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April 26th, 2009
CALENDAR 2008 - 2009
SOUTH END STRING BAND
Upcoming whirlwind concert appearances
May 16, 2009, Relay for Life Benefit concert, 7-9, Cole Building, Stanwood Fairgrounds
July 1, Wed. 2009, Sedro Wooley Logger Rodeo, Waterfront Park, 7-9 (?)
August 8th 2009, sat. 2009 sat. noon to 2 (time not yet set) 18th annual collectors car show and flea market, camano senior center, 606 arrowhead road, camano island
August 9, 2009, sun 2-4 PM Marysville Library Summer Concert Series, Marysville Library
August 30, 2009, sun Terry’s Corner commons benefit concert, 6 bands, benefit, still in planning, camano island
archives
Jan 12, 2008 Saturday floyd norgaard benefit concert
Jan 26, 2008 Saturday crab feed camano sr. center
April 1 and 2, 2008 recording sessions at big quack studios for cabin fever cd
April 19th, 2008 Saturday seagrass gallery opening
May 24th, Saturday, Josephine centennial concert
May 31st, Saturday Camano cellars wine opening
June 21st, saturday2008, cama beach grand opening
June 28th Saturday, camano library anniversary concert
July 19th, 2008 Saturday Art by the bay concert 1-3 pm
July 20th, 2008 Sunday south grange old time picnic, 3-5 pm
August 2nd, 2008 stanwood fair concert
Sept. 20th, Saturday harvest jubilee
Sept. 27th, Saturday camano country club bbq
Dec. 13th and 14th Saturday and Sunday lights of Christmas
Dec. 10th, 2009 SESB Concert to benefit Stanwood Area Historical Society
$10, Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center, Stanwood, WA free wine, beer, food 7-9 pm Stanwood, wa
March 7th 2009, sat. 4-7 pm spaghetti camano island senior center benefit, 606 arrowhead road, camano island
February 28th, 2009
CAMANO SENIOR AND COMMUNITY CENTER
SPAGHETTI ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE
As most of you South End fiscally alert socialites well know, the Band was scheduled to play a benefit for the Camano Senile Center’s SIPS AND SUDS spring fundraiser this coming Sat. March 7th. They were bringing in adult beverages for your sampling pleasure in hopes bibulous fun might mitigate your economic anxieties …. a proven remedy for the South End String Band. Even in prosperous times…
And the Band, ever eager to please, had been hard at work getting ready for this concert. We’d worked on synchronized sipping until our wrists ached. But I have to confess, we never really got very good at it. Sipping just isn’t the Band’s style. Guzzling, slurping, gulping, chugging, glugging, now THAT we got down.
In the end we realized it just wasn’t going to work. Sipping…..come on! These are Tough Economic Times and they call for decisive action. Sipping’s just a bit underwhelming when bold strokes are called for. So the Camano Senior and Community Center decided to take a proactive path toward economic recovery. Their stimulus package, conceived in the foggy weeks of this bleary, dreary winter, brings a ray of hope to the seasonally and fiscally afflicted. In the recesses of its low wattage inner sanctum boardroom, the Center determined to act courageously, knowing half hearted measures would likely prove ineffective. Difficult times call for decisive action. Difficult times demand visionary thinking. Difficult times require unified teamwork They decided it was whole hog or no hog.
In the end they approved an economic recovery package that may well prove to be a model for a national stimulus program. If your 401-K has sunk lower than my Chevy on its rusted rims, if your credit cards are growing fangs, if your once friendly hometown bank is pestering you about that missed mortgage payment, you definitely will want to consider the Spaghetti Feed Stimulus Package the Center is offering on March 7th. They’ll be operating the breadline from 4-7 and they’ll most definitely be serving adult beverages.
And if the promise of vino and brews gulped, not sipped, isn’t enough to lift your spirits, the South End String Band will lift those spirits FOR you, both literally and metaphorically. Our intrepid band of fiduciary refugees who make their home in the fog-shrouded nettle regions of Camano’s backwashed southern climes, have been preparing most of our lives for the opportunity to pass on our South End fiscal wisdom, according to Skeeter Daddle, the Band’s investment guru. If anyone can show you the path to Enlightenment Thru Unemployment, us folks can. Don’t wait for the PBS series when you can fill your bellies and quench those nagging fiscal questions in one easy seminar. Misery loves company so come on down! We’ll all take turns on the pity potty.
Mark your calendars. Saturday, March 7th, 2009: The Day We Fired Our Investment Counselor and Learned How To Maximize Poverty For Fun and Pleasure. The good times are here again!
SPAGHETTI FEED STIMULUS PACKAGE 4- 7 PM. $10.50 for members and $12 for us huddled masses at the door.
www.southendstringband.com
January 14th, 2009
The South End String Band, for those of you who may be under some vague misconception that we’re a ragtag collection of musician yahoos, is actually a legal entity entitled SESB LLC. Meaning we’re a corporation. With limited liability. Not limited viability as some have suggested….
