From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V7 #316 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, November 4 2001 Volume 07 : Number 316 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Kate Bush on telly tonight [Tim Cook ] Susan McKeown November newsletter [Michael Curry ] a moment of shameless promotion [meredith ] brilliant albums you don't listen too often enough / other new stuff (Williamson, Merrick, McAdorey) [Jason G] Deanna Kirk sings her own stuff Thurs. [Paul Blair ] Re: brilliant albums you don't listen too often enough [damon of the livi] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 10:53:52 +0000 From: Tim Cook Subject: Kate Bush on telly tonight Chance to spot Kate on telly tonight. She won the "Classic songwriters" award at the Q Awards bash during the week. Channel5 is screening highlights tonight at 22.15. Hopefully she'll be one of the highlights. Set your videos!! You can read more at the Q Magazine website www.q4music.com. Tim ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 10:35:51 -0500 From: Michael Curry Subject: Susan McKeown November newsletter SUSAN McKEOWN NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2001 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< - - 'A WINTER TALISMAN' THE ALBUM - - 'A WINTER TALISMAN' US TOUR - - www.johnnyandsusan.com ********************************************************************* 'A WINTER TALISMAN' THE ALBUM Sheila-na-Gig Music in association with Caledonian Musicworks is proud to announce the release of 'A Winter Talisman', an album of songs and tunes from Johnny Cunningham & Susan McKeown, with Aidan Brennan. A powerful collection of songs and tunes, A WINTER TALISMAN features songs in English and Gaelic of strange Scots traditions and curious Irish customs, interspersed with original tunes and poetry from Johnny Cunningham. SPECIAL OFFER! Order 4 CDs by November 15 and get one free! All copies ordered before November 15 will be autographed upon request. See www.johnnyandsusan.com for details on how to order by credit card or check... Winter in Ireland and Scotland was a time for great celebration indoors - merrymaking, matchmaking, whiskey-making and general fun and mayhem - and all this is evident in the songs and tunes Johnny and Susan have brought together for this album. A SAMPLING OF WHAT'S ON A WINTER TALISMAN Whiskey was - and still is - a favorite winter drink of the Scots and the Irish. From the Gaelic mouth music tradition, the song The Drunkenness that Christmas Brought Us is from the point of view of someone who refuses to accept responsibility for their drunken state. This is coupled with Drunk Since Ever I Saw Your Face, which presents a refreshing, honest declaration of love. The exquisite Irish Gaelic love song Fair Molly Hollywood begins with the phrase I'll never drink again. A man realizes that because he indulged too much in drink, he didn't know what he had. He vows he'll do everything different this time, if only he can get his lover back. The Scots are renowned for their resilience and sometimes foolhardy bravery in the face of adversity. Johnny wondered what would happen if a vacationing Scot wandered away from his Alaskan cruise tour guide and came face to face with a huge hairy denizen of the wild in his charming and hilarious poem An Urbane Scotsman In Alaska. Waulking was an ancient Scots tradition in which women stretched and pounded a cloth which had been dipped in urine. The urine strengthened the dye in the cloth, and the stretching and pounding kneaded the fibers together so the cloth would be a warm shield against the highland wind and rain. A tradition of waulking songs developed as the women sang to entertain themselves over an evening's work. Johnny, Susan and Aidan present a waulking song A Winter Charm of Lasting Life with the lyrics: Bless the man who wears this cloth May he wounded never be From the bitter cold and frost May this cloth protection be 'A WINTER TALISMAN' US TOUR Johnny and Susan have in recent years been developing this program of music for the darkest days of the year. In the winter of 2000 they completed an extensive winter tour with Aidan Brennan, which included an appearance on 'A Prairie Home Companion'. November 1 they begin a similarly extensive US tour in Alaska, which will take them to New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, California, Colorado, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, New York, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Virginia and Washington DC. November Th 1 Liberty Theater/Seward, AK 907-288-3674 Fr 2 Wilda Marston Theatre/Anchorage, AK 907-566-2028 http://www.akirishmusic.com Sa 3 Vagabond Blues/Palmer, Alaska 907-745-2233 Su 4 Peninsula Grace Brethern Church/Soldotna, AK 907-262-6548 Th 8 Taos Country Club/Taos, NM 505.737.2411 www.taosexperience.com Fr 9 Outpost Performance Space/Albuquerque, NM 505.268.0044 www.outpostspace.org Sa 10 Traditional Music Clinic (AM)/Albuquerque, NM Sa 10 Bar B Lounge/Santa Fe, NM - see website for further updates Su 11 Events Center/Florence, OR 541-997-5989 http://ocfc.presys.com/ Tu 13 Tractor Tavern/Seattle, WA 206/789-3599 www.tractortavern.com Th 15 Sirens/Port Washington, WA 360-379-1100 Fr 16 Alberta Street Pub/Portland, OR 503-284-7665 www.meehanproductions.com Sa 17 Throop Church/Pasadena, CA 626-791-0411 r.stockfleth@gte.net Su 18 The Coach House/San Juan Capistrano, CA 949-496-8930 http://thecoachhouse.com Tu 20 Howards/Santa Cruz, CA 408-847-6982 http://www.celticsociety.org We 21 Foley's Cellar/San Francisco, CA 415-954-0777 Fr 23 Cameron Church/Denver, CO 303-777-0502 www.celticevents.com Sa 24 Rialto Theatre/Loveland, CO 303-777-0502 www.celticevents.com Mo 26 McGonigel's Mucky Duck/Houston, TX 713-528--5999 http://www.mcgonigels.com/ Tu 27 Cactus Cafi/Austin, TX 512-475-6515 http://www.utexas.edu/student/txunion/ae/cactus/ We 28 Poor David's