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Saturday May 3rd - the Oregon Country Fair's Spring Fling   

This annual event is where the Fair unveils this year's Poster as well as much of the entertainment planned for the upcoming Essential Event (July 11, 12, 13).  The evening's entertainment will be provided by Queen Accordionna and the Accordion-Oke! Band (Ken, Bud, Skip & David L) - and fronted by, guess who?
YOU !!! because we will be playing ACCORDION-OKE! the newest Rage sweeping the Northwest -- where YOU get to be the Star!!!

Location:  WOW Hall - 8th & Lincoln 7 PM
 

The Annual SLUG Queen Competition and Coronation promises to be SLIMY
WANNA BE A SLUG QUEEN?   Contact Kim @ 686-8885 for an application

Current Offerings

Accordion-Oke!       The Newest Rage Sweeping the Northwest

The Butter Battle       On the last day of summer, ten hours before fall ...

Drunk Puppet Night!
 

QA's HerStory

Dec  2007	Accordion-Oke! at the WOW Hall for the first time in Herstory!
Oct 2007	QA returns Home to Nelson, British Columbia to play at the last Saturday Market of 2007 with Kat McGrath and Heavy Shtetl
Oct 2007	PQA and the All-Women Krew of the Humble Pirate Ship Glory perform and parade in the Port Townsend Kinetic Sculpture Race
Sep 2007	Herstoric SLUG Queen exhibit at the Eugene Public Library - SIX (6 - Count 'Em) Phabulous Glass Display Cases full of Slimy SLUG Queen Memorabilia for each Raining Queen from 1983 thru 2007!!!!   Too Much! (NOT)
Aug 2007	SLUG Queens' Silver Jubilee!     http://www.greensiren.com/SLUG/SLUGSilverJubilee.pdf
July 2007	Pirate Queen Accordionna allies musically with the Humble Pirate Ship Glory at the DaVinciDays Kinetic Challenge
July 2007	Accordion-Oke! at the Oregon Country Fair !  Favorite Oke! Moment: Beth singing 'Jumping Jack Flash'  while she Hula Hooped
April 2007	4rd Drunk Puppet Night! @ the Vets Club   with all new shows & the best Drunk Puppet Band yet.  An artistically acclaimed success !
Oct  2006	QA & other SLUG Queens appear onstage at the Eugene Weekly's "Best of Eugene" Academy Award Style Extravaganza
Sep  2006	TfoF presented "Blow Ye Winds" at the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival - WOW!
Aug 2006	QA functioned as the House Band for the SLUG Queen Coronation with the help of Meg Graf on Sax - all Hail Queen Slugretha !
Aug  2006	Trunkful of Faces presented Sailors Night Out!a free Nautically-Themed family-style Variety Show @ Fern Ridge Lake
Jul  2006	Music for TrunkFul of Faces 'Blow Ye Winds' at the Oregon Country Fair
Jun  2006	Accordions Night Out! @ Scobert Park - Double Bill with Accordions Anonymous and Accordion-Oke!
Apr  2006	3rd Drunk Puppet Night! @ the Vets Club   -  emcee'd by Herr Doktor (Adam Gothwaite)
Jan 2006	Polka Bowling Night! with Accordions Anonymous - the best one yet!
Aug 2005	Teddy Bear's Picnic @ the Oregon Country Fair with QA's Motown & Soul Revue
Aug 2005	People Powered Fridays early morning music lands QA and TK a  cover photo in Oregon Cycling Magazine!!!
Aug 2005	Scobert Park - QA's Motown and Soul Revue featuring TK McDonald
July 2005	Musician for DanceAbility with Alito Alessi, Downtown Eugene
July 2005	Musikal Pit Krew, Da Vinci Days Kinetic Sculpture Race
July 2005	Oregon Country Fair with Trunkful of Faces' "The Sky is Falling!"
April 2005	Opening Day at the  Saturday Market with Accordions Anonymous !
April 2005	2nd Drunk Puppet Night! @ Sam Bond's Garage - music by QA & DPBand
Mar 2005	Accordions Anonymous opened for THOSE DARN ACCORDIONS!!!! WOW! Eugene
Jan 2005	Trunkful of Faces performed the Idiot Savant of Love at Drunk Puppet Night! at The Re-Bar in downtown Seattle
Jan 2005	Polka Bowling Night! another sold-out polkarama!!!  Hosted by Accordions Anonymous
12/31/04	"Last Night" -  New Years Eve Extravaganza with Brazilian and middle eastern music and dance -  EmCeed by QA with more costume changes than a 70's Cher TV show!!!!
