From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V12 #42 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, February 13 2006 Volume 12 : Number 042 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Susan McKeown news [neal copperman ] Emily Bezar news [Michael Curry ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 02:30:16 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: Susan McKeown news You'll just have to come out for the tour kickoff in Albuquerque! My ectohostel is open. You can stay an extra day for my very cool Kyrgyzstan show too :) neal (at Folk Alliance in Austin!) At 7:27 PM -0500 2/10/06, Michael Curry wrote: >If only there were more tour dates! > >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: [susanmckeown-announce] Susan McKeown new album 'Blackthorn' >Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:36:25 -0500 >From: Hibernian Music >To: susanmckeown-announce@smoe.org > >Hi folks. > >I am delighted to announce that my new album 'Blackthorn', an album >of Irish love songs, has arrived. > >Many of you know that my good friend and musical partner Johnny >Cunningham died just hours after recording his last fiddle >performance for my album 'Sweet Liberty'. Through his death, and the >subsequent memorial concert tour of his music, I became good friends >with Johnny's brother Phil, and it was on this tour that Phil played >me music from Asturias and The Basque Country, where he had recently >produced some recordings. >Hearing this music gave me the idea of how to begin recording my next >album, and brought me to record it in Asturias, The Basque Country, >Ireland and New York. >Also, in life I had been thinking a lot about Love, and so I was >drawn to songs about love and attraction. >The result is 'Blackthorn', an album of songs mostly in Gaelic, which >I recorded with the musical contributions of Xuaca Amieva, Cormac >Breatnach, Edmar Castenada, Rsismn Chambers, Steve Cooney, Robbie >Harris, Lindsey Horner, Dana Lyn, Harkaitz Martinez, Don Meade, Eamon >O'Leary & Igor Oxtoa. > >Thanks to the trusty folks running my website, you can now go to >www.susanmckeown.com to listen to samples of each track from the >album, and go ahead and purchase pre-release copies of the album >through the site which will be mailed to you immediately. (The >official album release date is March 14th.) > >Additionally, you may want to surf over simply to take a look at the >work that Coos de Graaf and June Kosloff have been doing putting >together a new site for me which includes a bunch of new photos (of >me) by photo-journalist Peter Foley. > >In other news, last weekend I performed at a conference on Irish >singing at NYU's Ireland House, and enjoyed providing vocal >accompaniment for the New York Theatre Ballet's production of James >Joyce's 'The Dead', choreographed by Clove Galilee. >I am currently in the studio recording with The Klezmatics. >Upcoming dates can be found below, and at the website. > >All the best, >Susan > >*********************************************************************** > >March 5 2006 >Town Hall, NYC >Susan is the guest of The Klezmatics on their 20th Anniversary Concert. >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >March 17 (St. Patrick's Day), 2006 >Cedar Street Courtyard, Austin, TX (SXSW) >The Klezmatics & Susan McKeown 'Holy Ground' and Billy Bragg. >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >'BLACKTHORN' ALBUM RELEASE TOUR >Susan McKeown with Eamon O'Leary and Dana Lyn: >March 24, 2006 >The Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque, NM >March 25, 2006 >Churchill Arts Center, Fallon, NV >March 26, 2006 >The Triple Door, Seattle, WA >March 30, 2006 >The Mission Theater, Portland, OR >April 7, 2006 >Glucksman Ireland House New York University, 1 Washington Mews ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:13:05 -0500 From: Michael Curry Subject: Emily Bezar news Of special interest to those in the Berkeley area, but there's other news too.... - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Emily Bezar Concert March 4th Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:05:07 +0000 (GMT) From: DemiVox Records To: mcurry@io.com Hi everyone! Sorry for the long absence and for any unreturned emails over the last few months....but when your Muse comes crashing through the ceiling you kind of have to stop everything and have that conversation. So IBm writing to let you know that IBll be premiering a big brand new group of songs in Berkeley, CA on March 4th. IBm calling it BExchangeB. Here are the details: Emily Bezar Solo Concert Saturday, March 4th 8 pm The Berkeley City Club 2315 Durant Ave. Berkeley, California tickets $10 at the door More info: (510) 903-1128 http://www.emilybezar.com/concerts.asp And IBd like to introduce you to some of the music that has influenced me profoundly all my musical life. So, IBll also be performing some classical art-songs with my special guest Victoria Theodore on piano and I'll play a few of my favorite jazz/pop tunes. I havenBt put my own stuff up against the great classics since loooong ago in college so come and watch me swing without a safety net again. I will be recording this concert for posterity so you will be immortalized in the rustle and breath of the room! ON THE RADIO!! For a preview of the March 4th concert, please tune in to KPFA 94.1 FM radio in Berkeley on Thursday night February 23d at 10 pm Pacific Time. IBll be playing live on Derk RichardsonBs great show BThe Hear and NowB. You can get an internet stream as well here: http://www.kpfa.org In other news: SOME MORE MP3 DOWNLOADS?? I have big plans to release another free download-only EP sometime late this spring. I am unearthing some of my very early electronic music and maybe a few more unreleased tunes from the 90Bs. But first I have to digitize all the old weird-format tapes and get some elusive permissions from Big Publishers to use the poetry that I set so long ago. IBll keep you posted. JULY IN EUROPE For my European friends: start planning your Mediterranean vacations as I have been invited to perform at the Malta Jazz Festival in July! ItBs not confirmed yet but looks like it will happen. I am in the process of organizing a few more gigs while IBm over there and certainly London and Paris are on the top of the list. And IBm going to try to swing through NYC on the way there if I can. AgainBmore news to come. EVERYBODYBS DOING IT SO...... IBve added a link on my website to my new Forum at MeloBs Prog Bazaar (yes, "Bezar at the Bazaar" was too great to turn down) where you can wax bemused and curious about my music if you want. IBll peek in every now and then to answer questions and give updates etc. http://melosprogbazaar.com/index.php?board=437.0 Well, thatBs enough for now! Thanks so much for listening and for all your warm thoughts and emails and I hope to see you in Berkeley on March 4th. xo Emily _+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V12 #42 **************************