From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #118 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, April 16 1998 Volume 04 : Number 118 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Re: Victoria Williams Info [Heather Russell ] Re: General Boston Concert info (Multiple Artists) [Michael Colford ] Re: General Boston Concert info (Multiple Artists) [Laura Clifford ] Margot Smith news [Neile Graham ] Re: The Big Kaplansky [Riphug ] More CD purchases in Kansas City [Riphug ] CLB/Ron Sexsmith @ Iron Horse 5/17/98 [ABershaw ] Re: CLB/Ron Sexsmith @ Iron Horse 5/17/98 [roo@brown.edu (Kay Cleaves)] Re: More CD purchases in Kansas City ["Jeffrey C. Burka" ] Re: More CD purchases in Kansas City [roo@brown.edu (Kay Cleaves)] Re: More CD purchases in Kansas City ["Jeffrey Hanson" ] my a cappella group ["Mike Mendelson" ] Lilith press conference ["Neil K. Guy" ] Jeff Lang tour info [Sherlyn Koo ] Re: The Big Kaplansky [Richard ] All sorts of Dar Willams news [Michael Curry ] Lilith Fair Site Problems! [Heather Russell ] Re: Lilith Fair Site Problems! ["Neil K. Guy" ] Re: Lilith Fair Site Problems! ["Neil K. Guy" ] Re: More CD purchases in Kansas City [Carolyn Andre ] RE: Various [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 03:00:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************** Jeff Hanson (jhanson@bbn.com) ********************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jeff Hanson Sat April 16 1966 Aries Michael Klouda Mon April 17 1967 Aries Harry Foster Sat April 21 1956 NiceGuy Angelos Kyrlidis Fri April 22 1966 Taurus Kjetil Torgrim Homme Thu April 23 1970 Taurus Pablo Iglesias Thu April 23 1964 Positive Jeff Burka Thu April 24 1969 GoFlyAKite Christine Waite Tue April 25 1972 Taurus Matt Adams Thu April 26 1962 Taurus Brad Hutchinson Tue April 28 1964 What sign? Geoff Parks Sun April 30 1961 Taurus Barney Parker Fri May 02 1986 happy cat Gray Abbott Tue May 03 1955 Suprised Tamar Boursalian May 03 Taurus Joe Dembski Wed May 07 1952 Rumple Richard A. Holmes May 07 Taurus John Warren Mon May 08 1961 Taurus - the Ox Steve Ito Fri May 08 1970 DA Bull... Brian Gregory Thu May 09 1963 Eclectic Patrick Varker Wed May 12 1954 Torius Steve Fagg Tue May 13 1958 Nightwol Karel Zuiderveld Fri May 13 1960 Stier Miss Megan Celia Koster Sun May 14 1978 Taurus Michael Colford Wed May 16 1962 Taurus - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 06:39:46 -0400 From: Heather Russell Subject: Re: Victoria Williams Info > Hi folks > > I'm currently doing some editing on a Lilith Fair book to be released - uh > - - very shortly. And we've decided to add an artist profile of Victoria > Williams to the collection. I'm trying to dig up some good basic bio > pages... any suggestions? Thanks! > > - Neil K. Well, here's the website for mammoth - there's some info on her there: http://www.mammoth.com/ HTH, heather - -- |**************************************************| | Heather Russell | | My music site: http://www.freecloud.com/heather | | hrussell@bellsouth.net | |__________________________________________________| "What fun is it being 'cool' if you can't wear a sombrero?" - Calvin and Hobbes ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 07:31:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Colford Subject: Re: General Boston Concert info (Multiple Artists) On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Chris Snyder wrote: > Hi Everyone > Since there are alot of Boston people on the list I thought I would > put together a list of some upcoming concerts in the Boston area. This is Of course, you forgot the one I'm most looking forward to, the return of Holly Cole to the Paradise on May 15th! Yippee!! - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Colford | Reading Public Library Head of Technical Services | Reading, Massachusetts colford@noblenet.org | *North of Boston Library Exchange* - -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 08:01:19 EDT From: Riphug Subject: Re: Victoria Williams Info Heather, if you go to the following URL, you'll find a whole bunch of websites on Victoria Williams: http://www.metacrawler.com/crawler?general=%22Victoria+Williams%22&method=2&ta rget=®ion=0&rpp=20&timeout=5&hpe=10 Nice idea! Jill :D ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:04:50 -0400 From: Laura Clifford Subject: Re: General Boston Concert info (Multiple Artists) And tomorrow, the 17th, Mistle Thrush are at TT the Bear's... At 12:51 AM 4/16/98 -0500, Chris Snyder wrote: >Hi Everyone > Since there are alot of Boston people on the list I thought I would >put together a list of some upcoming concerts in the Boston area. