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MONDAY NOVEMBER 15

John Ellis Band

The Mokai Trio

CC’s Acoustic Underground Showcase (CAUSE)
Features Top-Flight Jazz in November.

John Ellis is one of jazz music's youngest rising stars. Currently, the saxophonist and reedsman in Charlie Hunter's widely celebrated trio, Ellis' compositions have become a staple of Hunter's albums and live sets. With his own group, Ellis combines his affinity for New Orleans' music (a city that he considers a second home) with the edge and urgency of modern jazz in New York City (his current home). With a full-length HYENA release entitled, "One Foot In The Swamp," coming in February 2005, featuring special guests John Scofield and Nicholas Payton, Ellis is on the verge of worldwide acclaim. The John Ellis Band is appearing at CAUSE as part of his West Coast tour this fall with a band that includes local favorite drummer Scott Amendola.

After a "jaw-dropping" solo performance in October, our resident acoustic guitar master Mokai will be showcasing his jazz tunes with his full jazz trio in November. Last July the trio packed Cafe Trieste during the North Beach Jazz Festival's" Jazz on Grant" event.

CC is a local music promoter who started the series to bring together fans of acoustic music and community organizations. For more than six months, CAUSE has been raising money for important causes while presenting quality acoustic music. Along with Sunset Promotions and the Elbo Room, CC features solo acoustic artists, acoustic bands, acapella, didgeridoo, and percussion artists on the third Monday of the month. Each month at CC's Showcase, more and more people come out to enjoy some of the Bay Area's most-loved acoustic artists, including Etienne de Rocher, Loretta Lynch, Garrin Benfield, Erika Luckett, Shelley Doty, Austin Willacy, Mokai, David Jacobs-Strain, Teja Gerken, Copper Wimmin, David Hopkins, and Rachel Garlin. Each event showcases different artists and a different cause, from expanding voter participation to protection of the environment, workers rights, and support organizations that serve the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered communities.

We will be taking a break in December, but Save the DATE: January 18, CAUSE will feature more great acoustic music, and will benefit the Solari Action Network.

Elbo Room
647 Valencia, SF, CA
(415) 552-7788

8 PM doors, music at 8:30   
$7     BUY TICKETS

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John Ellis

Mokai

THANK YOU to our SPONSOR EMB Studios. They are giving away 4 hours of studio recording time every month at CAUSE!

Each month, the audience votes on the artist to receive the studio time. So come on out and vote your favorite artist! (we count EVERY vote).

Congratulations Loretta Lynch who won the drawing for October, and Storyhill who won September's drawing.

Want to perform? Click here for info

If you want to perform at CC's Acoustic Underground Showcase the best thing you can do is support this event!

I am working to build a community of musicians and music lovers who gather once a month to celebrate the underground scene and the causes we care about. If you have submitted a CD and have not heard back, come to the next showcase and bring some friends. I am building each night as a theme around a specific cause, but I will be giving preference to those artists who become part of the scene by showing up each month and bring new people to the event.

If you have not yet done so, come to the next showcase, bring a copy of a CD that demonstrates the set you want to perform, bring a copy of your gig schedule, and bring some people to the showcase. I am working with each artist who performs as partners, so if chosen to perform, I expect each artist to devise their own strategies for getting their crowd to turn out.

A note to performers...I am especially looking for duos, acoustic bands, percussion, world-music influence, exciting and interesting eclectic instruments. The showcase is designed to bring acoustic music to the broader audience of fans of funk, jazz, world music and blues. I have limited slots for solo acoustic singer/songwriters, so if that describes you, consider putting together a duo or getting someone to back you up for this showcase and you will have a greater chance of getting booked.

Follow up within 2 weeks of giving me the info about your music
415-522-6644. or use cc at cause-music.com

thanks,

CC

PAST FEATURES AT CAUSE:

Photos by Progressive-Alliance.org
May 17, 2004                                    David Jacobs-Strain    Austin Willacy    MOKAI w/his TRIO      Brook

September 20, 2004
Sun of Mercury
Alan Tower
Mokai with Joshua Zucker (Garrin Benfield trio)

August 16, 2004
Copper Wimmin
David Hopkins
Mokai

July 19, 2004
Chris Gallagher
Mokai
Mica Lee Williams
Mary Elizabeth Beckman

June 21, 2004
Garrin Benfield
Erika Luckett
Inka
Mokai
Green and Root

April 26, 2004
Shelley Doty
Eileen Hazel
MOKAI w/his TRIO
+ DJ Romanowski

MARCH 15, 2004
Teja Gerken
Rachel Garlin
Mia Mustari
Mokai and his trio

Last year, CC started the series at Mad Dog in the Fog, and featured AJ Roach, Austin Willacy, Alexis Harte, Vanessa Lowe, Inka, Arin Simonian, and MarQue alongside Mia Mustari and Mokai.
Click here to view pix from the 2003 showcase