From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V7 #64 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Wednesday, April 2 2003 Volume 07 : Number 064 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Fw: dave van ronk day ["auerworld" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 23:22:19 -0500 From: "auerworld" Subject: Fw: dave van ronk day Subject: dave van ronk day > This is an email from Christine Lavin that she sent to folk DJs and cc'd > to me. Maybe you can excerpt some of it and do some publicity? > > > Dear Folk DJs: > > Please join us on Sunday May 18th to celebrate what the New York City > Council > has officially declared "Dave Van Ronk Day." We want you, the folk dj > community, to be involved directly in this event. Tom Paxton, Patrick > Sky, > Odetta, Paul Geremia, David Massengill, Danny Kalb, Elijah Wald, Frank > Christian, Frank Tedesso, Rosalie Sorrels, Sylvia Tyson, Bill Morrissey, > > Chris Lowe, Eve Silber, Jeremy Wallace, Phil Namenworth, Terre Roche, > Suzanne > Vega, Jack Hardy, Josh Joplin and me, Christine Lavin, will be gathering > at > The Bottom Line, 15 West 4th Street in New York City for two shows, 3:00 > and > 8:30 PM -- along with artists Suze Rotolo and Enzo Bartoccioli plus > special > surprise guests (Suze and Enzo are assembling an intermission slide show > of > Dave's life; the surprise guests are, well, surprise guests!). Everyone > is > performing one song -- a song written by Dave, made famous by Dave or > inspired by Dave. Excerpts from the forthcoming book by Elijah Wald, > "The > Mayor of MacDougal Street" will be read throughout the show by Suzanne > Vega. > > The show is called "Dave Van Ronk Day: Celebrating the Spirit And > Legacy of > the Mayor of MacDougal Street." Tickets are $25, the box office is > 212.228.6300 and part of the net proceeds will go toward the editing and > > mastering of Dave's very last concert (October 2001) which, lucky for > us, was > preserved on tape. Those who have heard it call it 'the quintessential > Ronk > experience.' He knew (although no one else did) that it was his last > show. > At the time of his death he was not signed to any record label, so the > plan > is to master this album as best as can be done (we are currently talking > to a > team of engineers who have years of experience with archival material to > do > it up right). Although Dave was nominated for a Grammy, he never won > one, > but he wanted to very much. We are hoping that with this project maybe > we > can help that dream of his to come true. > > How can the folk dj community be a part of this? If you are on the air > on > Sunday, May 18th, devote part of your show to the music of Dave Van > Ronk, > talk about it being "Dave Van Ronk Day" in New York City -- and let me > know > that you are doing this (I have set up a special email box > vanronkday@aol.com > specifically for you, the folkdj list, and nothing else). If you are > NOT on > the air that day, but are the week prior, do your tribute to Dave at > that > time and also let me know. I am personally keeping the list of all the > djs > who take part -- so I need you to email: > > your name > your program's name > what time it airs > station call letters > city/state > > That list will be incorporated into the events of that day, either as > part of > the slide show, or posted at the entrance of the club, or in a printed > program. There won't be time to mention all of you personally from the > stage, but I will mention the folkdj list and pertinent information > about the > organization as part of the speechifying (along with the politicians who > are > doing the reading of the official proclamation). > > If we know far enough ahead of time, participation of the folk dj list > can > also be included in the press release that The Bottom Line will send > around > approximately 4 weeks prior to the event. The Bottom Line release can > state, "Besides the New York City Council declaring it "Dave Van Ronk > Day," > ____ folk music radio djs from around the country, all part of the > folkdj.org > cyberspace community (that wording will be exact) will be featuring > Dave's > music the week of May 11-18th. > > None of the performers is getting paid -- they are all donating their > concert > fees to the pot to get Dave's last concert out there. > > Dave Van Ronk influenced hundreds of singer/songwriters for close to 50 > years. During his lifetime, while revered by many, even receiving a > Lifetime > Achievement Award from ASCAP, he never quite received the acclaim that > he > deserved. We are hoping this event will help to put the spotlight on > him > once more, raise enough money to release his last album, and hey, it's > going > to be a great party. > > I hope you can be part of it, even if you can't be in New York (or get > here > if you can!). If you ever met Dave, or saw him perform, or got to > interview > him, you know what a brilliant man he was, and how deserving he is of > this > event. > > Sincerely, > Christine Lavin 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 #64 ****************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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