From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V2 #91 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Wednesday, June 24 1998 Volume 02 : Number 091 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Re: Susan Werner sings Karaoke ["mr. pointy" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:27:05 -0400 From: "mr. pointy" Subject: Re: Susan Werner sings Karaoke also sprach Jeff Wasilko: >Woj, Meth and I saw Susan Werner at the 12th Note Coffeehouse >hosted at the Stratford CT Methodist Church on Saturday. >It was a difficult audience and venue, but she got through it OK. something about churches, i guess. susan was right right at the altar rail while the audience sat in the pews. that wouldn't have been so bad if not for the rather large cross dominating the audience's view. i'm sure some found it comforting, but it was a bit disconcerting (no pun intended) for the rest of us -- on both sides of the "stage". at least some of the audience were evidently parishoners (or whatever you call members of a methodist congregation -- my parents had corelware so i wouldn't know... ;) ) who were accustomed to coming out for a monthly folky concert by some inoffensive acoustic fellow. susan doesn't exactly fit the mold. the new song which has the "sorry about jesus and all that stuff" chorus pretty much broke through any pretenses. as she commented after playing it, "bet some of you were expected lightning bolts when i finished." fortunately, the expected pyrotechnics failed to materialize. nobody got up to leave though, so i guess nobody took it personally. although the show had a weird vibe, i think it all came out alright and it seemed that everyone enjoyed the set mightily -- the applause was sincere and long -- much longer than the amount of applause i'm used to giving anyone between songs. the between song banter was amusing as always. there was the on-going question about the nature of connecticut (trust me, even we who live here - -- however briefly -- don't know what it is), a discussion about the church (which, i must say, was rather posh for the methodists ;) ), and the usual sort of quips and such. not much audience participation though. >No amount of arm twisting could get Jane or Woj to volunteer. well, there's a first time for everything: the first beer jeff brought over was my first ever coors light (didn't know it at the time though). i thought it was soda. ;) still, i think i'll do karaoke right after jane does. woj HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V2 #91 ****************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- This has been a posting from the Susan Werner believers-digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers-digest" in the body of the message