Rogue Report 3

Rogue Report 4

Volume 1, Issue 4

March 1, 2003

the 2003 Rogue

“muse” provided

by Fresno artist

Daniel Ball.

Think About It…

2 VENUES

5 DAYS

24 COMPANIES & PERFORMERS

60 PEFORMANCES

ROGUE PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL 2003 (or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Something That Might Bomb)

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Okay, I’m supposed to write something here. It’s 2:45 in the friggin’ morning. I’ve been at the café since 2:00 yesterday afternoon and I’m supposed to be creative and interesting? i can’t even find the key that upper-cases stuff. I’m tired. But it was a good night. Tim Hernandez sold out the house and rocked big time. The Ananka dance company had to turn people away. This is a first for us as a festival. We had a goodly amount of people show for last year’s festival, but we never ran out of tickets or seats. This year, on the first night, we couldn’t accommodate the influx. This bodes well, I hope. I don’t think we’ll know for sure until after today, but I can only hope for another night of very short sleep…I take that back. I want sleep. I’ve not had enough of it these past two weeks, trying to pull this thing together. You all go away. You come to this festival and make it a success and I don’t get to sleep. Stop it… Wow, I just realized that my computer is capitalizing everything for me. That’s kind of cool, except it defeats everything I stand for as an e.e.cummings fan. And it makes me feel obsolete before my time. Well, read on and see a show. What the hell, they’re cheap and so are some of the entertainers.

February 28, March 1, 2, 7 and 8

CORRECTION!!!

On Saturday, March 1^st, Tanjora Tribal Fusion Bellydance will perform at the Café venue at 9:30 p.m. and George Rotalo will perform at 10:30 p.m. The Rogue Maps have their times switched. We are very sorry for any confusion this may have caused.

Important Reminder! All shows at the Starline are a maximum of one hour in length (except the late night slots). All shows at Veni Vidi Vici’s are a maximum of 40 minutes

REMEMBER! BE ON TIME. DOORS CLOSE WHEN SHOW STARTS!

Oh no oh no oh no!!!!!!!! It’s here, it’s already here…um, I mean: Finally, at long last it’s here. Heh. The festival that killed the video star. The festival that wasn’t there the night Chicago died (I’ve always wondered if that song referred to the city or the band). The festival that got the mayor to sit up and say “Who are you and what are your ransom demands and is there a part for me?” (really, he didn’t say that. I’m just reading between the lines). We are the festival with the hippest t-shirts, the coolest venues and the sickest artists (take that how you will). The 2^nd Annual Rogue Performance Festival opens this evening. Turn the page over for tonight’s acts or go home and log on to our website (located above) for the full schedule.

So, You Wanna Be A Reviewer? Huh? Do Ya? Check out our website where you can click on shows and write your own review. This is such a cool, new facet of our site that some people aren’t even waiting for the festival to start before leaving their impressions…

ROGUE MAPS

Rogue Maps are available at the Starline, Veni Vidi Vici’s, Livingstone’s, the Landmark and the Revue. These maps will clue you in on who is playing, where and when. You can, also, make hats and brooches out of them.

LATE NIGHT SLOTS ADDED!!!!!!

(All 3 shows begin at 11:30 p.m.)

At The Starline!!!!!

February 28:

GYPSY CAB

March 1:

WADDAMA

March 7:

THE SLEEPOVER DISASTER

3 very disturbingly talented bands.

3 deservedly disturbing slots.

ROGUE 2003 SHOWS & COMPANIES or PERFORMERS

In Search of The American Bellydancer The Ananka Dance Company (Fresno, CA)

Beyond The Moon, The Music Of Lucia Pamela Mallory Moad's Daredevil Kitchen (Fresno, CA)

Grant Why Knot Theatre Company ( Spearfish, South Dakota)

Cruz (Incident at Labor Camp 12)

Teatro De La Tierra (Fresno, CA)

Death, Divorce and Sex in a Sleeping Bag Jade Ed Gypsy Productions (Fresno, CA)

An Evening with Dexter the Magician

Magic of Dexter Productions

Pandermonium: Green Card Envy

Theatre J'Nerique (Fresno, CA)

Film (to be announced)

Fresno Film Works (Fresno, CA)

Theremin + Chant + Belly Dance = POP? Blake Jones & His Trike Shop Cohorts (Kingsburg, CA)

Bradley (Dudeboy) Rogers (Fresno, CA)

Candistan Jay Martin (San Francisco, CA)

Live And Alone Jose DeLoza (Fresno, CA)

Ken Fritz- Piano Solo Ken Fritz (Fresno, CA)

Tanjora Tribal Fusion Bellydance (Fresno, CA)

An Unplugged Variation & Seventh Triangle Lou Standifer (Fresno, CA)

Merlinda Espinosa (Fresno, CA

SKIN TAX: Diaries of a Macho

Tim Z. Hernandez (Fresno, CA)

Mike Newton and Tim Catching (Fresno, CA )

Songs From My Livingroom Leland Vander Poel (Fresno, CA)

George Rotalo (Fresno, CA)

Canciones del Corazon New World (Fresno, CA)

Desiree Astorino (Fresno, CA)

The Songs The Beatles, Neil Young and Donovan didn't Write!

