| 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. |
Uncategorized
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!!!
Facebook Events Page
Friend Us On Facebook
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
Hard French 