From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V8 #211 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, July 30 2002 Volume 08 : Number 211 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Re: additional information: Dave Carter [Joseph Zitt Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* Steve Lusky (no Email address) ********************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Steve Lusky Tue July 29 1952 Bike! Kate Bush Wed July 30 1958 God Chuck Smith Wed July 30 1958 Reboot Yves Denneulin Fri July 30 1971 Lion-Heart Joel Kenyon Wed July 31 1963 Leo Eli Brandt August 05 Leo Amanda Williams Tue August 05 1969 phoenix Martin Bridges Sat August 08 1970 BigGuy Rosana L. de Oliveira Wed August 08 1973 Leo Happy Rhodes Mon August 09 1965 HolyGhost Michael Stevens Sat August 12 1967 For Sale or Lease Loretta Pontillo Tue August 15 1978 Leo Queen of the Jungle Martin Dougiamas Wed August 20 1969 Positive Tori Amos Thu August 22 1963 Leo Sam Warren Tue August 22 1961 Leo Henk Van Wulpen Sat August 22 1970 Leo Kerry White Wed August 22 1951 Exact Leo/Virgo Don Gibson Wed August 26 1959 Virgo - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:22:59 -0700 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: additional information: Dave Carter There's a good column on Dave Carter in today's San Francisco Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/07/29/DD169072.DTL - -- | josephzitt@josephzitt.com http://www.josephzitt.com/ | | http://www.metatronpress.com/jzitt/ http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt/ | | == New book: Surprise Me with Beauty: the Music of Human Systems == | | Comma / Gray Code Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:27:53 -0400 From: "Foghorn J. Fornorn" Subject: FW: East-Coast Tour Information and a Plea of Help!! - -----Original Message----- From: Terami Hirsch [mailto:info@terami.com] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 12:20 PM Subject: East-Coast Tour Information and a Plea of Help!! Hey there! Ever wonder what it's like to be a touring musician? I have. So I decided to go ahead and book my first tour. Sounds easy, right? No. After scheduling events and coordinating with multiple people in multiple cities, we purchased those ever-expensive plane tickets. That seemed to signal the collapse of several shows. Yikes! Desperately, we pieced together gigs. Most of them are last-minute-smaller-than-we'd-like-and-not-enough-time-to-promote-them kind of shows. It's insane! Hardly the well-organized and thoughtful tour that we started out planning! One show that I was very excited about playing was at a great club in NYC. However, the booking agent there was elusive and making promises, though not confirming anything. I held off on announcing the show until we had that golden confirmation - but I was SURE it was going to happen! Well, we just found out that the booking agent confirmed us for the wrong date! He put us on the schedule on a day where we have another show booked! To make it even more complicated, that other show we're playing in NY is going to be hosted in a living room - which has just "sold out"! So now we're going to be in NY for a few days and most people on my mailing list won't get a chance to hear us! In my ever-optimistic state, I decided to throw my card in the ring and show you my vulnerable hand. I would LOVE to play another show on the East Coast. It's too late to book with clubs or cafis. So I'm putting the word out that if anyone is interested in throwing a small living room show for us, we'll kiss your feet! No. Literally. This is entirely last minute. Probably the best date for us to play will be Friday, August 9th. Putting together a show will basically require a lot of enthusiasm and a big enough living space for us and a few people to sit comfortably. It doesn't have to be in New York. It just has to be within driving distance of New York! What do you think? Any suggestions or offers? Please email me if you think you can help or if you have questions! Big, warm thanks, Terami PS: We're performing at the Philadelphia RAINN benefit on Thursday, August 8th, and then in NY at the living room show on August 10th. My website has all the details! (http://www.terami.com/shows.htm) - -- Introvert With a Microphone. http://www.terami.