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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

Installation of concert posters as itself an art statement but also vandalism or graffiti

Posted on July 11, 2022 by markweiss86

  Philip Greenlief has written a set of song or suite of music that he claims he wrote in reaction to a trio of films by Michelangelo Antonioni from 1961-1963; he is performing said work with Lisa Mezzacappa and Jason … Continue reading →

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Open letter to Karen Kienzle

Posted on July 10, 2022 by markweiss86

  In sympathy to your situation and in memory of our mutual friend Joe Zirker whose art is pictured above with musician Larry Ochs and myself December 12, 2019 I will produce a series of awkwardly timed 3:30 PM events … Continue reading →

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Dual carriageway

Posted on July 10, 2022 by markweiss86

  JULY 17 AMENDOLA Vs.  BLADES JULY 24 CITTA DI VITTI 2 PM MITCHELL PARK BOWL EARTHWISE OF PALO ALTO

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Earthwise summer series adds 5 dates

Posted on July 8, 2022 by markweiss86

  For a complete list of on-sales (we call it that though the shows are free): https://www.eventbrite.com/d/ca–palo-alto/earthwise/

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Doris a day, July 6 to August 6

Posted on July 6, 2022 by markweiss86
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Earthwise Music in the Palo Alto parks initiative, summer/fall, 2022

Posted on June 30, 2022 by markweiss86

The Waybacks Sunday, July 10, 2022 2 p.m. Amendola Vs Blades Sunday July 17, 2022 2 p.m. Citta Di Vitti Sunday, July 24, 2022 2 p.m. Native Elements Sunday, August 7  14, 2022, 2 pm at Mitchell Park bowl (note … Continue reading →

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I wish I could hire Radio Raheem to lobby for music funding in Palo Alto

Posted on June 30, 2022 by markweiss86
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Report on World Music Day at Lytton Plaza by Earthwise

Posted on June 30, 2022 by markweiss86

My “world music day” by Earthwise event at Lytton Plaza on Saturday 6/25/22 went like this: Sylvie Simmons (London/SF) solo ukelele (which is from Hawaii) and voice; originals plus a David Bowie cover, but not “1984” even though it was … Continue reading →

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A touch of Austin in south Palo Alto

Posted on June 28, 2022 by markweiss86

The credit is due largely to Warren Hood and his four-piece backing band, who are approaching five years of anchoring ABGB’s music schedule with their midweek happy-hour residency. A native Austinite, Hood is well-known and widely respected here. Following in … Continue reading →

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Earthwise Productions brain trust announces (soon enough) summer fall concert series or series’s

Posted on June 27, 2022 by markweiss86
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