Oct 2004	Visiting inDignitary and Musikal Cheerleader: The Great Port Townsend Bay Kinetic Sculpture Race, Port Townsend WA
Sept 2004	House Band Leader for SLUG Queen competition (Winner:  Queen Scarlett O'Slimera!)
Aug 2004	Interview and performance on Mad for Trad - Kootenay Coop Radio, Nelson, B.C.
July 2004	Musikal Pit Krew Bandleader:   Da Vinci Days, Kinetic Sculpture Race;
May 2004	FOOD for Lane County Empty Bowls Family Event, music and Queenly Presence by QA
April 2004	Drunk Puppet Night!  (Adult Content Puppetry) -  Musikal Director
Jan 2004	Polka Bowling Night! was a raging success!!!  Hosted by Accordions Anonymous
Dec 2003	QA plays accordion for Christmas Carolers protesting anti-free-speech city ordinance.
Sept 2003	EmCee - SLUG Queen competition and coronation (Winner:  Queen Inspira Gastropodium!)
Sept 2003	Eugene Celebration Parade WINNER Judges Choice Award (1st Prize) with the Maltese Fulcrum and Accordions Anonymous
Jul/Aug 03	People-Powered-Fridays with The Maltese Fulrum on the De Fazio Bike Bridge in August!
July 2003	World Premiere of Exodus 2003: The Lost Tribe of Accordion
July 2003	Oregon Country Fair Main Stage with I'Chele and the Circle of Light
April 2003	April Fools' Throne Room Celebration at the Eugene Public Library with Slug Queen Radia
Jan 2003	Queen Acccordionna interview and performances on Kootenay Coop Radio
Jan 2003	QA Wins a Prize @ the Queens' Hotel Gong Show, Nelson BC!!!
Aug 2002	Royal Wedding featuring QA, the Royal Consort and the Summer of Love
July 2002	Da Vinci Days, Kinetic Sculpture Races; Accordions in the Mud Bog!  Corvallis OR
June 2002	AA conquers Portland via the STARLIGHT PARADE!!! with Miss Cybelvis Monroe atop the Maltese Fulcrum ... Portland Rose Festival
Nov  2001	Queen Accordionna and AA members interviewed by Fred McAuley on BBC Scotland!!!
Oct 2001	Oct 2,  2001 (10022001) Day 1 of the New Accordionnic Millenium
July 2001	WINNER - Pageantry Award at the Da Vinci Days Kinetic Sculpture Race with the Maltese Fulcrum and Accordions Anonymous
July 2001	Oregon Country Fair Main Stage:  Queen Accordionna and Royal Band, Veneta OR
April 2001	Judge for  "The Funniest Person in Eugene" Comedy Competition - Actor's Cabaret, Eugene OR
Fall 2000	Original painting by QA is auctioned off to benefit Willamette Repertory Theatre along with paintings by Mason Williams, Rep. Peter DeFazio, the notorious Jody Runge and other local celebrities!
Sept 2000	Herstoric alliance begins with Admiral Phunn and the Maltese Phulcrum when it is provided as QA's Human Powered Parade Vehicle in the SLUG Queen float at the Eugene Celebration
Aug 2000	Queen Accordionna is crowned First SLUG Queen of the New Millenium!!! with the help of her Royal All-Accordion (plus Tuba) Court and the by the grace of the Old Queens
July 1999	Pre-QA performance in the Midnight Show @ the Oregon Country Fair.  Additional daytime performances (the Butter Battle and music).
May 1998	Accordions Anonymous first meeting at the Willamette Valley Folk Festival.
Jul 1997	Guest player with the Zen Trixters for their first appearance at the Oregon Country Fair
Jul 1997	EmCee of the Rebo Gazebo at the Oregon Country Fair - newly dedicated to the memory of fair departed friend Rebo of Stage Left.
Jul 1996	One-woman-all-accordion orchestra providing accompaniment and effects for Reverend Chumleigh at the Oregon Country Fair
1990's	Keyboardist, arranger and singer with Band of Gold, an all-female tribute band that doubled as the backup band for various R&B artists including The Jive Five, the Chords, the Kodaks, the Orioles, The Shells and many more... based out of New York City.  Our lead singer was Marci Geller.
1980's	Keyboard player for The Pilots aka Mel's House of Music, led by Brad Jacks of the famous JACKS family (Terry Jacks, Susan Jacks, Craig, Scott)  Great original band, received some attention and airplay on Canada's MuchMusic channel.  I still play some of the songs.