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:12:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Moorse Subject: The Big Kaplansky Would any of youse fine Ectofolk be kind enough to give me your impressions of one Lucy Kaplansky? In the past few weeks, I've read several ... numerous ... nay countless glowing mentions of her voice and her writing (one even in these ectopages). Now I read an AP piece that calls her the next BIG THING. ("There's certainly no reason -- at least none involving talent -- why she shouldn't become as much a strar as her onetime musical partner, Shawn Colvin.") The AP writer calls her voice "chocolatey rich and misleadingly innocent" and marvelous, clear, and strong. I've just gotta know: Is any of this stuff true? I ask because several years ago I witnessed a performance by a human who used that name and looked sort of kinda vaguely like the denim-jacketed babe in the newspaper photo. Musically, it was awful with a capital AWWW. Half a dozen maudlin songs presented in a voice like an oboe reed in a cardboard tube. Rather listen to Lou Berryman sing Don Ho. Anyway, people change -- I certainly hope one Lucy Kaplansky has metamorphosized into the other -- but I thought y'all'd be the earth's ears most likely to know for sure. Uh... anybody know? AlanM np: Cow Imagination -- Lou and Peter Berryman (so blame the oboe reed simile on that, OK?) like a dance band in a storm drain, like a candle in a camper van, like a semaphore in a cattle drive, like a French kiss at sea. ... like an automatic enchilada toaster into undulating on the architecture like an afternoon upon the escalator in an underwater five-and-dime ... like a corndog on a long flight like a shoehorn in the autoclave like a vcr in the Hindenburg like a cardboard bow tie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 08:24:31 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: Margot Smith news Exciting news from the keeper of the Margot Smith page: >From: "Sue C" >To: "Neile Graham" >Subject: Margot Smith >Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 23:59:35 +1000 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 > >Its on!!! Margot's US tour is happening July/Sept. That is all I know so >far, but stay tuned! > >cheers, Sue > >PS I've put your link in the 'Tour schedule' page. > >http://www.users.bigpond.com/kascam/ > - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham ..... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ..... neile@sff.net The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music .... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:29:05 EDT From: Riphug Subject: Re: The Big Kaplansky In a message dated 4/16/98 11:25:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time, alanm@poboxes.com writes: << Would any of youse fine Ectofolk be kind enough to give me your impressions of one Lucy Kaplansky? >> Hmmmm......I saw her in concert (at the Hillel Jewish Center in Cincinnati) this past fall and have both of her cd's. She's not really one of my favorite singers, but I wouldn't say she's *awful*. Try checking her homepage on the internet: http://www.pair.com/lucy/.......and you can hear her (in wav format) at http://www.pair.com/lucy/tide.htm. Jill :D ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 15:22:07 EDT From: Riphug Subject: More CD purchases in Kansas City First, the used ones.....from CD Exchange: Tanita Tikaram - Everybody's Angel (I'm really starting to love her low voice) Red House Painters - Songs For a Blue Guitar (nice folk-ish stuff) Everything But the Girl - The Language of Life (I didn't realize they have more than two albums) Eliza Gilkyson - Redemption Road (I like her album, "Pilgrims," so much that I decided to buy her earlier stuff) Susan Herrick - Paint (I heard a few songs of hers before and really, really like her!) Margo Hennebach - Michealean (never heard of her, but bought her just because the label is 1-800-Prime CD -- not a disappointment) Sara Hickman - Shortstop (another artist with more albums than I had realized) Rickie Lee Jones - Traffic From Paradise (I can't believe I wasn't a fan when she was *really* popular!) Heidi Berry - Self-titled (umm.....this is my second copy.....write if you'd like it) Blue Rodeo - Diamond Mine (when will I *ever* complete my collection of BR?!) Then a Tuesday visit to Borders for the new ones: The Brothers McMullen Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (listened to this on the plane coming home......I like everything but the really *jiggy* stuff - -- and I'm not talking Will Smith here.) Diana Krall - Stepping Out -- The Early Recordings - (Sometimes I really get in the mood for some soothing jazz) Barbara Kessler - Stranger To This Land (my first Kessler album, although I have a sample of her on at least one of my compilation cd's) Morcheeba - Big Calm (now playing.......i'd heard so much about this, i thought i should give it a try......i like what i hear so far....never realized it's a female- fronted band) Behan Johnson - self-titled (recommended by someone i met at the Chantal concert - - keeping my fingers crossed....) The Why Store - self-titled (i've heard them on a couple of mix tapes people have made for me) Eddi Reader - self-titled (to go along with "Candyfloss and Medicine," which I like) Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke - Duality (another one I'm hoping to like......I wasn't all that thrilled with "The Mirror Pool," but want to try again) .....and now for a breather...... Jill :D thanking the ectophiles and ectolites ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 15:38:36 EDT From: ABershaw Subject: CLB/Ron Sexsmith @ Iron Horse 5/17/98 Hi to those of you in New England, Cindy Lee Berryhill just got in touch to let me know that she'll be opening (solo) for Ron Sexsmith on Sunday May 17th at the Iron Horse in Northampton, MA. Personally, I'm unfamiliar with Ron S, but I've seen his name mentioned by several Ectophiles. I'll definately be at this & hope to meet up with some of you. All the best, Alan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:15:30 -0400 From: roo@brown.edu (Kay Cleaves) Subject: Re: CLB/Ron Sexsmith @ Iron Horse 5/17/98 >Hi to those of you in New England, > Cindy Lee Berryhill just got in touch to let >me know that she'll be opening (solo) for Ron Sexsmith >on Sunday May 17th at the Iron Horse in Northampton, MA. > Personally, I'm unfamiliar with Ron S, but I've >seen his name mentioned by several Ectophiles. > I'll definately be at this & hope to meet up with >some of you. > All the best, Alan > > Alan-- I caught Ron S. at the Newport folk a couple of years ago, and from what I heard and other ecto babblings (meth?), go for the Cindy Lee but don't bother with the rest. Even Lisa Loeb put on a better show than Ron at the festival... - --Kay - --------------------------------------------------- Kay S. Cleaves Brown University "...we are such stuff as dreams are made on..." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:18:32 -0400 From: "Jeffrey C. Burka" Subject: Re: More CD purchases in Kansas City Riphug sez: > Eliza Gilkyson - Redemption Road For those relatively new to ecto, Eliza Gilkyson has a particular reason for being known around her. Once upon a time, Andreas Vollenweider asked Happy to tour with him. She apparently considered doing so, but came to the conclusion that it would mean putting her own career on hold for 18 months or so, and opted not to do it. Seems to me this was sometime between _Equipoise_ and _Building the Colossus_, but I'm not positive. (actually, I just came across a review of a Vollenweider with Gilkyson show dated '94, so my timing seems about right) > (I like her album, "Pilgrims," > so much that I decided to buy her earlier stuff) ummmm...didn't _Pilgrims_ come out in '87 or '89 or something, and _Redemption Road_ in '97? I have her intermediate album, _Through the Looking Glass_, from'93, and am quite fond of it > Heidi Berry - Self-titled (umm.....this is my second copy.....write if > you'd like it) yeah? how much -- this is one I've had on tape forever, but have yet to get around picking up on disc. jeff np _Synesthesia_, Peter Himmelman ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:28:32 -0400 From: roo@brown.edu (Kay Cleaves) Subject: Re: More CD purchases in Kansas City >Tanita Tikaram - Everybody's Angel (I'm really starting to love her low voice) I just adore this one. >Margo Hennebach - Michealean (never heard of her, but bought her just because >the > label is 1-800-Prime CD -- not a disappointment) Jill--if you're into Prime CD they have a sampler of all their artists, including some Margo H. , Susan McKeown, 5 Chinese Bros, Mindy Jostyn, Vicky Pratt Keating, etc. Really cool comp, they sell it on their website or I can pick up a copy used for you around here for probably less...definitely worth it either way...it's called "Prime cuts" - --Kay - --------------------------------------------------- Kay S. Cleaves Brown University "...we are such stuff as dreams are made on..." