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This event will be held on Zoom.

Featuring Live Comedy and Music with Marga Gomez, Jet Black Pearl and Tracy Blackman

Pour your heART out, laugh, dance and play at Rhythmix MashUP – Benefit for Youth Arts in a SPIRITED evening of virtual fundraising for Rhythmix Cultural Works’ free youth arts education programs.

Enjoy the humorous stylings of renowned comedian Marga Gomez along with live musical performances by “accordion babe” Jet Black Pearl and singer-songwriter Tracy Blackman. Rock Wall Wine Company’s uber-talented artist/winemaker, Shauna Rosenblum, will be highlighting works from her latest K Gallery exhibit, all interspersed with a few games of wacky dance party bingo hosted by “Ethel Merman” and with special guest Ball Caller – “OH NO YOKO.”

Proceeds from the Rhythmix MashUP Benefit for Youth Arts will support the Performance Art & Learning (PAL) program, which presents free world music and dance assemblies to over 3,000 East Bay youth annually. To provide continued access to high quality, engaging arts education experiences during the pandemic, the PAL program will be offered in an interactive virtual format at no cost to East Bay schools for the 2020-21 school year.

Come as fancy or as whimsical as you wish, and get ready to party, dance, laugh and play together to bring the gift of high quality arts education to East Bay youth!

Rhythmix MashUP Benefit for Youth Arts includes:

• Live Comedy with Marga Gomez
• Live music performances by “accordion babe” Jet Black Pearl and singer-songwriter Tracy Blackman
• 3 Games of Wacky Dance Party Bingo hosted by “Ethel Merman” and special guest Ball Caller – “OH NO YOKO” with prizes in support of women-owned businesses including restaurants, wineries, breweries, distilleries from the Bay Area and beyond.
• Exhibit highlights with Artist/Winemaker, Shauna Rosenblum, Rock Wall Wine Company.
• Online Silent Auction with fabulous prizes.

Ticket Tiers & Thank You Gifts

• Happy Feet: $35 – General Admission
• Footloose: $50 – Rhythmix YAY! Pin* (soft enamel lapel pin)
• Saturday Night Fever: $75 – Rhythmix YAY! T-Shirt* (Indicate your unisex shirt size: S, M, L, XL in comment section during checkout)
• FAME: $100 – Bottle of premium wine ($30 – $50 value) donated by the Connoisseurs’ Guide to California Wine. (Limited # of bottles available. First come, first served!)
• Flash Dance: $250 or more – All of the above

*Rhythmix YAY! Pin, T-Shirt & Premium Wine

**If you do not wish to receive a Thank You Gift and would like the maximum amount of your ticket price to count toward the Rhythmix PAL program, please indicate “NO GIFT” in the Comments Section during checkout.

Please note: We are unable to mail wine, for local pickup/delivery only. We can mail shirts and pins anywhere. Wine selections vary.

Rhythmix MashUP is Sponsored by:

Bios

Marga Gomez, three time winner of the “Best Of The Bay Comedian” 48 Hills, SF Guardian and the GLAAD Award. She has appeared on Comic Relief with the late Robin Williams, who called her “Amazing.” Since the pandemic she has been performing virtually for the Punchline SF, corporate events and for Brava Theater San Francisco. She is also the writer/performer of thirteen solo plays which have been produced Off-Broadway and internationally. Her acting credits include “The Vagina Monologues” with Rita Moreno and Vicki Lawrence, and a guest role on “Sense8” (Netflix.) She’s often not remembered in “Guiding Light” (CBS) as prisoner number three, shortly before it got cancelled. Her website is www.margagomez.com.

Jet Black Pearl is an amazing accordion diva from the port of Amsterdam. She has performed on more than a thousand stages all over Europe and the USA West Coast while singing, rapping and beat-boxing about slugs in love, criminal gurus and hallucinating butterflies. Her smartly wacky songs sound like a mad hatter’s European gypsy tea party with a hip-hop attitude. Before your very eyes, she creates grooves and loops of flute, plastic bottles, rubber pigs, vocal percussion and harmonies, while squeezing her red accordion.

