Tippy Canoe

Oakland, CA Pop / Roots Music / Old-Timey

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- Songs

- Nut Butter Baby
- Mass Transmissions
- Sleep, Sleep My Dear
- Champs Elysee

Status

- Hurrah! Wearing the big headphones and putting on a show for the microphone today. Tippy record #2 begins NOW!!

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Artist Info

Members: Michele Kappel a/k/a Tippy Canoe --& when with The Paddlemen she is joined by Mikie Lee Prasad, Chris "T.G." Greens, Rick Quisol and Christopher Fisher.

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Label: Late Bloomers Works

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Bio

Originally from Baltimore and now based in sunny Oakland, songbird and solo uke-slinger/guitarist, 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. In 2009 she upped the string count and now includes guitarist on her resume. She’s on a mission with her to bring sincere uplift in a severely down-slanted era by spreading her hook-laden pop-meets-roots music.

About

Tippy Canoe plays popular music or what the kids call pop. Now her sound may not exactly be the popular music of today, but it encapsulates what has made people smile, laugh and talk about over the last nine decades.

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.”

You won’t want to miss Tippy Canoe as she continues to stomp the pavement and charm audiences with her solo act.

This singular songbird frequently shares the stage with:
Mikie Lee Prasad (guitar, vocals, tambourine, harmonica)

Occasionally when on-stage in the San Franciso Bay Area as Tippy Canoe & the Paddlemen the line-up also includes:
Rick Quisol (drums)
Chris "T.G." Green (bass)
Matty Stone (percussion and official blogeographer)

---who conjure up a tight-knit mesh of rhythm to compliment her old-timey pop melodies.