Hard French DJs at Public Works Presents: MISSION UNITED
Public Works is rallying some of its favorite co-conspirators from all around the Mission for a night of Food, Art, Sounds, Styles and Philanthropy. Mission United aims to bring the diversity and creativity of our favorite neighborhood under one roof for a night of community celebration. Always looking for ways to give back to the community, Public Works will be donating the proceeds to both the San Francisco Community Music Center, Mission Graduates and San Francisco Goodwill. In addition to being beneficiaries of the event, Goodwill will be hosting the “Goodwill Lounge,” showcasing some of the amazing fashion and unique treasures to be found in their stores. While you peruse the Goodwill gems and bask in local art and food, we welcome you to enjoy the sounds from some of San Francisco’s best DJ crews. Shake your hips to the scratchy 45′s of Hard French. Move your feet to the funky soul from the Motown on Mondays gang. Nod your head to the eclectic hip hop vibes of Grown Kids Radio and let your freak flag fly with the ladies from Stay Gold, Mancub & Cap’n Kirk from the Space Cowboys, Melyss from Opel and Mission stalwarts DJ Theory, Roost Uno, plus a host of wandering minstrels and performers. This night promises to be a raucous reminder of everything you love about San Francisco’s most happenin’ hood.
And because we always have your well-being in mind, we are going to have a plethora of discounts and goodies for you. Admission is free for all who donate clothing before 930pm
The first 100 donating clothing after 930 receive their choice of either a free drink or a free movie pass.
EVENT DETAILS:
PUBLIC WORKS PRESENTS : MISSION UNITED : CELEBRATING THE MISSION & BENEFITTING SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER,
MISSION GRADUATES, and SAN FRANCISCO GOODWILL
Saturday May 25, 2013 at Public Works 161 Erie Street, San Francisco.
8PM – 3AM
Tickets: $5 at the door before 11pm / $10 after
Presale: $5
Ticketing: http://ticketf.ly/18rQxmp
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/100389106833570/
Ages 21+
About Goodwill :
The Goodwill Mission : We create solutions to poverty through the businesses we operate.We open doorways to jobs for local people in need. Goodwill
provides structured on-the-job training, life skills coaching, and employment opportunities to people ready to transform their lives. Called The Goodwill Way,
our proven method moves people from hopelessness and dependency to confidence and stability through the power of work. We focus on people coming
out of prison, off the streets, and out of addiction – the chronically unemployed for whom Goodwill is often a last hope. We help many migrate from public
assistance to paycheck, become self-sufficient, and take part in supporting their families and communities.
More than 80% of our revenue comes selling goods generously donated by residents of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties. We operate 33
donation sites, 21 stores, an eCommerce business, and a salvage operation – staffed primarily by people participating in our job training programs. (The
balance of our revenue comes from grants and philanthropy, including individual gifts)
About San Francisco Community Music Center:
With branches in the Mission and Richmond districts, as well as programs throughout the city, Community Music Center makes music accessible to people
of all ages, musical levels, and financial backgrounds. Our students range in age from one to 90+ years old and enjoy classes in everything from Western
classical to Chinese to Latin Music. Founded in 1921, Community Music Center is the Bay Area’s oldest community arts organization and San Francisco’s
largest provider of high quality, affordable music education. From our teachers to our office staff, we’re all committed to sharing our love of music and
helping our students succeed.
About Mission Graduates :
Mission Graduates is a nonprofit organization that increases the number of K-12 students in San Francisco’s Mission District who are prepared for and complete a college education. For 40 years, Mission Graduates (MG) has been an important institution in San Francisco’s Mission District–an ethnically mixed, low-income community, where per capita income is just $13,951. Mission Graduates (then called St. John’s Educational Thresholds Center) was first created by members of St. John’s the Episcopal church, as a tutorial program for under-performing neighborhood children.In late 2006, after an extensive assessment of its historic strengths as an organization, Mission Graduates strengthened its commitment to getting more kids from the neighborhood into college as a means to achieve economic equity and strengthen the fabric of the Mission community. College education as an “end goal” is a theme that is woven through all of our academic enrichment programs serving low-income youth in the Mission District, the majority of whom are Latino. This population is greatly under-represented at four-year colleges due to a variety of factors, including little household expectation for going to college, a lack of information about financial aid, concerns about residency status, and over-taxed high school counselors.We work towards fulfilling our mission through a wide range of K-12 after-school, in-school and summer programs that reach over 1,100 children, youth and families each year.
