Troubadours- Get 'Em Where You can Find 'em

Troubadours fans are mostly music fans, and a surprising amount of music can be found in this town. The Troubadours do have a gig coming up in November, but in the meantime look here for updates/links on where band players may be found ...in public anyway. Jack O' Dell can be seen with Bill Kirchen, but you never know when he'll cross over to the Hula or Grandson side of town. Mark Noone is a staple of the Hula Monsters, but he also plays with other bands including, of course, The Slickee Boys. And Jake Flack has something up his sleeve. So watch this space- it won't always be empty!

Place A Hold On Summertime

Just because everyone went back to school, summer's not over yet. At least not in downtown increasingly hip Hyattsville, MD. The Summer Jam is coming up this Friday, September 7. It's a community event with beer and burgers in the parking lot of the Municipal building at 4310 Gallatin Street. The Hula Monsters will play from 6:30 until 8:30, and as if that isn't enough, rumor has it there will be a moon bounce as well.

And if enough is NEVER enough you can catch the Hulas in full dance mode when they share the bill with Karen Collins and the Back Roads Band at Chick Hall's Surf Club 4711 Kenilworth Avenue in, best left in a category by itself, beautiful Bladensburg, MD on September 8 this Saturday night.

Aloha

Troubadour/Hula Monster Mark
in the Park last Friday night.

Monster Troubadour Out Tonight

Jack may be out of town, and Jake is AWOL,
but ever busy Mark Noone will be playing tonight
with the Hula Monsters in the Mason District Park
- a free concert- one long set from 7:30 until 8:30.

It's a great band and great players-you can check out their sound at the link above,
or better yet come and see 'em.
Remember variety is the poi of life.

One Troubadour's Better Than None

For those of you in Troubadour withdrawal, you at least can catch two of Mark Noone's other personalities this weekend. See alter ego number 1 when The Hula Monsters play Lubber Run Park in Arlington, VA, Saturday evening from 8 until 9:30. (free)
(Come on out, buy a Hawaiian shirt, and get down and luau.)

Mark will also be singing Slickee Boys' style with The Beatnik Flies backing him up at the big (make that humongous) dc space reunion at the 9:30 club on Sunday. This event will not only make history, but will also benefit a very cool cat, Tom Terrell, who is fighting cancer for his life. Twenty buck donation to get in; doors open at 4 p.m., and the performances go on until 1 a.m.
A lot of bang for that donated buck. See DC ROCKS for more details.

(Mark and The Flies are scheduled at 8:45.)

Who's On First?

So it's The Grandsons tonight at The Quarry House with Moe Nelson who also plays with the Hula Monsters of which band Mark Noone of the Rhodes Tavern Troubadours is in, (not to mention Chris Watling of The Grandsons, Moe Nelson, and Jack O' Dell ALL used to play with Bill Kirchen, but that's another story.)

TOMORROW NIGHT it's-JAKE Flack, formerly of A Thousand Dollar Car, JACK O' Dell, who used to play in The Hula Monsters and The Grandsons, too, and MARK Noone who still plays with the Hula Monsters, but will be a Troubadour when THE RHODES TAVERN TROUBADOURS play tomorrow night on the town green in HERNDON, VA.

Just so all that's clear.

Two Hulas On the Loose Free Concert Today

The musical lunch thing continues in Arlington today. Look across from the Ballston Metro for Mark Noone and Moe Nelson wearing their Hula Monsters hats, doing their part to bring quality entertainment to the streets. Catch their act between 11:30 and 1:30.
Bring a sandwich.