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 20:33:22 -0400 From: "Sherlyn Koo" Subject: FW: BENEFIT CD--Going Driftless: An Artists Tribute to Greg Brown Hey folks, Forwarded from the folkmusic mailing list... - -sherlyn - --begin forwarded message-- Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 20:39:24 -0500 To: folkmusic@grassyhill.org From: Shirley Cottle Subject: [FM] BENEFIT CD--Going Driftless: An Artists Tribute to Greg Brown On September 10, 2002, Red House Records will release _Going Driftless: An Artists Tribute to Greg Brown_ with all proceeds from its sale to benefit The Breast Cancer Fund of San Francisco. Sixteen women have donated their work on fourteen tracks which interpret a diverse sampling of songs written over Greg's thirty-plus years on the music circuit. In addition to Red House's donation of all sales royalties, Greg will donate all song writing royalties from the CD to The Breast Cancer Fund, a progressive organization which focuses its resources toward identifying and advocating for elimination of the environmental causes of the disease. The track list for _Going Driftless_ includes Lucinda Williams - Lately Ani DiFranco - The Poet Game Iris DeMent - The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home Ferron - Where Is Maria? Eliza Gilkyson - Sleeper Pieta, Constie & Zoe Brown (Greg's daughters) - Ella Mae Gillian Welch - Summer Evening Lucy Kaplansky - Small Dark Movie Mary Chapin Carpenter - Spring & All Shawn Colvin - Say A Little Prayer Victoria Williams - Early Karen Savoca - Two Little Feet Robin Lee Berry - Hey Baby Hey Leandra Peak - Wash My Eyes For further information on The Breast Cancer Fund, go to http://www.breastcancerfund.org/ Red House Records is at http://redhouserecords.com/ Visit Greg's home page at http://www.gregbrown.org/ and his discussion group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GBrown-L/ Thanks for reading, Shirley Cottle (cottles@uwwvax.uww.edu) ------------------------------ Date: 30 Jul 2002 03:46:05 +0200 From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme Subject: Fwd: [sycophant] Lisa Germano plays LA this week! Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:30:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Christe Respess MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I wanted to get the word out that Lisa's playing Largo in Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 31st. If you call Largo, the machine says something about it being "International Lisa Germano Day", ha ha ha. I'm very excited - it will be my first solo Lisa show (I've seen her 4x with Neil Finn). Hope to see some of you there. Kind Regards, Christe I should have slush fund for emergencies like this... who knows if there will be another chance of seeing her solo? - -- Kjetil T. np: Jaga Jazzist (excellent jazz with elements of break beat) nr: Ben Bova: Mars ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 23:23:09 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Falcon Ridge (was Re: additional information: Dave Carter) Hi, [warning: contains excessive length] Joe reported: >There's a good column on Dave Carter in today's San Francisco Chronicle: Thanks for forwarding that, Joe. woj and I just got back from Falcon Ridge last night. Tracy Grammer was indeed in attendance -- I figure she's either got the most resilient constitution in the history of the human race, or she's still in deep shock. (She did say in response to those who had proclaimed her "brave" for being there, that the truth is, she's scared to go home. I can believe that.) The tribute on Saturday evening was wonderful. Jim Olson of Signature Sounds (also the "Jimmy Olson" of Dar Williams' "Are You Out There" fame) emceed, since aside from running Dave and Tracy's record label, he's also one of their closest friends. Tracy started it off by singing "The Mountain", and closed it with "Gentle Soldier Of My Soul", accompanied by the Kennedys, Chris and Meredith Thompson, and the drummer and bassist from last fall's Joan Baez tour (I didn't catch the bassist's name, but the drummer was George Jovari, who has played with Katell Keineg in the past). In between, a host of other Falcon Ridge performers did wonderful versions of Dave Carter's songs: "Tanglewood Tree" (Chris and Meredith Thompson) "Cowboy Singer" (Mark Erelli) "Ordinary Town" (Nerissa & Katryna Nields, w/Dave Chalfant and Lorne Entress) "Gentle Arms Of Eden" (Erin McKeown, w/Dave Chalfant and Lorne Entress) "Farewell To Fiddler's Rim" (Kris Delmhorst and Mark Erelli) "St. Dolores" (Eddie From Ohio) "Happytown" (The Kennedys) "Merlin's Lament" (Christopher Williams) "Crocodile Man" (Chris Smither) Hearing these different versions just really brought home to me just what an incredible songwriter Dave Carter was. And hearing the stories all the performers told about their own experiences knowing Dave and listening to his music underscored just how big of a loss the contemporary folk community has suffered. It was a very moving tribute. Tracy got a long standing ovation from the crowd both times she took the stage. The