HARD FRENCH APRIL w/ Special Guest DJ BEYONDA
HARD FRENCH
a saturday afternoon soul music dance party
April 6th, 2pm – 8pm
$7 – dancing and cruising
3pm – 4pm: $1 beers
3pm – 5pm: free BBQ until its all gone!
yr Hard French DJs:
DJ Carnita & DJ Brown Amy
Spinning the baddest all-vinyl girl group grooves, northern soul stunners and funky foot stompers this side of the ’60s
special guest DJ:
Beyonda (A Hole In My Soul — PDX)
Raised on Dirty South, Soul, Gospel and Memphis sounds DJ Beyonda has spent a decade traveling the US spinning her collection of rare, vintage Soul and Rhythm & Blues 45s.
“I’ve Got a Hole in My Soul,” her 6 year-old, ground-breaking monthly of late 50s-early 60s Soul, Rhythm & Blues, & early Rock n Roll 45s has achieved legendary status with heavyweight dj-collectors and “beautifully ecstatic dancers” around the country.
w/ the Hard French Jiggalicious Dance Babes
“Babes shakin it down and making you move.”
As Always:
**Hard French photo booth photographed by Shot In The City! (6pm – 8pm)**
All PHOTO BOOTH proceeds will benefit the Sick Collective. SICK is an artist-driven collective that aims to unite a community of artists who are simultaneously navigating chronic illness and gender-variant identities in the Bay Area and beyond.http://www.sickcollective.org/
Bridge HIV from the San Francisco Department of Public Health will be in attendance handing out information on their newest vaccines and studies.
HARD DANCING. HARD CRUISING. HARD FRENCH.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARD FRENCH
a saturday afternoon soul music dance party
Our wild child is about to turn three and we can’t wait to celebrate with all of you babes who have made dance magic for the past three years! Get ready for lots of fun birthday surprises and Hard French staples as we kick off a new season of hard dancing and hard cruising.
March 2nd, 2pm – 8pm
$7 – dancing and cruising
3pm – 4pm: $1 beers
3pm – 5pm: free BBQ until its all gone!
yr Hard French DJs:
DJ Carnita & DJ Brown Amy
Spinning the baddest all-vinyl girl group grooves, northern soul stunners and funky foot stompers this side of the ’60s
special guest DJ:
Primo (Oldies Night)
w/ the Hard French Jiggalicious Dance Babes
“Babes shakin it down and making you move.”
As Always:
**Hard French photo booth created by Tommy Tuff and photographed by Shot In The City! (6pm – 8pm)**
–All PHOTO BOOTH proceeds will benefit the AIDS Lifecycle rides of HF friends Aaron Kantor and Sean Lackey
HARD DANCING. HARD CRUISING. HARD FRENCH.
Hard French is for Lovers! Valentines Day NightLife at the CA Academy of Sciences
Join us for the perfect Valentines Day date at the California Academy of Sciences this Thursday night from 6-10pm! We <3 NIGHTLIFE and we <3 YOU so join us for Hard French tunes, a couples dance off and lots of Hard French surprises for you lovers out there. Buy your tickets, RSVP on Facebook & see more details below!
Center for Sex and Culture founders Carol Queen and Robert Lawrence will deliver fascinating talks in the Forum with guest Midori. In the East Pavilion, sample sweet treats from Whole Foods, make a good old fashioned valentine at SCRAP’s craft table, and stop by the Photoboof for posterity’s sake.
In the aquarium, enjoy “gold classics” being spun by Sweet Cheeks DJs Loco and Mawkus in the coral reef, and strike up a conversation about extreme mating in the animal kingdom while wandering through Animal Attraction. In the Piazza, Hard French DJs Carnita and Brown Amy will whip up a soul storm, topped with grown-up board games and a few surprises.
For details and tickets, please visit:
http://bit.ly/nightlife-info
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NightLife takes place Thursday nights (6-10pm) at the California Academy of Sciences. Music, Creatures and Cocktails. 21+
Where To Buy Your Winter Ball Tickets
WHOA! You Did it Hard Frenchers!! We have officially reached our quota for online ticket sales. This is going to be GOOD!
Tickets are NOT SOLD OUT! You can visit these retail locations to purchase tickets (you will automatically be entered to win a free hotel room at Hotel Paradox in Santa Cruz, too!):
- Hangr 16 (San Francisco): 3128 16th St (btwn Guerrero and Valencia), thru Friday February 1st.
- Saturn Cafe (Santa Cruz): 145 Laurel Street, thru Friday Februray 1st.
