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Originally from Baltimore and now based in sunny Oakland, songbird and solo uke-slinger, Tippy Canoe (Michele Kappel), made the switch from a 5-piece drum kit with the garage-pop princesses The Kirby Grips (Sympathy For The Record Industry), to a 4-stringed ukulele in 2003. Since then she’s been on a mission with her band the Paddlemen to bring sincere uplift in a severely down-slanted era by spreading her hook-laden pop-meets-roots music.
On her debut full-length album, “Parasols & Pekingese,” released in 2008 on Late Bloomers Works and recorded with her full band the Paddlemen, Tippy Canoe shows off her enchanting and dynamic sound. Her voice is a mixture of the 60’s girl group sound and classic country with its own quirky nature shining through. Her songwriting highlights a variety of influences ranging from 20’s and 30’s acts like The Boswell Sisters and Jack Teagarden, to 50’s and 60’s performers like Brenda Lee and The Chiffons, and catchy post-punk bands like Squeeze and Blondie.
Tippy Canoe has shared the stage or completed coastal tours with artists including Martha Wainwright, Big Sandy & his Fly-Rite Boys, Mad Tea Party, and others. San Francisco shows Tippy Canoe a lot of love; she was included in an exhibition on the ukulele at the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art, featured in the first annual San Francisco Ukulele Festival, and aired on a segment of PBS’s Bay Area Arts program SPARK TV. Tippy Canoe also contributed original music to the animated children’s DVD “Music Time.”
On her debut full-length album, “Parasols & Pekingese,” released in 2008 on Late Bloomers Works and recorded with her full band the Paddlemen, Tippy Canoe shows off her enchanting and dynamic sound. Her voice is a mixture of the 60’s girl group sound and classic country with its own quirky nature shining through. Her songwriting highlights a variety of influences ranging from 20’s and 30’s acts like The Boswell Sisters and Jack Teagarden, to 50’s and 60’s performers like Brenda Lee and The Chiffons, and catchy post-punk bands like Squeeze and Blondie.
Tippy Canoe has shared the stage or completed coastal tours with artists including Martha Wainwright, Big Sandy & his Fly-Rite Boys, Mad Tea Party, and others. San Francisco shows Tippy Canoe a lot of love; she was included in an exhibition on the ukulele at the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art, featured in the first annual San Francisco Ukulele Festival, and aired on a segment of PBS’s Bay Area Arts program SPARK TV. Tippy Canoe also contributed original music to the animated children’s DVD “Music Time.”
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tippycanoe: Playing a show in Berkeley, CA at 9:30 PM today at The Starry Plough…
26 May 2012 | from twitter.com/tippycanoe
tippycanoe: Playing a show in Berkeley, CA at 9:30 PM today
at The Starry Plough http://t.co/WaQ9BTHd
- tippycanoe: This eva-nink! Tippy & Brian Belknap kick off a grand Seaweed… 26 May 2012 | from twitter.com/tippycanoe
- tippycanoe: RT @rintintiger: It would mean the world if you could take 5 secs and… 25 May 2012 | from twitter.com/tippycanoe
- tippycanoe: Win tickets to my show on Saturday at @starryploughpub for Seaweed Sway… 24 May 2012 | from twitter.com/tippycanoe
