Picaflor Blog
Upcoming Music Shows!
March 6- Uncle Daddy & the Kissing Cousins, Company of Ghosts, Walk from the Gallows
Here is a preview of Uncle Daddy & the Kissin Cousins
March 13th- Jed Drummond, Emily Kate Boyd, Richard Solomon
March 20th- Private Party
March 26th- Benefit Show for Mint Gallery
April 10th- Tom Cheshire’s Annual Tiki Party w The Only Sons, Los Buenos, The Great Crowd
April 23rd- Oryx and Crake, Dare Dukes
May 7th- Benefit for Autism - West End Motel and more
March 8th- Private Party
June 7th- Taylor Hollingsworth, Efren
Picaflor Presents: Now See This!
Painter/Carpenter Chris Bell is one of 5 local Atlanta artists showing at Picaflor on March 6th. A SCAD graduate, Bell makes use of his technical training in truly unique and organic mediums.
Untitled by Chris Bell
Feb 3 - Picaflor sponsors Benefit for Haiti at The Earl
Driven by a desire to help in some way, however big or small, with the current crisis in Haiti, Grand Prize Winners from Last Year, Los Buenos, and Book of Colors will perform a benefit show at the EARL February 03, with all proceeds going to the Atlanta-based CARE International and their relief efforts in Haiti.
“None of us have much money and we realized any donation we made personally would be minor and might not make much of a difference,” said Justin Sias, singer and bassist for Los Buenos and a co-organizer of the event. “We wanted to help give East Atlanta and the folks in our small scene a chance to get involved in helping those whose lives have been devastated by the massive earthquake, and all the small ones that have followed, in Haiti.”
A global humanitarian nonprofit, CARE International is dedicated to fighting issues surrounding poverty.
“CARE came to our attention because they are an amazing international group based right here in Atlanta and has been helping impoverished nations and people for years,” Sias said. “They’ve been there for Haitians since the earthquake hit, and we want to support them however we can.”
Aqiyl Thomas will DJ, and there will be an auction of arts and services at the event, including original art by the infamous Gutterpop and photography services from XXX. Pine Magazine, See Through Souls, Picaflor Studio, Containment Theory Records and the Moon and Pluto are among the many sponsors of this worthy event.
“We’re hoping that everyone can make it out and bring a friend ’cause these folks need our help,” said Believe, a member of the Grand Prize Winners from Last Year and a co-organizer of the event. “Help us make this an amazing event.”
Advance tickets are on sale now for $5, and will be $7 the day of show. Go to www.badearl.com to learn more about the show, and learn more about CARE at care.org.
What: Benefit show for Haiti relief through CARE International featuring Los Buenos, Grand Prize Winners from Last Year and Book of Colors
Where: The EARL, 488 Flat Shoals Ave SE, Atlanta, GA 30316
When: Wednesday, February 3, at 9:30 p.m.
How much: $5 before the show, $7 the day of the show
More details: There will be an art auction and raffle, with all proceeds going to CARE Intl. Pine Magazine, See Through Souls, Picaflor Studio, Containment Theory Records, the Moon and Pluto, Gutterpop, ISP, Dry Ink, are helping sponsor the event.
Jan 29 - Pine Magazine Presents a Photography Exhibit with Alana Goldstein, Dave Batterman, Karen Shacham - music by today the moon tomorrow the sun, club awesome, this piano plays itself,
Photographers Alana Goldstein, Karen Shacham, David Batterman and bands Today The Moon Tomorrow The Sun, Club Awesome, This Piano Plays Itself
Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll, by David Kirby.
Book review by Justin Brooke
Kirby's enthusiasm for Little Richard can be found in this fun biography
In the introduction to his new Little Richard biography, poet David Kirby lets us know right off what kind of book this is going to be, declaring: “If this book were a car, it’d be a hooptie — an Oldsmobile 88, say.”
Kirby proceeds to take us on a fast and bumpy (yet stylin’) ride through the mad career of The Georgia Peach himself: Richard Wayne Penniman. Along the way we’re treated to Kirby’s witty, poetical musings on pop music, the 1950s, the “Old, Weird America”, Gay Macon, and the occasional Chuck Berry zinger. In fact Kirby drives us right into the heart — I mean the birth — of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Strangely, it’s not so much the biography of a man, but the biography of a song. “Tutti Frutti” was Richard’s breakout 1955 single. It must have horrified people when it first erupted from A.M. radios. Kirby asks: how exactly did a song like that come to be?
He begins with Richard’s magical incantation: A wop-bop-a-loo-mop-a lop-bam-boom, a phrase born in the dish pit of the Macon Greyhound Station, where young Richard used it as a way to curse out his boss. We see it evolve from there into a bar song about anal sex, and then (as Kirby claims) into the world’s first Rock ’n’ Roll song.
Try as he might, Kirby is never able to nail down an interview with The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll himself. The closest he gets is a phone conversation with the man at the home of Willie Ruth Howard, Richard’s cousin. Here, in a hilarious exchange, Little Richard tricks Kirby into giving Willie Ruth 88 dollars.
Little Richard: The Birth of Rock ‘n’ Roll is a funny, strange, and totally fitting tribute to a long-overlooked genius. Was “Tutti Frutti” really the “first” Rock ‘n’ Roll song, as Kirby insists? Sure, I’ll buy that. And even if you disagree, I think you’ll love this book anyway. Any musician, music-lover, or lover of weirdness should hop on in.
Justin Brooke is a guitarist and one of the frontmen in the Atlanta based band Howlies
March 13 - Jed Drummond, Emily Kate Boyd, Richard Solomon
March 13 - Jed Drummond, Emily Kate Boyd, Richard Solomon