We’ll also have tickets available at these nightlife events (and one shopping party), look for the Hard French sign!
- Wednesday January 30th, Stay Gold, 10pm, Public Works (161 Erie Street, San Francisco)
- Thursday January 31st, Hard French Hearts Stony Pony Shop In, Stone Pony (3552 20th St. btwn Mission and Valencia, San Francisco). Get your look for the Ball with the Stone Pony stylists!
- Friday February 1st, SOMETHING Soul, , 10pm, the Stud (399 9th St., San Francisco)
Tickets will also be available at the Cocoanut Grove Box Office on February 2nd from 2pm – 5pm and when doors open at 9pm.
Remember to guarantee entry into the event – get your tickets early! See you at the ball!
xoxo the Hard French Crew
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Your 2013 Hard French Winter Ball Queen & King Finalists
My goodness! Once again, as your official Coronation Certification & Cat-Herding Coordinator, I am blown away by the love, talent, energy, and commitment in our community! It is my utmost honor to present to you your official 2013 Hard French Winter Ball Court — and thank the stars I only have to count the votes, because I honestly don’t know who I’d vote for! But remember, you must be present at the ball to vote, so if you want to see your friendsies win, you better get a ticket ASAP (online sales have ended, so they’re now available at select in-person locations and at the door — it is NOT sold out!!!).
As a reminder, this year’s finalists have each chosen community beneficiaries that they’re running on behalf of (sort of like Celebrity Apprentice but way cooler, and I think I’m prettier than Donald Trump!) — the winners will each have at least $250 donated to the org/project of their choice. (And you can help raise those numbers by visiting the photobooth and coat check, which are being added to the kitty!) Of course, we want our winners to also walk away with more than just our adoration and the satisfaction of helping out the community, so we’re showering them with treats from local sponsors: Rickshaw Bags, Amoeba Music, Saturn Cafe, Stone Pony, Ike’s Sandwiches, Boogaloos, Nick’s Pizza, Lexington Club, Courtney Trouble/Indie Porn Prize Pack, Extreme Pizza, California Academy of Sciences, HiTops, Cafe Delmarette, and The Picnic Basket. There is a lot on the line, y’all!
So, without further ado, I present your court (in alphabetical order, calm down!) including their hopes, dreams, and a selection of all the nice things people said about them in the nominations process!
see you on the dancefloor,
Lil Miss Hot Mess
Watch Hard French’s newest video – ¡SACAMELO!
Maria Elena has been pregnant for 12 months. Determined to give birth before the Winter Ball, she’ll stop at nothing to induce labor – but what kind of monster will emerge? Watch the official Hard French Winter Ball Telenovela, ¡SACAMELO!, by Dirty Glitter and Jorge P starring Ambrosia Salad & Stanley Frank Sensation to learn the answer…
HARD FRENCH WINTER BALL 2013: ¡SACAMELO! from Dirtyglitter on Vimeo.
LIVE PERFORMANCES at the Hard French Winter Ball!
We here at Hard French love performances. This year we are showcasing four of our favorite performers who will be singing live for you at the Ball! In addition, Glamamore will once again take to the stage for the third year in a row! Click on the photo of each artist to find out more…
Nominate Your 2013 Hard French Winter Ball King & Queen
It’s time once again to nominate your friends, lovers, crushes, and all-around heros for the Hard French Winter Ball King & Queen competition! As always, we’re looking for extraordinary folks from our community who are smart, sweet, artsy, crafty, committed, bold, big-hearted, and of course, self-identifiably sexy and know how to shake their tail feathers! Ultimately, it’s a chance to honor the folks who tend to put in more than they get back, to say thank you for being part of what makes our community so great!
New this year, our nominees will each be competing for an organization of their choice to become the community beneficiaries of the Winter Ball (it’s sort of like Celebrity Apprentice but without Donald Trump) — it’s another way of supporting the work these great folks are doing and giving back to our community! Of course, all finalists receive FREE entry to the Winter Ball. The winners will receive a 2013 Season Pass to Hard French, as well as a prize pack including gift certificates and treats to some of our favorite spots (we’re constantly updating this list!!!):
- Rickshaw Bags
- Amoeba Music
- Saturn Cafe (Santa Cruz!)
- Stone Pony
- Ike’s Sandwiches
- Boogaloos
- Nick’s Pizza
- Lexington Club
- Courtney Trouble/Indie Porn Prize Pack
- Extreme Pizza
- California Academy of Sciences
- HiTops
- Cafe Delmarette (Santa Cruz!)
