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About Me

I'm the accordionist for Culann's Hounds. You'll also find me playing on the street around Embarcadero BART station, repairing accordions at Smythe's Accordion Center in Oakland, or working on guitars at Amazing Grace music in San Anselmo. I play Irish music, French-Canadian/ Cajun stuff, and the occasional punk or Tom Waits cover.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Your pets and your kids, other musicians, and people who groove hard and listen to live music all the time. Also cool, passionate geeks, and geezers who know how to do everything.

My Blog

Hounds tour in New York City

All the Hounds were running themselves ragged in San Francisco the week before the trip started. I had an odd, interrupted 4 hour sleep Friday night, and got up at 4:30 am for our 5:50 am rendezvous a...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:17:00 GMT

What is that crazy thing I'm playing? Revelations of a music geek.

Hello, I'm Renee, and I play a diatonic accordion. I gave it a name years ago, based on the Pee-Wee Herman convention of naming something after its most obvious attribute and adding a "y" at the end. ...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:35:00 GMT

the condensed version of how I became a street musician

I’ve played music most of my life, and when I was a kid, I decided that of all the things I wanted to be when I grew up, "rock star" was one that had to be achieved when young, so I’d bett...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:34:00 GMT

Same thing we do every night Honky... try to take over the world!

Today was a big day. I applied for my passport in downtown San Francisco. Then I drove to Oakland and dropped off Honky, (my lovely button accordion), to have a swanky internal mic system installed at...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:10:00 GMT

I wore two tutus in the subway today...

I wore a pink tutu and a black tutu in Montgomery station today. I got my first $20 tip in a BART station, and I can't help but think that it's related. I was ambivalent about ordering new corsetry, b...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:52:00 GMT