Possum Family Singers

Upcoming is the New School of Berkeley 2013 Fall Bazaar, October 26 , 1606 Bonita Street at Cedar Street, Berkeley–The Possum Family Singers will be opening the stage at Noon Saturday, for a 45 minute set.  Free entry, rummage, snacks, and a keg!  Great music all day, come on down and join us for a fun fundraiser for this local intstitution  .  .  .  FREE ADMISSION, snacks, crafts, rummage sale, a keg, games, live music ’til 4 PM.

Laurie, Ann, Matt (and Art)

Howdy Possum Folk-

Miss Laurie Possum joins the fray with LOST HIPPIES on bass, Every Thursday Happy Hour 5-7 PM, STARRY PLOUGH, 3101 Shattuck, Berkeley, CA.

Would love to see you there.

Yes the POSSUM FAMILY SINGERS are still going strong, Saturday Happy Hour 5-7 PM at the STARRY PLOUGH Pub and Restaurant, 3101 Shattuck Avenue at the Oakland Border, Berkeley, CA.

The Second Saturday of each month, an all-ages afternoon matinee with Leo Lobo is scheduled=NO POSSUMS=so we will be back next week as part of their FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION.

Barry, Muffy, Possum, Ron, Scruffy, and Matty at Black Butte River Ranch

A true Leo, Baby White Lion Cub, you will always be our center

The last day I spent with Scruffy, April 5, 2013, we got our Westy smogged and had lunch at Gallego’s on SP Av.  Here they are the day we decided to get it.  Time stamp says June 21, 2013 at 11:43 AM.

Thank you for your many gifts, Steve.  You taught me to sing;  You taught me to live.  Thank you.

Steve and our new Westy on our test drive, Pt Richmond, CA

With the loss of our Meter, Scruffy, there is always an empty chair to be filled, even with the guests that come and go.  Kurt helps out on guitar, rhythm, and great songwriting.  Lately we have Art’s Accordion, maybe another Banjo can come in there, too.  It’s less of a struggle to sing the sad songs- tho, the 6 month mark is coming up next Saturday.  So grateful for the flow of things, that he would go away on a day we would all gather to play, the continuing miracle of community, family, music, food, and fun.  It is the Possum Way.

Watching the days grow shorter, night time is the right time for music around a big bonfire, toasted peeps and even stars.  Time to get away to the smoky foothills and pig out on some great open-air fare, fish fry friday and spaghetti saturday–leave the chips for another day.

Scruffy can’t come, he’s gone camping in the Great Beyond

Dragging the round table into yet another, yet smaller, space,  Sad to say goodbye, but maybe an upgrade, after all.  This may be the prize.  The energy here is so sweet, so warm, maybe the whole issue was the ghost-infested Apartment One.  Here in the studio we can focus on what matters, beer! friends! and oh yeah, the music

(Matt, Joe, and Ken at the gallery party)

Successfully rocked the lovely 80th birthday garden party on Fourth of July–played for nearly 4 hours!

Great food, great people, so much fun-

The verdict?   “cute as a button!”  and Awesome–Hence the name of the band.

Do note–we play the Starry Plough Pub

( a bit o’ the Irish)

at Shattuck and Prince Street on the

1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Saturdays of the month–

Happy Hour from 4:30-7

See you there!

2013 is turning out to be the year of the bite–Not a spider afterall, but a flying tick, leaving Muffy with a (possible?) case of Lyme Disease, with a side of Dead Honda.  Possum has the psycho-killer landlord blues.  Fritz seems to be handling it all with aplomb (he’s a plumber, geddit?)  and Scruffy, well, bit the big one.

The crazy/scary landlord story is a juicy one, all written out in longhand in my Tacoma Journal, but I may pull it all together for a big post of its own, or bury it in the back yard.  Perhaps the East Bay Subgenius Express will publish it in the best-of issue, once this all blows (and bites)  all over.

Last week was so horrific, i have resurrected that word for the purpose

Now, the letters from the Landlord begin.  I wish, I coulda Just gone camping in the desert, but it’s too HOT.

An alternate kind of vacation

Coulda been–