Philly/Washington PartII

Playing at NPR World Cafe Live in Philly.















Kendra has figured out a lot of ways to get from Point A to Point B...



They have basses on the Walls there, at NPR...


Half of the gang is staying on the East Coast to visit family. Unfortunately Joz had an incident involving stones on the ocean that were kinda slippery and it ended with stitches. Luckily no long term effects!
The rest of us is heading home (Kendra, Rudy, and I). Our trip involved stitches, too, but laughing stitches, rather.



Rudy is setting new trends of footwear for airports...


Kendra has been talking about it for hours.... donuts, round and sweet and warm and the legendary DD coffee... nothing would lift her mood just now like this... her excitement reaches the peak as she sees this sign...


Alas, it is not meant to be... COMING SOON... It took us hours to cheer her up...






Kendra and I winning the world record in luggagge a single person can possibly shlepp (after a long flight still and NO DONUTS, mind you!!!) Thanks for the laughs, Kendra, this was priceless!!!!


I had a blast sippin in DC and Philly. What a fun weekend!!! Thanks for coming out!! Next Sippin show is June 1st, see you locals there!

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National Geographic Live!

Fun gigs today in Philly!


They got us water bottles!


Exhibit in the lobby...






View of Kendra...



Douggle juggle


Zippy Joz with limpy balloon head wear...





Sippy impressions


Kendra can do that, too!

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Sippies arriving in Washington
Current mood: tired

Sippies are in WASHINGTON.
Meet the band!

Bandleader Sippy Paul

Allison, keys and vocals, and Joz, the drum Sippy

Sippy Alli

Sippy Rudy, ex Bass Sippy, now sippin guitar

Sippy Doug, the juggle sippy

Nina, manager de tour
Sippy Kendra, our aerialist and dancer


No photo of yours truly. Call me Sippy Ari, will ya?!


Unfortunately Paul is a crutch-Sippy this weekend. Due to severe salmon-jerky intoxication, he slipped on stairs yesterday and suffered a 7th degree ankle sprain. Looks painful. I think he did enjoy being wheeled around the airport, though.




Doug juggling his luggage...



I wore a gigantic cap today and the airport security authorities demanded to look under it, much to my amusement. Kendra's resin (which she uses to prepare her hands when dangling on tissue from the ceiling in neck breaking poses) got recognized as a threat to national security and taken into custody. Other than that the flight was pretty uneventful... Looking forward to the gigs tomorrow. This hotel here rocks! Leopard bathrobes! Bed looks mightily inviting at the moment...

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Blog revival
Current mood: happy

Hi all,

It's my Birthday today. If you want to send a fun personal comment, you make my day :) .

Blog's back! I am also reviving arianemusic.net and in general creating a mailing list, thanks to al the folks who keep 'bugging' me on that one :). Email me on MySpace if you'd like to be on it.

I have loads of news. Besides the Palm Wine Boys, who I have enjoyed playing with for a while now, I play now in two other bands, who I am really excited about: the Brian Cline Band out of Napa, a premier entertainment outfit with the nicest guys and gal and heavy caliber musicians. And my music-milk-and mischief band, the Sippy Cups, who do psychedelic music for kids of all ages. We have an aerialist, jugglers, music that parents and kids like alike. The audience has two layers - sea of kids up front, adults in the back. Lots of balloons and colors, chuckles and humor and some great Beatles/Syd Barrett etc covers as well as awesome originals. Great cats in the band, and a genial concept. I will blog more about it.

Check out my calendar for an upcoming East Coast trip this weekend. There are lots of tours coming up, I will keep you in the loop.

Tour Blog is back! With photos and stories!

I am doing educational videos for musicvirtuosity as well as Eden. For Eden they may merge into fun on-location reports. Will blog.

I am recording 4 albums this summer and plan on putting out some fun stories, process reports and photos.

On to celebrating now :)

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Vote for a cool band!

Vote for New Monsoon!!
(http://myspace.com/newmonsoon) at

http://www.rollingstoneextras.com/hennessy/voting.php


Ariane

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PW gig and time change for Sunday

Good times today playing with the Palmwineboys. Thanks to all who came out on the roof top :) And I do have to say... I love MySpace - new connections, re-connections, cross-connections... I don't know how often someone said today: 'it's a small world'. no kiddin!


Re Sunday: there is a different start time than I had listed in my gigs calendar. The gig starts at 11.00
Come see some truly different and creative SOLO BASS sets. I am honored to be part of another show featuring Randy Marshall, Andres Cervantes, Dave Grossman and others.

Nomad Cafe
6500 Shattuck Ave.
Oakland, CA  94609
Tel:  (510) 595-5344
www.nomadcafe.net

Cheers and Bass
Ariane

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gig calendar

I put some dates in the MySpace calendar. Hope to see you there!

On a different note, i am just returning from a super week in Wyoming, where I taught a rock camp alongside Free/Bad Company's Simon Kirke, Banyan's Brian Jordan and Steve Bailey. I had a blast seing my good friends Andy, Jeff, Ed and the gang from last year, the kids were ROCKIN, the jams were awesome and the moose and buffalo were humungous! I love that place and the people there. jackson Hole, seems like Austria, just that everything is twenty times bigger.

Oh, and I am doing another marathon. In December.

Happiness,
Ariane

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Gig with Karneythis Friday, July 20th

Shot at 2007-07-17

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I promise....

that I will get better with these announcements...

'Nother Solo Bass night I am part of. Tomorrow, Grant and Green in SF
Here is details.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/muc/356580735.html


Come by check it out.
Groovey greetx
Ariane

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Solo Bass Night

Little late in announcing this event that I am part of. A night full of solo bass performances, this Thursday, at the Timeless Cuisine, no cover.

http://www.myspace.com/modestobassnights

I dig the whole solo bass movement here in the Bay Area. It's great to be part of it. I am doing a diverse program including a Dave Brubeck tune that I arranged for solo bass, something Celtic, one with vox, and some of my own compositions. Come on out and hear a variety of players on all sorts of basses. You'll get high from the low end, I promise :)


make it groove,
Ariane

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