From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V11 #74 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Tuesday, August 14 2007 Volume 11 : Number 074 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Passim show 5.31 ["Tracy J. Wells" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:34:55 -0400 From: "Tracy J. Wells" Subject: Passim show 5.31 HMM... just found this in my "drafts" folder... apparently I never sent this report back in June after the Passim shows!! Yipes. Sorry about that, folks! (By the way, earlier today I sent a big long email about New Song this weekend but haven't seen it come through... I'm afraid maybe it was too long. Someone let me know if you received it or not... if not maybe I can re-send as a series of smaller messages... ) - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi folks, As promised, here is the report from the Passim shows last Thurs. & Fri. Sorry it's taken me so long to write these up; I've been traveling for the past week and a half with some film-related stuff in NYC and then back to Boston to visit friends... So, both shows at Passim were awesome, of course. I was really psyched about seeing Susan with the full band and to finally get to hear a whole show of mostly the new tunes (at the Rockford show in March she did mostly I Can't Be New Stuff cause they'd asked for that in the cabaret setting). Thursday evening I took a friend of mine from div school who still lives in Boston and had never heard any of Susan's stuff before (I always love introducing new people to Susan's music!). We had great seats -- smack in the middle and the second row of tables. (I had booked those tickets early.) So, that was fun, because I got to be really close up and Susan saw me there and was sort of bantering with me at various points in the show... First she started to make a comment about how she'd read something recently about the Catholic Church deciding to allow parishes to go back to using the Latin mass, and then she was like, "Have you heard about this? You know, I bet there are some of you out there who know stuff. I think we have a few M.Divs in the room... do we have any M.Divs?" I figured she was probably referring to me so I piped up and said, "MTS" (cause I don't have an MDiv) and so then I got to define the degree for everyone ("master of theological studies") and then everyone was looking at me. LOL. Then later in the show she was talking about how she'd bought a Bible for this project and she'd read it while she was writing the songs, etc and she made some comment about the first 5 books of the Bible, the Pentateuch, and she sorta said this really softly and hesitantly like she wasn't quite sure how to pronounce it, so I yelled out how to pronounce it and then she started joking about how it sounded like a town in Alaska or something. But I believe my favorite moment was when she was introducing "Probably Not," talking about how the next song had become somewhat of a theme song for agnostics, and said we should all join in if we felt so moved -- to which I hollered out, "PROBABLY NOT!" And this whole little pocket of people up toward the left front side of the room burst out laughing because they were all the hard-core Susan fans (you could tell them by their reactions throughout the evening and by their singing along on lots of songs :o) who already knew what song was coming. About halfway into the song, the people sitting behind me leaned over to me and were like, "You must have known the song beforehand!" And I was like, um, yeah. It's funny, because I'm never one of "those" people who holler stuff out to the performer during shows and whatnot, but I guess now that I've met Susan a few times and now that I know all her songs like, ridiculously well, I've become one of "those" people. Anyway, the show was great, and Greg, Trina and Colleen were great as well, of course. And like I said, I now finally get what some of you have been talking about with regards to Trina and that harmonica. MAN! She can really go to TOWN on that thing!!! Holy MOTHER. She totally stole the show during "Time Between Trains." And it was great to watch them all having such fun together. Susan really kept the banter to a minimum (I had just told my friend how funny and entertaining she was even just in the between-song banter, and then she wasn't as talkative in this show) because she kept being like, "we have world-class musicians here. world-class musicians!" But it was fun to see her so excited about jamming out with these folks. Commentary on the June 1 show forthcoming... for now, here's the set list for Thurs. night: Tracy Susan Werner 5.31.07 Club Passim (Cambridge, Mass.) Why is Your Heaven So Small I Will Have My Portion Our Father Forgiveness After All of This Sunday Mornings Probably Not Lost My Religion Did Trouble Me Time Between Trains Standing in My Own Way Barbed Wire Boys May I Suggest Movie of My Life Give Me Chicago I Can't Be New Help Somebody Encore: My Strange Nation Come Together 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 V11 #74 ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------- 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