From: owner-dads-yard-digest@smoe.org (dads-yard-digest) To: dads-yard-digest@smoe.org Subject: dads-yard-digest V2 #112 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 Sunday, December 3 2000 Volume 02 : Number 112 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [dads-yard] Fwd: Catie Curtis news [Deb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 18:48:26 -0500 From: Deb Subject: [dads-yard] Fwd: Catie Curtis news For those who aren't on Catie's announcement list: >Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:44:53 -0800 >From: catiecurtis@telelists.com >To: "Catie Curtis" > >Visit our new website at http://www.skyhand.com/ > >11/29/00 > >NEWS FROM CATIE > >It's so weird, let me tell you, to write an open letter to who knows who. >Anyway, here's my news for the choosy people who choose folk (rock). > >I'm just getting home from the Dar Williams tour which I opened in September >and most of November. That Dar, she's really got it going on. I loved it. >Every gig. Jimmy Ryan and I did the whole thing as a duo, except in Boston >where we brought on our band. I got stopped for speeding in Texas, which I >heard was impossible. People, it happens. I blame it on Bush. Two days >later Jimmy got stopped in Missouri for changing lanes, yes changing lanes >too much. In October my old song "Troubled Mind" showed up in a new episode >of Felicity. Also in October some new songs showed up in my head and so I >started playing them on the tour. There's some older/new songs like Jane, >Don't Lay Down, Kiss that Counted and Run, and then there's some new new >ones like Elizabeth, Love Takes the Best of You (about adoption), and The >Church Went Down, which are inspired by their subjects, but also by the >intensity of the audiences at the shows with Dar. You people are wild! I >was in a frenzy of writing and re-writing during this tour, which doesn't >usually happen on the road. So now I look longingly toward a new recording. >I'll be in the studio in February and March. I'd estimate a summer or fall >release. > >In December and January (happy holidays!), I'm laying low, writing some more >and playing a few small rooms around the Boston area. Also, I'm in Faith >Soloway's rock opera "Miss Folk America," which is the funniest thing I've >ever seen (I know I'm not supposed to be watching, because I'm in it, but I >do because it's funny, dammit!). I'm including the Miss Folk press release, >along with my December-January schedule. > >Thanks for the lovin' > >Catie > > > > >MISS FOLK PRESS RELEASE >The All New, All Star, One Night Only performance of... >M I S S F O L K A M E R I C A >December 2, 2000, 8 PM >at the Somerville Theater > > >The cast includes: Catie Curtis, Jennifer Kimball, Kris Delmhorst, Mary >Gauthier, Meghan Toohey, Faith Soloway and many other surprise guests. Six >of Boston's best singer songwriters lampoon themselves and the entire music >scene as they compete for the coveted crown in this twisted hybrid of >musical pathos and pageant parody.written, directed, and composed by folk >rockster Faith Soloway, the Somerville Theater show is a pumped-up, >multi-media version of one in a series of her sold-out rock operas >previously performed at Club Passim. This one-time-only performance will be >unlike any show that has come before! A hysterical send-up of "making it" >in the music scene, the show features a live rock band, >"up-close-and-personal" video skits, an all-star local cast and many >surprise appearances. Come share the insanity with us! > >(The Somerville theater is located at 55 Davis Sq, Somerville. For more >information contact >the theater at 617-625-5700, or Songstreet productions at 617-628-3390.) > > > >CATIE CURTIS SHOWS DECEMBER/JANUARY > >12/09/00 In the Square Coffee House (Benefits Youth Pride and AIDS Care >Ocean State); 401-861-1515 for tickets; Church of the Messiah, 1860 >Westminster Street, Providence (Olneyville Square), Rhode Island > >2/16/00 Club Passim; 617-492-7679; 47 Palmer Street, Cambridge, MA > >01/06/01 Fox Run; Fox Run Concerts; 978-443-3253; House Concert, Sudbury, MA > >01/25/01 Whittier House Restaurant; Drylongso Productions; >207-625-7727;Route 16, West Ossipee, NH > >-------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Catie Curtis, please visit http://www.skyhand.com/ > >Please do not reply to this message as it is for announcement purposes only made by the list administrator. Thank you. ------------------------------ End of dads-yard-digest V2 #112 *******************************