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:24:09 -0700 From: "Jeffrey Hanson" Subject: Re: More CD purchases in Kansas City > Everything But the Girl - The Language of Life (I didn't realize they have > more than > two albums) I don't know which two albums you're familiar with, but they have 10 or 11 albums (depending on how you count). These include: Everything But the Girl Eden --very beatnik jazzy (half of it is the same as EBTG--Eden was the UK debut, EBTG - the US) Love Not Money - more standard acoustic pop--very good Baby, The Stars Shine Bright Tonight - very big bandish-my second favorite Idlewild - my favorite album by them--the perfect summer album (my fave) The Language of Love - very smooth jazz--don't much care for it Worldwide - more like Idlewild Acoustic - acoustic (duh!) Amplified Heart - featuring Missing Walking Wounded - more techno (cashing in on success of Missing Remix) and two greatest hits collections '82-92 - Essence and Rare (Japaneses Imoprt) The Best of Everything but the Girl (UK Import) And then Tracey Thorn has a solo album called "A Distant Shore" that's worth picking up. Ben Watt has a solo album or two as well--though I've never heard it. Tracey also appeared in a band called "The Marine Girls" before joining Everything but the Girl, and they have a CD available as well, though I don't much care for it. More than you probably ever cared to know about EBTG. Jeff Hanson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:48:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Moorse Subject: I'm convinced OK, I must have seen Lucy Kaplansky on her first night out in years or maybe the day after a bout with bronchitis and recreational depressants or something. I'll check her music out again, next chance I get, but I don't think I'll get my wife to pay to see her anytime soon. That one performance darn near ruined an otherwise wonderful David Massengill show. Whew! ALanM ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 15:54:29 -0500 From: "Mike Mendelson" Subject: my a cappella group Listen Up! A Cappella is the name of my a cappella group. We specialize in Jewish A Cappella music, but also sing a wide range of popular music. Recently we participated in the Harmony Sweepstakes competition, midwest regionals. We won best original arrangement for "Bei Mir Bis Du Shein", and would have placed third overall if we had not gone over the 10 minute time limit (bummer!). We were featured on Fox Morning News, a local broadcast in Chicago, on Dec. 24, 1997. An extremely enthusiastic review of our performance at the Chicago Cultural Center appeared on the front page of the chicago tribune Arts section on Dec. 20, 1997 (check out the tribune's website to view the article). And we will appear on a Cable Access show in chicago next month. We have two CDs/tapes which can be purchased on the web. The CDs wholly contain Jewish music. This week they are on sale for $11 at www.jewishmusic.com. What a deal! We have travelled quite a bit and will be travelling more in the future. We routinely perform at all sorts of events, from supermarket openings to bar mitzvahs to folk festivals, in and around the chicagoland area. - -mjm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:14:59 -0700 From: "Neil K. Guy" Subject: Lilith press conference Just a reminder - in 20 minutes from now there'll be a Lilith Fair press conference, and the lineup will be announced. If you want to join the crowds loading down our server (we're scrambling to keep up here - we're getting getting something like 3000 hits a minute) check it out. We're also doing a Webcast of the audio feed. http://www.lilithfair.com/ Sorry if this reaches everyone too late to be of use... - Neil K. - -- 49N 16' 123W 7' + nkg@nettwerk.com + (604) 654-2929 Technical Services Manager, Nettwerk Productions 1250 West 6th Ave. Vancouver, BC, Canada V6H 1A5 in the heart of Canada's Pacific Southwest ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 08:11:08 +1000 From: Sherlyn Koo Subject: Jeff Lang tour info Hey Ecto! I was going to post about this myself but since my friend Chris posted exactly the same thing to the Dar Williams list, I'll just forward that here instead... :) And, in addition to the dates Chris mentions, Jeff Lang also has half a dozen shows coming up in NZ in May, plus the Castlebar Festival in Ireland and dates all over NSW and QLD as well... :) sherlyn - ---- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 17:44:18 +1000 From: Chris Kenward Subject: NDC: Jeff Lang G'day, thems in the States who can remember back to Sherlyn's reviews of the Dar/Ani Oz shows and her mentioning what a top bloke & excellent guitarist