Open letter to Kathleen, Lynn, Lisa, Maya, Veronica, Ramona and Aki, thinking about the last days and nights of The Bottom of the Hill

I would like to do an event at bottom of the hill.   We’ve done three others previously. Working with Lynn mostly. Ramona came to the last one because it honored your former colleague Lisa Fay Beatty on the 10th anniversary of her passing. (Lisa was in the first band I ever booked, which was Mudwimin in fall of 1994.)
The show I’m thinking of is a local / South Bay showcase guest-curated by Aki Kumar. Let me know what the avails are. I can go as soon as March or as late as October.  I could do a Monday if necessary.
Mark Weiss
dba Earthwise
(650) 305-xxxx

by the way, my dream booking would be to do a Donnas reunion show or a Ragady Ann (their original name) reunion show (playing the music from their 1995  7 inch EP) . Maya is my neighbor.
But more likely, I would just do this Blues/indian fusion  showcase .
Also, I wonder if ramona still has a crystal ball I gave her more than 20 years ago.  
many nights at bottom of the hill and some afternoons, definitely help me hone my promoter instincts!
My onsales here:
Feb 22 Jim Campilongo Adam Levy Duo P  7:30
Feb 28 Edward Simon Trio f Adam Cruz Or Bareket, Stephan Crump M 8 pm
March 17 Edu Ribeiro Noah Garabedian Vinicius Gomes trio, Murray Low M
March 23 Ralph Alessi Quartet P
April 4 Realtime Collective Tammy Hall Sylvia Cuenca Kristen Strom Ruth Davies, Rabiah Kabir  Quartet M 8 pm
April 17 Mads Tolling Sam Reider Duo, Larry Ochs Ben Davis Fred Lonborg-Holm Trio TBA
May 1 Never Come Down, Hannah Mayree J 6:30
May 15 Caroline Davis Quartet M
May 22 Lily Finnegan Gaby Fluke- Mogul Duo, Jordan Glenn Flatways Trio M
June 6 Emi Makabe Quartet f Thomas Morgan Kenny Wolleson Vitor Gonćalves M
Sept 18 Splash Myra Melford Michael Formanek Ches Smith M
J = Johnson Park (free)
M = Mitchell Park Community
Center
P = Palo Alto Art Center

It’s kind of a weird memory, but I definitely remember forever Totaling my car on 280 totally sober but hit by a drunk driver. On my way to a curbfeelers barbecue show there.

I do mostly Blues and jazz these days although in my history, I did baby band rock and punk: blink-182, fifteen, stone fox, mermen, third eye blind, cake, galactic, oxbow, sf seals. AFI. 

This is a memorial painting I commissioned  of Lisa from Veronica DeJesus.

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About markweiss86

Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play
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