From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V7 #63 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Saturday, March 29 2003 Volume 07 : Number 063 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Re: believers-digest V7 #62 ["Gregg" ] Re: believers-digest V7 #62 [John DeFord ] Digital Piano wanted [simona loberant ] Sellersville ["Tim Dunleavy" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 07:20:23 -0800 From: "Gregg" Subject: Re: believers-digest V7 #62 Whatever, last time I looked Susan fit the requirements ;^) > Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 19:49:01 -0500 > From: "Sherlyn Koo" > Subject: Michigan Womyn's Music Festival > > Hrm.... > > According to the Fleming Artists site, Susan's playing the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in August. I'm a little surprised at this, actually. MWMF is a festival which allows attendance by women-born-women only (ie no transgendered women, and boys only up to a certain age). It's all a bit separatist for me, but whatever... HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:21:28 -0800 (PST) From: John DeFord Subject: Re: believers-digest V7 #62 I think the point was that the restriction applies to the audience as well... - -john - --- Gregg wrote: > Whatever, last time I looked Susan fit the requirements ;^) > > > > > > Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 19:49:01 -0500 > > From: "Sherlyn Koo" > > Subject: Michigan Womyn's Music Festival > > > > Hrm.... > > > > According to the Fleming Artists site, Susan's playing the Michigan > Womyn's Music Festival in August. I'm a little surprised at this, > actually. > MWMF is a festival which allows attendance by women-born-women only > (ie no > transgendered women, and boys only up to a certain age). It's all a > bit > separatist for me, but whatever... > > HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org > Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs > http://worldcafecds.com ===== ........... Sometimes the beauty of life John ...... Hits like lightning .... DeFord Washing everything clear ........... -Shawn Colvin http://fridgepoets.com HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 09:46:45 -0800 (PST) From: simona loberant Subject: Digital Piano wanted Hi there, I'm trying to find a decent quality digital/stage piano with 88 keys. The kind with weighted keys and a real piano "feel". If anyone wants to sell one (even if its reallly old, as long as it works) or wouldn't mind giving me tips on finding a cheap used one I would really appreciate it. I need to toss my 61 key casio keyboard for something that actually sounds and feels like a piano! Respond to loberant@yahoo.com Thanks, Simona ===== Simona L. Loberant "Every now and then go away, even briefly, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer; since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power." **Leonardo da Vinci Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 01:07:47 -0500 From: "Tim Dunleavy" Subject: Sellersville "Don't I know you from someplace? Don't I know you from someplace? Cause that really is some face. Don't I know you from someplace?" That's the opening lyric from a brand new song that Susan performed on Friday night in Sellersville. Sellersville is on the northern end of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; Susan said that even though she had lived at the southern end of the county for thirteen years, she had never heard of it. (That makes two of us.) It took me an hour to drive from my home (which is in Susan's old neck of the woods), and I got lost at the end, thanks to some less-than-clear directions on the theater's website; I got there at 8:11pm in the middle of "Time Between Trains," which I assume was her opener. The theater is a lovely 300-seat hall, built in 1894 but restored to look much better (on the inside, at least) than it did back then. The house was about half full. In addition to "Don't I Know You From Someplace," a piano song that she herself described as brand new, there were two other songs (both on guitar) that were new to me. The first was the song that she called the "Red Dress" song, a neat little bluesy number that she says she wrote because "sometimes you get tired of feeling sad." The other, which she used to close the first half of the show, is a song that, for lack of a definitive title, I'll call the Saint Christopher song. It was a prayer that she'd put to music (beautiful music, too). She said the prayer is on a laminated card - the prayer is on one side, St. Christopher is on the other, and she's been carrying it around in her wallet for years "and I've never been in an accident." The prayer was a lovely wish for safety and good blessings. Musically, she mixed in all the original, seemingly impromptu takes on old songs that keep me coming back show after show. There was a haunting coda at the end of "LOTGSG"; there was a funny, dissonant version of Brahm's Lullaby on the outro of "Light Sleeper"; there were lyric variations in "Time Between Trains" that made me realize she never stops thinking about how she wants to tell the story. She introduced "LOTGSG" by saying that it was partially inspired by one time she went out with a bunch of her girlfriends, "and I found out something about one of them that I had never known before... This song mentions City Line Avenue. I haven't been there in a while, but I'm guessing the T.G.I. Friday's is still there, and that the chili is still cold." Mentioning Friday's made her think of another City Line landmark a block away: the Channel Six building, and the station's star anchorman, who is a landmark himself. "I love Jim Gardner. I've been out of town, and I hadn't seen him for a while, but I watched him on the news last night. He looks a little older, but... he's a very special man." After the laughs died down, she said, "Does anybody here know Jim Gardner?" One person in the audience raised her hand. "Can you tell me anything about him?" "Privileged information," the woman said. "Is he nice?" "Privileged information." Susan looked puzzled and said, "Could I talk to you after the show?" After the second song, "Shade of Gray," she referred to the "new non-fiction" that the song mentions. She noted that the top five books on the New York Times non-fiction best sellers list "are all polemics - either hard left or hard right - and I think this is a time when we need more people to meet in the center." Yet late in act one, she revealed that she took part in the massive anti-war demonstration on Lake Shore Drive a few days ago and nearly got arrested. She gave a lot of details, and said that she's emulating Bonnie Raitt, who seems to get arrested in demonstrations a lot. She hopes to get arrested soon, but on a day that she doesn't have a show... The piano segment in Act Two - the current incarnation of the romantic song cycle - always astounds me. The beauty of the songs' constructions, both in music and lyrics, coupled with Susan's masterful piano playing, always knocks me out; and hearing all those songs (mostly unrecorded) back to back always reminds me that there's a reason I've paid to see this woman so many times. And she was in her usual hilarious form here; after "No One Needs to Know," she casually dedicated it "to my true love... Jim Gardner." After the last piano song, she picked up her guitar again and said, in a Brooklyn accent, "I know we're not gettin' along dat well with the French these days. However, they have made significant contributions to our culcha. I'm gonna close the show with one of 'em." And then she sang "La Vie en Rose" and walked off the stage. For her encore, she returned to the guitar and performed John Lennon's "Imagine." She deconstructed and reshaped this song the same way she transformed "Help," "Let It Be," "Just Like Starting Over" and who knows how many other songs. She did the song with an insistent pounding bass thump on the lowest string, and in the coda she detuned the bass string and switched from a thumb-picked bassline to insistent strumming; the lowered note made an odd but compelling drone that played against the chords in an interesting way. A great show; the varying tone, from serious war talk to personal reflections to inside Philly jokes, sounds like something that would be hard to pull off - but for Susan it was effortless. There's a chance I might get to see her at Joe's Pub on the 19th; I can' wait. - -Tim HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V7 #63 ****************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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