Schedule of Public
Events
and Appearances
Where You Can
Hear
Frederick Hodges in
Person
(Please note that
private engagements are not listed here)
(with the Royal Society Jazz Orchestra
in concert
at the El Campanile Theatre, 23 May, 2008.
Photo courtesty of George Beeler)
Past Events for 2012
Saturday 7 January
2012
7:30 PM
Suggested donation $5
Frederick Hodges accompanies silent films
Hell’s Hinges (1916, Triangle)
William S.
Hart is Blaze Tracy and Clara Williams is Faith
Henley in this stark, no-nonsense western of bad
men and worse men.
Frederick Hodges - With the Crown
Syncopators Ragtime Trio
Pier 23 on the Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA
94111
Telephone:
415-362-5125
Live music of the
Deco and Ragtime Eras in an historic Bayside
setting.
Call 415-362-5125 or
visit the cafe website at www.pier23cafe.com Tuesday
24 January 2012
Pier 23 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Frederick Hodges - Piano Solo
Pier 23 on the Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA
94111
Telephone:
415-362-5125
Live music of the
Deco and Ragtime Eras in an historic Bayside
setting.
Call 415-362-5125 or
visit the
cafe website at www.pier23cafe.com Saturday 11 February 2012
7:30 PM
Suggested donation $5
Frederick Hodges accompanies silent films
Son of the Sheik (1926, Feature
Productions)
Rudolph
Valentino returns to our screen for Valentine’s
Day,
with Vilma Banky as his romantic interest,
in his great and final film.
Pier 23 on the Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA
94111
Telephone:
415-362-5125
Live music of the
Deco and Ragtime Eras in an historic Bayside
setting.
Call 415-362-5125 or
visit the
cafe website at www.pier23cafe.com Saturday
18 February 2012 8:45 PM to 12:30
PM
Frederick Hodges appears with
Don Neely's Royal Society Sextette
Top of the Mark
Mark Hopkins Hotel
One Nob Hill, San Francisco
Come join the Royal
Society Sextet at the Top of the Mark to celebrate the
85th anniversary of the Mark Hopkins. The band will be
playing a mixture of those great tunes from the 20's and
30's and will feature Carla Normand and Frederick
Hodges. The cover is $15, but if you come in costume you
get in FREE! http://www.intercontinentalmarkhopkins.com/top_of_the_mark/ Wednesday
22 February 2012 Bill
Schoening
presents:
Frederick
Hodges
6:30 to 9:00
PM
Straw Hat
Pizza
2929 Mather
Field Road
(corner of Mather Field Road and Folsom
Boulevard)
Rancho Cordova, California
Telephone: 916-363-5050
Piano Solo
Live music of the Deco and Ragtime Eras in a
sophisticated and upscale setting.
Call 415-362-5125 Saturday
25 February 2012
Frederick Hodges appears with
Don Neely's Royal Society Jazz Quintet
Big Night Goes Black & White
6:00 PM
The Verdi Club
2424 Mariposa Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Present
Frederick
Hodges accompanying
silent film comedy shorts
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906, Edwin S. Porter,
7 mins)
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend: The Flying House (1921, Winsor
McCay, 11 mins)
Alice’s Balloon Race (1926, Walt Disney, 8 mins)
Conquest of the Pole (1912, Georges Méliès 20–30 mins)
Dizzy Heights and Daring Hearts (1915, Walter Wright, 25
mins)
Berkeley Art Museum
and Pacific Film Archive 2625 Durant Avenue
#2250 Berkeley, CA
94720-2250
Telephone Numbers General
Information (24-hour recording): (510) 642-0808 PFA Program
Information (24-hour recording): (510) 642-1124 PFA
Charge-by-Phone: (510) 642-5249 Museum Store: (510)
642-1475 Administration:
(510) 642-1208 PFA Library and
Film Study Center: (510) 642-1437 PFA: (510) 642-1412
Frederick Hodges - With the Crown
Syncopators Ragtime Trio
Pier 23 on the Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA
94111
Telephone:
415-362-5125
Live music of the
Deco and Ragtime Eras in an historic Bayside
setting.
