» Cancelledt: Fritz Rau

Because of a death in the family Fritz Rau has to cancel his appearance at Zappanale.

» Essra Mohawk in interview with Andrew Greenaway

Andrew Greenaway (aka The Idiot Bastard) has been interviewing Essra Mohawk (aka Sandy Hurvitz) ahead of her appearance at Zappanale. Here’s an extract. The full transcript will appear at www.idiotbastard.com shortly.

Andrew Greenaway: How and where did you first meet Frank?

Essra Mohawk: I was visiting NY with two friends from LA that I had met in Philly when they came to see Cal Schenkel. We were walking down Bleeker Street in the Village when we saw Frank Zappa coming our way. He was headed towards the Garrick Theater, where he and the Mothers were playing every night. The LA girls yelled out, “Ben Frank’s! Cantors!”, two popular hangs in LA that Frank was familiar with, so he let us all in for free and that’s how we met!

AG: What attracted you to him?

» more »

» 20 Years – THE MUFFIN MEN

Special Guest: DENNY WALLEY

Europas dienstälteste und fleissigste Zappa-Band wird 20 Jahre alt, kaum zu glauben, aber wahr!

Nach mittlerweile rund 700 Konzerten in ganz Europa steht nun eine kleine Geburtstagstournee an um ausgiebig zu feiern. Vom Geheimtip auf der zweiten Zappanale 1991 zum renommierten JazzOpen in Stuttgart, von der Aftershow bei Zappa´s Yellow Shark ...

» mehr »