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Cotton Candy

Best of the Bay 2005: Best Smutty Cabaret Act

About Me

Here, scrumptious melodies and piquant wit make short shrift of fools. Mold and enemas revel in sudden celebrity; kitchen utensils take on a fresh sheen.Dressed to the nines in fluffy stuff, operatic diva Heidi Kooy hits the soprano spot, while violinist and Miss Accordion San Francisco 2004 Linda Robertson presses all the right buttons. Underpinning this cabaret confection is steely-chinned upright bassist Tom Edler, and sensitive Aaron Kierbel with his delicato drums. Atop it all, Matt Cannon sprinkles his fairy magic with multiple mallets, an eight-foot marimba, celeste, pump organ and NEW for 2007! rainbow hand bells.Our charming songs are 100% original, and it's a class act: the music's written out properly on staves and the words are all spelled and punctuated correctly!Since Spring 2001, we've been spreading pastel power across the Bay Area, most recently at Slim's and the Sea of Dreams. We've pinked-up the SF and Cotati accordion festivals, lit up Alamo Square and Twin Peaks, and played for a sub-zero arctic dinner, in ski-wear. No project is too silly.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/5/2005
Band Website: cottoncandycabaret.com
Band Members: Alferbetiklee: Matt Cannon--Piano, Celeste, Harmonium, Marimba/ Tom Edler--Bass/ Heidi Kooy--Vocals/ Aaron Kierbel--Drums/ Linda Robertson--Accordion, Violin, Spare Vocals
Influences: Jacques Brel, the Tiger Lillies, Yann Tiersen, Bjork, Noel Coward, Irving Berlin, Coco Rosie, Kurt Weill, Tom Lehrer...
Sounds Like: A 1930s musical set on a carousel in a pink snowstorm, the cast smiling brilliantly through their tears.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

A Guardian Feature Story! Global Domination Nears...

Sleazy does it You're soaking in that highbrow dirty humor and sucking down Cotton Candy By Duncan Scott Davidson Sometimes you want to be, as Thomas Gray so eloquently put it, "far from the madding ...
Posted by Cotton Candy on Wed, 24 May 2006 01:43:00 PST

Check us out in the Guardian!!

Hello Cotton Candy lovers!! A little bird mentioned that we may be featured in an upcoming edition of the San Francisco Bay Guardian.  Please keep your eyes peeled and then join us for one or bo...
Posted by Cotton Candy on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:50:00 PST