rest of the festival was great too, perhaps even better than I'd expected given that the lineup was IMHO relatively thin this year. We only managed to catch the tail end of the New Artist Showcase on Friday, so I don't have much to say about that save that I hope Cadence Carroll and Walter Parks get enough votes to come back next year because they're such cool humans. On Friday evening, we saw The Kennedys on the main stage. They were jangly-fun showoffs as always, still treading that fine line between cute and cloyingly twee. I guess I'm apt to be somewhat forgiving in their case, because they're such nice people, and they are kickass musicians so they've got something to back their stage mannerisms up. Later on we came back for the Summer's Eve Song Swap, which this year featured Erin McKeown, Chris Smither, Greg Brown, and Lucy Kaplansky. I'm not a big fan of either Greg Brown nor Lucy Kaplansky, but in an in-the-round situation like that they were just fine. I'd never seen Chris Smither before this weekend, and I left a fan, which really surprised me -- but he's just so good! So droll, and an incredible guitar player to boot. And Erin rocked. She clearly had the respect of the other three people on stage with her too, which was great to see. It was a pretty big deal to see her up there with Names like that. Saturday morning started bright and early with a blues workshop, featuring Jeff Lang, Chris Smither, Kris Delmhorst (with Mark Erelli), and Trina Hamlin. All I can say is: Wow. I think Trina made a new fan, too: after she played her first contribution (a blistering version of "A Thought"), Chris Smither commented, "She may be from the wrong end of the Mississppi, but that don't mean she ain't good." After that the festival's special guests, Live From New York took the stage. For those not in the know, LFNY consists of Edie Carey, Sam Shaber, Anne Heaton, Teddy Goldstein and Andrew Kerr. Solo they achieve varying degrees of interesting, but together they're a mighty fine group -- especially since they've been touring together off and on for a couple years now, and they all know each other's songs really well. It was particularly great to see Edie again. I heard her telling someone afterwards that they'd like to do a LFNY album, but they still have to work out whether or not to do it in the studio (with or without a studio audience), or stage a live show and have it recorded that way. Either way, it would be a worthwhile purchase. The first main stage set of the day was one of the ones I'd been looking forward to the most: the Most Wanted Song Swap, with Trina Hamlin, Zoe Lewis and Eric Schwartz. I'd seen them on the Falcon Ridge Preview Tour in May, when they rocked the house -- and they did the same thing on the hill, just as I knew they would. By far the funniest moment came when Eric Schwartz, during a mellow interlude in one of his piano ballads put words in the ASL interpreters hands (so to speak), that started off with something like "I've been interpreting folk festivals for many years, and I've gotta say, Eric Schwartz has the best butt on a folksinger I've ever seen" and went from there. :) By the end of it people were literally rolling in the aisles, and I've gotta hand it to the interpreter for keeping her composure through it all. The next set I saw was Kris Delmhorst, who with Mark Erelli did a great bunch of tunes. I also caught the end of Gandalf Murphy And The Slambovian Circus Of Dreams, a Hudson Valley jam band whose reputation has been growing steadily around here for the last year or so. They're pretty damned scary looking (like, if Slash fronted a jam band -- woj said they should be called Gandalf Murphy And The Slambovian Circus Of Garage Mechanics), but they sounded okay. Not sure if I'd go out of my way to see them again, though. After that, it was time for the Dave Carter tribute, then time for us to flee the area and recompose ourselves while we avoided Eddie From Ohio (which is getting to be an annual Falcon Ridge ritual ). Nerissa and Katryna Nields were next. They'd brought Dave Chalfant and Lorne Entress with them, who played bass and guitar and drums, respectively. The result was a refreshingly rocking full-band Nields sound, that created transcendent versions of songs like "Love And China" and "The Sweetness". Pete and Maura Kennedy also joined in on a couple songs, and as usual every performer hanging around backstage showed up to sing along on "Keys To The Kingdom". I've really enjoyed the duo performances I've seen in the past year, but man, was it great to hear those voices backed up by a band again. Chris Smither came next. I have no idea why I liked his performance as much as I did, since that's not normally