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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

O.N.I.B v. G.L.O.R.I.A…

O.N.I.B v. G.L.O.R.I.A I’ve been a cultural broker for 30 years, but I had no idea until I read today’s times the impact of a play from 30 years ago and a album from 50 years ago. bw we are … Continue reading →

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Earthwise welcomes Naomi Moon Siegel Quartet tonight Thursday, February 27 at Palo Alto Art Center

Tickets at Eventbrite or $20 at door. Eight pm show. An award-winning trombonist, improviser, composer, and educator, Naomi Moon Siegel uses the trombone as a vehicle for sonic expression colored by breath, spit, and physicality. Moving beyond conventional genre norms, … Continue reading →

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Tricoastal Consortium to debut in Mitchell Park residency by Earthwise: Steven Bernstein, slide trumpet; Wayne Horvitz, piano; James Singleton, bass — Thursday, November 21 thru Saturday, November 23

Earthwise welcomes a jazz summit with stalwarts of the scenes, in the Bay Area, New York, New Orleans and Seattle: Steven Bernstein, slide trumpet; Wayne Horvitz, piano, and James Singleton, upright bass and pocket trumpet. Performing as: Tricoastal Consortium, Thursday, … Continue reading →

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Jazz pop ups at Lytton Plaza

Tuesday: 12:30 pm Bennett Paster Trio 4 pm Adam Moezinia Trio Wednesday: 6 pm Mads Tolling Quartet Friday: 11:30 Caroline Davis Camila Meza acoustic duo Presented by Earthwise

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Cameron Moberg’s new mural at Cubberley makes me lament how ugly and decrepit are the other 98 walls at the former high school campus

It’s part of our Palo Alto Public Art collection, and spans two quasi-linked surfaces, the U Building which hosts some artist studios and H, especially H-1 a meeting space where Ron Jones’ infamous “Wave” project took place. The mural is … Continue reading →

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Is Earthwise now ‘hopepunk’?

Beyond the music, concerts are produced to somehow change the world?

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It’s Been Twenty Three Days Since Anyone Updated my Wiki Page (And I Feel Fined) by Dan Bern

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Earthwise 2024 so far recap aka EWP 2Q24

Delbert Anderson a Navajo trumpet player from New Mexico called me on my 60th birthday to say he was stranded at the airport in San Francisco and then both came to my celebration at Chef Chu’s and more to the … Continue reading →

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EARTHWISE WELCOMES GUITAR GODS MARK LETTIERI (MAY 24) & NELS CLINE (MAY 30)

Mark Lettieri Group, free concert, 6 pm, Friday, May 24, Mitchell Park, Palo Alto; Nels Cline Trio (with Scott Amendola, Phillip Greenlief), 8 pm, Thursday, May 30, Mitchell Park Community Center, $20 advance at EventBrite. By Earthwise Productions

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Nels Cline vs Mark Lettieri

I am hosting two of the greatest guitarists on consecutive weeks; Mark Lettieri plays a free outdoor show at Mitchell Park, Friday, May 24, 2024, from 6 to sunset; Nels Cline trio, with Greenlief and Amendola, fill the void six … Continue reading →

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