- The Picnic Basket / The Penny Ice Creamery (Santa Cruz!)
The nomination form and official rules are below / after the jump — and don’t forget to get your tickets now!
XOXO,
Lil Miss Hot Mess, your official vote counter
WINTER LIVING with HARD FRENCH — Live Performances by the Younger Lovers & T.I.T.S.
a new daytime danceparty with hot bands, hot babes and hot drinks
December 1st 3pm – 8pm
$7
DJ Carnita & DJ Brown Amy
Spinning the baddest all-vinyl girl group grooves, northern soul stunners and funky foot stompers this side of the ’60s
live performances by:
The Younger Lovers
“A shot of syrupy pop tainted with gritty swagger dug out of the potholes of Oakland’s San Pablo Ave” – SF Weekly
T.I.T.S.
“Totally unhinged, like a ’60s freakout taken to almost parodic extremes” – SF Bay Guardian
With the Winter upon us Hard French has decided to forgo our regular hibernation to bring you a few of our favorite things – hot bands, hot dancing & hot drinks. When El Rio said they were weatherproofing their patio and asked us to party with them through the changing seasons we took the opportunity to do something a little different. During our regular Hard French timeslot in December and January we’re going to be inviting some of our favorite bands, performers, artists and others to the party. Don’t worry, we’ll still have Hard French staples like our DJ’s Brown Amy & Carnita and hot babes dancing.
Speaking of Winter Living, don’t forget to save the date for February 2nd for the Third Annual HARD FRENCH WINTER BALL at the Cocoanut Grove on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. You may also want to start planning an outfit, reserving a room, hiring consultants to run your campaign for Queen or King, etc.
Goodnight Hard French!
Two Parties. Two Locations. 12 Hours of nonstop Dancing!
Hard French is going to party the only way we know how – BIG! Our Season Finale marks another year of Saturday Afternoon dancing and cruising, and to commemorate it this year we are throwing TWO parties! Starting at 2pm at El Rio, our regular daytime soul music party will get you started with all the HF classics and guest DJ Jackie Sugarlumps. When that ends at El Rio make your way to Goodnight Hard French, where we continue our festivities with a live performance by New York City’s Midnight Magic, guest DJs Primo (2 Men Will Move You/Nightbeat) and Jason Kendig (Honey Soundsystem). Check out the video for Midnight Magic’s song ‘Beam Me Up’!
click here for more info on Hard French Season Finale @ El Rio, 2pm – 8pm
click here for more info on Goodnight Hard French @ Public Works, 10pm – 2am
DEVIANTS: Featuring Hard French and Honey Soundsystem!
It’s our favorite time of year – Folsom Street Fair! For the second year in a row we are partnering with the boys of Honey Soundsystem to bring you 12 hours of non stop partying. After admiring all the adult babies, human manimals, naked MENZ and public flogging at the fair, stop by Public Works for DEVIANTS ADULT ARCADE.
BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW BEFORE THEY SELL OUT!
Sunday, September 23rd, 3pm – 3am, Public Works (Erie St. and Mission St.)
Beginning at 3pm the entire block of Erie Street in front of Public Works will be transformed into an open-air dance party complete with Hard French’s signature all 60s soul sound, our infamous Jiggalicious Dance Babes, outdoor bars and food carts. In addition to resident DJs Brown Amy and Carnita, DJ Wam Bam Ashleyanne will be joining us for NONSTOP HARD FRENCH DANCING FROM 3pm – 10pm!
What else can you expect? Stereogamous, a production duo based out of Sydney, Australia will be DJing and playing some songs with live vocalist Shaun J. Wright in the Public Works loft from 9-midnight. They have remixed some amazing acts and their music is best described as music for making out, horizontal dance music and BATH HOUSE.
They have remixed the following bands: LCD Soundsystem, MEN, The Presets, Kylie Minogue, George Michael, Light Asylum, and more..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyTK7E6j3t8
http://soundcloud.com/stereogamous/light-asylum-stereogamous
http://soundcloud.com/stereogamous/i-want-your-sex-stereogamous-b
http://soundcloud.com/stereogamous/stereogamous-cupid-boy
Horse Meat Disco will be DJing the main room of Public Works from 11-2am. Horse Meat Disco is dedicated to the industry of human happiness and it pumps it out every Sunday at THE EAGLE LONDON (formerly South Central). Its the queer party for everyone; Homos and Heteros, club kids, bears, fashionistas, naturists, guerilla drag queens and ladies who munch. Funky House Party MUSIC!
http://soundcloud.com/horse-meat-disco/hmd-channel-4-house-party-mix
http://soundcloud.com/james-horse-meat-disco/rollerdisco-mix
http://soundcloud.com/james-horse-meat-disco/december-2011-mix
HARD FRENCH HEARTS TRANSFORM SF!
