Daniel Popsicle
was founded by
Dan Plonsey
in September 1999.
Daniel Popsicle was organized to meet an obligation to
Plonsey's former teacher,
Anthony Braxton
"Sir, we must now write music for the next millennium!"
Plonsey took this to mean that it was time overdue for a paradigm shift in the musical
world: that existing forms would be no longer sufficiently flexible to meet the
needs of the new world-to-be. Daniel Popsicle therefore strives to evoke and bring into
being a world less cynical, less troubled and less cluttered, in which art can be as simple as it wants to be, and in which everyone can participate. A world more in tune with our nature as animals, but striving beyond equity (a noble goal) to true generosity.
The music played by Daniel Popsicle is not classical, jazz, rock, or any established genre; rather it is simply Music of El Cerrito: music which is happening
here, wherever that largely imaginary, ideal, idealistic here is for us, and
for you too.
The music is simple: emerging from whatever Plonsey was humming that day, which might have something to do with music he heard last week or as a kid growing up in Cleveland Heights. The music is there to sweep you along, down a creek in an innertube. The music is there to provide color for your art and imagery for your blackberry pie-making. (We hope that you have a bush nearby.)
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Ah, if only you could be with us in El Cerrito! If you could sit with us under our willow tree,
sipping mint julips, listening to the music of the wind through the branches and leaves,
the chirp and buzz of the bushtits and hmmingbirds, the occasional appearance ofwaxwings. If you could walk with us up through the curvy, hilly streets of Northern El Cerrito,
remarking on the strangely beautiful mix of Japanese and Mediterranean style architecture
and landscaping:
the sparse and even scraggly roses spotting a yard of gravel;
- the snaking garden hoses
- the use of non-structural horizontal beams as decoration (the horizontal lines of house after house evoke M. C. Escher in the way they seemingly are both in front of and behind each other, but if this is an affront to Euclid, it is utterly without guile)
- the manicured bits of lawn and poodle-cut bushes
- the mix of deep greens with chartreuse
- the decorative use of orange traffic cones
- the contrastingly (colors randomly chosen?) painted fences
- the needlessly painted stairs and walkways
- the simple pattern of parallel lines etched on garage doors
- the bottle-brush trees lining a segment of a street, cauliflower-trees lining another
- the awkward combinations of green, red and blue here; pastel and even minty colors there...
Photos of cwEl Cerrito (on facebook)
There is the El Cerrito I describe, the El Cerrito you see in photographs, and then there is the imaginary El Cerrito: distinct from the more cynical, striving,
crass, Bay Area. For us, beauty isn't something you purchase: either you make it yourself, or just go outside and look: it's everywhere, but you
need the right expectations: the beauty is partly as a result of earnest attempts
at replicating various memories of beauty, partly apparently accidental juxtapositions.
These houses, these yards... they're not being designed by professionals. It's as though everyone came from far away, and the have to make do with local shapes, local color. You can feel the melancholy, the longing. Our music is like that: imprecisely remembered, unprofessional, but with similar melancholy, yearning. We are in an important sense unprepared. We didn't clean up first.
Pictured: Daniel Popsicle at the Ivy Room (Jan uary, 2009). Left to Right: Plonsey, Cory Wright,
Micheal Zelner, John Shiurba, Lynn Murdock, Chris Silvey. Photo by Myles Boisen.
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Since its inception, Daniel Popsicle has been dedicated to presenting
the music of El Cerrito, in an open-ended series of volumes. Of the
following, music from volumes 1, 2a, 2b, and some of 3 have been recorded.
Two pieces from volume 4 were recorded at a concert at the Berkeley Arts Festival.
Fourteen pieces from the collected "Cerrito Theatre Music" were performed
April 9, 2002, at the Black Box, and were recorded by both Zoka and John Shiurba.
