From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V10 #9 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Wednesday, February 1 2006 Volume 10 : Number 009 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Suze News: S Werner Newsletter Spring 06 ["Susan Werner News" Subject: Suze News: S Werner Newsletter Spring 06 and Happy Chinese New Year to everyone! the old cliche has it that on Xmas, Jews all go out to Chinese restaurants - so maybe the Chinese New Year is when all the Christian types should go out to eat at Jewish delis. a new tradition? spring calendar plenty busy, plenty crazy. racking up the FF miles and getting in a little tourism, too - Montana, of all places. playing the Brokeback Mountain Bluegrass Festival (KIDDING!!! cmon, you knew that was coming) but i really am playing montana... and kansas... and georgia. you'd think i was running for president - as a republican - but more on politics later - - this weekend things get going with a New England swing (oxymoron? yankees can't swing) - watercolor cafe outside NYC, and then at the Iron Horse in NoHo on friday with an upstart phenom, the julliard trained songwriter/pianist Kristin Hoffman. saturday in Lexington Mass with Pete and Maura Kennedy - maybe pete and i'll get a guitar showdown going again. mostly, i just try to keep up with pete. and nobody, nobody can. - highlights of the spring include a return to the glamorous Triple Door Theater in Seattle, and the SW debut at the Portland Jazz Festival (what to wear, what to wear?...). my upright bass player, Greg Holt, will fly out from boston for these dates, so you know we're taking it all quite seriously. i have considered the idea of getting a manicure for these dates. i have also dismissed the idea. - i'm looking forward to the show in billings, montana, with folk icon and all around good guy, songwriter john gorka. maybe he'll drive out with me to see the little big horn monument. but every time i read the words "custer's last stand," my brain always goes to "culver's frozen custard," which is the best dairy dessert anywhere in the u.s. i can't account for it, i just can't. - it'll be great to get back to ATLanta, at eddie's attic, haven't been there in a while. and i'll be sure to ask the folks in kansas just what is going on with the intelligent design thing down there. it's my personal belief, or, more of a suspicion, that god created the entire universe and everything in it on the first day, and then just played computer solitaire for the rest of the week. - this spring there are so many dates to get psyched up for, so many of the premier listening rooms in the country. damn. even i'm impressed. joe's pub in nyc, the barns of wolf trap, schubas in chicago, passim in boston, tin angel in philly... a great schedule, and thanks to my manager (larry goldfarb) and agency (tim drake and the roots agency) for putting it together. - and now, re: politics: so many of you have asked about the song "My Strange Nation" that i took some time in december and recorded it in boston with my producer pal crit harmon (who produced I Can't Be New). we added some orchestral wizardry from brad hatfield and we'll have this for you as a free download and URL link you can visit. it'll be sent out in a Suze Newsletter Email just like this one in about a week from now. - - and that's all the print that fits the news. or, the fits that make all the printed news. or, the fit of all the sinewy print. or, all the news that's fit to print. okay, there i got it. see you all somewhere soon (except idaho, i'm sorry about idaho, i have never played idaho. but i think about idaho constantly, and longingly. i do) - -s- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SCHEDULE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2/2/2006 Watercolor Cafe Larchmont NY 914-834-2213 8:00 PM 2/3/2006 Iron Horse Northampton MA 413-586-8686 7:00 pm 2/4/2006 A Joyful Noise Coffeehouse Lexington MA 781-861-0142 8:00 pm 2/11/2006 Alberta Bair Theater (w/ John Gorka!) Billings MT 877-321-2074 8:00 pm 2/14/2006 Fitton Center for the Creative Arts Hamilton OH 513-863-8873 8:00 pm 2/17/2006 The Triple Door Seattle WA 206-838-4333 8:00 pm 2/19/2006 Portland Jazz Festival Portland OR TBA 2/24/2006 The Ark Ann Arbor MI 734-761-1800 8:00 pm 3/11/2006 Schuba's Tavern Chicago IL 773-525-2508 7:30 pm 3/24/2006 Eddie's Attic Decatur GA 404-377-4976 9:30 pm 3/25/2006 Sautee-Nacoochee Arts Sautee-Nacoochee GA 706-878-3300 8:00 pm 3/31/2006 The Pump House LaCrosse WI 608-784-3003 7:30 pm 4/1/2006 Wil-Mar Center Madison WI 608-846-9214 8:00 pm 4/7/2006 Tin Angel Philadelphia PA 215-928-0770 7:30 pm 4/8/2006 The Barns of Wolftrap Vienna VA 703-938-2404 8:00 pm 4/21/2006 Westside Folk Coffeehouse Lawrence KS 785-865-3655 7:30 pm 4/22/2006 Manhattan Arts Center Manhattan KS 785-537-4420 8:00 pm 4/23/2006 Old Settlers Inn Moundridge KS 620-345-2733 4:30 pm 5/7/2006 The Howmet Playhouse Whitehall MI 231-894-5656 3:00 pm 5/12/2006 Tupelo Music Hall Londonderry NH 603-437-5100 8:30 pm 5/13/2006 Club Passim Cambridge MA 617-492-7679 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm 5/18/2006 Black Rock Center for the Arts Germantown MD 301-528-2260 7:00 pm 5/19/2006 Joe's Pub New York NY 212-539-8778 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm 5/20/2006 Music at the Mission West Milford NJ 973-728-4201 8:00 pm 5/28/2006 Concert Under the Stars King of Prussia PA 610-645-0837 7:00 pm 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 V10 #9 ****************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------- 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