From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V7 #88 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Wednesday, April 30 2003 Volume 07 : Number 088 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Chicago show [Bill Page ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:16:06 -0500 From: Bill Page Subject: Chicago show As noted, the Old Town show on Sunday night was wonderful. Susan's piano playing (how many "guitar" singer-songwriters are accomplished pianists, anyway...Susan, Iris, Kate Campbell, Lucy K, must be lots more) was exceptional...one number featured somne stride piano work that was right at home in Chicago. I don't think anyone has mentioned the interview with Susan in Sunday's Chicago Tribune Magazine. Their "Just Asking" segment each week features a local performer, often someone on the national scene who has returned to the city for some reason. Here's what Susan had to say: - --------- Just Asking Folk Wisdom Susan Werner brings her classically informed, jazz-inspired music to the Old Town School of Folk Music on Sunday night. Q. Is there a true folk scene anymore? A. There are artists incorporating basic folk materials into their writing. And the success of the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" indicates there's plenty of interest in the basics done well. So there will be folk music as long as there are musicians who acquaint themselves with traditional forms and interpret them in ways that connect with the times. Q. What do you like most about Chicago? A. One of my favorite places in that little park by the lake-the Milton L. Olive III park, with that arch of trees that you stroll under.romantic, so Parisian. Q. Do different regions tend to produce distinctive kinds of folk music? A. There is a Boston school, for instance, where the songs are highly poetic-think Emily Dickinson with a Martin guitar-and it's highly adventuresome harmonically. The Texas writers are more plain-spoken; they have a sense of humor. In terms of a Midwestern school for folkies, I guess I'd have to refer to Steve Goodman. He was a great storyteller and funny, too. One of the best things about Midwestern writers is true about the Midwest in general: We are not fussy. [Just] say what you have to say and don't get all impressed with yourself. Q. If you could pick anyone-dead or alive-whom would you most like to perform with? A. Sinatra and Tony Bennett. I saw Bennett at Ravinia last summer and learned so much from that-the way he led 10,000 people though the story of a song-it was amazing. It was kind of like the pope at an outdoor mass, except Tony had a better bass player. - ----- So why didn't I see her at Ravinia? Oh, that's right...I didn't go this year. Bill Page 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 #88 ****************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- 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