PICKLED OKRA

Nancy Guppy joins New Day Producers to talk about stuff to do in the new year and GUESS WHO SHE SAID TO GO SEE?

See the article here...  http://www.king5.com/new-day-northwest/Nancy-Guppys-Weekend-Zone-for-the-New-Year-137188378.html

Local Blogger Kirby Lindsay wrote about our CD Release Party at the Gypsy...
by Kirby Lindsay, posted 9 January 2012

On Saturday, January 14th, at Gypsy Music Café, local band Pickled Okra will perform, with The Weavils, and distribute copies of their new CD – Sounds Like Chicken, free with purchase of admission ($12 advance/$15 door.) Seating will start at 7p.

“We want it to be a party for our friends,” explained Todd Gray, who leads Pickled Okra with his wife, Paisley Gray. “We think of [the Gypsy] as our living room,” he said. What better way to celebrate the second CD by this ‘untraditional bluegrass’ band than with a party that also kicks-off their West Coast tour (in February.)

An Original Album By An Original Band

Pickled Okra actually recorded a first album a few years ago, the Grays explained, but it started as a demo, with Todd Gray on mandolin, Paisley Gray on bass and Tony Markey on banjo, performing covers of known songs.

On Sounds Like Chicken (recorded in Fremont at Mad Pants Productions,) the band will release 12 original works – each written by members of the band. Paisley Gray contributed a few of the songs, but she applauded the major contributions by her husband. “Todd’s a really awesome song-writer,” she praised, and he wrote most of them while he worked, at sea, for three months in early 2011 as a Department of Fisheries observer. “Next time we need to write an album,” he said, “I’ll go out again.”

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We had a really great time today visiting with Scott Farley from KBCS on his cool show "The Outskirts". We played our new song "My Friend Bill" for the first time ever (live - hmm not sure why I thought that'd be a good idea)

We were out and about promoting the Pike Market Busker Festival...

Here is a link to the archive (although I couldn't figure out how to play it). http://kbcsweb.bellevuecollege.edu/playlist/archive/?ShowID=21091

Pickled Okra was interviewed on the Bob Rivers show 7-27-2011 --catch it here
http://www.bobrivers.com/

Local Blogger Kirby Lindsay wrote about our jam at the Gypsy...

by Kirby Lindsay, posted 25 May 2011
Fremont has always had a great selection of live music venues, but few currently compare in the eclecticism of the acts – and the audience – to Gypsy Music Café. Ben Steele, who owns the café with his wife, Debbie Steele, compared his space to “hanging out in your friends’ basement.” The family-friendly, all ages venue does feel like a laid-back rec room, one with drinks and eats prepared by someone else, and some of the fellow guests have talent.

Guests like those hanging out on Friday, May 27th, for the monthly ‘Who Shot J.R.?’ comedy show, organized by J.R. Berard. Or on Saturday, May 28th, starting at 8p, when the bands Blvd Park, Gravedigger and Drew Piston drop-by for the Folklife after-party.

A family that plays together... Lucas Stewart (standing) jams with his mother, Mimi Stewart, at the Gypsy Music Cafe as his Mother's Day gift. Photo by K. Lindsay

Each month the space also accommodates a bluegrass jam session (Gypsy Jamboreeno,) square dancing, open mic nights with Linda Lee, Cajun night, Americana night, indie rock from the Wandering Infinity Collective, and free music workshops organized by Peter Tilson.

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