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Here’s a quick one to remind you of a couple of gigs upcoming – including this one in San Diego tomorrow night –

MIKE KENEALLY (guitar, keys)
JEFF BERKLEY (guitar, percussion)
JAMIE SHADOWLIGHT (electric violin)

JAVA JOE’S
3536 Adams Ave. San Diego, CA 92116

Friday, January 30, 8pm

One show! All ages! We’re rehearsing the night before and will figure out what’s going on.

We all met late last year and hit it off. Just from a spirit standpoint this feels like it’s going to be great. Please check it out if you can and get your weekend off to a nice start.

Here’s a nice article about the show by our friend Georga Varga from the San Diego U-T.

Advance tickets are available at javajoes91@gmail.com


Then! For when you’re in San Francisco a week later and need to laugh!

As part of
The 14th annual SF SKETCHFEST
The San Francisco Comedy Festival:

BAKED with BRENDON SMALL and STEVE AGEE
Featuring MIKE KENEALLY, PETE GRIFFIN and JOE TRAVERS

And special guest comics
TODD BARRY
GREG BEHRENDT
NATASHA LEGGERO

VERDI CLUB
2424 Mariposa St.
San Francisco, CA 94110

Friday, February 6, 7:30pm

Come and enjoy more of that magical blend of comedy and music that thrills you to the basement of your soul.

Buy tickets here.


And – just a brief teaser but we’ll talk more about this later – and just in case you didn’t manage to see the trio version of MK/BFD at the Baked Potato last week (people seemed very pleased)…

WESFEST 10 – MARCH 8 – THE ROXY
A concert to benefit the Wes Wehmiller Scholarship at Berklee College of Music

Headliner is VICTOR WOOTEN with special guest STEVE BAILEY

Also performing…

MIKE KENEALLY & BEER FOR DOLPHINS
(Keneally/Beller/Travers with a special guest toward the end of the set)

THE WESFEST ALL-STARS

And DANNY MO AND THE EXCITERS

Advance tickets on sale now HERE (https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/757951?utm_medium=bks):

More soon! Thanks for reading this!

I’m your vehicle,
Mike

DEBUT PERFORMANCE BY THIS TRIO IN SAN DIEGO FRIDAY

This Friday I’m going to play with a couple of San Diego musicians I met late last year – Jeff Berkley, a guitarist I respect tremendously, and Jamie Shadowlight, an electric violinist I’ve only just heard of but I love what I’ve heard of her playing. We’re going to rehearse tomorrow night. The sky is the limit. Tickets are available in advance at javajoes91@gmail.com.

Java Joe's flyer

MIKE RECORDING NEW SATRIANI ALBUM, PLUS MK/BFD LIVE IN LA!

Two and a half weeks into the new year already? Holy frijole.

Type to you I do from Northern California where we (for the purposes of this sentence “we” means the Joe Satriani band) are currently holed up doing a solid eight-hours-a-day working on Joe’s next album. Of the three albums I’ve done with Joe this is the first where the particular group of musicians doing the recording have a solid history of all performing together (for Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards the musicians met in the studio, and then we toured for a couple of years; for Unstoppable Momentum we made the album and haven’t played together again since). After two-ish years of touring with the Satriani/Keneally/Beller/Minnemann assemblage we know each other like fine monkeys know one another, and the recording process has been an extraordinarily smooth sail. Bryan and Marco have completed the rhythm tracks and Joe and I are currently goofing around with my overdubs. (I’m finally playing some guitar on a Satriani record.) It’s been a joy really. Upon the album’s release later this year, the Satriani touring machine will lurch back into action mode.


But first, I am about to lurch back in time into mid-’90s BFD mode:

JANUARY 21 at THE BAKED POTATO

A legendary club in the dank environs of beautiful Hollywood-transitioning-into-North Hollywood California…

(3787 Cahuenga Blvd. West, Studio City, CA 91604 to be precise)

Presents

MIKE KENEALLY & BEER FOR DOLPHINS

(mid-90s power trio style)

featuring BRYAN BELLER and JOE TRAVERS

performing loads of old favorites

(including one pretty majorly obscure entirely insane composition not played live for around 19 years or something)

TWO ENTIRELY DIFFERENT SHOWS (aside from the fact that we’ll play the aforementioned insane composition at both shows)

9:30pm and 11:30pm

IF YOU CAN BE THERE, DO! BE! THERE!


Then, on January 30, we got kind of a special show at Java Joe’s in San Diego. Last month I met a couple of very cool musicians at a holiday party thrown by the San Diego Troubadour (who stuck me on the cover of their December issue): Jeff Berkley, a local guitar player I’ve respected for a very long time, and Jamie Shadowlight, a violinist who was new to me. I heard them both play that night and was instantly struck by their spirit and musicianship. Hanging out with them along with my dear friend Claudia Russell from San Diego radio station KSDS Jazz 88.3, and Joe Flammini, proprietor of the venerable acoustic venue Java Joe’s, we all got to talkin’, and the result was the planning of this unique trio performance:

JANUARY 30 2015

MIKE KENEALLY, JEFF BERKLEY & JAMIE SHADOWLIGHT TRIO

Super excited to discover what sort of chemistry results from the meeting of these three elements.

(Playing a bunch of material together which we still need to decide upon – we will begin emailing one another repertoire ideas shortly – any requests?)

JAVA JOE’S – 3536 ADAMS AVE. SAN DIEGO 92116

8:00 PM


Other news – Kris Myers of Umphrey’s McGee just recorded a bunch of drums for Scambot 2. And there’s a couple more gigs coming up soon – early February I’ll be appearing with Brendon Small, Joe Travers, Pete Griffin and Steve Agee in San Francisco, and in early March MK/BFD will be performing at WesFest 10.

Much more about all of that in – THE NEXT KENEALLIST! RUN TUN TUNNNNNN!

Mike