smoke free events

November 15, 2001
Eurocafe in Mesa, Arizona (USA) hosts a CD release party for Great American Smokeout day in Arizona. Eurocafe is a smokefree music venue and Mediterranean restaurant.

Wild Buffalo
Bellingham, Washington (USA) music club. Always worth a look. "Best in live music and dancing". Local and national acts, blues, R&B, funk, soul, worldbeat, folk rock, classic rock and roll, Celtic rock, and Latin Salsa. Great stage, sound system and dance floor. Pool table. No TV (!!). Check out their ongoing schedule at their web site.

July 7, 2001
Another great Potomac River Jazz Club show: The Buck Creek Jazz Band
8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Rosensteel Hall, 9707 Rosensteel Ave, Silver Spring, Maryland
Dancing, Cash Bar, Free Parking
PRJC Members $15, Nonmembers $20, Jr. Citizens (under 23) $10.

March 4, 2001
Potomac River Jazz Club presents:
First Jazz Jubilee of the Millennium
Radisson Hotel Old Town, 901 N. Fairfax Street, Alexandria, VA, USA
This is the line-up:
12:00 Bay City Seven Jazz Band
1:15 Federal Focus Jazz Band
2:30 Fallstaff 5+2
3:45 Federal Jazz Commission
5:00 New Columbia Swing Orchestra
6:15 Buck Creek Jazz Band

"Every dime we clear will go to Alzheimers." $25 at the door, advance tackets for $20 each. Food and drink, ample free parking on the premises or nearby.
Sez our intrepid reviewer: The club can't vouch for the hotel at large, but has assured me that the music and food venue is totally smoke-free.

The Potomac River Jazz Club is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to preserve, encourage, and promote the playing and appreciation of traditional jazz. Located in the nation's capital, the club sponsors events year-round. All events are 100% smoke free.

August 25, 26 and 27, 2000
39th Annual Philadelphia Folk Festival
Old Pool Farm, Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
Folk music, dance, crafts, camping, juggling, and children's activities. A family-oriented event - children under 12 admitted free. Smoking is not allowed in the concert, workshop, craft or food areas. However, if you're planning to camp there, note that smoking is allowed in the campground.

Sunday, February 20, 2000
Alexandria, Virginia USA
The Potomac River Jazz Club's 2000 Jazz Jubilee

A benefit for the Alzheimers Association featuring traditional jazz, ragtime & big band - great for swing dancers. A terrific value - congenial atmosphere and really good performers. (The DC area is a hotbed of fine musicians of every style.) Look for other smokefree events at their web site: http://www.prjc.org

Friday, January 21, 2000
Viva Lost Vegas
San Francisco, CA USA

Another fine event orchestrated by The California Kid himself, Alan Parowski. San Francisco venues are supposed to be smoke-free inside, but some clubs are better than others are staying that way. Catch this show at Bimbo's:
"Dino, Sammy, Frank...Guys so cool you could store butter in their pants. Dig, What kind of sorry new century leaves these guys singing to the angels? Visit the Vegas that was on Friday January 21st when Bimbo's 365 Club presents...VIVA LOST VEGAS!--A Night Of A Thousand Stars!"

BUD E. LUV'S FABULOUS BIG BAND!, CASINO ROYALE!, and CHANCE TINDER as ELVIS! Plus: Go-Go Girls, Rare Rat Pack Videos, BlackJack, Vintage Vegas Tunes from The Califoria Kid, Elvis Turns 65, and more impersonations than Rich Little suffering from Schizophrenia! So grab your Bim Bam Baby and hoist a highball to the Kings of Cool!

Through XMAS 1999

"An offer too good to let go up in smoke"
Writer Jon Hahn at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is quitting cigars, in a clever way which raises money for the American Cancer Society. Check out his challenge, now through Christmas. While you're there, read his other columns. It's good stuff, about real life.

Ongoing
Big Swing Dance Competition
Saturday, June 5th, 1999 5-11 PM
Be Bop Burger, (one block up from the pier)
111 State Street, Santa Barbara CALIFORNIA     (805) 966-1956
The Be Bop Burger Swing Night "Stomp Out Tobacco"
Sober and Drug-Free Community Event

Free!! Eclectic crowd of swing dance aficionados. Live swing music and dance competitions. See the details at their web site: http://www.bebopburgers.com
or e-mail Derrick: swingdjc@aol.com

This event is held the 1st Saturday of every month

PAST

ELISA'S CD RELEASE PARTY

Elisa Welch, "Left Coast Neo-Celtic" folk musician, has released her CD, *The Wheel* (MSM004), with original songs plus traditional Irish/English numbers ranging from sea shanties to love ballads to pagan frolics. The CD release party is in San Francisco, California at Cafe Radio Valencia (a nonsmoking venue! yay!) on Saturday, November 13, 3-6pm
1199 Valencia @ 23rd Street, San Francisco

AUGUST 7-9, 1999
Cowalunga
110-mile bike ride through Wisconsin to benefit CampACTION for severely asthmatic children.

MAY 14-16, 1999
Smoke-Free Mariachi Festival
Tickets: (760) 352-6181
Fundraiser for disabled people in Imperial County, California, USA. A project of the Work Training Center and The Imperial County Tobacco Education Project. The WTC is very supportive of smoke-free activities in Imperial County.

Tobacco Free Zone of Imperial County, California lists more such events.