HM157 is over the moon that the legendary, experimental Noise- Psych guitar god of the 60′s Michael Yonkers & The Blind Shake are coming to play for us !
For a number of years… Mr. Yonkers has been recording & performing with fellow Minneap-ians… The Blind Shake.
HM157 is also very pleased to have LA’s rare bird Emily Lacy join us for this momentous occasion…
Emily Lacy is a folk and electronic sound artist generating works in music, film, and other media. She has performed in exhibitions at PS1 MOMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer Museum, the Walker Art Center, and LACMA, in addition to various DIY spaces all throughout America. She works very closely with Machine Project.
“Not much can be said about the Mistick Krewe of Clove ‘n’ Hoof, not because it lacks history, but because it is a secret society. What can be revealed is that this Los Angeles-based three-piece is composed of current and former members of the Gentle People, Pippi Eats Cherries and Haunch. The MKoCnH’s performances are noisy rites, equal parts music, moving image and accidental invocation of amazement. Initiates of these mysteries enjoy splendid visions of the unspeakable, and experience occasional levitation of their earthly vehicle. They are a cause for wonder.”
AK & Her Kalashnikovs, magician Christopher Wonder and all the way from Melbourne, Australia… The Barons of Tang!
The Barons of Tang : Melbourne’s Pioneers of Gypsy Deathcore…
It was the winter of 2007 and what had started as a “joke” between a
>>> handful of down and out Melbourne musos, quickly spiralled out of
control into the musical juggernaut known as, The Barons of Tang! Initially
rehearsing in a well-known Melbourne squat, The Barons cut their teeth
with performances for local underground theatre and circus troupes. With
a taste for travel and chaos, the Barons of Tang embarked on 2 years of
merciless touring, leaving a trail of battered and bruised dance floors
in their wake.
Lashing Tango, Rockabilly, Metal and Gypsy feels together with hard
hitting guitar riffs, double kick blast beats and massive horn
arrangements, The Barons of Tang serve up their self described ‘Gypsy
Death-core’. The catchy tunes and punk ethos all tie together to mean
one thing, dancing is inevitable!
“This is a unique and original musical ensemble. There is the diverse instrumentation –balalaikas, mandolins, tinwhistles, accordions, violins, stand up bass, a variety of guitars, percussion and a pandeira that thinks it’s a Ringling Brothers Circus. There are the Kalashnikovs, intense, virtuosic and inventive. And rhythmically tight as a drum.
The repertoire is a collection of sharp left turns and foreign tongues. From Gypsy love songs to Russian lullabies to Serbian ballads to Spanish Copla to French pop to what sounds suspiciously like rock n roll. But the heart and soul is AK herself, Alissa Kueker. Her voice is, by turns, angelic and devilish, profoundly serious and as playful as the first days of love. It’s rich rough coloratura contralto caresses and seduces and, when necessary, belts like a WWF Cage Fight. You want to hear her; you want to hear AK & The Kalashnikovs, trust me.”
Christopher Wonder lives and works as a fulltime magician, designing elegant, controlled, chaotic disasters that unfold beauty before disbelieving eyes. Wonder’s magic act springs from his delirious pleasure at one moment to his reckless anguish the next. Grotesque and silly, cruel and naive, sinister and funny, disturbing yet beautiful, Christopher Wonder is anything but cute and sugary. Wonder’s audiences have teetered between a shutter and a giggle since his first departures from reality at the age of six, when young Christopher dazzled them, armed with nothing more than his grandfather’s magic kit. A fresh-faced graduate from the Chavez school of magic in 1988, Christopher Wonder toured the United States as a school assembly performer for 6 years. Now, his scheduled departure from reality guides audiences through the dreamscape of his rat circus and the fortunes of his psychic pig , as he escapes from his predicament as a human pinata. Magic, he believes, is not about shoving a girl in a box, but about transcending dreadful situations.
