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Jamie Leopold & The Short Stories

KALA welcomes 6-piece music project Jamie Leopold and the Short Stories, on Nov 28 at 8pm, a great name for a band whose front person regales with storiesfrom his rich past as a musician and artist in the halcyon days of the 60's.

Jaime Leopold was the original bass player in the cult band "Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks". For the past several years he's been writing songs and performing with his band "Jaime Leopold and the Short Stories". They call their music "American Quirk": it's a hard to pin down style influenced by folk music, country, jazz and Jaime's unique storytelling.

Jaime spent his formative years in the Haight-Ashbury as a part of the youth culture movement of the day. He hung out with many legends of those times, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Jerry Garcia and was present at seminal counterculture events like the "Human Be-in", Ken Kesey's Acid Tests, "The Death of Hip" and of course the Avalon Ballroom and Fillmore Auditorium music scene. "My approach to my life and art was strongly influenced by those freewheeling times", says Jaime. " I saw a lot of wondrous things in that California trip and they bubble to the surface in my writing."

"The Short Stories" are from Portland but play all over the Northwest. The band features Jaime on guitar and vocals, Jennifer "the Polish Princess" Smieja on vocals, Clark "the Reverend" Salisbury on guitar; Aaron "gatemouth" Lowe, harmonica; J. Michael "king" Kersey bass and Eugene Fred Ingram on drums. The band has new CD "Live at O'Connor's" which is getting a lot of airplay.

The evening at KALA features full cabaret table seating and full bar. $13 @ the door, but to assure seating, get advance tickets at www.BrownPaperTickets.com (includes small service charge). Doors open at 7pm, show at 8pm. KALA is located at 1017 Marine Drive in Astoria. 503.338.4878