From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V8 #277 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, October 5 2002 Volume 08 : Number 277 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fwd: Carol Noonan book [Sherlyn Koo ] Re: peter gabriel on the radio [kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white)] Fwd: Peter Mulvey in Boston TOMORROW [Sherlyn Koo Subject: Fwd: Carol Noonan book Hey folks, Carol Noonan news... - -sherlyn - --- Original Message --- >Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:27:09 -0400 >To: folkmusic@grassyhill.org >From: Roberta Schwartz >Subject: [FM] Carol Noonan book > >Dear Carol Noonan fans: > >I was recently sent a copy of Carol Noonan's first book, "Dear Mr. >Was...Letters From Maine." For those who love Noonan's voice and >songs, here's another side of her you haven't seen until you've >heard her live. Enjoy! >************************************************************** > >Dear Mr. Was...Letters From Maine by Carol Noonan Brownfield, Maine: >Noonan Music, c2002. >http://www.carolnoonanmusic.com > >Carol Noonan's unmistakable vibrato is legend in acoustic music. >First, with Knots and Crosses, and then as a solo performer, her >haunting voice has always delved deep into the ballads that she >sings. But those who have heard her in concert know that Noonan's >patter between songs is full of light and humor - in counterbalance >to the darkness of her signature songs. > >Although Massachusetts born and bred, Noonan traveled to Maine over >twenty years ago to take a summer job as a singing chambermaid and >never left. She has called rural Maine home ever since. Her first >book, "Dear Mr. Was...Letters From Maine" is a chronicle of the >humorous stories she's collected from the land of the "piney woods," >as her mother calls the state of Maine. > >Like Cheryl Wheeler, Noonan knows how to both deliver a beautifully >written ballad *and* tell a good story. In "Dear Mr. Was" she >addresses her stories of rural humor to a friend out in Los Angeles. >Through these tales we meet Punkin, the attack pig who ends up as >wrapped packages of meat, Franny, the 300 pound neighbor, not >knowing she is pregnant, suddenly gives birth in Wal-Mart, Emory >"the Wheel," a dog who has survived over twenty-six car accidents, >Tyrone, who thinks he's African American but is 100% French >Canadian, and a host of others. There are snakes and ferrets, barn >cats and a whole shelter's worth of dogs, and all manner of humans >one can find along the back roads of Maine. > >Sure, Carol Noonan can sing a song that will send shivers down your >spine. But, she can also tell a story about racing cockroaches, >drunken fishermen who mistakenly set a boatyard on fire, and a trip >to the funeral home, where one family member thinks that the >deceased doesn't need pants - "the funeral flasher." > >Hear Carol Noonan sing and be moved...hear her tell one of her >outrageous Maine tales and laugh until you cry. Pick up a copy of >"Dear Was...Letters From Maine" and you'll smile over Noonan's >stories from the piney woods for weeks to come. >-- >************************************************ Roberta B. Schwartz >rschwartz@oeb.harvard.edu Staff Writer, Music Matters Review >http://www.mmreview.com Reviewer and Review editor, FAME >http://www.acousticmusic.com/fame/famehome.htm >************************************************ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:34:55 -0500 (CDT) From: kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white) Subject: Re: peter gabriel on the radio Hi, I stumbeled across VH1 when thay had a half hour of older PG vids and then the Making of The Barry Williams Show with PG and Sean Penn the director and then the Video. Peter's hair is buzzcut and he has a long white goatee. I guess the older stuff was needed to remind the younger folks as to who PG was. Bye, KrW I'm Peter Pan! I'm perpetually young!! OW!! What's wrong with my back? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 08:42:09 +1000 From: Sherlyn Koo Subject: Fwd: Peter Mulvey in Boston TOMORROW Hey folks, Excerpted from the latest Peter Mulvey newsletter... - -sherlyn - --- Original Message --- From: "Young/Hunter Management" To: Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 12:41:43 -0400 Subject: Peter Mulvey in Boston TOMORROW >1) One last reminder that Peter's CD RELEASE CONCERT will take place >TOMORROW night (Sat, Oct 5) at the Somerville Theatre in Boston at >8pm. There are still some tickets left and they can be had by >calling SongStreet Productions (617-628-3390), Ticketmaster (617- >931-2000 / www.ticketmaster.com ) or by visiting the Somerville >Theatre Box Office. Should be a helluva show, with special guests >including Kris Delmhorst, Erin McKeown, Jennifer Kimball, David >Goodrich, Anita Suhanin, and Sean Staples. > >Read previews of the concert in today's Boston Globe and Boston >Herald: >http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/277/living/Returning_underground+.s >html >http://www2.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/folk10042002.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 19:26:07 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Reminder: Rachael Sage this Sunday! Resistance is futile! Hi, Okay, Connecticut-area ectophiles, listen up. (This includes you Boston and NYC folks!) This Sunday at 4 pm, the most amazing thing to happen in our living room since the last time Veda Hille was town is going to occur. Rachael Sage and Stephanie Winters are going to be playing here, and trust me, you are going to be kicking yourself SO HARD if you miss it!! So whatever plans you have for Sunday at 4 pm, ditch 'em. Your family can wait, that movie will still be in the theaters on Monday, you can TiVo the Patriots/Dolphins game and watch it later (just like I'm going to do -- heck, you can even stick around and watch it with us), and as for Eric Schwartz and Dierdre Flint at the Acoustic Cafe? Screw 'em. They'll be back. This has been a message from the Live At The House O'Muzak Foundation For The Prevention Of Sparsely Attended Living Room Concerts, in partnership with the Ecto Alliance Against Lameness. See http://muzak.smoe.org for info. RSVP via email, or call us at 203-776-9325. Looking forward to an ecto reunion here on Sunday! It's been way too long since woj and I have seen some of you (you know who you are). :) ============================================== 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://muzak.smoe.org NEXT UP: Rachael Sage, Sunday, 10/6 at 4 pm ============================================== ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V8 #277 **************************