Sunday, September 25

The Hapa Haole Boys vs. The Disciples of Markos

9:00 pm
free
@ The Rite Spot Cafe
2099 Folsom St @ 17th
www.ritespotcafe.net


From Waco to Waikiki, Kansas City to Kauai, the Hapa Haole Boys ride
the wild surf, and slide over the sultry strings playing a combination
of traditional Hawaiian and Hawaiian-influenced country music that
leaves your heart aching for that old island home. The Hapa Haole Boys
are: Jeff Kazor- uke, Kurt Stevenson- Hawaiian slide guitar, and Erik
Pearson- guitar, with vocals from all the boys that ebb and flow with
the tides.

The Disciples of Markos play "Rebetika", the music of the underground
Greek hashish dens from the 1930's. Rebetika was the music of
gangsters, outsiders, dopeheads, prostitutes which leads some to call
it the "Greek Blues". Played on bouzouki, guitar and baglama
(mini-bouzouki), the music has a hypnotic quality that's part trance
and part belly dance. The band takes it's name from Markos Vamvakaris,
who was the first famous bouzouki player and Rebetika musician in
Greece.
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