- Volume 1:
Music of Dan Plonsey (party music) (Yesnolp, CD-R)
- Volume 2:
Relations among Two of the Three Primary (Great) Kingdoms of Natural Objects:
Plants and Animals
- Volume 2a:
Moving About, Humming, Still Our Flowers are Blooming, Under the Old Portcullis (UnLimited Sedition, CD)
- Volume 2b:
Wise King Taken by the Foolish One
- Volume 3:
The 23 Marches for Casual Space Tourist, a.k.a., Destination: Fremont!
(These Marches were commissioned by New Music Works, Santa Cruz, for
2001: A Space Garden (Garden Party))
- Volume 4:
Music for Occasions of State, El Cerrito
- Volume 5:
El Cerrito Annex: late 14th Century French Secular Polyphony
- Volume 6:
Music from Northern El Cerrito: Daniel Popsicle plays
Cerrito Theatre Music of Dan Plonsey
- Volume 7:The Playback Operas of El Cerrito
- Volume 8:``Jazz at Yoshi's'' (Yesnolp, CD-R; re-released on digitalis records)
- Volume 9:The Color Music of El Cerrito (99 pieces, banter, and a selection from approximately 3000 photographs)
Performances
- December 2, 1999: The Starry Plough
- July 22, 2000: The Zeum courtyard.
- October 15, 2000:
ACME Observatory
- June 24, 2001:
A
Berkeley Arts Festival and Beanbender's Presentation.
- December 8, 2001: two pieces performed by:
New Music Works of Santa Cruz
- April 9, 2002:
The Black Box, Oakland, CA.
- June 21, 2002:
Garden of Memory: Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, CA.
- July 27, 2002:
New Langton Arts Award Show, San Francisco, CA.
- August 5, 2002: At the Richmond Arts Center, Richmond, CA.
- September 30, 2002:
At Yoshi's, Oakland, CA. (A Jazz in Flight presentation.)
- June 19, 2003: Memorial Concert for Matthew Sperry
- September 28, 2003: Daniel Popsicle Subsidiary Marching Band in the "How Berkeley Can You Be?" Parade
- April 25, 2004: CD Release at the Jazz House
- June 27, 2004: Outdoor conccert at MoCHA
- October 30, 2004: Berkeley Arts Festival HQ
- June 12, 2005: Santa Cruz New Music Works
Avant Garden Party
- June 02, 2006: The Starry Plough, as part of the
4th annual SperryFest.
- October 6, 2006: The Illuminated Corridor (at 21Grand)
- October 7, 2006: Museum of children's Art, Oakland
- May 4, 2007: The Berkeley Arts Festival HQ (2323 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley)
- May 9, 2007: 21Grand, Oakland
- June 21, 2007: The Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland
- August 23, 2007: The Starry Plough
- September 15, 2007: Peanut Butter Jam, Alameda
- February 22, 2008: The Berkeley Arts Festival, 2213 Shattuck Avenue
- July 13, 2008: The Transbay Skronkathon, 21Grand, Oakland
- June 21, 2008: The Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland
- September 12/13/14, 2008: The Milkbar International Film Festival at The Noodle Factory, Union/26th, Oakland.
- Jannuary 19, 2009: The Ivy Room, Albany, CA.