the support act Jeff Lang was, should be pleased to know that the furry little Australian creature known as Jeff is heading to their shores for a few shows :- May 24th McCabes, Los Angeles May 26th The Ark, Ann Arbor May 27th Sidewalk, New York I'm sure he'd appreciate any of you in the area popping along to say hello ... and I'm equally sure you won't regret it if you do ... :-) Chris ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 18:00:36 -0500 From: Richard Subject: Re: The Big Kaplansky Lucy Kaplansky cut her career off in the eighties to go back to school and earn her PhD and is now a practicing psychotherapist in New York who also sings and does occasional recordings and club dates- She recently played Raoul's here in Portland, but I had another commitment that night; too bad, cause the cover was only $6... Overall, I'm kinda lukewarm about _Flesh and Bone_, but I think her covers are much stronger than her own stuff- she does tracks by Nick Lowe, Richard Thompson, and Gram Parsons and has backing vocals on a few tracks by John Gorka and Richard Shindell. What's lacking on this recording is any *passion* in her vocals-- She comes closest to getting INTO it on the two shit-kicker numbers (Peace, Love and Understanding & The Return of the Grievous Angel), so I guess at heart she's a Jewish Cowgirl who's smart enough to have a day job?? r n.p. Lucy Kaplansky _Flesh and Bone_ OK, so I'm easily influenced.. sue me. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 18:08:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Michael Curry Subject: All sorts of Dar Willams news - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 16:39:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Young/Hunter Management To: dar-williams-announce@shore.net Subject: Dar Williams - West Coast Tour and Touring with Bruce Cockburn & Richard Thompson! Hey folks, As most of you know, Dar's "April is the Coolest Month" tour is well under way but, along with the info for May and June that is in this announcement, I want to re-post the April schedule. There have been a few corrections to phone numbers and what have you so if you're planning to attend one of these shows, check this schedule. Also, I want to encourage everyone to get out and buy their tickets ASAP because, even though no shows have officially sold out yet, many are *very* close (especially the 4/18 San Francisco show). The band for the April tour, by the way, is: Billy Masters - guitar, dobro Richard Gates - bass Doug Plavin - drums, lard can Stephanie Winters - cello Dar - guitar, lead vocals So, those dates again (with RON SEXSMITH - an excellent Canadian singer/songwriter who has opened for such artists as ELVIS COSTELLO and SHERYL CROW - supporting all shows) are: Thu. 4/16 8 pm Belly Up Tavern Solana Beach, CA 619-481-8140 Fri. 4/17 8 pm Coach House Santa Barbara, CA 714-496-8930 Sat. 4/18 8 pm Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco, CA 415-885-0750 Sun. 4/19 7 pm Jot Travis Student Union - Pine Lounge Reno, NV 702-323-0515 Tue. 4/21 9 pm The Zephyr Club Salt Lake City, UT 801-355-2582 Wed. 4/22 8 pm The Union Block Boise, ID 208-344-8010 Thu. 4/23 8 pm Silverthorne Theater Lewiston, ID 208-799-2256 Fri. 4/24 7 & 9:30pm Port Townsend High School Pt. Townsend, WA 360-379-4905 Sat. 4/25 8 pm Alladin Theatre Portland, OR 503-234-9698 Sun. 4/26 6 & 8:30pm Wild Duck Music Hall Eugene, OR 541-485-3825 PLEASE NOTE that the area code for the Port Townsend shows is 360 (yes, I'm sure this time :). Also, for those going to the APRIL 19th show in RENO, remember that that is Dar's birthday - celebrate as you see fit! MAY TOUR DATES: 4/28 - Conan O'Brien Show (with Pete Seeger) - stay up late or set your vcr's! 5/1 - Carnegie Hall, NYC - A Celebration of Smithsonian/Folkways Records (Dar is one of many performers) 212-247-7800 5/9 - Page Hall - Albany, NY 518-434-1703 5/16 - University of Minnesota - Morris, MN 320-589-6123 ***The reason there are relatively few dates in May is because Dar will spend most of the month recording an upcoming collaborative CD with RICHARD SHINDELL and LUCY KAPLANSKY.