Tracy Blackman is an award-winning, musical performing and recording artist whose music is described as soulful, stirring and authentic. Tracy’s dynamic and powerful voice transports the listener into the heart of any song she sings. As a songwriter, she pens songs that deeply touch the soul with infectious hooks and grooves melded with a tasteful fusion of blues, pop, jazz and rock reminiscent of Rickie Lee Jones.

Warmly embraced by Blues fans and peers alike, Terrie Odabi is one of the most respected talents in the Blues genre.

“Terrie Odabi is easily the most dynamic blues and soul woman to have emerged in the Bay Area since Etta James came out of San Francisco’s Fillmore District in the Fifties. Terrie has a powerful set of pipes, writes terrific tunes, leads a kicking band and has onstage movements that perfectly match the rhythms of her material. Surely stardom awaits her.”

-Lee Hildebrand, contributor to the *San Francisco Chronicle, *East Bay News Group and *Living Blues Magazine”

Shauna Rosenblum is a Bay Area based Artist/Winemaker with a BFA in Ceramics from California College of Arts and Crafts and an MFA in Sculpture from San Francisco Art Institute. Rosenblum became enamored with the intersection of science and art through the application of chemistry in the glaze making process in ceramics. In 2008, this intersection of science and art led her to her winemaking career. Although Rosenblum views her wine as art, she has continued to make Fine Art in many forms.

Kim Teevan (aka Ethel Merman) has worked in the event and entertainment industry for over 20 years in many different capacities, including as a member of the Ethel Merman Memorial Choir. She likes to think that her varied experience has been an asset to her event management business, but it could be said that she just has a short attention span.

Ticket Tiers & Thank You Gifts

• Happy Feet: $35 – General Admission
• Footloose: $50 – Rhythmix YAY! Pin* (soft enamel lapel pin)
• Saturday Night Fever: $75 – Rhythmix YAY! T-Shirt* (Indicate your unisex shirt size: S, M, L, XL in comment section during checkout)
• FAME: $100 – Bottle of premium wine ($30 – $50 value) donated by the Connoisseurs’ Guide to California Wine. (Limited # of bottles available. First come, first served!)
• Flash Dance: $250 or more – All of the above

*Rhythmix YAY! Pin, T-Shirt and Premium Wine

**If you do not wish to receive a Thank You Gift and would like the maximum amount of your ticket price to count toward the Rhythmix PAL program, please indicate “NO GIFT” in the Comments Section during checkout.

Please note: We are unable to mail wine, for local pickup/delivery only. We can mail shirts and pins anywhere. Wine selections vary.

BUY TICKETS

This event will be held on Zoom.

IN-KIND SPONSORS

Wineries / Breweries

Artesa Winery, Balletto Vineyards, Cary Q Wines, Charlie & Therry Olken, Connoisseurs’ Guide to California Wines, Craft Beer & Wine, Dashe Cellars, Faction Brewing, Fireside Lounge, Grgich Hills Estate, Prospect 772, Rock Wall Wine Company, Tres Sabores, Wachira Wines, Wine Mine Company

Restaurants/Good Eats

Alameda Natural Grocery, Asena, Cafe Jolie, Cardel Catering, C’era Una Volta, Craft-Chocolate, Crispian Bakery, Donut Petit, East End, Farmstead Cheeses & Wine, Greens & Grains, Julie’s Coffee & Tea Garden, Picante Berkeley, Trabocco Kitchen & Cocktails, Tucker’s Ice Cream

Specialty Items

Alameda Bicycle, Audrey Lord-Hausman, Barbie Wong, Chuck DiGuida, Concreteworks, Feathered Outlaw, Island Acupuncture / Tracy Zollinger L.Ac., Jan Mason, Janet Koike, Kathie Woulfe, Mark Montgomery French, Maurice Ramirez, Pete Elman, Peter Fletcher, Sandy Russell, Second Home, Shauna Rosenblum, Stephen Schultz, Teff Ayral, Walt Disney Museum