- April 11, 2009: Koi Pond, Oakland (Val's Birthday)
- June 21, 2009: The Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland
Musicians who have played in the ensemble:
Dan Plonsey
Carol Adee
Kyle Bruckmann
Ben Goldberg
Michael Zelner
Matt Ingalls
Randy McKean
Scott Rosenberg
Cory Wright
Joshua Smith
Fran Holland
Jared Prolo
Joe Karten
Liz Albee
David Bithell
Chris Grady
Chris Silvey
Tom Yoder
Tim Madden
Jen Baker
Jay Rozen
Phil Gelb
Ward Spangler
Wayne Vitale
Tom Swafford
Naomi Okuyama
Sarah Willner
Danielle DeGruttola
Samantha Black
Ashley Adams
Myles Boisen
Marc Culbertson
Matthew Sperry
Steve Lew
Randy Porter
John Schott
John Shiurba
Steve Kirk
Mike Pukish
Jenya Chernoff
Matt Lebofsky
John Hanes
Suki O'Kane
Erling Wold
Lynn Murdock (Wold)
Myra Chachkin
Mantra Ben-Ya'akova
Cleveland Plonsey
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c melody saxophone, oboe, clarinets
piccolo
oboe and English horn
clarinet
clarinet
clarinet
bass clarinet
sax, contrabass clarinet
soprano, bari sax, bass clarinet
tenor sax, drums
bass clarinet
bassoon
shofar
trumpet
trumpet
trumpet
trumpet
trombone
trombone
trombone
tuba
shakuhachi
xylophone, glockenspiel, percussion
Balinese percussion & gangsa
violin
violin
viola, Balinese instruments
cello
cello
bass
bass
bass
bass
electric bass
cumbus, guitar, violin
national steel guitar
electric guitar
banjo
drums & percussion
drums & percussion
drums & percussion
drums & percussion
toys, drums & percussion
farfisa organ
acrusonic organ
little Yamaha synth, bass, cello
voice
percussion, Italian keyed whistle
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Poster by Alan Anzalone
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Appearances
December 1, 1999:
The Starry Plough, Berkeley
With:
Dan Plonsey, c melody sax;
Joe Karten, shofar;
Phil Gelb, shakuhachi;
Ben Goldberg, clarinet;
Tom Yoder, trombone and sackbutt;
Erling Wold, farfisa;
Lynn Wold, acrusonic organ;
Tom Swafford, violin;
Sarah Willner, viola and gangsa;
Samantha Black, cello;
Ashley Adams, bass;
Matthew Sperry, bass;
Randy Porter, cumbus, guitar, violin;
Wayne Vitale, Balinese drum and gangsa;
Ward Spangler, percussion;
with Henry Kuntz, guest, Balinese instruments.
Saturday, July 22, 2000:
The Zeum courtyard.
1PM-3PM. Admission FREE! Poster by Alan Anzalone.
With:
Dan Plonsey, c melody sax;
Phil Gelb, shakuhachi;
Ben Goldberg, clarinet;
Tom Yoder, trombone;
Erling Wold, farfisa;
Lynn Wold, acrusonic organ;
Tom Swafford, violin;
Samantha Black, cello;
Ashley Adams, bass;
Matthew Sperry, bass;
Randy Porter, cumbus, guitar, violin;
Ward Spangler, percussion.
Performed compositions from among "Music for El Cerrito: Volume 1" and
Introductions and sections A-E of Moving About, Humming, Still our Flowers are Blooming Under the Old
Portcullis.
Sunday, October 15, 2000:
ACME Observatory
7:48PM (Moe! opening.)
3192 Adeline, a block South of Ashby BART.
The world premiere of the complete
Moving About, Humming, Still our Flowers are Blooming Under the Old
Portcullis
for large ensemble and miniature tableau theatre, by Dan Plonsey,
with:
Dan Plonsey: c melody sax,
Phil Gelb: shakuhachi,
Michael Zelner: clarinet,
Tom Yoder: trombone,
Erling Wold: accordion, DX7,
Lynn Wold: farfisa organ,
Tom Swafford: violin,
Sarah Willner: viola,
Ashley Adams: bass,
Steve Lew: electric bass,
Mike Pukish: percussion,
Cleveland Plonsey: percussion and Italian keyed whistle,
Mantra Plonsey: tableau-maker,
Kattt Sammon: tableau-maker
Photos by Alan Brightbill
Sunday, June 24, 2001:
A
Berkeley Arts Festival and Beanbender's Presentation. With:
Dan Plonsey, c melody saxophone;
Phil Gelb, shakuhachi;
Carol Adee, piccolo;
Ben Goldberg, Michael Zelner clarinets;
Tom Yoder, trombone;
Sarah Willner, viola;
Randy Porter, electric guitar, violin, cumbus;
John Schott, John Shiurba electric guitars;
Mark Culbertson, acoustic bass;
Wayne Vitale, Ward Spangler, various children percussion;
Mantra Ben Ya'akova, voice.