Stand up and be counted! Be proud of who you are and speak up about it. Transform SF, a coalition of four community based HIV prevention organizations, gives you that chance.
Transform SF will be conducting our Transgender Community Health Survey (which includes a free, rapid HIV test), outside of Hard French on 9/1 from 4:00 – 8:00 PM. Participants get into Hard French for FREE!!! …plus a $20 gift card for participating.
Our Transgender Community Health Survey is a survey of the Transgender community who lives, works, or plays in San Francisco. Our goal is to better understand how discrimination, mistreatment, and other social factors play into the HIV prevalence rate in the SF Transgender community. For far too long HIV/AIDS has ravaged the Transgender community. With a prevalence rate of nearly 30%, (in contrast, the national average is less than 1%) the Transgender community has been disproportionally effected by the epidemic. But this doesn’t have to be the case. Stand up, be counted, and be heard.
The Transform SF Transgender Community Survey, which includes a free, rapid HIV test, offers a $20 gift card every 6 months for participants. If you can’t make it to this Hard French – contact Erin Armstrong for more information, or to make an appointment – (Erin@APIWellness.org) 415.292.3400 x 113.
Hard French w/ SOUL R CAMP
| HARD FRENCH a saturday afternoon soul music dance party August 4th 2pm – 8pm yr Hard French DJs: w/ the Hard French Jiggalicious Dance Babes And especially soulful performances c/o SOME THING presents SOUL ARE CAMP, from the nighttime to the daytime, a show reminding you to pack your bags and come to SOME ARE CAMP on August 10th & 11th with As Always: **FRITO BOATS (5pm – till it runs out!)** HARD DANCING. HARD CRUISING. HARD FRENCH. |
Party in the Woods with DJ Brown Amy at Fabulosa Fest
Every year Hard French heads up to the wilds of Marin to hang out, dance with babes, watch live bands and party in the wilderness at Fabulosa Fest, an annual summer festival celebrating women in music. Highlights for this year include a campfire jam with Kaia Wilson & Jenny Hoyston, a danceparty in A BARN with our friend Miss Pop and, for the second year in a row, our own DJ Brown Amy will be spinning her 45s lakeside on Saturday so you can tube around and shake a tailfeather on the docks or under the water. Brown Amy says her favorite Fabulosa memory was spinning Marlena Shaw’s Let’s Wade In The Water as hot ladies splashed around together in the lake which one can only imagine will be recreated again this year.
Here’s some more info about the festival from the organizers (who just happen to be our amazing El Rio family) and be sure to buy your tickets now cuz they’re going fast!
The 5th annual FABULOSA happens July 20-22, 2012 at Walker Creek Ranch, 40 miles North of San Francisco. FABULOSA attendees have a blast swimming to “Oldies at the Lake” with DJ Brown Amy (of Hard French), watching an outdoor film exhibition (by Frameline and QWOCMAP), attending workshops, getting massages, browsing the craft fair, and singing around the campfire. FABULOSA’s Main Stage and Dinner concerts feature world-class women musicians, who delightfully bring Salsa, Americana, Funk, Hip Hop, and Jazz to life.FABULOSA is an inclusive feminist gathering, open to all ages and genders. Proceeds from the 3-day party benefit women’s and LGBT charities.Camping spots, bunkhouse beds, and meal plans (with gluten-free, vegan, and omnivore options) are still available for this magical weekend on a gorgeous, green-facility ranch. Get discounted weekend passes or day passes online until July 10 at www.FABULOSAFest.com or buy regularly priced passes at the festival entrance.Tickets start at $180- 3 Days of Lodging, Meals and Festivities. COME!!!
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HARD FRENCH JULY
HARD FRENCH
a saturday afternoon soul music dance party
July 7th 2pm – 8pm
$7 – dancing and cruising
3pm – 4pm: $1 beers
3pm – 5pm: free BBQ until its all gone!
yr Hard French DJs:
DJ Carnita & DJ Brown Amy
Spinning the baddest all-vinyl girl group grooves, northern soul stunners and funky foot stompers this side of the ’60s
special guest DJ:
Brontez (Younger Lovers)
w/ the Hard French Jiggalicious Dance Babes
“Babes shakin it down and making you move.”
