From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V12 #325 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, December 7 2006 Volume 12 : Number 325 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Lelia Broussard - Outstanding [birdie ] The Weepies in Milford, CT [meredith ] cyoakha plays some strange music in sf on thursday night...come one come all.... [cy Subject: Lelia Broussard - Outstanding Anyone else hear her yet? She has a show coming up on the 13th at The Bitter End. I'd run, not walk, to it if I was on that coast! Joss Stone could take singing lessons from this one, for sure! If I told you she was 16, you would not believe me!!!! She does HOUSE CONCERTS in the Northeast. Click on ~Community~ for deets on how to book her. http://www.leliabroussard.com/ http://www.myspace.com/leliabroussard ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:07:02 -0500 From: meredith Subject: The Weepies in Milford, CT Hi, Just got back from seeing The Weepies play in, of all places, Milford, Connecticut (the town where I worked for a decade, and where woj works now ... I'd say its only claim to fame is as home of Subway Sandwiches World HQ). There's a relatively new venue downtown called Daniel Street -- I'd never heard of it before I saw this show on The Weepies' tour schedule. It turned out to be pretty nice, a bar seating about 150 with a nice stage and sound system. There were quite a few people there -- surprising for CT on a school night -- and it was a good listening crowd (despite the fact that the only two annoying people in the room who insisted upon singing along loudly when they weren't chattering away at one another chose to sit right next to me :P). The Weepies are Steve Tannen and Deb Talan, both singer/songwriters in their own right who have forged a musical partnership that is vastly more than the sum of its parts. Their second album, _Say I Am You_ came out on Nettwerk early this year, and it's been in constant residence in my car CD changer ever since. It's definitely in my top 3 releases of 2006, no question. Their music just plain makes me happy -- even the slow ballads have an optimism to them that is bolstered by Steve and Deb's gorgeous harmonies. And live, they bring everything up to another level entirely. Right now their band is a six-piece extravaganza featuring Meghan Toohey (a name familiar to followers of the Boston scene of the past several years) on guitar, as well as drums, bass and keys, with Steve and Deb playing guitar and singing. Or at least trying to. Tonight Steve was suffering from a nasty bout of laryngitis that made him unable to do anything more than emit the occasional Tom Waits-like croak, poor thing ... so they'd cobbled together a set list consisting of every song in their catalog that Deb sings lead on (with emphasis on the latest CD), as well as a couple Deb Talan solo tunes. Steve tried to make noises, but mostly Meg Toohey jumped in and took his parts wherever she could. Some of the songs were clearly new to the band at large, so Steve would conduct while Deb sang with a "OMG what's about to happen" look on her face. There were no train wrecks, though, and all in all it was a very enjoyable show. Their 2006 tour is almost over, but I highly recommend seeing them next time they come to your town. And in the meantime, pick up both their records and enjoy. http://www.theweepies.com http://myspace.com/theweepies - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:58:37 -0800 From: cy Subject: cyoakha plays some strange music in sf on thursday night...come one come all.... Thursday 8pm Dec. 7th @ The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA Opening act of the Luggage's Store's New Music Series and part of WOMEN, BRING BACK THE NOISE 3 day festival, celebrating the release of this 3 year project, a 3 CD set of female composers from noise to dreamy, experimental to avant. This international series brings women from all over the world & US from Thurs through Sunday. ****** Women Take Back The Noise LIVE at the LUGGAGE STORE (SAN FRANCISCO, CA) ****** DECEMBER 7th LIVE PERFORMANCE SHOWCASE LUGGAGE STORE GALLERY - New Music Series 1007 Market Street (near 6th) - San Francisco,CA www.luggagestoregallery.org 8:00PM $6-$10 (sliding scale) at door live performances by artists featured on the 'Women Take Back The Noise' CD compilation: CYOAKHA GRACE (Portland,OR-USA) HOORAY! FOR OLD TIMERS (Arcata,CA-USA) INSECT DELI (Chicago,IL-USA) XYRAMAT (Berlin-GERMANY) more about the series and some crazy ass photos >PRESS >SFWEEKLY: "Women Take Back the Noise" >http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2006-12-06/music/music_print.html > >SFCHRONICLE: "Women Take Back the Noise" >Cover of their 96 Hours section Thursday's paper. >http://www.sfgate.com/96hours/ > >pix? >http://sfgate.com/c/pictures/2006/12/07/ns_nightlife07_0157_kr.jpg >Ninah Pixie right and her two friends who are going to make noise >together. Fari Bradley center (cq) and Cyoakha Gracel eft(cq) with hat >on. Ninah Pixie is an experimental musician and force behind next >weekend's Women Take Back the Noise event. She also assembled 1000 >Three CD sets of noise . >Tuesday, DECEMBER 5, 2006 >KURT ROGERS/THE CHRONICLE ALAMEDA THE CHRONICLE > >http://sfgate.com/c/pictures/2006/12/07/ns_nightlife07_0132_kr.jpg >Cait McWhir (cq) Melissa Margolis and Ninah Pixie rehearse for there >up coming show. >Ninah Pixie is an experimental musician and force behind next >weekend's Women Take Back the Noise event. She also assembled 1000 >Three CD sets of noise . >. THURSDAY November 30, 2006 >KURT ROGERS/THE CHRONICLE ALAMEDA THE CHRONICLE >SFC NIGHTLIFE07_0132_kr.jpg > >. http://www.cyoakhagrace.com/ for indie producers, fans of Cyo, soundtrack info, ALL CDs & recording comments http://www.landoftheblind.com/ For Blind friends & fans/to order BLIND's CDs/BLIND gigs/Bios http://www.sonicbids.com/landoftheblindcyoakhagrace Electronic Press Kit - gig info MYSPACE's http://www.myspace.com/cyoakhagrace lots of photos & free new downloads daily http://www.myspace.com/landoftheblind music samples & new Burning Man photos ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V12 #325 ***************************