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December 8, 2001:
New Music Works of Santa Cruz performs two works written for Daniel Popsicle.
Following are the program notes:
"Two Eyes and A Nose" and "Cow With Ears" (both 1999) were written for
any ensemble of unbalanced, asymmetric instrumentation, preferably
including at least one instrument from Bali, and one or two people who
can't play their chosen instrument so well. The lyrics to "Cow With
Ears" were written by my older son Cleveland, who was three at the
time. (He performs with various of my ensembles frequently.) These
two compositions are part of an ongoing open-ended cycle of "Music From
El Cerrito," in which I use materials, performers, and inspiration
close at hand to create music which fails to meet any classical
"standards." This music in fact draws upon all of my weaknesses at
least as much as upon my strengths, and is intended as an testament to
the beauty of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. As such, I
dedicate this performance to all those who will be falsely accused
of crimes against the USA.
Tuesday, April 9, 2002
At the The Black Box,
1928 Telegraph Ave,
Oakland CA. With:
Dan Plonsey, c melody saxophone;
Carol Adee, piccolo;
Matt Ingalls and Michael Zelner, clarinets;
Tom Yoder, trombone;
Randy Porter, mandolin, cumbus;
John Shiurba, electric guitar;
Matthew Sperry and Mark Culbertson, acoustic bass;
Lynn Wold, keyboard;
Matt Lebofsky, keyboard and drums;
Ward Spangler, vibes and percussion;
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Friday, June 21, 2002
``Garden of Memory'' concert at the Chapel of the Chimes,
Oakland CA. With:
Dan Plonsey, c melody saxophone;
Michael Zelner, clarinet, electronics;
Tom Yoder, trombone;
John Shiurba, electric guitar;
John Schott, national steel guitar;
Matthew Sperry, acoustic bass;
Lynn Wold, keyboard;
Suki O'Kane, percussion, toys, electronics;
and guests: Randy Porter, khen, unknown double-reed;
Phil Gelb, shakuhachi.
Saturday, July 27, 2002
Bay Area Awards Show concert at
New Langton Arts,
San Francisco. With:
Dan Plonsey, c melody saxophone;
Ben Goldberg, Matt Ingalls, Michael Zelner, clarinets;
Phil Gelb, shakuhachi.
Tom Yoder, trombone;
Naomi Okuyama, violin;
Sarah Willner, viola, violin, Balinese percussion;
Steve Kirk, banjo;
John Shiurba, electric guitar;
John Schott, national steel guitar;
Matthew Sperry, acoustic bass;
Lynn Wold, keyboard;
Ward Spangler, vibraphone, percussion;
Suki O'Kane, percussion, toys, electronics.
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``Sort of orchestral modern jazz with a child's melodic
mindset. Very odd, very fun... but wished it would have featured more
banjo-bass duets...'' -- Scot Hacker
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Monday, August 5, 2002 6:30-8:30PM,
Richmond Art Center
With:
Suki O'Kane,
Naomi Okuyama,
John Shiurba,
Matthew Sperry,
Lynn Wold,
Tom Yoder,
Michael Zelner.
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Monday, September 30, 2002, 8PM and 10PM,
at Yoshi's, Oakland, presented by
Jazz in Flight: Daniel Popsicle: "Music from El Cerrito: Daniel Popsicle plays
Music by Dan Plonsey"
At Yoshi's -- a
Jazz in Flight
production.
Concert Preview from Contra Costa Times, by Andrew Gilbert
With:
Carol Adee,
Liz Albee,
Jenya Chernoff,
Marc Culbertson,
Phil Gelb,
Ben Goldberg,
Steve Kirk,
Matt Lebofsky,
Suki O'Kane,
Naomi Okuyama,
Randy Porter,
Mike Pukish,
John Schott,
John Shiurba,
Matthew Sperry,
Sarah Willner,
Lynn Wold,
Tom Yoder,
Michael Zelner.
