From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V2 #113 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Friday, August 14 1998 Volume 02 : Number 113 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Re: believers-digest V2 #111 [user ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 98 21:50:02 -0400 From: user Subject: Re: believers-digest V2 #111 >Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 11:15:35 -0400 >From: "Richard S. Donnell" >Subject: Manchester, NH > >Any news on why Susan's 8/15 show at the Stark Mill Brewery in Manchester, >NH is canceled? I just called to reserve tickets and the manager said that >they found out yesterday that it was canceled. Thanks. I had a chat with The Stark Mill Brewery's owner the other night; stopped in to get tickets. My understanding is they are not doing well with their folk concerts, apparently losing money due to lower than expected attendance and performer managers asking for more money than they can make to cover costs. It is a for-profit establishment so the bottom line is more relevant and I suspect the agents are expecting more as well. He loves the folk music but Manchester is not Boston, even though it is only an hour or so away. And he is competing with more sophisticated folk venue operators in the not too distant vicinity. I think they are also fighting the impression that they have a bar scene. They do have one, but the folk shows are (were) in a separate room upstairs, away from the regular crowd. Let's hope they hang in there and continue to try the folk stuff. It really is a nice location in one of the old converted brick mills along the Merrimack River (yes, the same Merrimack that is in so many folk songs). I haven't gone to a show there yet but he told me it is a very spacious listening room, with tables and food and drinks served. It is too bad that Susan got canceled. I've been waiting for that show for months. (perhaps there will be a trip to Maine on Sunday). It sounded as though more shows are also going to get canceled. If you would like to see more "folk" in NH, let the owner know. And encourage agents to help new venues get established by giving them a break or at least a little more breathing room when they are starting out. Keep believing, "The Bearded One" 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 #113 ******************************* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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