From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V5 #349 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, October 20 1999 Volume 05 : Number 349 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Maire Brennan [Dirk Kastens ] Re: BRENDAN PERRY!!! [neal copperman ] Loreena McKennitt [Carolyn Andre ] Kristeen Young in NY and Philadelphia [rjk1@cs.wustl.edu (Bob Kollmeyer)] Re: Loreena McKennitt [Leon van Stuivenberg ] Tori tonight [kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 08:29:02 +0200 From: Dirk Kastens Subject: Re: Maire Brennan Hi, At 22:18 18.10.99 -0400, Bill Adler wrote: >I just learned, courtesy of the Celtic music list, that Maire Brennan's got >a new CD coming out, "Whisper to the Wild Waters." She'll also be doing a I think this will be the first time that I don't buy something new by Clannad or Maire Brennan without listening to it. Maire's last album was a big disappointment. Her first album "Maire" was brilliant but then she fell into an Enya-like sleep. Dirk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 20:50:02 -0400 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: BRENDAN PERRY!!! At 10:17 PM -0700 10/18/99, Richard Holmes wrote: >neal copperman writes: >Never thought I'd see "Witchcraft & Ritual Music from Kenya & Tanzania" >in someone's NP list - I have that one and a few other things like >that! Cool... Always happy to provide those sorts of surprises. It's not really every day music. Maybe every other day :) neal np: radio ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 22:31:07 -0500 From: Carolyn Andre Subject: Loreena McKennitt excerpted from a posting to a radio dj list. I hadn't realized that she had so permanently stopped performing... >Loreena's tragedy >Canadian singer comes to grips with fiance's death >By MIKE ROSS -- Edmonton Sun > This is a tale that could've come straight out of a sad Irish folk >song. Unfortunately, it's all too real. > >In July 1998, Loreena McKennitt's husband-to-be, Ronald Rees, went for a >sunset sailing trip in Georgian Bay with his brother Richard and family >friend Gregory Cook. They never returned. > >McKennitt was in England mixing live recordings from her spring tour at >Peter Gabriel's Real World studio - a project that would've given the >self-managed singer a long honeymoon - when she heard the news that the >men were missing. She made it back in time to watch divers try to >recover their bodies. She says she stood on the dock for almost a week. >Only her fiance's body was found. > >She hasn't performed since. > >During a phone interview from her home near Stratford, Ont., McKennitt >says she has no plans to record or perform again. Barely a year after >the tragedy, she says her feelings about her own music are still so >bound up with memories and emotions that it would be unbearable. The >very thing that fans connect with in her music - her emotional >vulnerability - is the very thing that has kept her away from music. She >admits it was all she could do to complete the mixing on what may turn >out to be her last recording for quite some time, the two-CD set Live in >Toronto and Paris. > >"It's an emotional injury and you have to look at it that way. If you've >broken your leg or something, you don't go out and play football. You >have to allow an injury to heal. > >"This kind of situation qualifies for what is called complicated grief, >which means death occurred unexpectedly, traumatically, with young >people. It's a much, much more complex process than with somebody who's >been ill or an elderly person. I've come to understand that and have not >wanted to place any further pressures on myself so I can allow this >emotional injury to heal. > >Asked when she might make music again, she says, "The best I can do is >not get myself into a state about it and create the equivalent of an >emotional writer's block. You have to put your mind into other things >and hopefully time passing will do what it's got to do in order for you >to get back into that saddle." > >McKennitt hasn't been idle, however. Although clearly still grieving, >she's broken her silence with a round of press interviews to raise >awareness for the Cook-Rees Memorial Fund, which has already purchased >thousands of dollars in water safety and recovery equipment for the >Ontario Provincial Police. > >It's an ongoing project. She's donating all net proceeds of Live in >Toronto and Paris to the fund. Since McKennitt remains president and CEO >of her own record company - as has been the case in 15 years of a >remarkable career - this amounts to a hefty $10 per CD. > >She explains, "The feeling is so intense and so severe that in one way >nothing can take it away. But life must go on and one has a choice of >how they spend their time. I have been a firm believer that when I >become inspired or motivated by something, even if it's a very, very >personal tragedy, it's incumbent upon my own morale to do something >productive if I can." > >She chokes up and then goes on, "In this situation, we had already >recorded all those tracks; and when the accident occurred and we set up >the memorial fund, the families and myself felt that wouldn't it be >wonderful if the fund would grow to an extent that it could actually do >some good in the area of water safety or search and recovery. Based >largely on the donations that were received at the memorial, at the time >we were able to furnish the OPP with a piece of equipment." > >The first emphasis was on recovery rather than search and rescue, she >says, because there "was an immediate and clear need. We had stood on >the dock for five or six days watching these divers go out and come back >with really nothing to report. And it was brutal for everyone. The >tragedy is bad enough. Not being able to recover their bodies seemed >like an added cruelty." > >And is there any consolation in a project that might prevent this sort >of tragedy from happening again? McKennitt is clear on this matter: >"There are no consolation prizes in this situation." > >Donations can be sent to the Cook-Rees Memorial Fund (PO Box 21030, >Stratford, Ont., N5A 7VA; or call 1-519-273-5522). > > >-- > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 22:52:49 -0500 From: rjk1@cs.wustl.edu (Bob Kollmeyer) Subject: Kristeen Young in NY and Philadelphia Hmmm. Looks like they're finally doing something with all those email addresses of people who signed up! On the down side, no electronic equivalent of the 'toon on the postcard announcements. ;) Looks like Philly gets the Halloween show. ps. Galaxia is indeed now history, issuing a 4 track CDR EP at their farewell show last month. Well worth picking up on the *very* off chance Brian would have some with him. Bob - ----- | From: "j. white" | | We finally have a new bass player! Introducing BRIAN | ION formerly of the mighty spacerock band GALAXIA! He | hails from St. Louis, Missouri and is a good friend of | ours so please come welcome him and help him meet a | nice girl. Poor boy's got a love jones. Here are some | shows that we hope to see you at: | | TUE. OCT. 19 | 9:00 | DON HILL'S | 511 GREENWICH ST. | NYC | PH. 212.334.1390 | _______________________ | | SUN. OCT. 31 | 9:00 | EVOLUTION | 1517 N. DELAWARE | PHILADELPHIA, PA | PH. 215.747.7708 | _______________________ | | TUE. NOV. 2 | 9:00 | ACME UNDERGROUND | 9 GREAT JONES ST. | NYC | PH. 212.677.6924 | _______________________ | | SUN. NOV. 21 | 8:00 | THE CONTINENTAL | 25 3RD AVE. | NYC | PH. 212.529.6924 | _______________________ | | Thanks for supporting us and we hope to see you there! | j. white | ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 07:08:22 +0200 From: Leon van Stuivenberg Subject: Re: Loreena McKennitt Carolyn Andre wrote: > > excerpted from a posting to a radio dj list. I hadn't realized that she > had so permanently stopped performing... The article is open to interpretation IMO. At this point in time she doesn't appear to have plans to record/perform. Like she says, it will take time to heal, and when/if she does, well perhaps she'll continue her musical carreer in some way or another. More articles at: http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicArtistsM/mckennitt.html Leon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 00:36:57 -0500 (CDT) From: kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white) Subject: Tori tonight Hi, I wish Charlie Rose (PBS late) had a schedule posted somewhere. Tori A was on tonight. the only reason I know is that I work at a PBS station that airs CR. I was lucky to get a spare tape in a VTR in time. After spending 20 min w/ a new Noble Prize winner, he spent 20 min with TA. Serious talk. No live performance and just a montage of vids for the open, it was real talk. Check out the end of CR for an address for transcript, or try PBS.org. I might be able to dub off tapes for true fanatics (ectos only, please) by way of tape provided and postage both ways. bye, KrW It was the least I could do and never let it be said I didn't do the least I could do. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V5 #349 **************************