We're in the recording studio laying down 4-7 of our best songs, including: Novocaine, Sweet Apparition, Tattered Suitcase, Hard Line, Plenty Fresh, and a few others.
Hope to have something available for your listening and promotional pleasure--if not for purchase--in the next few weeks. Not in time for the holidays, I'm afraid, but what a great way to celebrate the new year!
Let's blaze a path into 2010 with our mics on and our amps up! Have a rockin' holiday, my friends, and we'll see you soon.
Million Star Hotel is in the Recording Studio
Saturday - DECEMBER 12 - Music at Oakland Craft's Fair
SATURDAY * DECEMBER 12 * 11 AM to 6 PM
WINTER CRAFTS FAIR AT THE SPACE (at Laurel Jujitsu)
IN OAKLAND'S LAUREL DISTRICT
4148 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94619
(2 blocks north of High Street, across the street from the newly opened and highly acclaimed Laurellino's Tratorria.
(MacArthur Blvd. between 35th Ave. and High Street, just off Interstate 580)
Featuring the music, art and hand made craft work of friends and neighbors of the district.
Ten artists will display and sell their work at The Space just in time for holiday gift giving, and eight musicians will offer their CDs for sale. One of these musicians is me :) I'll be staffing the music booth from 11-noon, as well, so come on out and support independent women musicians and artists!
Many of the artists and musicians (including me) are contributing one beautiful object or music CD to benefit Meals For Reals, a food gift-card project for Alameda's lesbian women who need food support. Tarot card reader Ardys DeLu and roving recorder-playing minstrel Mary Nordseth will add to the festive atmosphere.
See you there ~
WINTER CRAFTS FAIR AT THE SPACE (at Laurel Jujitsu)
IN OAKLAND'S LAUREL DISTRICT
4148 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94619
(2 blocks north of High Street, across the street from the newly opened and highly acclaimed Laurellino's Tratorria.
(MacArthur Blvd. between 35th Ave. and High Street, just off Interstate 580)
Featuring the music, art and hand made craft work of friends and neighbors of the district.
Ten artists will display and sell their work at The Space just in time for holiday gift giving, and eight musicians will offer their CDs for sale. One of these musicians is me :) I'll be staffing the music booth from 11-noon, as well, so come on out and support independent women musicians and artists!
Many of the artists and musicians (including me) are contributing one beautiful object or music CD to benefit Meals For Reals, a food gift-card project for Alameda's lesbian women who need food support. Tarot card reader Ardys DeLu and roving recorder-playing minstrel Mary Nordseth will add to the festive atmosphere.
See you there ~
Million Star Hotel & Meme Rocked the Ivy Room
Thanks to Meme and everyone who helped make our Wednesday night gig such a great musical success! We nailed it and had a blast. Future gigs will be announced here and hopefully on a soon-to-be-available Million Star Hotel website. Stay tuned. If you'd like to join the emailing list, please drop me an email at thefirstgriffin (at) gmail.com. Photos coming soon :)
Supporting a Good Cause
This year I may perform, as well as walk, in the Out of the Darkness Community Walk in Oakland, CA on October 24, to raise much-needed funds for the American Society for Suicide Prevention.
It's the first walk on our side of the bridge - hurray! It's also starting at 6 o'clock in the morning (!) So we'll see if my hands and voice will work at that ungodly hour outside where it inevitably will be cold and foggy. But a very small price to pay to save lives by creating awareness about depression and suicide prevention and providing support for new research to end the stigma surrounding any type of so-called mental illness.
Would you like to walk with me? (Hey, I made it sound like a summertime beach party, didn't I?) If not, you can walk with me in spirit by making a donation to help others.
To join me on the walk, click here for details.
To walk with me in spirit by making a donation, click here for details.
Battling depression, myself, I count myself as one of the few lucky ones who connected with experienced professionals able help and to hold the hope for me when I couldn't do it myself. Too many other people, especially teenagers, are not that lucky. But they should be - and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is the organization to do it. That's why I support them.
I may be putting together a rare solo gig soon, as well. Not at 6 o'clock in the morning ;) Stay tuned.
It's the first walk on our side of the bridge - hurray! It's also starting at 6 o'clock in the morning (!) So we'll see if my hands and voice will work at that ungodly hour outside where it inevitably will be cold and foggy. But a very small price to pay to save lives by creating awareness about depression and suicide prevention and providing support for new research to end the stigma surrounding any type of so-called mental illness.
Would you like to walk with me? (Hey, I made it sound like a summertime beach party, didn't I?) If not, you can walk with me in spirit by making a donation to help others.
To join me on the walk, click here for details.
To walk with me in spirit by making a donation, click here for details.
Battling depression, myself, I count myself as one of the few lucky ones who connected with experienced professionals able help and to hold the hope for me when I couldn't do it myself. Too many other people, especially teenagers, are not that lucky. But they should be - and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is the organization to do it. That's why I support them.
I may be putting together a rare solo gig soon, as well. Not at 6 o'clock in the morning ;) Stay tuned.
Gigs Gigs Gigs
At last our band, Million Star Hotel, is hitting the clubs this month and next. Both gigs are Wednesday nights, but the early slot, 9-10 PM, so you can party with us and still be in bed by 10:30, rested for work the next day. Got kids? Me too. But you'll only need a sitter from 8:30 to 10:30 PM. Not bad, aye? :)
Details:
WED * SEPTEMBER 30 * 9-9:45 PM
The Stork Club in Oakland
2330 Telegraph Ave
Oakland, CA 94612-2421
(510) 444-6174
Just a block and a 1/2 from the 12th street BART station.
WED * OCTOBER 14 * Ivy Room
Kingman’s Ivy Room
860 San Pablo Avenue
Albany, CA 94706
That's it for the moment. More dates coming soon.
WHO WE ARE:
Alex Corey - songwriter, composer, keys
Mitchelle Tanner - Vocals, acoustic guitar
Marc Schneider - Drums
Greg Shell - Bass
Jeremy Walker - Electric guitar
The boys and I are thrilled to give you Million Star Hotel, live at last. Photos coming soon.
Be sure to come up and say hello and join us for a toast at our table after the gig, if you can hang out a bit.
Details:
WED * SEPTEMBER 30 * 9-9:45 PM
The Stork Club in Oakland
2330 Telegraph Ave
Oakland, CA 94612-2421
(510) 444-6174
Just a block and a 1/2 from the 12th street BART station.
WED * OCTOBER 14 * Ivy Room
Kingman’s Ivy Room
860 San Pablo Avenue
Albany, CA 94706
That's it for the moment. More dates coming soon.
WHO WE ARE:
Alex Corey - songwriter, composer, keys
Mitchelle Tanner - Vocals, acoustic guitar
Marc Schneider - Drums
Greg Shell - Bass
Jeremy Walker - Electric guitar
The boys and I are thrilled to give you Million Star Hotel, live at last. Photos coming soon.
Be sure to come up and say hello and join us for a toast at our table after the gig, if you can hang out a bit.