As Always:
**Hard French photo booth (6pm – 8pm)**
–All PHOTO BOOTH Proceeds will benefit Descry (http://descrythis.com/)! El Rio is going to match your dollar bills you donate to the photobooth… support the arts! Your glamour shots will be taken by none other than Shot In The City!
**FRITO BOATS (5pm – till it runs out!)**
GinO recreates a childhood snack bar treat & turns it into a masterpiece of gourmet, homemade tasty vegetarian chili, piled high atop your own bag of FritO’s, smothered in cheese & chopped onions–served with a spoon & love!
HARD DANCING. HARD CRUISING. HARD FRENCH.
Hard French Hearts Los Homos Is Here!
Happy Pride you big gay you! Pre sale ticket sales for Hard French Hearts Los Homos have ended but a limited number of tickets will be available at the door starting at 4pm, first come first serve. From 4pm-7pm we will reserve space in the venue for all presale ticket holders. At 7pm, we will open up ticket sales again and sell them until the venue is full. After 7 pm there will be no ins and outs. Phew! That’s a lot of info so now watch this video to learn some useful dance moves and get outfit inspiration.
MOVIN’ WITH HARD FRENCH – Pride 2012 (7 of 7) from Dirtyglitter on Vimeo.
HARD FRENCH HEARTS LOS HOMOS PRIDE PARTNERS
One of our favorite aspects about throwing a big ‘ole event like Hard French Hearts Los Homos Pride is the opportunity to partner with some of our favorite local businesses to make the whole thing happen! We’d like to take a minute to thank our partners and to let you know a little bit about why we love them so.
What’s not to love!? This women-centered 3 day festival happens at the prettiest ranch in Marin and features some of our favorite DJs and live performers. Our very own Brown Amy will be playing at her third Fabulosa Fest this year and will be spinning dockside so you can paddle, float or swim around the lake to your favorite soul sounds. Buy your tickets now and get ready to camp and dance your heart out July 20-22nd.
We (and by we we mean DJ Carnita) remembers first moving to San Francisco ages ago and going to Amoeba at least once a week to cruise the aisles for vinyl while also cruising the babes working behind the counter. Amoeba is still one of our favorite record stores in the world, not only because of their ridiculously expansive vinyl selection, but because their legendary in-store performances bring huge talent to the masses.
Emmy’s is one of our favorite places to go post-Hard French to soak up an afternoon’s worth of drinking at El Rio with the best Italian food in the Mission. How they make something as basic as spaghetti and meatballs an explosion of delicious in your mouth is anybody’s guess. This year they’ll be serving said meatballs in sandwich form for your eating pleasure at Hard French Hearts Los Homos.
This record store on 24th and Shotwell, specializing in new and used copies of “Rural American Music, Jazz, International Pop and Folk, and Vintage and Modern Electronics,” is extra near and dear to our hearts because it’s owned by one of our regular Hard French guest DJs, Phengren Oswald! It’s a perfect place to stop in and leave with a bag of rare records from different continents and genres you never knew existed.
This Tender-Nob cafe is the best place to meet a local queer celebrity trying to neutralize their hangover with Farm:Table’s award winning coffee and hand prepared artisan food. This queer owned cafe is also the proud owner of a brand new parklet so you can now sip your lates in the sunshine. Speaking of sipping in the sunshine, Farm:Table will be serving up their iced coffee at Hard French Hearts Los Homos for those of you who need a pick-me-up to keep you dancing late into the evening.
Have you ever wanted your logo/face/anything on a mug/tshirt/anything? Zazzle is the company that can make that happen! Zazzle well help you customize everything under the sun with your personal brand to help you get your name out there in fun and creative ways. Speaking of which, stay tuned for Hard French i-Phone cases and so much more in the future!
This is the Hard French GO TO website/online magazine/print magazine for cool shit in SF! They’ve given us a lot of love too, especially with this article. Peep their site every few days for new and interesting articles about SF Arts and Culture and not to mention Hard French is hella jealous of their kick ass new office.
Being a Zipcar member gives us the freedom of choice and do we ever choose! Our favorite car sharing service lets us put on a different set of wheels every time we leave the house. You may see a Hard Frencher scooting around town in a convertible mini cooper or working some butch realness in a Tacoma pickup. Variety is the spice of life and Zipcar keeps things spicy.
We heart this website from our one of our favorite Hard French attendees! He also happens to be the hot beardo with the football jersey and short shorts from our video series!
Are You Ready To Get Weird With SSION at Hard French Hearts Los Homos??