A little over four years ago… HM157 was founded on the idea of propagating positive possibilities…. & here we are now… very much involved with a fantastic artistic community that spans the globe… & humbled by the acceptance of our wonderful Lincoln Heights community…
Every year… we invite beloved performers who have grown up with us & new talents that our sites have been set on… to come celebrate our good fortune. Who knew that we would be allowed to haunt the funky old mansion called Historical monument # 157 for 4 Years standing****
This year… our variety show extravaganza will be hosted by our dear friend Christof Certik and will feature tap dancing electronica extraordinaire Alexa Lipman and improvisational sketch comedy troupe Upright Citizen’s Brigade
Earthworm Ensemble is a music project for kids and parents, with some of Los Angeles’s best folk/country artists — members of I See Hawks In L.A., Mike Stinson, The Chapin Sisters, Zachariah – singing and playing fiddles, mandolins, guitars, horns, and steel.
We’re calling it family music, rather than just children’s music. We hope children and their parents can enjoy the songs together, and talk about some of the ideas in the songs.
They sing about the earthworm’s role in the plant cycle; about buffalo migration as told by a young buffalo; buying fresh corn at the farmer’s market and taking it home to cook; how to make pizza from scratch; trains, birds, walking in the woods, and a superhero team of Bear and Dog who’ve come to save the planet! You can sing along, and there’s a song to drum along with, and two lullabyes. The songs are folk, old timey, country rock, New Orleans second line, and even some funky beats.
Earthworm Ensemble was started by Shawn and Sherri Nourse and their 3 year old son Nolan (who sings about the bear and dog). Sherri’s a singer songwriter, and Shawn is one of the best drummers in Los Angeles. He played with Dwight Yoakam and plays with I See Hawks In L.A.
The Nourses were soon joined by Paul Lacques of the Hawks and his wife Victoria Jacobs, and then by other Hawks: Paul Marshall, Brantley Kearns, David Jackson, Jr. and Rob Waller.
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Gwendolyn and the Good Time Gang !
Kids’ music for all!
A smart and raucous delight, the kind of sonic adventure that ranks up there with Marlo Thomas’ classic “Free to Be You and Me,” Harry Nilsson’s “The Point” and anything from the Muppets in their heyday. ~ LOS ANGELES TIMES
The critically acclaimed debut children’s CD, “GWENDOLYN AND THE GOOD TIME GANG”won Los Angeles based songwriter Gwendolyn Sanford an ever-widening base of young fans (and their parents). It’s been reported even her sophomore holiday release “‘TIS THE SEASON TO BE ROCKIN’” enjoys year-round play! Now Gwendolyn and her band take it up a notch with “GET UP & DANCE!” an album that’s sure to rock your socks off and get your feet moving.
Songs like “Red Means Stop”, “Run Baby Run”, “Eensy Weensy Spider” and the title track “Get Up & Dance” lend a bit of friendly dance instruction to the first part of the album. The second half is rounded out with new classics like “Sunny Day” and “Sweet Marmalade”. “Bicycle Ride” act as the toddlers’ nod to Queen’s “Bicycle Race”. ”Out In My Garden” lists a myriad of fruits and vegetables and how they’re grown. The toe-tapper “I can Read” encourages listeners to pick up a book and experience a whole new world. “Ode to Pets” and “Snuggle Wuggle” – well, you can pretty much guess what they’re about! Gwendolyn’s success lies in writing songs from a child’s perspective but with the subtle wisdom of an adult.
A long-time performing artist herself, the creation of Gwendolyn And The Good Time Gang awoke in Gwendolyn a passion for inspiring, entertaining, & educating young children (she is also a Certified Children’s Yoga Instructor). With a sponsorship from First Act, the leading manufacturer of musical instruments for children, Gwendolyn hopes to inspire kids at a nearly age to pick up an instrument, create music and put on a show themselves!
A bonus: songs are performed in a manner parents can also enjoy! Whatever age you are, Gwendolyn and the Good Time Gang is sure to put a smile on your face.