As such, we’re a lean mean profit churning machine. About the same time as the Wall St. Meltdown and Uncle Sam’s 750 billion dollar bailout to prop up LOSING entities, the SESB LLC got a letter from the IRS informing us we were going to be penalized $2500 for not submitting Form 1065 to them in a timely manner. Our bank account had swollen to about $1800 at the time. For you mathematicians , that meant our profits were soon to be losses, no doubt triggering our own stimulus package, judging by the U.S. Treasury’s aforementioned desire to help the fiscally floundering back on their feet and save Capitalism itself even if it meant converting it to Socialism.
You may not know it, but not many bands pay taxes. They’re like most artists. Sort of an underground black market economy. But the SESB LLC was a small beacon of hope in the storm tossed capitalist seas of 2008. At least until the IRS decided our deep pockets were needed to rescue, oh, Morgan Stanley and WAMU and a few other corporations more reckless than ourselves.
So this next song, DON’T LET YOUR DEAL GO DOWN, keep in mind, it’s honest hardworking bands like ours that may ultimately save the global economy . Even if we have to go broke to do it.
Tough economic times, ladies and gentlemen. Tough economic times……
January 14th, 2009
I know a lot of you folks are watching the economy going down the garbage disposal without water running and you’re thinking wait just a South End minute here. The banks and the mortgage brokerage firms brought us to this sorry state of affairs and we’re going to give them MORE of our money? You’re thinking maybe give them a HorseWhipping instead.
So tonight we’re gonna help clear this up. A little South end Macro Economics 101, 3 credit course. Think of it like this: The Band here goes out and leverages our holdings to get a pretty sweet percentage rate on a short term loan to make our CD’s. We go to BigQuack Studios, tell Mark Dodge, our producer, we’re forego paying recording fees and pay instead with this hedge-yer-bet fund we got that’s bundled up each band member’s mortgage and car loans, plus their credit card debt, then sell this little commodity to investors in Smokey Point and Arlington. We get Skeeter Daddle LLC, our in-house investment ratings outfit, to rate the South End Sring Band Ponzi Group its highest rating.
Pretty soon Conway and La Conner investment brokers are recommending us so we get more loans, make another CD even less saleable than the first, bundle IT into a new financial instrument, pay ourselves great salaries, buy ourselves new houses and vacation condos, amortize the debt and voila, Seattle and New York smell a good deal and we’re cooking with oil, foreign, domestic, who cares? Cabin Fever, our 3rd CD, comes out, sales plummet, but our salaries bump up. The economy is humming, everybody’s on the bandwagon, excuse the pun, and we’re in the driver’s seat.
Until the day we want to put out our Greatest Hits triple CD and WAMU won’t loan us a dime, Big Quack wants its money, the City of Stanwoodopolis goes bankrupt leaving streets after the last storms that look like the Volga River froze after the ice broke up, Asian investors get panicked …. And well, you watch it every night on the news…..
All because we couldn’t make that Greatest Hits CD!! So tonight we’re asking you to help restore faith in the American Capitalist System. The South End String Band Ponzi Group is selling our greatest hits CD on 3 individual discs. Legends in their Own Pathetic Minds, Victims of Unbridled Ambition and Cabin Fever. 12 devalued American dollars each or 2 for 20 or all 3 for 25. AND !!! we’re gonna throw in 10 shares of our hedge yer bet fund. If it all goes the way the bank bailout did, we’ll restore investor trust and hopefully give each band member a fat little raise tomorrow. Thank you for believing.
December 15th, 2008
CALENDAR 2008 - 2009
SOUTH END STRING BAND
Jan 10, 2008 Saturday floyd norgaard benefit concert
Jan 26, 2008 Saturday crab feed camano sr. center
April 1 and 2, 2008 recording sessions at big quack studios for cabin fever cd
April 19th, 2008 Saturday seagrass gallery opening
May 24th, Saturday, Josephine centennial concert
May 31st, Saturday Camano cellars wine opening
June 21st, saturday2008, cama beach grand opening
June 28th Saturday, camano library anniversary concert
July 19th, 2008 Saturday Art by the bay concert 1-3 pm
July 20th, 2008 Sunday south grange old time picnic, 3-5 pm
August 2nd, 2008 stanwood fair concert
Sept. 20th, Saturday harvest jubilee
Sept. 27th, Saturday camano country club bbq
Dec. 13th and 14th Saturday and Sunday lights of Christmas
Dec. 10th, 2009 SESB Concert to benefit Stanwood Area Historical Society
$10, Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center, Stanwood, WA free wine, beer, food 7-9 pm Stanwood, wa
March 7th 2009, sat. 6 pm(?) sips and suds, wine and beer tasting, camano island senior center
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