We’re beside ourselves excited to dance to the art-punk dance jams of Kansas City bred art collective SSION at Hard French Hearts Los Homos 2012! The Hard French crew has been obsessed with these magical queer phosphorescent beings since catching them live and then obsessively watching all of their videos on YouTube (see below) and it’s our pleasure to bring them to you.
Check out what the New York Times (BIG TIME!) had to say about ‘em cuz we couldn’t have said it better:
Arguably the most wonderfully weird thing to come out of Kansas City in recent memory, Cody Critcheloe and SSION (pronounced “shun”), his band of merry eccentrics, have bounced back and forth across the country for more than a decade, releasing their own music, directing music videos for groups like the Gossip, Peaches and CSS, and making their mark at MoMA PS1, Deitch Projects and the Hole.
But don’t take the New York Times & our word for it, check out their videos yourself and don’t forget to buy yr presale tickets now because they’re going fast!
MOVIN’ with Hard French
Hard French Hearts Los Homos! Check out the video series we created with director Dirty Glitter. Produced by crew member Jorge P. and featuring our favorite Jiggalicious Dance Babes and friends.
We’ll be posting a new video every few days! For more info on Hard French Hearts Los Homos check out these quick links:
— TICKETS — FACEBOOK — FAQ —
Hard French Pride 2012 – Movin’ With Stanley (4 of 7) from Dirtyglitter on Vimeo.
Hard French Pride 2012 – Get Ready (5 of 7) from Dirtyglitter on Vimeo.
Hard French Pride 2012 – DANCING IN THE STREETS (6 of 7) from Dirtyglitter on Vimeo.
MOVIN’ WITH HARD FRENCH – Pride 2012 (7 of 7) from Dirtyglitter on Vimeo.
HARD FRENCH & NOISEPOP PRESENT BIG FREEDIA!
Making up ain’t hard to do! For those of you who were as sad as we were to see Big Freedia have to postpone our Noise Pop show never fear, the make up is here!If attended our first annual Hard French Pride party last summer know that the combo of Hard French and Big Freedia means sweat dripping from the ceiling and AZZ EVERYWHERE. It’s these results that make us so excited to again be bringing the “Undisputed Queen of Bounce Music” back to Public Works and also to bring both our Hard French DJ’s and the Future Perfect crew back into the fold!
Check out details below (and also an amazing Big Freedia Video) and be sure to BUY YOUR PRE-SALE TICKETS, because this show is guaranteed to sell out.
Noise Pop & Hard French SF are proud to announce Big Freedia at Public Works June 14th. This is the makeup show for her postponed Noise Pop performance.
To purchase tickets please click the link: http://ticketf.ly/K2LYWlBig Freedia
with Hard French DJ’s & Future Perfect
Public Works
Doors at 9pm
The show is 21+ and tickets are $14 adv and $16 day of show.
Big Freedia – Y’all Get Back Now from Bob Weisz Sucks on Vimeo.
HARD FRENCH HEARTS LOS HOMOS 2012
For the second year in a row we are celebrating Pride the Hard French way. This year’s line up promises an inter-generational extravaganza as we pay homage to our SOUL music roots and usher in a new era of queer performance. Plan on all the regular Hard French fixings like sweating it out to hours upon hours of your favorite 45’s from our house DJ’s Brown Amy & Carnita, smoking-hot dance moves from the Jiggalicious Dance Babes and Magic Capturing by notorious Photo Booth which will be benefiting a local queer non-profit. On our main stage get ready to sweat to performances by the living legend Sugar Pie DeSanto, Indie Queer Electric Darling magic weirdo SSION and Bounce Magician BeyondaDoubt. Throughout the day strap in for a wild ride with our infamous 6 clubs in 6 hours bringing you sets by some of the hottest queer DJ’s and parties from San Francisco and up and down the west coast. Click here to buy tickets!
Party Details:
Hard French Hearts Los Homos Pride 2012
SOMarts Cultural Center
934 Brannan Street
Sunday, June 24, 2012, 4pm – 11pm
$20 Limited Presale, $25 General Presale, $60 All Access Homo Pass!
Presale tickets now onsale at http://hardfrenchpride2012.eventbrite.com/
As always:
DJ Carnita & DJ Brown Amy
and the Jiggalicious Dance Babes
Spinning the baddest all-vinyl girl group grooves, northern soul stunners and funky foot stompers this side of the ’60s
Live Performances by:
SSION (Kansas City)
Art-punk dance/design/film collective from Kansas City, Missouri, headed by Cody Critcheloe.
