From: owner-dads-yard-digest@smoe.org (dads-yard-digest) To: dads-yard-digest@smoe.org Subject: dads-yard-digest V2 #61 Reply-To: dads-yard@smoe.org Sender: owner-dads-yard-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-dads-yard-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk dads-yard-digest Tuesday, September 5 2000 Volume 02 : Number 061 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [dads-yard] Address chg [Bren ] [dads-yard] Subject: review from May [Deb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 10:22:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Bren Subject: [dads-yard] Address chg Hi, Could someone please send me details for changing my email address for the list & switching to digest mode? Thanks, Bren __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 19:03:05 -0400 From: Deb Subject: [dads-yard] Subject: review from May Message-ID: <386381326.968092044802.JavaMail.root@web425-wra> Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 14:27:24 -0400 (EDT) From: marcia smith To: "dad's yard" Subject: review from May Better late than never - here's a review from the Anchorage Daily News from May. It's late because we've been kind of busy moving from Spokane WA back to Pittsburgh PA. We've finally moved in to a house but the computer's not set up yet. This message is written on web mail. Anyhow, we were in Alaska visiting an old high school friend in Petersburg, nowhere near where Catie was playing, but it was fun to see this review in the paper: Poetic folkie's concert fills Marston by Cathy Gleason "I feel like time runs different here," folk singer Catie Curtis observed on her first visit to Alaska Saturday night. It was certainly true of her lively concert at the Marston Theater-time seemed to run too fast. Before the full house was ready, it was over. Curtis, on acoustic guitar, has a sweet voice, so clear that none of the lyrics are lost. She was accompanied perfectly by Jimmy Ryan, who used several types of mandolins, including electric and mando-cello. Even with her grown-up short hair, trendy glasses and satin pants too tight to hold a guitar pick, it's possible to imagine Curtis standing out as a child growing up in a tiny Maine town. In "Larry," Curtis sang aobut herself as an 8-year-old, inspired by seeing the movie version of "Jesus Christ Superstar." She tried unsuccessfully to convince her mother that the town weirdo was a saint. "I thought that he looked like Jesus, not that I thought that he was when he shot one of our neighbors and went away in handcuffs." Many of her songs, like "What's the Matter," are about outsiders and how they're perceived by others. "Why be afraid of this girl? Why be afraid of this world?" One particularly lovely song, "Falling Silent in the Dark," was inspired by the poetry of the late May Sarton. It displayed Curtis' poetic side: "The snow falls right by my bed at night, slow and steady like your heart. Falling silent in the dark, it's so strange to be apart." The audience was loud and appreciative all night, many members standing to demand an encore that stretched to four songs. Maybe this folk fan was not the only one hungry for something new, after solid but somewhat repetitious recent performances from favorites Christine Lavin and Dar Williams. Unfortunately, you won't be able to find copies of Curtis' CDs in Anchorage stores for a few days. After fans in Homer and Fairbanks wiped out the artist's supply, Mike McCormick, whose Whistling Swan Productions brought Curtis here, ran around town buying up every available copy to sell to ticket holders here and in Bethel. ------------------------------ End of dads-yard-digest V2 #61 ******************************