show.

Here is one of my favorite newer songs, If Not Today, Tomorrow. It's amazing how different this song feels to play every time I play it. This time I felt a frightening sweaty lucidity of emotion resulting in an almost orgasmic release. Well, even I didn't expect that.

I wrote this song literally as you see it here at like, 5 am. I played a Kala U Bass, one of the most fun things I've picked up in a while.  I was inspired.  And will forever be slightly distracted. The effects of that much kryptonite will never completely go away. Dammit. I'm a love mutant.

Luna's Cafe Show Jan 6th with Julie the Bruce, Nate Beier, and Joe Gray

Here are some photos from last night's show at Luna's Cafe. This particular night I really felt the special lucid state that I had hoped for in a performance. I haven't really been playing accordion that long and sometimes it still feels so strange to me. But not this accordion, this Sonola brand 80 bass accordion. We got it from a pawn shop back east and knew it was going to arrive messed up.  It arrived with several reeds out and confetti in it. Then we had Skyler Fell at Accordion Apocalypse in San Francisco bring her back from the dead. Since then she's been my preferred songwriting accordion and practice accordion, and now I am finding I just can't seem to feel as comfortable playing a show without her. Sometimes, I forget that we are two separate entities, this accordion and  I. This accordion and sheer adrenalin contributed to what I think was my best show yet on the squeezebox. I've had this zombie cold thing going around. But I pulled it off anyway, with only about three shots of whiskey to "ahem" clear my throat!

An After Christmas Christmas song! "Time of the Urban Tumbleweeds" by yours truly Julie

Here's a little song I wrote I haven't had the nerve to work on for a few years because I hate Christmas music! But I finally arranged it and here it is. I have to say if I had it my way it would sound like The Ronettes.

Julie the Bruce playing a bayan on Thanksgiving 2011. Thank you Robin for lending this to me. It invades my skull.

Someone I barely know was kind enough to lend me a bayan and since then I've been a little obsessed with them. Here is a site that is one of the more interesting I have found on the subject. If you know anything about accordion, it's like playing the piano key type accordion as a game of Twister for your fingertips. In other words, it's really fun but in the end are you going to be able to get the fingering on that note?

 http://russiapedia.rt.com/galleries/russian-bayan-s-birth/11/

I am SUPER excited to be playing with Jason Webley for a kickass Halloween show in Sacramento! October 30th

JASON WEBLEY'S HALLOWEEN SPECTACULAR!
w/ Fierce Creatures, Musical Charis and Julie The Bruce!
7 pm - All Ages - $7 pre sale/$10 door
tickets:http://sacramento.ticketleap.com/webley/

Accordion troubadour Jason Webley is bringing his band and a van full of autumnal fun to Beatnik Studios on October 30th. Known around the planet for his passionate live performances and his infectious dark whimsy, Webley promises that this will be a show to remember.

"I used to do these crazy shows every year in Seattle around Halloween with a big band, ridiculous props, puppets and stories. For me, those shows were the culmination of my year and were held together by some kind of mad poetry. Since 2011 is a special year for me, the idea is to try to take a show like that on the road."

Webley will be joined on stage by long-time collaborators Jherek Bischoff (bass), Alex Guy (viola) and Michael McQuilken (drums) and the night will be opened by Musical Charis and Fierce Creatures. He won't say more about what he has planned for the night, but if past antics are any indicator there may be some glorious mischief. Known for ritually killing his stage persona every year for much of his career, Webley once led an army of fans onto a local commuter ferry dressed as pirates and was arrested for leading another crowd into the fountain at Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival.

Costumes are very welcome, but you might also want to also bring something warm. You never know where the night will take you…

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