Living Legend Sugar Pie DeSanto (Oakland)
Bay area 60’s soul and rhythm and blues sensation
Beyondadoubt (Portland)
Original, boundless bounce production using drag, vogue, genderfucking, twerk fierceness.
Featuring guest DJ sets by:
Mustache Mondays with DJ Josh Peace (LA)
One of the liveliest, lushest gay dance clubs in LA
Stay Gold with DJs Rapid Fire & Pink Lightning
White hottt cruising and hella gay dance jams
Ships In The Night with DJ Durt
A Radical, Trans-Bay, Queer Dance Party
OH! with DJ Taco Tuesday
The Party for the Dirty Gentleman
Bearracuda with DJ Medic
A fun, friendly party for bears, cubs & other wildlife
Mrs. (Portland)
Hard Dancing. Hard Cruising. Hard Homos.
Living Legend SUGAR PIE DESANTO Is Performing At HARD FRENCH PRIDE!
Hard French is beside ourselves excited to announce that we will be joined by one of soul music’s true living legend’s SUGAR PIE DESANTO at our Hard French ♥’s Los Homos Pride Party on Sunday, June 24th at SOMArts!
It has always been a goal of Hard French’s to have the opportunity to introduce the dance babes who come to our parties to the artists who actually created the music they’re dancing to 50 years ago and also to introduce the artists to a new generation of folks who are sweating it out to their jams! We can’t think of an artist we’d rather host than Sugar Pie, and our 2nd annual Pride Party is the perfect venue!
DeSanto, now 76 year old, recorded hits in the 50′s, 60′s and 70′s that we regularly play at Hard French including Soulful Dress, I Want To Know, I Don’t Wanna Fuss, Go Go Power and a pair of songs she recorded with her childhood friend ETTA JAMES, Down In The Basement and Do I Make Myself Clear. Speaking of Sugar Pie and Etta, the only thing we like more than the songs they recorded together is the fact that in the 50′s they ran together in a San Francisco girl gang called the Lucky 20′s!! FIERCE!
To learn more about Sugar Pie check out this great NPR Article on her that takes you all the way from her SF girl gang days to her doing a backflip on stage a couple years ago while winning an award.
FYI we’re going to be announcing even more performers and be launching ticket sales soon for our June 24th Pride Party so save the date, stay tuned and in the mean time check out some of our Sugar Pie faves
HF <3′s JM & Juanita’s Funky Chicken!
Hard French <3′s Juanita More! From her legendary performance on the patio at El Rio where she channelled both the Queen of Soul & the Godfather of Soul to her partnering with us for the 2012 Hard French Winter Ball to the clubs she produces like Booty Call Wednesdays and Beat Pig, we certainly have plenty of reasons to love San Francisco’s nightlife queen.
That being said, our biggest reason for loving Juanita comes not from her parties, but from her kitchen where she cooks up her world famous chicken! With her annual Funky Chicken Dinner, Juanita shares her talents with the community in order to raise money for HIV/AIDS services. The only things tastier than her trademark honey goo slathered over fried chicken are the gorgeous MOREboys who serve it to you.
For the second year in a row Juanita is further sweetening the deal by havin your HARD FRENCH DJS, Brown Amy & Carnita get grease all over their 45′s and play them for your digesting pleasure. It’s one of the tastiest ways to consume your favorite Hard French tunes and is one helluva finger-licking good time for a great cause.
Juanita MORE! & Jenny Kiely Present – Funky Chicken Dinner / Dining Out For Life
Mars Bar & Restaurant
798 Brannan Street @ 7th SFCA
Thursday, April 26, 2012
6 – 9 PM | $22
Hard French DJ’s Brown Amy & Carnita
Online Reservations Only: funkychicken@juanitamore.com
Juanita plans the menu, serving her famous Fried Chicken w/ Honey Goo. The MOREboys take your order, Hard French DJ’s Brown Amy & Carnita spin old soul classics for Funky Chicken Dinner On Mars. 25 percent of your food bill will directly benefit the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Dinner price includes: Juanita’s Funky Chicken w Honey Goo, mixed green salad with blue cheese, corn muffin and Black Jet Bakery Red Velvet Cupcake!
Dinner reservations are available at 6:00 & 8:45PM. Tables are set from two to eight guests. Please respect our 1 1/2 hour dining time to accommodate as many guests as possible.
Thank you in advance for being courteous of your dining time as we would like to accommodate as many guests as possible benefiting the STOP AIDS Project!
Sponsored by Tito’s Handmade Vodka