The Sage Magellan Band (Fresno, CA)

Rogue Schedule for Friday, Feb. 28, 2003

ROGUE MAINSTAGE @ STARLINE

833 Fern

Friday, February 28, 2003

Times

Title & Company/Performer

Style & Cost

7:00 PM

IN SEARCH OF THE AMERICAN

BELLYDANCER

The Ananka Dance Company (Fresno, CA)

dance

$5

8:30 PM

BEYOND THE MOON:

THE MUSIC OF LUCIA PAMELA

Daredevil Kitchen Productions (Fresno, CA)

revue

$5

10:00 PM

CRUZ:I NCI DENT AT LABOR CAMP 12

Teatro De La Tierra (Fresno, CA)

play

$5

11:30 PM

GYPSY CAB

cheap

ROGUE CAFE @ VENI VIDI VICI 1116 Fulton Friday, February 28, 2003
Times	Title & Company/Performer	Style & Cost
7:30 PM	THE SONGS THE BEATLES, NEIL YOUNG AND DONOVAN DIDN'T WRITE! The Sage Magellan Band (Fresno, CA)	music $3
8:30 PM	AN UNPLUGGED VARIATION- ACOUSTIC PIANO AND VOCALS Lou Standifer and Eric Wagner (Fresno, CA)	music $3
9:30 PM	SKIN TAX: DIARIES OF A MACHO Tim Z. Hernandez (Fresno, CA	solo play $3
10:30 PM	DESIREE ASTORINO Desiree Astorino (Fresno, CA)	Music $3

BRADLEY “DUDEBOY” ROGERS The roots of Cosmic Americana begin on the plains of the United States. The American Cowboy firmly planted in his boots and his sombrero kicked back on his head, firmly strumming his six string Spanish guitar found that singing would quiet the cows at night (and sometimes the sheep). Using Celtic melodies the Cowboy would write songs about his life wrangling cows. Over the years the descendents of these cowboys shaped the music to a “ mind expanding” experience called Cosmic Americana. For a modern example of Cosmic Americana music check out Bradley “Dudeboy” Rogers’ performances at the Rogue Festival.

DESIREE ASTORINO

THIS IS THE WOMAN THE SIRENS WANTED TO BE

Desiree has been singing Jazz and Blues for over 20 years.

She founded, managed and was the lead vocalist for the band, Blue Divas.

This performance will include traditional Blues (Willie Dixon, Bukka White,

Memphis Minnie) and Jazz standards (Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk) and

original material

And this sultry voiced vodka sliced chick will be crooning and beguiling the innocent and unsuspecting today at 5:30 p.m. at veni vidi vici’s on the back patio. Check her out. If she sings ‘my funny valentine’ again, I may have to start blubbering on the nearest shirt sleeve. She’s that good. Actually, she’s better. She’s got chops, folks. This is crooning jazz at its finest. And she’ll be performing with Mike Newton. Before that action, check out Bradley rogers and his “y’alternative’ brand of country roots music and Mike Newton and Tim Catchings playing Hawaiian music that Don Ho never dreamed of of. All of this is at the café at Veni Vidi Vici’s. but don’t forget the Starline. Plenty of stuff going on there, too. Pandermonium, where someone just might get shot. ‘Death, Divorce, and Sex in a Sleeping Bag’ where someone just might get a shot. Hell, I’m going to sleep now. Y’all come on down now and visit. Y’hear? This is the event that is confounding all of the experts. And us.

BLAKE JONES

(editor’s note: this is as much of an interview as I could fit for blake jones, who appears on the café stage march 1 at 8:30 p.m. and march 2 at 3:30 p.m. he is a bit weird and long winded when given unfettered access to a keyboard)

Skin Diver: I’ve heard that many of your songs make references to some of eccentricities in the migration patterns of Pacific Sea Turtles. Is this a common theme in today’s music culture?
Jones: Well…, and this is not to say that I never will, I think I’ve never knowingly written a song about turtles.
S.D.: But what about this lyric here; “ein stuck kuchen, bitte”…does this not refer to the difficulties of one turtle communicating to another, what with military submarines using subsonic frequencies and all?
Jones: Actually, that quote translates to “a piece of cake, please” and might be what you would say to a german water if you wished for some desert. But, I suppose, if one of the turtles spoke German, and the other didn’t….
S.D.: hmmm, well what is all this I hear about your songs actually, when taken on a whole, describing so perfectly the economic conditions existing in the South Seas that drive the over-fishing of certain species like the Pacific Sea Turtle.
Jones: Well, I think the word ‘cake’ shows up in my songs more than the word ‘turtle’…but maybe that’s because it’s so much easier to rhyme.