*** June brings with it a *very* cool touring trio made up of Dar, BRUCE COCKBURN, and RICHARD THOMPSON (PLEASE NOTE that some dates have line-up variations, though). JUNE TOUR DATES: 6/12 - Wolftrap - Vienna, VA (Dar/Richard Thompson/David Wilcox) 703-938-2404 6/13 (afternoon) - Guiness Fleadh, Randall's Island, NYC (w/Sinead O'Connor, Chieftans, Nanci Griffith, Chumbawumba, etc. etc. etc.) 212-307-7171 - Ticketmaster 6/13 (evening) - Mann Music Theatre - Philadelphia (Dar/Richard Thompson/Bruce Cockburn) 215-878-7707 6/14 - Three River Arts Festival - Pittsburgh, PA 412-481-7040 6/16 - The Pines Theatre - Northampton, MA (Dar/Richard Thompson/Bruce Cockburn) 413-586-8686 6/17 - Merrill Auditorium - Portland, ME (Dar/Richard Thompson/Bruce Cockburn) 207-874-8200 6/18 - Harborlights - Boston, MA (Dar/Richard Thompson/Bruce Cockburn) 617-423-NEXT 6/19 - Capitol Centre for the Arts - Concord, NH (Dar/Richard Thompson/Bruce Cockburn) 603-225-1111 6/20 - Guiness Fleadh, Arlington, IL (lineup tba) 312-559-1950 6/21 - Royal Oak Music Theatre - Royal Oak, MI (Dar/Richard Thompson/Bruce Cockburn) 248-546-7610 Lastly, Dar will, indeed, be on the LILITH FAIR tour again this summer but the dates won't be announced until next week. I'll post them then. That's all for Dar-news. Now back to your regularly scheduled e-mailing... Kerry Bernard :) Young/Hunter Management p.s. To those of you who have emailed me asking to be removed from this list manually, this will be the last announcement you receive. Sorry but I was away for Easter and haven't finished unsubscribing you all, yet! You can always unsubscribe yourself, however, by following the instructions below... ****************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send an e-mail to: majordomo@shore.net with the subject line blank and the following message in the body of the email: unsubscribe dar-williams-announce ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:57:05 -0400 From: Heather Russell Subject: Lilith Fair Site Problems! I've been trying to get to the Lilith fair site for the last half hour and keep getting the same "there was no response the server is down or not responding" message. Apparently the site has moved from http://www.lilithfair.com to http://www.lilithfair.excite.com and that new site is the one that's down. Has anyone else had trouble getting to the site? - - heather - -- |*********************************************************| | Heather Russell | | My music site: http://www.freecloud.com/heather | | The Mending Wall: http://www.unc.edu/~gumption/tmw.html | | hrussell@bellsouth.net | |_________________________________________________________| "What fun is it being 'cool' if you can't wear a sombrero?" - Calvin and Hobbes ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 17:17:09 -0700 From: "Neil K. Guy" Subject: Re: Lilith Fair Site Problems! Bleah. Ignore my previous email. It should be working later *with* the www - - we're just experiencing some temporary problems with the server. - Neil K. - -- 49N 16' 123W 7' + nkg@nettwerk.com + (604) 654-2929 Technical Services Manager, Nettwerk Productions 1250 West 6th Ave. Vancouver, BC, Canada V6H 1A5 in the heart of Canada's Pacific Southwest ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 17:15:00 -0700 From: "Neil K. Guy" Subject: Re: Lilith Fair Site Problems! At 7:57 PM -0400 4/16/98, Heather Russell wrote: >Apparently the site has moved from http://www.lilithfair.com to >http://www.lilithfair.excite.com and that new site is the one that's >down. We just moved it a couple hours ago. The new site is actually: http://lilithfair.excite.com/ ie: there's no "www" in it. I'll see if we can add another DNS entry to fix that problem, though. - Neil K. - -- 49N 16' 123W 7' + nkg@nettwerk.com + (604) 654-2929 Technical Services Manager, Nettwerk Productions 1250 West 6th Ave. Vancouver, BC, Canada V6H 1A5 in the heart of Canada's Pacific Southwest ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:43:28 From: Carolyn Andre Subject: Re: More CD purchases in Kansas City At 04:28 PM 4/16/98 -0400, Kay wrote about what Jill wrote: > >>Margo Hennebach - Michealean (never heard of her, but bought her just because >>the >> label is 1-800-Prime CD -- not a disappointment) > >Jill--if you're into Prime CD they have a sampler of all their artists, >including some Margo H. , Susan McKeown, 5 Chinese Bros, Mindy Jostyn, Vicky >Pratt Keating, etc. Really cool comp, they sell it on their website or I >can pick up a copy used for you around here for probably less...definitely >worth it either way...it's called "Prime cuts" The '97 sampler has 18 tracks on it, and is either free with any order from Prime CD or $5+ $2 shipping. http://www.primecd.com/cuts97.htm lists the tracks & has sound samples of all 18 of the cuts. (just to entice more of that ecto wallet syndrome ....) (Margo has a new album which should be coming out in June, btw) Course, my current favourite Prime "cut" is the Big League Babe - The Christine Lavin Tribute Album Part 2, which was just released last week. Great selection of artists, some of whom I think are ecto-ish (I'm still kinda slow on that identification ) ... including a Dar Williams/Hugh Blumenfeld duet, Dee Carstensen, Patty Larkin, Debi Smith, Buddy Mondlock .... Unfortunately I seem to be spending time reading this list & lusting after more CDs instead of finishing the sound samples for this one ... maybe next week ... Regards, Carolyn Andre - ------------------- Chicago, IL / USA | Support Independent Music! Use the Internet candre@enteract.com | Carolyn's House of Music: http://house-of-music.