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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

650 concert promoters’ media war

Posted on May 8, 2022 by markweiss86

Nonprofit the guild full page ad page 9 of the Chronicle Sunday paper showing 24 shows five of which previously appeared in Earthwise a Productions at either Cubberley or The Mitch

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Bob Dylan, the vote, Will Bernard, Sony Holland singing the music of Linda Ronstadt

Posted on May 8, 2022 by markweiss86

  Just now, taking the dog out, I noticed todays mail. It included a single balcony reserved seat ticket to a Bob Dylan concert upcoming in Oakland Friday June 11, in about a month and a notice for a polling … Continue reading →

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Pop up blues show today at 4:30 pm at Lytton Plaza by Jeremiah Lockwood, Stanford doctoral, presented by Earthwise

Posted on May 6, 2022 by markweiss86

Jeremiah Lockwood, September 18 – l’chaim — at Lytton Plaza, part of Together Again Palo Alto; PhD in Education and Jewish Studies Individualized Masters in Ethnomusicology Stanford UniversityOctober 2020 • jdlock@stanford.eduDissertation title: “Golden Ages: Chassidic singers and cantorial revival in … Continue reading →

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Jack Cullen (music) VS Jack Cullen (baseball)

Posted on May 5, 2022 by markweiss86

 

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Anna for Congress: Or, what is the sound of half a brain clapping?

Posted on May 5, 2022 by markweiss86
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Lit in lines

Posted on May 3, 2022 by markweiss86

I was in nearby Menlo Park yesterday, trying to replace Todd Sickafoose’s worn Size 10 1/2 sic Saucony Jazz lime shows and I wondered into Feldman’s for the first time since it relocated. A young man was playing on the … Continue reading →

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Robert Duncan and GD

Posted on May 3, 2022 by markweiss86

Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow BY ROBERT DUNCAN as if it were a scene made-up by the mind,    that is not mine, but is a made place, that is mine, it is so near to the heart,    … Continue reading →

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Cowboy songs

Posted on May 2, 2022 by markweiss86

bonus track:

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Mondo bongo

Posted on May 2, 2022 by markweiss86

The Mickey Hart show last night at Stanford with Zakir Hussein  and world music singers reminds me of a poem by the late Al Young : Bad drumming always pounds out good, but badder bongo builds and builds, abounds. Your … Continue reading →

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Free concert Sunday at Mitchell Park bowl

Posted on April 30, 2022 by markweiss86
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