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"On September 30, the centerpiece of our concert will be the premiere of a giant piece,
Wise King Taken by the Foolish One, which will span the two sets
(no pieces will be repeated from set one in set two; the audience is invited
to stay for the entire evening of music). In and around this piece will be some other
works which range from selections of very short, through-composed works, to tunes
and songs which are designed to set up improvisations by the group's
many fine players. Indeed, the music I am writing can only be played by musicians with
skills in both reading and improvising: they alone can bring the sort of
tight-but-looseness, the spontaneous combustability, and the subversiveness which in my
opinion is the soul of what we have called Jazz. I am very
fortunate to be living in the Bay Area, where uniquely in this world I
have access to such musicians who _also_ bring in enormous individual experience in
Klezmer, Balinese music, rock, blues, classical music, Salsa, free improv,
Italian film music, Japanese music, Brazilian music, and of course all the historical
traditions comprising jazz."
-- Dan Plonsey
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Thursday, June 19, 2003:
On this evening, Daniel Popsicle joined many friends and family
at 21 Grand
to pay tribute to our beloved bassist, Matthew Sperry,
who was killed in an accident
while riding his bicycle.
We played "Lila Looms and Brooms" (which had been written a year earlier to
honor Matthew's daughter Lila), and a new piece,
"For Matthew, Stacia, and
Lila," dedicated to Matthew's wife Stacia and to Lila.
With Phil Gelb,
John Shiurba, Randy Porter, Lynn Wold, Tom Yoder, Samantha Black, Ashley Adams,
Michael Zelner, Matt Ingalls, Gino Robair, and Tim Perkis.
Sunday, September 28, 2003:
The Daniel Popsicle Subsidiary Marching Band (Plonsey, Shiurba, Chernoff, Lebofsky and Zelner) march in the "How Berkeley Can You Be?" Parade.
Sunday, April 25, 2004, 8PM:
Daniel Popsicle celebrates the release of its CD:
"Music of El Cerrito, Volume 2a:
Moving About, Humming, Still Our Flowers Are Blooming,
Under the Old Portcullis"
More information:
Full Press Release
June 27, 2004:
At the courtyard of the Museum of Children's Art (MoCHA), Old Oakland.
While we played, children and their parents made art (some
using popsicle sticks). The music written for this event became the basis for
"Simple Music series 1: Color Music" of which there are now over 70 pieces,
being recorded steadily at the home studio of Michael Zelner and Suki O'Kane.
Musicians on this date: Suki O'Kane, Mark Culbertson, John Shiurba,
Lynn Wold, Kyle Bruckmann, Michael Zelner, Liz Allbee, and Plonsey.
Scenes from this concert are included in Tim Perkis's forthcoming
video documentary on Plonsey.
Saturday, October 30, 2004 at the Berkeley Arts Festival HQ,
2324 Shattuck Avenue, as part of the Festival:
This concert consisted of two sets of music. With:
John Hanes, Mark Culbertson, John Shiurba, Randy Porter, John Schott,
Lynn Wold, Tom Yoder, Liz Allbee, Scott Rosenberg, and Plonsey.
Sunday, June 12, 2005 at the Santa Cruz New Music Works annual
Avant Garden Party, at the UCSC Arboretum
We played a 15 minute semi-improvised marching set and then
30 minutes of Music of El Cerrito, Volume 5: Simple Music: Series 2: "Colors."
With: Suki O'Kane, Ward Spangler, John Shiurba, Lynn Wold,
Michael Zelner, Randy McKean, Scott Rosenberg and Dan Plonsey.
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Friday, June 2, 2006 at the Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley.
We played a set as part of the first night of the SperryFest 2006.
Music was all from the Color Pieces (Music of El Cerrito, Simple Music,
Series 2).
With: Suki O'Kane, Ward Spangler, John Shiurba, Lynn Murdock (Wold),
Liz Allbee, Chris Silvey, Tom Yoder, Mark Culbertson, Myra Chachkin,
Michael Zelner, and Dan Plonsey.
