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Axis of Blues
Mark Ungar

The Wrenboys

Avalon Rising
Avalon Rising

Mark Ungar
Axis of Blues

 

Welcome to More Moose Music Services.
I'm the owner, Mark Ungar. I'm an actor, multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, performer, writer, and web designer.

MUSIC - check the Performance Schedule column on the right, where you can always find out where I'm performing next.

AXIS OF BLUES - an amalgam of rock, r 'n' b, folk & funk, all rotating around an axis of blues. Axis of Blues’ goals are simple. To groove you. To make your liver quiver, and your backbone slip. Excuse us, but we got the boogie in us, and it got to come out!

AVALON RISING - I play bass, mandocello and other instruments with progressive celtic/medieval rock band Avalon Rising, currently in the 13th year of our greater Bay Area tour. We're available for festivals, weddings, and pagan ritual events. Our repertoire ranges from acoustic folk sounds to Irish music to raving psychedelic electric guitar.Our mission: let the spirit of Avalon rise and spread throughout the world!

THE VEIL - I'm also a member of The Veil, whose album Sophia Speaks is an ecstatic odyssey of Celto-Middle-Eastern song and story.

PHOENYX - the lost legendary Keepers of the Flame, plus a rare live track...

WEB DESIGN - capable and affordable web design - I've been creating web sites since 1995. Check out some of my designs.

Why Moose? Once upon a time, I dreamed I was raising a baby moose...and when you get right down to it, don't we all need more moose?

Hi folks! This is the place to catch up on what Mark Ungar and More Moose Music Services is doing! Look to the right for upcoming shows.

MuCon June 24th, 2010
This Friday, June 25th, The Wrenboys return to the Plough & Stars, San Francisco's favorite Irish pub. Glenn, Frank, Autumn and Mark will be performing their own special version of traditional acoustic Irish music. The Plough is located at: 116 Clement St., San Francisco CA 94118

MuCon May 26, 2010
Check out our demo tape entry to the Toyota Music Rock the Space II contest...listen and cast your vote for Axis of Blues!

MuConMay 25, 2010
Before one can parody, one must know the truth of the story.

A special shout-out to John Murray, in Bristol, UK -- where 3/4 of English men are out in the garden, in the shed, at any given time.

Hmm.... This is the newly-dawning Age of Social Networking. This website may or may not actually be obsolete. In any case, I spend far more time now updating my activities at Facebook, ReverbNation and LinkedIn. Please click on the "badges" in the left column to check out my pages there. Still confused? Send me an email.

MuCon The Wrenboys is the new traditional Irish music group I've been playing acoustic guitar with since February. Here are MP3s from our debut show last Friday night at the Plough & Stars in San Francisco.

Reel set

Leaving of Liverpool

Tom Collins?

Clare from Clare dances the reel

Galway Shawl, sure now

Reels

Wild Rover. Will you have a cuppa tay?

Devaney's Goat. Oh, go on. Go on, go on go on go on.

Spanish Distortion Everyone else is having one

Fields of Ham on Rye

Clare Frawley dances and a Hooligan interrupts.

Lakes of Pontchartrain

We had a request for Bernie to dance.

Bernie dances quite a fast reel, there

Moving Cloud

The Murder of Finnegan's Wake

Wild Mountain Thyme

Fred Finn's

Grand Finale: Whiskey in the Jar/Lucy Campbell's/Earl's Chair/Jolly Tinker

Encore: Holy Ground

Axis of Blues is gaining velocity in 2010, with a new set of live tracks from our recent show at The Bistro, back in October. Bagpiper and multi-instrumentalist Sean Folsom sat in with us. I selected the best tracks and assembled them into a streaming audio show, available here. Simply click on the Axis of Blues folder on the left side of the page. You can also listen via MP3s of each song at the Axis of Blues website, on the Sounds page.

December 2009 - Axis of Blues is developing new material, including 3 original songs:

  • Cheap Date - an anthropological song, dealing with Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon, and other species that may have had dealings with Homo Sapiens;
  • Everything's Groovy (the Axis of Blues Theme)
  • Guitars That Got Away - a paean to G.A.S. (Guitar Aquisition Syndrome -a country talking blues

Check with our site at AxisofBlues.com

Don't forget Avalon Rising, the San Francisco Bay Area's premier progressive Celtic/Medieval rock band!

...and visit Axis of Blues and Avalon RIsing on Facebook.

Mark Ungar playing mandocello at the 2009 Alameda Wassail

Mark playing mandocello at the Berkeley (Alameda) Wassail, January 2009. Photo by Mollie.

Oh, by the way: Hell the Musical won Best of Fringe (Musical) in September of 2009! What a great cast!