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 23:02:59 From: meredith Subject: RE: Various Hi! Okay, I've let way too much pile up in my ecto mailbox, it can't be allowed to go on. It's kinda long ... but oh well. :) First, a big welcome back to Philip Sainty and mjm! :) Second, if anyone else wants to join the group meeting up with Yves in NYC on Saturday afternoon and help show him the true meaning of EWS, please drop me a line and I'll fill you in on the details once we figure out what they are. We'll also be doing dinner and then going to Meow Mix to see Mila Drumke. Mitch mentioned: >Today, en route to the shelf in a drugstore downtown which held what I >was actually looking for, I saw a display for L'Oreal lipsticks and certain >other cosmetics in their line, replete with pictures of their apparent new >commerecial pitchwoman, Milla. Yarg. I knew it was all over when I saw her featured (photographed by Richard Avedon, no less) in a fashion spread in last week's New Yorker. She was wearing a huge hat that looked like a futon mattress (sized to scale), and precious little else. >It is too bad that this probably will not >lead to any deals by which sending in boxtops from lipsticks or something >like that will net you a reduced price on her next CD :-). *What* next CD? I've given up hope, myself. Sigh. Sharon haikued (gesundheit): >Bob Mackie anew >Reflected in Tori's eyes >Fashion hurls a chunk As I remarked immediately after Tori's appearance on Letterman last Friday night, once again she managed to look like absolute hell on national television. What was *up* with that Fiona Apple eye makeup, anyway?!? She sounded great, though, and I guess that's all that really matters. I can't wait for the CD to come out. I've been cheating and listening to the tracks that have shown up on the Net over the past few weeks, and I think we're in for another winner from the Raisin Girl. Yay. If anyone out there happens to hear of an extra ticket or two (yeah, right) to either the Boston or NYC club shows, please let me know. We decided we're way too old to sleep on the street to get tickets to a show where we're guaranteed to be surrounded by a thousand shrieking fanboys and girls (not to mention we'd have to sleep on the street again to have a prayer of getting even a halfway decent place to stand in the club). Ani DiFranco's show at the Palace last weekend was bad enough (but that's a review for later). Re Emma Townshend: I think she's a cross between Tori Amos and Fiona Apple, with a little Mary Margaret O'Hara thrown in. The opening track on the disc sounds like it belongs to _Boys for Pele_, and the second track sounds like it fell right off of _Tidal_. I haven't listened enough to form a real opinion of it yet, but I'm liking it well enough so far. Neal reported: >Next show I'll be at is the Bruford, Levin, Torn one at the Birchmere on >Wednesday. If that was even half the experience their Toad's Place show was on Monday, then I'm sure you enjoyed yourself immensely. Yow. I didn't expect to love it nearly as much as I did. Tamar and I were one of I think five women in the entire place, too. Not an experience I'm used to at a music event. :) >Sat May 2: Projekt 2 (Fripp/Belew) at Bohagers (have tix for this) They'll be at Toad's the following Monday -- we've got tix to that too. I'm really looking forward to it. Oh, and thanks for posting the tour news from Terra Incognita, Neal! Wow. That's a lot to swallow. I'm sure it will all seem more real to me when there's actual tour dates and I have tickets in hand. This is all way cool, but it's rather surreal. I gave my best friend, who is a professional costume designer the AG e-dress. That would be a cool addition to her portfolio, for sure! And WRT the lighting, I'd love to see a giant clapper that actually worked. ;> Richard Konrad recalled: >Amen. About 3/4 of the way through the main set (Surfacing tour,) a >ear-shattering electric guitar chord was synchronized *perfectly* with a >one-second blast of high-frequency strobes aimed directly at the >audience... closest