NEW YORK, NY -- Dagmar 2 is photographed by art photographer Chris Zedano for a portfolio of photos he's creating with various performers photographed on the same tiny stretch of Staples Street in Tribeca.
NEW YORK, NY -- Dagmar the duo makes its second (or is it third) appearance at this great open mic on Saturday afternoons deep in the east village on Ave C. There are some wonderful musicians who pass through there, and we've made some excellent friends at BANJO JIMS.
NEW YORK, NY -- Boston-based Dagmar drummer SKWERL turns the Dagmar duo into a trio for a few busks over the weekend.
NEW YORK, NY -- DAGMAR the duo has its first official gig at THE SIDEWALK CAFE, getting deeper into the "anti-folk" scene and making many new friends. Shout outs to fellow busker Joe Crow Ryan we met there, and to Ben Krieger, now the Lord of the Anti-Folk Manor, who also writes offbeat song cycles involving non-humans.
NEW YORK, NY -- Dagmar the duo makes its first appearance at the long-standing, turbo-charged overpacked Anti-Folk open mic at the east village home of Anti-Folk, THE SIDEWALK CAFE.
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- DAGMAR the duo opens for legendary beat poet ED SANDERS in a special event at THE SQUAWK COFFEEHOUSE. The duo returns to Squawk the following week for a feature performance.
NEW YORK, NY -- McGeary and Bauer perform at Union Square in a special MUNY (Music Under New York) event showcasing four underground divas on its roster.
NEW YORK, NY -- With the final performance of THE BLUE FLOWER come and gone, Bauer & McGeary reconvene DAGMAR and head back to the subways
NEW YORK, NY -- McGeary, in the starring role of Hannah, begins rehearsals for a new off-off-Broadway production, presented by THE PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY, WILL POMERANTZ directing, of Bauer's THE BLUE FLOWER, an ongoing experimental theater project Bauer has been collaborating on with his wife, visual artist Ruth Bauer. The Blue Flower project began in 1999, and it was in an early workshop production at The Public Theater in NYC that Bauer first met McGeary when she was first cast in the role of Hannah. The new production will have 28 performances between February 2 and March 2 at The West End Theater in NYC.
HAVERHILL, MA -- DAGMAR closes out the year with a return to the CHIT-CHAT LOUNGE and the warm embrace of our friends in Haverhill for a full band concert, together with KevMannDude, the Munro brothers and their band AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER, our friends from our days at the Ave C open mic in Malden, MA.
NEW YORK, NY -- Dagmar 2 has a special invitation from entertaiment director SABRINA SADEGHI, former colleague of BILL BRAGIN at Joe's Pub, to entertain the thousands of world travelers who stay at the world's largest youth hostel, on Amsterdam & 103rd on New York's upper west side.
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- DAGMAR The (Boston) Band does The Cantab Lounge for the first time, helping celebrate the supremely talented and frighteningly clever sometime Dagmar bassist REVEREND BOB's birthday.
BOSTON, MA -- DAGMAR The (Boston) Band first gig at CHURCH, joining the deeply talented Peter Moore and his band COUNT ZERO, which includes sometime and always special Dagmar bassist JOEL SIMCHES on keyboards.
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- DAGMAR The (Boston) Band does a gig at THE LIZARD LOUNGE, a fashion nite curated by Anderson Mar. On the bill are our deeply talented, good friends WALTER SICKERT AND THE ARMY OF BROKEN TOYS andHANNAH THIEM and her band COPAL. In the audience are Chuck Hirshberg, Susan Driscoll, and David Fairchild, an odd trio of Bauer's old friends who generate many sparks, like lightening striking three times in the same spot.
PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Dagmar 2 takes its first trip to Philly, performing at the altar of open mics, THE WORLD CAFE LIVE. We make many new friends and spend the evening with Jim's son Lewis and his girlfriend Rose. Lewis plays guitar and writes songs for his Philly band YOUNG GENE BUFFALO. The roads are covered in snow and ice returning to NYC. We roll in around 5am, and have a busking date at the Herald Square subway station that afternoon.
SALEM, MA -- Dagmar The (Boston) Band does a Halloween night gig in "The Witch City", the very nerve center of Halloween, at a new location of THE GULU-GULU CAFE opened over the summer. This will be Gulu's first Halloween in Salem. The streets are shut down and the entire city is overflowingly jammed with revelers. We've invited THE SCALLYWAGS, a scandalous pirate band, to join us. They bring along Pirate burlesque dancers who stop people dead in their tracks as they pass the plate glass windows of the club that open out onto the street. Sex sells. The night becomes legend in Gulu lore. A good time is had by all.
WORCESTER, MA -- Dagmar The (Boston) Band joins THE STEAMY BOHEMIAN'S' "Jerkus Circus" variety and burlesque show at RALPH'S DINER, a rambling rowdy roadhouse bar in the middle of Massachusetts. A vicious thunderstorm has left the parking lot of the club flooded, so we wade our equipment in and up a long flight of stairs. Dagmar goes on around midnight and the sound guy turns everything to 11, and we blow people out of the room. We get home around 6 AM.
BOSTON, MA -- Bauer and McGeary, joined by the dangerously unpredictable SKWERL on drums and happy smiling wonderfully talented bassist (and sound engineer, and keyboard player, and drummer, and heavens, who knows what all) JOEL SIMCHES have their first full-band gig in Boston at The Bulfinch Yacht Club (now or soon to be defunct). The gig is booked by SHRED, the venerable Boston radio host and tireless Boston music scene booster, mentor, Knight in Shredded Armor.
BEVERLY, MA -- Bauer & McGeary begin rehearsing new Dagmar song cycle material with Boston-based musicians SKWERL (drums) and JOEL SIMCHES (bass)
DURANGO, COLORADO -- Meghan joins the extended Bauer family and family friends from around the country to celebrate the life of Jim's mother Kaki, who had died in February after a long illness, and Jim's father Cal, who had died many years earlier. The Bauer family is a rare breed of family.
SOMERVILLE, MA -- PETER BREVIS is the featured performer at DANIELLE MIRAGLIA'S long-runningSUNDAY SONGWRITER SERIES at THE BURREN>, in Davis Square, Somerville, MA. Pete's niece ERIN LAETZ and her posse of lovely friends are guests of honor in the audience.
BEVERLY, MA -- Trucks and cranes move in to begin clearing rubble from the recent quake and its aftermath. Rebuilding begins.
COLUMBUS CIRCLE, NYC -- Following the quake is an aftershock that brings down what structures were left standing.
NEW YORK, NY -- Dagmar busking duo Bauer & McGeary were one of three artists selected to perform at the MUNY (Music Under New York) press conference in Grand Central Station, announcing the artists newly admitted to the program. Dagmar gets the best press of its young life, with a lot of face recognition on the streets; NYC can feel like a small town with just a bit of exposure.
SOMERVILLE, MA -- Dagmar 2 has its first and last gig at THE SKYBAR shortly before the club folds its wings and closes its doors. We're on the bill with supremely talented BRIAN KING'S band (we're big big fans) WHAT TIME IS IT MR. FOX? and good friend and future sometime Dagmar bass player REVEREND BOB and his band THE DARKNESS. Jim sees old friend David Fairchild for the first time in 28 years.
