Tippy Canoe's Can't Help Falling In Love With Uke Tour

Sunday, September 13th
Admission: $5, $10 minimum
Showtime: 8:30pm
reservations are recommended

Songbird and uke-slinger Tippy Canoe brings her hook-laden roots sounds to Brooklyn
also featuring New York's own Bliss Blood and Rescue Bird.

Tippy Canoe:
Originally from Baltimore and now based in sunny Oakland, songbird and solo uke-slinger, Tippy Canoe (Michele Kappel), made the switch from a 5-piece drum kit with the garage-pop princesses The Kirby Grips (Sympathy For The Record Industry), to a 4-stringed ukulele in 2003. Since then she’s been on a mission to bring sincere uplift in a severely down-slanted era by spreading her hook-laden pop-meets-roots music.

On her debut full-length album, “Parasols & Pekingese,” released in 2008 on Late Bloomers Works and recorded with her full band the Paddlemen, Tippy Canoe shows off her enchanting and dynamic sound. Her voice is a mixture of the 60's girl group sound and classic country with its own quirky nature shining through. Her song-writing highlights a variety of influences ranging from 20's and 30's acts like The Boswell Sisters and Jack Teagarden, to 50's and 60's performers like Brenda Lee and The Chiffons, and catchy post-punk bands like Squeeze and Blondie.

What makes Tippy Canoe a must see is that she's a celebration. No matter your mood, you'll walk away with a smile. It's cheaper than therapy. It's a first date. It's stag night.
_Off The Record, San Francisco Chronicle

Rescue Bird:
Rescue Bird are three lovelies named Sarah, Andrea, and Meg who like to sing and play the autoharp, accordion, glockenspiel, melodica, piano, guitar, the spoons, and mix it up with a bunch of percussive things.

Bliss Blood:
Bliss Blood is a musician and songwriter from Houston, Texas. She moved to New York City, New York in 1996. She has recorded six albums from 1988-1995 with Houston noise rock band Pain Teens. She has also appeared on recordings with groups including The Melvins, Exit-13 and Angels of Light.

Bliss Blood writes songs and plays ukulele in the 1920s jazz-themed New York City group The Moonlighters, formed in 1998. The Moonlighters have released 4 cds on their own label, Onliest Records, and toured Germany three times, in 2002, 2006 and 2007. Current lineup of the band includes actress/singer/screenwriter Cindy Ball on vocals and guitar, Mark Deffenbaugh on steel guitar, and Peter Maness on acoustic bass.

She currently leads several other New York bands, including Delta Dreambox (Mississippi and Classic blues from the 1920s to '40s), Nightcall, a “crime jazz” band also featuring Stu Spasm from Australian grunge rock band Lubricated Goat, Voodoo Suite (lounge/exotica), Cantonement Jazz Band (1920s jazz band, a piano, violin and horn section), and Here's How (1950s cool jazz).

For more information, please visit:
Rescue Bird: http://www.myspace.com/rescuebirds
Tippy Canoe: http://www.tippycanoe.net
Tippy Canoe Video: http://www.vimeo.com/2729407
Bliss Blood: http://www.blissblood.com