Pub/Dallas, TX 214-821-9891 http://www.poordavidspub.com Th 29 Thomson Hall/Little Rock, AR 501-663-0634 www.lrfolkclub.org Fr 30 O'Flaherty's/New Orleans, LA 504-529-1317 December Sa 1 M's Fine & Mellow Cafi/Baton Rouge, LA 225-387-3663 Mo 3 Museum of American Folk Art/New York, NY 212 581 7762 http://www.winterseve.org We 5 Arlington, MA - see website for further updates Th 6 Wilde Auditorium/Hartford, CT 860-768-4228 http://uhaweb.hartford.edu/WWUH/ Fr 7 Chandler Music Hall/Randolph, VT 802-728-9878 http://www.randolphvt.com/chandler/chandmain.htm Sa 8 Falmouth, MA - see website for further updates Su 9 Cohoes Music Hall/Cohoes, NY 518-434-1703 www.eighthstep.com Tu 11 The Muse at the Gray Goose II/Londonderry, NH 603-437-6085 www.musegraygoose.com Th 13 Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center/Washington, DC www.kennedycenter.org Sa 15 The Prism/Charlottesville, VA 804-97-PRISM http://www.theprism.org/ Further information and updates can be viewed at http://www.johnnyandsusan.com www.johnnyandsusan.com As they did last year, Susan, Johnny and Aidan will be sending entries for a tour diary from the road. There will be a competition this year also, as before. Check back for competition details as they will be posted shortly. Sheila-na-Gig Music, LLC www.sngmusic.com ************************ Sheila-na-Gig Music, LLC http://www.sheilanagig.com Tel: 212-260-2302 Fax: 212-260-9645 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 12:50:26 -0500 From: meredith Subject: a moment of shameless promotion Hi, I'm stepping in here with a completely non-musical thing, but it's to help a friend whom some of you have met so hopefully you'll forgive the intrusion. A good friend of mine has started a business selling cards that she designs herself. She's just come out with some Christmas/Yule cards that I think are really cool. She's have a bit of trouble getting her business off the ground so I thought I'd let y'all know about her site. It's http://www.melasdesign.com. She's got secure ordering set up there, and you'll get personal service. Tell her I sent you. :) I now return you to your regularly scheduled ecto discussion... ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth "an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind" -- mahatma gandhi ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 14:11:19 -0500 From: Jason Gordon Subject: brilliant albums you don't listen too often enough / other new stuff (Williamson, Merrick, McAdorey) Do you ever have totally brilliant albums that you love sitting on the shelf that don't get listened too often enough? I put Belly's Star into my car the other day - I had forgotten just how brilliant it is and how much I really really like it...It makes me want to go digging through the archives again :) Of course that has to be balanced with the stream of new stuff :) - new stuff that may be of interest... Just got the new Merrick in the mail yesterday :) Check out their appearance on morning becomes eclectic and you'll be hooked like i was - http://www.kcrw.com/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?show_code=mb&air_date=6/28/01&tmplt_t ype=show I also just found that Michelle McAdorey (formerly of Crash Vegas) has a solo album out called Whirl...supposedly it was out since last year but I didn't know of it. Oh, and in browsing maplemusic I also found that Tamara Williamson has a new one out (that should be delivered shortly :) -Jason n.p. Shonna Brown - Deluge (track 6 where she covers mozart is truly incredible :) ) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 16:24:12 -0500 From: Paul Blair Subject: Deanna Kirk sings her own stuff Thurs. Deanna said at her last show Tuesday that at her next show (Thursday, Nov. 8th--this week) she'll be singing her own stuff. That's closer to ecto-fare than the jazz standards she normally sings, so you may want to catch this if you're in NYC. >Upcoming Deanna performances at Barrio: November 8th, November 15th, >November 29th, all at 8 PM. > >Barrio, 99 Stanton Street, between Orchard St. and Ludlow St., NYC. > >Time: 8 PM - 10:30 PM > >Performance room is on second floor. > >Come early or stay late for dinner. Reservations: 212 533 9212 >(Rachel or Amanda) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 14:55:45 -0800 From: damon of the living dead Subject: Re: brilliant albums you don't listen too often enough On 03 Nov, Jason Gordon wrote: > Do you ever have totally brilliant albums that you love sitting on the shelf > that don't get listened too often enough? heh... try all of happy's and kate's oeuvres. sad but true; i still count them both among my favourite artists but i listened to them so much for the several years when they were 50% or more of my collection that i rarely pull them out now. i guess in a way my tastes have shifted, too; not that kate and happy and others like are not still central to my tastes, but they're no longer central to my `day-to-day' music listening, which seems now to have a lot more to do with ambient (not necessarily as in musical genre; the other meaning) stuff like lamb, bel canto, orbital, etc etc. but then, once in a while i will pull them out and still be blown away by how good they are... this post has inspired me to listen to _the sensual world_ now. it's amazing how much semi-conscious association happens when you hear once again these sounds that are graven in your brain. it all reminds me i'm *way* overdue on posting some reviews to ecto, of the last 60 or so cds i've bought over the past year... ah well, maybe sometime when i'm less busy, say 2005. back to quasi-lurkerdom for now. - -damon Damon Harper _/\_ "Let the programmers be many and damon@usrbin.ca __\ /__ the managers few -- then all \ / will be productive." http://www.usrbin.ca/damon/ |/||\| - The Master Programmer ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V7 #316 **************************