Skankin' Foolz Unite!
One day only!
Sunday, April 22, 2018
Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center
1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA
Early show!
The Recyclists play at 3:30 PM
The UPTONES hit at 5PM
Skank Bank closes the show at 6:45
This show is most definitely for ALL Ages, so bring the fam!
Advance tickets recommended, get ’em here.
Limited number of family-of-4 ticket bundles available for $40.
Pop in at the FB event page and share it up.
Poster art by The Rev. Paul Jackson
See ya there!
We got this sweet letter in the mail from the North Bay Fire Relief fund folks. It’s great to see they raised so much money for this cause, and we are glad to have played a small part with the help of our friends and fans and fam’s. Passing this along to everyone who made it happen! Thank you.
Here’s my blog post from earlier with a little more info about the event and peeps involved:
http://ericdin.com/uptones-and-friends-north-bay-fire-relief-benefit-follow-up/
Let’s see, what else? We’re gonna play again April 22. More on that here:
https://uptones.com/we-are-listening/
Thanks from all of us!
Eric
Ladies and Gents, THANK YOU for your kind thoughts on the Interwebs, regarding our Nov. 5 fire benefit gig. Truth is, we didn’t know if we were gonna play again. Our last gig was about four years ago. That’s a long time no skanking! Well there were kids and teens and moms and pops all dancing and having a ball at this last event, including some of the Uptones’ own lads and lasses, and it was just a great family vibe. Hearing your feedback via emails and socialnets motivated us to do another show, in…. LESS THAN FOUR YEARS! LOL yes. Drum roll please..
The UPTONES are playing an early, All-Ages dance concert on Sunday, April 22nd, at the Ashkenaz. Here’s the Event Page with ticket links etc.
Here’s a show poster designed by our very own The Rev. Paul Jackson
Joining us on the bill again are The Recyclists, who played a marvelous set before us in November,
aaaaaaand, YOU! Bring the fam for Earth Day! Tickets available soon, and we’ll make an event page,
as suggested by Linda on our FB page. Stay tuned, and get your dancing shoes out da closet! 🙂
-Eric, Bennie, Paul, Moose, Mikey, Jeanne, Adam and Jay
*****UPDATE, Feb 20! Here’s the event page w/ ticket links etc.
An Uptones Valentines post? Sure, why not! We don’t have many love songs, do we? Usually more political and sometimes eccentric in our song lyrics, we only have a few tunes in our skatalog about affaires d’amour. This one is most definitely a love song. Penned by Musashi “Moose” Lethridge just before he joined The Uptones, “East Of The Pond” is the first Moose original we recorded, and it is on our Skankin’ Foolz Unite! album. Included also here is Charles Stella’s epic dub mix of the song. Charles (AKA Professor Dub) was a founding member of The Uptones on guitar and vocals, and Moose stepped in when Charles moved on. There’s a lot of love in these tracks and so of course we’re posting them on St. Skalentines Day! The song is more reggae / lovers rock than ska. Enjoy with chocolates and champagne or whatever libations you may share with your honey. Our gift to you! With great heaping helpings of Uptones love!
East Of The Pond
East Of The Pond Dub
We took this just before hitting the stage at Ashkenaz two weeks ago today. The Rev. Paul Jackson (seen here in full Ska Cowboy regalia) herded the cats, and our friend Andrew Dreskin snapped the shutter. More news coming soon! Join our email list and you’ll be the 1st to know what’s next in Uptones-land.
Click here to download a great big hi-res file for print