I've come to an acid flashback since the 70s ;-) Oh, the lighting cues were even better (not to mention fresher :P) during the _Fumbling_ tour. One of my faves was recycled for _Surfacing_, but it didn't work as well this time because I was too far off to the side: near the end of "Possession", right before the final "- and I would be the one", there was a double percussive swoop, which synchronized perfectly with a swooping light that illuminated the entire audience, on both the up and down swoops. Way cool. footah noted: >i have two categories: cds-and-vinyl-in-the-shelves, and >cds-and-vinyl-stacked-on-the-floor. Heh. We've got cds-in-the-racks, and then cds-in-the-bookshelf-and-piled-on-the-computer-desk-and-in-the-car-and-scatt ered-all-over-the-rest-of-the-house. It's gotten *way* out of hand. Though for the record, our Happy discs are currently living in the racks, neatly filed under "R". We don't have any category classifications other than single artists, compilations, and then classical. We've got some special CD holders on top of the racks for the Kate Bush stuff and the Tori stuff and the Robyn Hitchcock stuff, just because there's so much of it. I still maintain that there should be no genre classifications. If I ever open my record shop, everything will be together, categorized only by the alphabet. Mike forwarded Merrie Amsterburg tour dates, including: >Thursday, April 23 Beacon Theatre - 2124 Broadway, New York, NY >(212-496-7070) w/ Paula Cole Wow. She's really moving up in the world! If I weren't already going to see Susan McKeown in Middletown that night (and if the ticket weren't too expensive to warrant just seeing the opening act), I'd go to this one just to cheer her on. That's cool. >Saturday, April 25 Universal Coffeehouse - 211 Bridge St. Salem MA >(978-927-8822) w/ Barbara Kessler 7:30 I think woj and I will be accompanying JeffW to this one. Anyone else planning on going? Alan M. wondered: >Would any of youse fine Ectofolk be kind enough to give me your impressions >of one Lucy Kaplansky? Umm, my opinion has always been that we'd all be better off if she stuck with being a backup singer. Apparently, that's becoming a minority view. >Now I read an AP piece that calls her the next BIG THING. >AP writer calls her voice "chocolatey rich and misleadingly innocent" and >marvelous, clear, and strong. >I've just gotta know: Is any of this stuff true? IMNSHO, no. Her voice is whiny and comes out straight through her nose, and her songwriting leaves a *lot* to be desired. However, she and Richard Shindell are a musical match made in heaven. She is the consummate backup singer: she knows exactly when to be heard and when to be silent, she's a wonderful harmonizer, and she adds a lot to every song she participates in, both live and on record. Her voice blends perfectly with Richard's, and the result is to die for. I was truly disappointed to hear that she'd decided to ditch the backup singer thing to concentrate on a career in the spotlight. However, I just found out that she's working on a collaboration with both Richard Shindell *and* Dar Williams, and I'm positively drooling over that prospect. If anyone has any info on that (especially when we can expect to see this gem in stores), please pass it along! Neile reported: >>Its on!!! Margot's US tour is happening July/Sept. That is all I know so >>far, but stay tuned! YIPPEEE!!!!!! That is *such* great news. (Now we just have to get off our butts and order the new album. :}) Another Alan wondered: > Cindy Lee Berryhill just got in touch to let >me know that she'll be opening (solo) for Ron Sexsmith >on Sunday May 17th at the Iron Horse in Northampton, MA. Wow. That's a bit far to drive just to see the opening act, but I might consider it! > Personally, I'm unfamiliar with Ron S, but I've >seen his name mentioned by several Ectophiles. (I just know people have been waiting for me to take the opportunity to weigh in on this one yet again, and far be it from me to disappoint my audience. ;) Ron Sexsmith is Jackson Browne singing the less inspired songs of James Taylor. I don't usually have such a visceral reaction to someone's music, but the minute I hear his voice whining at me over the airwaves, I can't change the station fast enough. I was subjected to not one, but two opening sets of his on the Sarah McLachlan/Chieftains tour a few summers ago, and it was truly excruciating. YMMV, of course. :) (That would be Charley's cue to step in and tell everyone what a misguided soul I am... ;) +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #118 **************************