October 6, 2006, as part of The Illuminated Corridor (at 21Grand),
we played "Chitty Ch'Bang Bang" accompanying an edited version of the film; edited, that is, to remove as much of Dick van Dyke as possible.
With: Suki O'Kane, John Shiurba, Lynn Murdock,
Chris Silvey, Tom Yoder, Cory Wright, Myra Chachkin,
Michael Zelner, and Dan Plonsey.
October 7, 2006, we played in Gregory Gavin's Riveropolis,
at Museum of children's Art, Oakland.
With: Suki O'Kane, John Shiurba, Lynn Murdock,
Chris Silvey, Tom Yoder, Cory Wright, Myra Chachkin,
Michael Zelner, Mark Culbertson, and Dan Plonsey.
May 4, 2007
The Berkeley Arts Festival HQ (2323 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley).
We played a full concert of two sets of the Color music.
With: Suki O'Kane, Lynn Murdock,
Chris Silvey, Tom Yoder, Cory Wright,
Michael Zelner, Randy McKean, Joshua Smith,
John Schott and Dan Plonsey.
Pictured, Left to Right: Chris Silvey, Michael Zelner, Suki O'Kane, Tom Yoder.
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May 9, 2007, at 21Grand, Oakland
as part of Phillip Greenlief and Jon Raskin's 2+2 series, we played a set-long
premiere of "Rafting Season." We were joined by five members of the
DROP ensemble, who are dancers from Dandelion Dance Theatre (including Mantra).
With: Suki O'Kane, Myra Chachkin (cello),
Chris Silvey, Tom Yoder, Cory Wright,
Michael Zelner, Joshua Smith (percussion),
John Schott, Matt Lebofsky (bass) and Dan Plonsey.
June 21, 2007, at The Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, as part of the annual summer solstice concert, The Garden of Memory. we played outdoors at the very top and back of the Chapel. We played a set of COLOR music, a
set which consisted of "Rafting Season," and a short last set of more
of the COLOR music.
With:
Lynn Murdock, Myra Chachkin (cello), Chris Silvey, Cory Wright,
Michael Zelner, Joshua Smith (drums),
John Shiurba, Fran Holland and Dan Plonsey.
With guests Phil Gelb (shakuhachi) and Jie Ma (pipa) on "little Pinko and the Big Blue."
August 23, 2007, at The Starry Plough
With: Kyle Bruckmann, Myra Chachkin, Mark Culbertson,
Randy McKean, Lynn Murdock, Suki O'Kane, John Schott,
Chris Silvey, Josh Smith, Cory Wright,
John Shiurba, Michael Zelner,
and Dan Plonsey.
Performing 16 Color Music compositions
September 15, 2007, at Peanut Butter Jam, Alameda
With: Lynn Murdock, Suki O'Kane, Chris Silvey, Cory Wright,
John Shiurba, Michael Zelner,
and Dan Plonsey.
Friday, February 22, 2008
8PM
The Berkeley Arts Festival
presents: Dan Plonsey/Daniel Popsicle playing Music of El Cerrito
2213 Shattuck Avenue (formerly Gateway Computers next to former
site of Eddie Bauer!)
$10-$5
Program: Selections from the Color Music of El Cerrito
(the complete set comprises 99 pieces, designed to accompany artists at work)
- aqua brown white orange pink & pale blue
- clown yellow
- gray gabardine green guys
- octave blue
- off white
- olive red
- pale green, dark blue, orange
- pale turquoise & burnt sienna
- pink
- red blue orange red orange blue green blue pink red
- red green & transparent medium
- red we do for red
- red yellow blue
- rufous & rose & sky blue
- saffron
- titanium white & green
- titanium white & green
- titanium white mars
- titanium white & sky
- yellow red green blue
Also: My Version, The Superhero of Shirts,
Pictured, Left to Right: Chris Silvey, Randy McKean, Cory Wright, Lynn Murdock, Dan Plonsey.