3PM SHARP
Suggested Donation :
$10 Big Kids ( Age 18+ ) + $5 Little kids ( Age 3+ )
The community dinner is every other Tuesday night from 7:30-9:30 PM at HM157.
We invite doers of all persuasion to come network & walk away in cahoots*
Bring $15 to contribute to the material cost of the meal & invest in this fantastic Community Food Security project. PLEASE RSVP @ Tuesday Dinners & Beyond*, where the menu is posted Monday nights. BYOB.
Winnetka Farms spring onions photographed by David Kiang
The community dinner at HM157 is now ordering these organic, cold pressed oils in bulk: Extra virgin olive oil and sesame oil (the untoasted kind).
Everyone can share in this cost savings. Bring your empty oil pint bottle on Tuesdays for an organic oil refill at bulk price. A pint (16 oz) of organic olive oil — at-cost — is $5.00, and a pint of organic sesame oil is $3.60. We are very pleased to make this resource available to you!
Our menu this week included:
mini pizzas with spring onions and cauliflower
our classic chard salad with seeds and cranberries
This is a white pizza, with deceptively simple toppings: Vegan béchamel sauce, cauliflower, spring onions and oregano. The secret’s in the sauce, of course. It helps to have a good crust too. You can buy ready-made pizza dough, or click this recipe link for the heavenly, decadent, melt-in-your-mouth white flour pizza crust we ate this week. We generally work with whole grains unless it’s rescued or donated; in this case, the dough was leftover from an event and donated by our friend, chef instructor and baker Don W. It caused us no pain to eat this fabulous pizza crust.
Don also got us seven rescued cauliflowers. We peeled off the unpretty parts and were left with a full stockpot of diced florets.
Cauliflower - now in season
This was more than we needed for twenty 5-inch mini pizzas, so we floured and fried the rest of the cauliflower with the spices from this week’s outrageously delicious test recipe — Curried Chickpea Snack – from the Pure Vegan cookbook.
Did you see the word fried there? In one meal, we had a fried food and refined flour. It was that easy to fall from grace. So you can see we’re not rigid purists…but we promise next week we’ll be back on the wagon.
Anyway, you could make these pizzas with whole wheat flour dough – the béchamel sauce (see recipe below) is strong enough to take all comers.
Béchamel Sauce
5 cloves garlic, minced
½ c cooking oil
1 c nutritional yeast
½ c chickpea flour (or more)
3 c water
1 t salt
Heat oil over medium high flame and sauté garlic. As you stir with a whisk or wooden spoon, sprinkle in nutritional yeast one spoonful at a time, alternating with spoonfuls of chickpea flour, whisking vigorously to prevent lumps. You are making a basic roux. When the mixture gets thick, add splashes of water to thin it out again, creating a bastardized vegan version of a classic béchamel sauce. Alternate back and forth between whisking in dry and liquid ingredients, and season to taste with salt. For pizza, you want it pretty salty — like cheese. The finished béchamel should have the consistency of a pasta sauce, like marinara or alfredo.
You can refrigerate your leftover béchamel sauce and reheat it in a pan, stirring in some water, to use on future pizzas, to mix into pasta, or to pour over steamed vegetables.
Once you have your dough ready, roll twenty 5-inch rounds and place on floured cookie sheets. Top with béchamel sauce (2 T per mini pizza), cauliflower (1/3 c per mini pizza), with plenty of spring onions and oregano. Bake 15-20 minutes at 450.
Serves 20 as an appetizer.
The community dinner is every Tuesday night from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at HM157. Bring $5 to contribute to the material cost of the meal. RSVP on The Arroyo Lowdown, where the menu is posted Monday nights. BYOB.
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HM157 is a community creative collective, based in a beautiful victorian house in Lincoln Heights. We function as a music venue, gallery, live/work space, farm, and location for public and private events, film/photo shoots, cinema screenings, eco-workshops, and more. Our resident artists work tirelessly to bring the good stuff your way.
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