From: owner-bklist-digest@smoe.org (bklist-digest) To: bklist-digest@smoe.org Subject: bklist-digest V3 #17 Reply-To: bklist@smoe.org Sender: owner-bklist-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-bklist-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "bklist-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. bklist-digest Saturday, October 9 1999 Volume 03 : Number 017 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [BrendaKahn] Saturday E. Lansing show [Mark Miazga ] MARK MIAZGA POST (Part 1 of 2) [Gordon Wong ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 02:06:08 -0400 From: Mark Miazga Subject: Re: [BrendaKahn] Saturday E. Lansing show Andy and anyone else who would like to know-- From Ann Arbor, get on US-23N until about Brighton, then take I-96W towards Lansing until you get to Okemos. In Okemos (exit 110), you're going to turn right after the exit, then turn left at the first light. You're going to go a couple miles on this road, then turn left at the second light (Hagadorn Road). You can run on Hagadorn road for about 2 miles, going over two sets of railroad tracks. You'll now be approaching campus. The first building you'll see on the left is Hubbard Hall, a tall, 12-story building. Right next door is Akers Hall, a six-story building. The Common Grounds is located in the basement of Akers Hall, right in the middle of the building. Parking is available all around there, but it'll be tough since it's the night of the U/M - MSU football game. It's not too hard to find. Akers Hall is basically on the corner of Hagadorn and Shaw Roads, and easy to find. See you there (hopefully). If you've got any other questions, feel free to give me a ring at 517-353-4936. Mark Andrew Shaver wrote: > From: Andrew Shaver > > On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Mark Miazga wrote: > > > From: Mark Miazga > > > > Andy, if you need directions to either show in the Lansing area, > let me know. Or > > anyone else (not sure how many folks are on this list). > > Yeah, I've never been to the MSU campus before! > Where is your coffeehaus? > > Andy > > --------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- > > ??? Computer Questions ==> Free Answers From Live Experts ! ! ! > go to EXPERTCITY.COM > Click Here > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - -- Mark Miazga e-mail: miazgama@pilot.msu.edu 143 West Akers Hall, MSU East Lansing, MI 48825 (517) 353-4936 http://www.msu.edu/~miazgama Program Coordinator of The Common Grounds Coffeehouse. Cheap Concerts every Thursday and Friday night in the basement of Akers Hall on the MSU campus. Schedule, booking, and mailing list info at: http://www.msu.edu/~cgrounds ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 22:59:42 -0700 From: Gordon Wong Subject: MARK MIAZGA POST (Part 2 of 2) “She’s very lyric-intensive,” Holland said. “For one thing, her voice is fragile. (Her album has) a very spare, melancholy sound. ” The Creole, an art gallery which has recently opened its doors to music and performance artists, does not allow drinking or smoking in the building. The atmosphere stresses the music first, which is ideal for a lyrically-oriented artist like Kahn. “Here (at The Creole) you don’t have the back chatter. People sit there and listen — music is the single focus. You’re going to be sitting there listening to the lyrics. And if that’s what you want, then boy, you’re going to get it,” she said. Holland compared Kahn’s voice to Bob Dylan. “I wouldn’t say she has the most beautiful voice in the world, but the emotion comes through,” she said. Kahn told Holland she is expecting to give an expressive performance on Friday. “It’s going to be very intense. She’s going to play an hour and a half,” Holland said. “(Kahn) told me, ‘I don’t want to take a break, it’s going to be an intense show.’” Kahn’s show at The Creole Art Gallery will begin at 8 p.m. Friday. Cover charge is $3 for students and $5 for non-students. Tamara Bedricky will be opening for Kahn. Common Grounds will open its doors at 7 p.m. Saturday. Opening acts include Lori Amey, Half Looking and Lisa Hunter. Cover charge is $4 for students and $6 for non-students. - -- Mark Miazga e-mail: miazgama@pilot.msu.edu 143 West Akers Hall, MSU East Lansing, MI 48825 (517) 353-4936 http://www.msu.edu/~miazgama Program Coordinator of The Common Grounds Coffeehouse. Cheap Concerts every Thursday and Friday night in the basement of Akers Hall on the MSU campus. Schedule, booking, and mailing list info at: http://www.msu.edu/~cgrounds ==================== Thought of the Day: Is it possible to be totally partial? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 22:58:53 -0700 From: Gordon Wong Subject: MARK MIAZGA POST (Part 1 of 2) This is a post by Mark Miazga. The bklist mailing list has a 7K limit on messages and his message was 12K. Here it is in two parts: Brenda Kahn, who has played shows with Bob Dylan, The Kinks and David Byrne, will bring her acoustic and spoken-word performance to The Creole, 1218 Turner St. in Old Town, on Friday at 8 p.m. She will also be at the Common Grounds Coffeehouse in the Akers Hall basement on Saturday at 7 p.m. Kahn looks to start over in E.L. By SHANNON RESCH The State News Remember the old adage, “Don’t get mad, get even?” Brenda Kahn may not admit she’s doing just that, but after being burned in the past, she has created her own success. Kahn, who has just released her fifth record, “Hunger,” will blaze through East Lansing this weekend with shows at The Creole Art Gallery, 1218 Turner St. in Lansing, on Friday, and Common Grounds Coffeehouse in the Akers Hall basement on Saturday. But the road she took to get here was long and challenging. “I had no idea what was going on when I signed to a (record) label,” said Kahn, who signed with Columbia Records in 1992. “My second record — they dropped it two weeks before it was supposed to be released. I still don’t have the rights to it.” Instead of giving up against a major label, though, Kahn simply decided to use it as a learning experience. “An artist today basically has to do a lot of their own business. It’s not like you can get a record deal and you’re set for life,” said Kahn, who performed at the Lilith Fair this summer. “Do your own research, check out what’s out there. Don’t go into it blindly.” These shrewd business skills are important in any business, not just the music industry, Kahn said. “I think across the board, whether you’re an artist or a shoe salesman, you have to learn your lessons in business if you want to make money,” she said. So while she may have been stung by Columbia, Kahn didn’t just sit and bide her time. Since then, she has made two more records, and has started her own company, Womanrock.com. Kahn describes Womanrock.com as a Web site for independent women in arts, music, film and writing. The company also puts on events like Planet Girl, a music festival featuring female-fronted bands. “It’s a community of women in art, talking about real things and real issues that affect their art and their work,” Kahn said. She said she created the company to help compensate for the unequal balance she sees in everyday life between men and women. “I think there’s a gap in terms of representation (in the music business) and the quality of life in general,” she said. “The quality of life, being able to support yourself and be financially secure, on a deeper level women aren’t really there yet.” Womanrock.com is also, in a way, retribution for Kahn’s bad experiences with record companies. “I’m trying to make it a resource for people so they don’t go into things blindly,” she said. “I try to let people know this information is on the Web. I don’t preach to them on the stage.” Kahn’s experience, along with her acoustic and spoken-word performances, have kept audiences in the area awaiting her. Mark Miazga, program coordinator for Common Grounds, said Kahn played at the coffeehouse last year to about 250 people. He said she stands out from many local acts. “She’s a national artist. She’s toured around the world and opened for Bob Dylan,” Miazga said. “That’s something we don’t often get. She definitely presents a different world view.” Meeghan Holland, who booked Kahn’s performance at The Creole, said the gallery is an excellent place to enjoy the work of an artist like Kahn. ==================== Thought of the Day: Is it possible to be totally partial? ------------------------------ End of bklist-digest V3 #17 ***************************