Call 415-362-5125 or
visit the website at www.pier23cafe.com Sunday
18 March 2012 John Ulrich Presents
Frederick Hodges in concert
2:00 PM
Ticket price: $22.00
Held at the
biggest little piano parlor in El Sobrante
4184 Garden Lane
El Sobrante, CA
94803
Seating is limited,
so book your tickets early:
telephone/fax:
510-223-9587
e-mail: julrich2847@att.net Saturday 24 March 2012
7:30 PM
Suggested donation $5
Frederick Hodges accompanies silent films
Comedy Short Subject Night
The Vagabond (1916, Essanay) Charlie Chaplin, Edna
Purviance
Bumping into Broadway (1919, Rolin) Harold Lloyd
The Paleface (1921, Comique) Buster Keaton
Why Girls Love Sailors (1927, Roach) Stan Laurel,
Oliver Hardy
Pier 23 on the Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA
94111
Telephone:
415-362-5125
Live music of the
Deco and Ragtime Eras in an historic Bayside
setting.
Call 415-362-5125 or
visit the
cafe website at www.pier23cafe.com Tuesday
10 April 2012
Pier 23 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Frederick Hodges - With the Crown
Syncopators Ragtime Trio
Pier 23 on the Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA
94111
Telephone:
415-362-5125
Live music of the
Deco and Ragtime Eras in an historic Bayside
setting.
Call 415-362-5125 or
visit the website at www.pier23cafe.com
Pier 23 on the Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA
94111
Telephone:
415-362-5125
Live music of the
Deco and Ragtime Eras in an historic Bayside
setting.
Call 415-362-5125 or
visit the
cafe website at www.pier23cafe.com Saturday 5 May 2012
7:00 PM
Frederick Hodges
appears with Don Neely's Royal Society Jazz Orchestra
at
The Art Deco Society of California's
Art Deco Preservation Ball
"Swingin' on the Golden Gate Bridge."
Kick off
an exciting year of celebrating the 75th Anniversary of
San Francisco's best-known Art Deco icon.
Bimbo's 365 Club
1025 Columbus Ave.,
San Francisco
Dancing to Don Neely's Royal Society Jazz Orchestra
Performance by the DecoBelles
Presentation of the Art Deco Preservation Awards
& more!
L.J. Dal Poozo
6381 Roller Coaster Road
Garden Valley, CA 95633
530-642-8415
Tickets: $20.00
Details to follow Tuesday
8 May 2012
Pier 23 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Frederick Hodges - With the Crown
Syncopators Ragtime Trio
Pier 23 on the Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA
94111
Telephone:
415-362-5125
Live music of the
Deco and Ragtime Eras in an historic Bayside
setting.
Call 415-362-5125 or
visit the website at www.pier23cafe.com Saturday 12 May 2012
7:30 PM
Suggested donation $5
Frederick Hodges accompanies silent films
The Untamed (1920,
Fox)
Tom Mix and Pauline Starke star in what was termed
“a finer grade of production than usual, still a
western, but one that carries with it a touch of the
psychological” in a review by Moving Picture World.
Preceded by
shorts:
The
Perils of Pauline, Episode 8 "The Snake in
the Flower" (1914, Pathe) Pearl White,
Crane Wilbur, Paul Panzer
The Floorwalker (1916, Lone
Star) Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance
Get Out And Get Under (1919, Rolin) Harold Lloyd
The Bell Boy(1921, Comique) Buster Keaton and Fatty
Arbuckle
You're Darn Tootin' (1927, Hal Roach) Stan Laurel,
Oliver Hardy
The German
American Cultural Center and Library takes pleasure in
presenting
AN AFTERNOON WITH FREDERICK HODGES
Music from the 1920s and 1930s
SUNDAY, MAY 20, 2012
3 TO 6 PM
IN THE BANQUET HALL OF THE SACRAMENTO TURNVEREIN
3349 J STREET
SACRAMENTO
website
Listen to the oldies and goodies from
Berlin's heydays
played by the ever-popular pianist, Frederick Hodges.