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July 13, 2008: The Transbay Skronkathon, 21Grand, Oakland
Approximately 3:30 PM. Playing parts of Hockey Season, with a mini-Popsicle of John Shiurba, Michael Zelner, Suki O'Kane, and Plonsey. Two recordings were made, by Zelner and Tom Duff.
June 21, 2008: The Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland
At The Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, as part of the annual summer solstice concert, The Garden of Memory. we played outdoors at the very top and back of the Chapel.
We played three setss of: COLOR music,
and three parts of Hockey Season.
With:
Lynn Murdock, Myra Chachkin (cello), Chris Silvey, Cory Wright,
Michael Zelner, John Schott,
John Shiurba, Mark Culbertson, Suki O'Kane, and Dan Plonsey.
Photo by Randy Porter: Standing, L to R: John Schott, Mark Culbertson. Middle row: John Shiurba, Myra Chachkin. Front row: Michael Zelner, Cory Wright, Chris Silvey. Standing, right: Dan Plonsey. Hatted head, back right: Suki O'Kane.
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September 12/13/14, 2008: The Milkbar International Film Festival at The Noodle Factory, Union/26th, Oakland.
Plonsey, Zelner, Wright, Shiurba, O'Kane, Silvey, and Chachkin play sections of Hockey Season as accompaniment to two films: Liz Allbee's "Modern Times" and Frazer Bradshaw's "Bulb." AT The Noodle Factory, Union @26th, Oakland.
Monday, January 19, 2009
At the Ivy Room:
858 San Pablo Ave
(between Solano Ave & Washington Ave), Albany, CA.
With:
Jen Baker (on trombone, making her debut with the band),
Myra Chachkin,
Mark, Culbertson,
Lynn Murdock,
Suki O'Kane,
Dan Plonsey.
John Schott,
John Shiurba,
Chris Silvey,
Cory Wright,
Michael Zelner.
Pictured, left to Right: Plonsey, Wright, Zelner. Photo by Myles Boisen.
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
Val Esway's 40th Birthday Party.
With:
Myra Chachkin,
Mark Culbertson,
Lynn Murdock,
Suki O'Kane,
Dan Plonsey,
John Shiurba,
Chris Silvey,
Josh Smith,
Cory Wright,
Michael Zelner.
Pictured, left to Right: Plonsey,
Zelner, O'Kane, Chachkin, Wright, Silvey, Culbertson,
Shiurba. Photo by Myles Boisen.
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June 21, 2009: The Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland
For the fourth year, we played this fantastic event
of multiple simultaneous performances
as part of the annual summer solstice concert, The Garden of Memory.
Again, we played outdoors at the very top and back of the Chapel.
On this occasion, we alternated sets with Orchestra Nostalgico.
With:
Myles Boisen (debut performance),
Myra Chachkin,
Mark Culbertson,
John Hanes,
Lynn Murdock,
Suki O'Kane,
Dan Plonsey,
John Shiurba,
Cory Wright,
Tom Yoder,
Michael Zelner.
Front: Cory Wright;
Second row: Myra Chachkin, Tom Yoder, John Shiurba
Back row: John Hanes, Suki O'Kane, Mark Culbertson
Photo by Dan Plonsey
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Current Lineup of Daniel Popsicle:
- Myra Chachkin
- Mark Culbertson
- Randy McKean
- Lynn Murdock
- Suki O'Kane
- Dan Plonsey
- Jared Prolo
- John Schott
- John Shiurba
- Chris Silvey
- Cory Wright
- Michael Zelner
Below: Eight members of a very early Daniel Popsiclei, circa 2000, after a rehearsal for the recording of "Portcullis." Photo presumably by Mantra Plonsey.
Top row: Tom Swafford, John Shiurba, Sarah Willner
Middle row: Tim Madden, Mike Pukish
Bottom row: Lynn Murdock, Danielle DeGrutolla, Dan Plonsey
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For information about booking, send e-mail to:
Dan Plonsey.