my kind of thing at all -- maybe it was his amazing fluid guitar sound, I'm not sure. But I would definitely see him again. In introducing him, the night's emcee Meg Griffin (formerly of WFUV) said that anyone wanting to get their first Chris Smither album that weekend should get his new one, _Live As I'll Ever Be_, so I did. I would imagine that a live album would be the best thing of his to have. (Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, though.) We weren't that interested in the final band of the night, a bluegrass outfit from New Jersey (!) called Railroad Earth, so we retired to our campsite to taste-test the plethora of "malternative" beverages infesting the market lately (in a nutshell: they pretty much all suck). I spent a good chunk of the early morning hours wandering around the various late-night jams, starting at the fabled Big Orange Tarp, where by pure coincidence Trina Hamlin was in the circle. She said she had gone up there planning only to listen and not to play, so when her turn came around she borrowed someone's guitar and even asked the guy sitting next to her to hold her harmonica for her (after which he stood up and loudly proclaimed, "Trina Hamlin licked my finger!" ). I also got to hear Allette Brooks, whom I'd been hearing a lot about, but never heard. I managed to miss her in the New Artist Showcase on Friday, so I'm glad I stumbled across a chance to hear her play. She was really good, and definitely on the list to check out again. (I was particularly impressed with her setting of the witch's vegetable song from "Into The Woods" to the tune of "Sweet Home Alabama". ;) Sunday oozed in on a blanket of fog, both literal and metaphorical (I have no clue exactly when I finally crawled into the tent, but it was *really* late). The schedule was such that we didn't catch any music until Erin McKeown's main stage set, and what a way to begin! She was also accompanied by Dave Chalfant and Lorne Entress, who have been her band on those occasions when she's been able to have one. She rocks in so many different ways ... and it was great to see how many people were going apeshit over her too. Thinking about how Ani DiFranco was scheduled to come onstage to end the day, I thought to myself, "Erin's the little folksinger now". She just keeps getting better and better. Her new songs are all incredible -- I think her next album is going to blow _Distillation_ right out of the water. (I should also mention that Erin's set is when it decided to pour. But we had our plastic ponchos, so we didn't care.) The next two sets were Tom Landa and the Paperboys and Jeff Lang. Both sets were very enjoyable, and Jeff Lang's guitar playing was mind-boggling, and that's about all I can say about that. With Lucy Kaplansky and Greg Brown next on the schedule, that gave us time to pack up and get ready to go as soon as the festival was over. I ran into a friend who mentioned that she'd just seen Trina Hamlin playing over on the workshop stage, so I went over there to find that the Most Wanted folks were doing another set that I didn't recall seeing on the schedule. It was great fun, and I noted that as had been happening all weekend, Trina got the biggest cheers. Yay! Finally, the time 10,000 first-time Falcon Ridge festivalgoers had been waiting for arrived: Ani burst onto the stage and attacked her guitar in that beautiful way only she can, for fifty glorious minutes. I hadn't seen her since she was last at Falcon Ridge (was that in 1999?), and dammit, I still wish her usual shows weren't jam-packed with annoying screaming fans, because she's still got it, and I'd love to see her more often. So that was that. Usually by Sunday afternoon I'm ready to go home, but this time, after Ani was done I said, "but we just got here!" I don't know why the weekend flew by so fast. So, to sum things up: - -- Weekend highlight: the Dave Carter tribute (followed by Nerissa and Katryna Nields' set) - -- Cool things: watching Trina Hamlin pick up a few thousand new fans, and listening to the entire hill sing along to the bluegrass instrumental version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" that played over the PA while they set up for Jeff Lang's mainstage set) - -- Musical discovery: Chris Smither (yeah, I know, where the hell have I been) - -- Celebrity sightings in the audience: SONiA and Beth Amsel Are tickets on sale for Falcon Ridge 2003 yet? :) ============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth ============================================== Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ============================================== ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V8 #211 **************************