Frederick sings along with lots of German lyrics of the
day.
You can even dance to the rhythms if you so desire.
Admission $15 per person with prior reservation
received by May 10th or $20 at the door.
For further information contact
Gisela Parker, 916-939-0401
This includes fingerfood and a no host bar.
Advance ticket purchases will be available
on May 20th at the admissions desk.
Make your check payable to The Sacramento Cultural
Center and Library
and mail to Gisela Parker, 3462 Patterson Way, El Dorado
Hills, CA 95762
For this occasion,
entry is through the Pardee carriage house on 12th
Street.
Frederick Hodges and
Miss Ann Gibson perform your favorite patriotic hits
of the ragtime era through the early 1930s, including
such musical treasures as the WWI classics "When
Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band to France," "When the
Kaiser Does a Goose Step to a Good Old American Rag,"
and Irving Berlin's "I Love A Piano."
Frederick Hodges performs solo concerts and will also
appear in the Sunday afternoon concert with Miss Ann
Gibson, the duchess of Ragtime, in a show highlighting
the ragtime song hits of WWI.
Tuesday
31 July 2012
Pier 23 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Frederick Hodges - With the Crown
Syncopators Ragtime Trio
Pier 23 on the Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA
94111
Telephone:
415-362-5125
Live music of the
Deco and Ragtime Eras in an historic Bayside
setting.
Call 415-362-5125 or
visit the website at www.pier23cafe.com
Tuesday 7 August 2012
Pier 23 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Frederick Hodges - Piano Solo
Pier 23 on the Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA
94111
Telephone:
415-362-5125
Live music of the
Deco and Ragtime Eras in an historic Bayside
setting.
Call 415-362-5125 or
visit the
cafe website at www.pier23cafe.com
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 10-12 August
2012
Sutter Creek
Ragtime Festival
Piano Solo
Frederick Hodges returns to the best
Ragtime Festival in the California Gold Country.
Five separate venues along historic Main
Street in Sutter Creek
Sutter Creek,
California
See Festival
website for details:
Don Neely's 10-pc Royal
Society Jazz Orchestra, with Carla Normand Gatsby Summer Afternoon Dunsmuir Hellman
Historic Estate Oakland, California
Sponsored by The Art Deco Society of
California Featuring Don Neely, Carla Normand, Frederick Hodges, Andrew Storar
and the rest of the talented RSJO musicians.
Also
performing with the band, "The Decobelles."
The
Royal Society Jazz Orchestra has performed at the
famous Gatsby Summer Afternoon for over twenty
years, and each year it becomes more interesting
and fun. Patrons get into the spirit of the 1920s
with music, dancing, period attire, picnics,
antique cars, and high-spirited imagination. If
you saw the movie, The Artist, then
you'll know just what the event is all about.
Rolling hills, vast green lawns, oak trees, wooded
paths, and charming Dunsmuir House provide the
perfect setting for an unforgettable experience.
Special surprise guest performers will preceed the
band, and sing with the band.
For information please call the
Art Deco Society Of California 415-982-DECO or
visit www.artdecosociety.org
Tuesday 18 September
2012
Pier 23 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Frederick Hodges - With the Crown
Syncopators Ragtime Trio
Pier 23 on the Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA
94111
Telephone:
415-362-5125
Live music of the
Deco and Ragtime Eras in an historic Bayside
setting.
Call 415-362-5125 or
visit the website at www.pier23cafe.com Tuesday 9
October 2012
Pier 23 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Frederick Hodges - With the Crown
Syncopators Ragtime Trio
Pier 23 on the Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA
94111
Telephone:
415-362-5125
Live music of the
Deco and Ragtime Eras in an historic Bayside
setting.
