Localized Appreesh: The Yellow Dress

Localized Appreesh is our weekly thank-you column to the musicians that make the Bay.Dogs, ghosts, kids, hand-clapping, whistling on a sunny park day – it's all in the video for the Yellow Dress's “This Could Be Anything.” The song itself it already a treat, kicking off with the aforementioned clapping and whistling and a solitary guitar, in pipes mariachi trumpet and swallow-you-whole powerful vocal pipes à la orchestral pop master Beirut. (It also has garnered comparisons to Magnetic Fields and a drug-less Velvet Underground.)
The Yellow Dress closed out 2011 with a metaphoric group hug, thanks to the video and a well-received second album, Humblebees. This year, it's already off to a run through the park, pull your dress up and get mud on your ankles, start. In the next seven days, the San Francisco band will play three local shows, all at interesting venues, perhaps a bit off the beaten path. Do it up big and catch a trio of Yellow Dress performances. We used to be called Mr Stopmotion and the Yellow Dress after a particularly dapper couple I saw walking through Golden Gate Park, back then we were just a two-piece, and the name was pretty unweildy. For about a day we were Mr Stopmotion, which sounds like a Devo/XTC cover band. We decided on The Yellow Dress, which immediately led to a dramatic (and affirming!) number of yellow dresses in both (me and original bandmember Jon) of our lives. For a not very interesting story that sure took a lot of time to write.
Acoustic and electric guitar, bass, drums, glockenspiel, male/female vocals, trumpet, organs, whistles, hand claps, if anyone reading this plays the cello and love dinosaurs please call me. With so many artistic people around it's easy to find like minded folks to play with, slowly envelop in your ever growing line-up.With so many artistic people around you are rarely the only game in town any given night.Panel members are: Susan E. Wehner, nurse  practitioner from Michigan Cardiovascular Institute, who will speak on “New Year, New You With Life’s Simple 7,” Dr. Mayar Jundi, heart specialist from Covenant Center for the Heart, Covenant Health Care, will speak on “Sleep Apnea and Your Heart” and Dr. Robert N. Jones, thoracic surgeon from MidMichigan Medical Center, will speak on “The Creation of a Blood Conservation Program.”
Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women, causing one in three deaths each year, according to the American Heart Association.Currently some eight million women in the United States are living with heart disease, yet only one in six women believes that heart disease is her greatest health threat, according to the heart association.