 

 
Performance Schedule
Seen About Town

icon Friday, June 25th, The Wrenboys return to the Plough & Stars, San Francisco's favorite Irish pub. Glenn, Frank, Autumn and Mark will be performing their own special version of traditional acoustic Irish music. The Plough is located at: 116 Clement St., San Francisco CA 94118

icon Thursday, July 15th,6:30 -8:00 pm
enjoy Celtic rock with Avalon Rising at
Pinole Summer Sounds 
Outdoor Concert 6:30 - 8:00
Fernandez Park
595 Tennent Ave., Pinole, CA 

icon Friday, July 16th, 8:30 pm
enjoy Celtic rock with Avalon Rising opening for Plasterkatz! With acoustic trio suboptimal.
Rooster's Roadhouse
AT THE CORNER OF CLEMENT AVE. AND GRAND ST., ALAMEDA, CA.94501 

icon On Monday, July 19th, I'll be appearing with host Jeffrey Weissman on the KRCB radio show Rare and Well Done. We'll be spinning some music and talking about "The B-Team" - what I like to call some of the supposedly second-tier artists like Paul Revere & the Raiders, the Monkees, and The Faces whom time has shown to be every bit as good as their more successful peers.

iconSaturday, October 2nd 7:00
Avalon Rising (ballroom style)
PEERS Evil League of Evil Villain's Ball
Doors Open 6:45 p.m.
Dance Lesson: 7:00 p.m.
Dancing Begins: 8:00 p.m.
Tix: $15.00 advance (by April 24)
At the door: $20.00
Masonic Lodge of San Mateo
100 N. Ellsworth Avenue, San Mateo, CA

iconSaturday and Sunday  October 23rd & 24th 
Avalon Rising
All Hallows Fantasy Faire
Avalon Rising plays both days, times TBA
Mother Lode Fairgrounds, Sonora, CA

icon Friday, October 29th 
Avalon Rising
Papa's Taverna
Papa’s Taverna serves authentic Greek cuisine in a fun and comfortable taverna atmosphere!
For Reservations: 707-769-8545 or email 
reservations@papastaverna.com
5688 Lakeville Highway, Petaluma, Ca. 94954

Saturday, February 13, 2010: 9:00
Pantheacon Convention
Dance concert - Cedar/Pine Room
Doubletree Inn
2050 Gateway Place, San Jose, California, United States 95110
408-453-4000
This is the biggest pagan event of the year, folks! With any luck we will have a pre-release EP of our new album Antlers & Elbows available at the show.

Admission is Free with Convention Membership. The Doubletree Inn has no rooms available.

Thursday, February 11th, 2010:
Schelly's Bar
15009 Farnsworth St.
San Leandro, Ca 94579
(510) 351-1222
schellysbar@gmail.com
This is a Mardi Gras/New Orleans-themed show, so show up in your royal finery! If you haven't got any yet, Schelly's usually has lots of free bling. But seriously: wear a hat, look stupid...we don't want to stand out.

CONTEST: Suggest a favorite classic New Orleans-style song you think we should cover for this show, and if we do, you win a PRIZE!

Saturday, Nov 14, 2009 9:30 - 10:30:
Axis of Blues with Plasterkatz
Ireland's 32
3920 Geary Blvd (between 3rd Ave & 4th Ave) 
San Francisco, CA 94118
(415) 386-6173

Thursday, Oct 22,2009 8:30 - 11:30:
Axis of Blues with special guest Sean Folsom
The Bistro
1001 B St., Hayward
(510) 886-8525

Oct 9, 10, 11
Las Vegas Renaissance Faire
I'll be performing with Uffington Horse, featuring the original pagan and fantasy songs of Alexander James Adams

Thursday, July 30th, 8:30 - 11:30:
Axis of Blues (unplugged)
The Bistro
1001 B St., Hayward
(510) 886-8525
We promised Scott a beer, but he still couldn't make it to this show. So Mark, Robert, and Kristoph will be an "acoustic" trio, sans drummer. We'll be phoning it in as usual, but we especially need your help for this unusual gig. How can I help, you ask? Simply by coming and drinking as much beer, a delicious selection of which The Bistro has in abundance, as possible. This will enable us to sound much better, especially to you. Thanks for your cooperation.

Saturday, Sept 5th, 8:30 - 11:30:
Avalon Rising
The Bistro
1001 B St., Hayward
(510) 886-8525

Hell, the Musical

Hell, The Musical
San Francisco Fringe Festival
The Exit Theater on Taylor this September
Thursday, Sept. 10 7:00 PM
Sunday, Sept. 13 4:00 PM
Monday, Sept. 14 7:00 PM
Friday, Sept. 18 10:00 PM

Another original musical by the author/star of Thanatics, K.S.Haddock. I'll be in the onstage band for this show. It's based on Sartre's "No Exit".

Hellions

September 19 - 20:
Avalon Rising
Afterhours at the Northern Cal Ren Faire
10031 Pacheco Pass Hwy, Hollister, CA

 

Mark-fire

Robert Hill

Mark-open-singing

 

 

 

 

 

 

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