Call 415-362-5125 or
visit the website at www.pier23cafe.com
With live accompaniment by Frederick Hodges -
Piano
Films to
include:
Friday 6 pm:
Comedy show
You're Darn Tootin' (Laurel & Hardy),
The Rink (Chaplin),
The Boat (Keaton), Frogland (Starewicz).
Friday 8 pm: Greed
Saturday 10
am: Repeat of Friday comedy show
Saturday 11:30 "The Lost World" + a
one-reel short still to be chosen (feature will be the
abridged Kodascope version)
Saturday 1:30 "The Great
K&A Train Robbery" + a one-reel short still to be
chosen
Saturday 3:00 "Mother"
(Pudovkin)
Saturday 5:00 "The Scarlet
Letter"
Saturday 7:30 "Way Down East"
Old City Hall
1313 Market Street
Redding, CA 96001 website Tuesday
23 October 2012
Pier 23 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Frederick Hodges - Piano Solo
Pier 23 on the Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA
94111
Telephone:
415-362-5125
Live music of the
Deco and Ragtime Eras in an historic Bayside
setting.
Call 415-362-5125 or
visit the
cafe website at www.pier23cafe.com Saturday
27 November 2012
8:00 PM to
10:00 PM
Frederick
Hodges appears with Don Neely's Royal Society Jazz
Orchestra in Concert
We
are delighted to be returning for a concert
performance at the beautiful El Campanil
Theatre, built in 1927 and fully restored to
its original charm. Located on the
Sacramento Riverfront in old
Antioch, this
is the perfect theater in which
to see the RSJO. Stop,
linger, gaze and ponder the mighty Sacramento
River flowing but a few steps away, then enter
the beautiful El Campanil and savor the Royal
Society Jazz Orchestra in concert in the ideal
setting!
Frederick Hodges - With the Crown
Syncopators Ragtime Trio
Pier 23 on the Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA
94111
Telephone:
415-362-5125
Live music of the
Deco and Ragtime Eras in an historic Bayside
setting.
Call 415-362-5125 or
visit the website at www.pier23cafe.com Saturday 3 November 2012
7:30 PM
Suggested donation $5
Frederick Hodges accompanies silent film:
The Lost Express (Schlank, 1926)
Preceded by shorts:
Nickelodeon Show
An Authentic presentation of a Nickelodeon Theater Show,
circa-1910, starring Frederick Hodges and the Nickelodeon
Show Players. Featuring Silent Movies and vintage Song
Slides. Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
37417 Niles Boulevard
Fremont,
CA 94536
Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday, 16-18 November 2012
25th Annual West
Coast Ragtime Festival
Frederick Hodges returns to the
world-famous, award-winning, ground-breaking, and
trend-setting West Coast Ragtime Festival.
In addition to
performing piano solo and piano duet sets on all three
days, Frederick
will also accompany
world-class ragtime singers and accompany silent film.
See the Festival Website for ticket and
schedule information.
Red Lion Inn
Sacramento, CA
Saturday 24 November 2012
7:30 PM
Suggested donation $5
Frederick Hodges accompanies silent film:
The Three Ages (Metro, 1923)
Starring Buster Keaton
Pier 23 on the Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA
94111
Telephone:
415-362-5125
Live music of the
Deco and Ragtime Eras in an historic Bayside
setting.
Call 415-362-5125 or
visit the
cafe website at www.pier23cafe.com Tuesday
18 December 2012
Pier 23 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Frederick Hodges - Piano Solo
Pier 23 on the Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA
94111
Telephone:
415-362-5125
Live music of the
Deco and Ragtime Eras in an historic Bayside
setting.
Call 415-362-5125 or
visit the
cafe website at www.pier23cafe.com Saturday 29 December 2012
7:30 PM
Suggested donation $5
Frederick Hodges accompanies silent films:
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (United
Artists, 1928) Starring Buster Keaton
Preceded by shorts:
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