From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V9 #2 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Wednesday, January 5 2005 Volume 09 : Number 002 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- RE: Davenports? ["Chuck Ellingson" ] RE: Davenports? [meredith ] RE: Davenports? ["GM Lerch" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 13:16:15 -0600 From: "Chuck Ellingson" Subject: RE: Davenports? The New Year's Eve show was typically great Susie Chanteussie. My fave bits: "If I Only Had a Brain" played by SW on electronic keyboard while her guest accompanist played the tune on Davenport's grand piano and Susan's encore tune, John Lennon's "(Just Like) Starting Over." (How appropriate for the new year, eh?) It was fab meeting woj, Meredith, Gwen, et. al. (Feel free to add your twenty-two cents, folks. I forgot the piano tinkler's name, so if you know it, spread the wealth of knowledge!) It was grand ringing in 2005 (champagne toasting, noise-maker blowing, etc...) with Susan and friends. And it was great seeing the always-ebullient Kellie Lin Knott and her friend Heidi, 'though only for a minute (as they flew out of Davenport's on their way to Second City). Briefly yours, Chuck Ellingson Milwaukee, WI "We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal... We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. >From: "Ron Rosen" >Reply-To: "Ron Rosen" >To: "Believers Mail List" >Subject: Davenports? >Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:09:42 -0800 > >So how was Davenports? > >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 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: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 14:53:54 -0500 From: meredith Subject: RE: Davenports? Hi, I know I'm tardy in posting about New Year's Eve ... but woj and I just got back from Chicago late Sunday night, and yesterday was spent recuperating from the trip. :) Chuck recounted: >The New Year's Eve show was typically great Susie Chanteussie. My fave >bits: "If I Only Had a Brain" played by SW on electronic keyboard while >her guest accompanist played the tune on Davenport's grand piano and >Susan's encore tune, John Lennon's "(Just Like) Starting Over." (How >appropriate for the new year, eh?) I can't recall the set lists exactly, but I will try to list the songs that were played during the night. Seeing You Again Late For The Dance You Come Through No One Needs To Know Let's Regret This In Advance Don't I Know You All Of The Above (by request) Misery & Happiness Barbed Wire Boys Big Car May I Suggest Movie Of My Life Give Me Chicago Any Day Small Planes (sung by Scott Montgomery, while Susan played the grand piano) What Are You Doing This New Year's Eve (Susan sang this standard while accompanist Dan Stetzel played the grand piano) If I Only Had A Brain (instrumental, with Dan Stetzel on grand and Susan on keyboard) I Can't Be New (Just Like) Starting Over Dan Stetzel accompanied Susan on several other songs as well -- he was really good. He's the musical director for the cabaret shows that are staged at Davenport's, and he's a really good friend of Susan's so he new the material well. It was really cool to see Susan just standing at the microphone singing that one song, though you could tell she was wishing she had a guitar in her hands or something. :) It was also a hoot to hear Scott Montgomery sing "Small Planes". Earlier last year he did a cabaret show at Davenport's called "Planes", which was a revue of songs by artists who had died in plane crashes (Buddy Holly, Patsy Cline et al.), and he'd started it off with this song (noting "present company excepted" when he described the basis for his show ;). It was fun to see the song get the full-on cabaret treatment, and he's got a great voice. Also fun was being in Chicago while Susan sang her song about the city. Needless to say, it was a huge hit with the audience. :) >It was fab meeting woj, Meredith, Gwen, et. al. Likewise!! There was a nice little believers quorum in attendance on Friday night. (Gwen, how'd you like _Spamalot_? We *loved* it. :) All in all, a great way to ring in the new year, five years after we greeted the new millenium with Susan at the Tin Angel in Philadelphia (anyone else remember that co-bill with Jill Sobule?). Happy 2005, everyone! =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== 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: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:55:46 -0600 From: "GM Lerch" Subject: RE: Davenports? Happy New Year to all! I wholeheartedly agree with Meth and Chuck -- Susan was fabulous at Davenport's. The more intimate the setting, the better her musicianship . . . must be because we're all sitting so close and the pressure's on. :-) And to think, I almost skipped the concert because I'd "just seen her" in October. HAH! Foolish me! I should know better by now than to expect the same-ol same-ol from Mme Werner. While I don't remember Barbed Wire Boys or Big Car (early show, perhaps?), I can't dicker with anything else said about the evening. Dan Stetzel is a hell of a pianist, and it was a pleasure seeing two solid musicians listen so closely to each other and trade-off. Does anyone know if the "Only Had a Brain" duet was planned, or did it just morph into a great moment? Meth & Woj: Okay, okay. You Pythonaniacs win. Despite myself, I loved Spamalot. I laughed so hard I snorted all over the 12-year old sitting next to me. Also, I'm now the proud owner of a baby killer rabbit. And, I'm not afraid to use it. Gwen 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 V9 #2 ***************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------- 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