From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #146 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, July 8 2011 Volume 16 : Number 146 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Need some venue help [Karen Hester ] Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside [Karen Hester ] We're About Nine House concert [Robert Keefer ] My Brightest Diamond [Karen Hester ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 10:37:38 -0400 From: Karen Hester Subject: Re: Need some venue help She played the small Rockwood last time, so similar sizes would be Barbes in Park Slope, Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg, Drom for something less pub-ish... I'd love to see her at the Postcrypt Coffeehouse in the basement of a chapel at Columbia Uni :) Though it's tiny. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/postcrypt/coffeehouse/newsite/main3.html A list of our most common NYC venues is on the right hand side of http://ectonyc.pbworks.com/w/page/10828036/FrontPage. K > From: Julie B > Eliza Rickman is coming back to the east coast in September, and is > looking for some small venue recommendations in the NYC/North New > Jersey/Southern CT area. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 10:48:10 -0400 From: Karen Hester Subject: Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xC2dS_RZiM&feature=player_embedded This is cute, what a distinct voice. They're opening for Jolie Holland at the moment. K ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 14:00:34 -0400 From: Robert Keefer Subject: We're About Nine House concert Greetings, We're having a We're About Nine house concert on Saturday, July 16th at our house! There are a couple of spots still available, if you live anywhere near Gettysburg, PA. Check out their concert page at http://wereaboutnine.com/Shows.htm Just an FYI. bob k. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 22:13:18 -0400 From: Karen Hester Subject: My Brightest Diamond My Brightest Diamond played Revolutionary War fort Castle Clinton tonight, after Ranger Jim gave us some history. Shara was wearing a cape made of bright blue, pink and orange bath scrub balls and looked like a hygienic clown from the front and a Steogosaurus with colorful buboes from the back. Shara's voice was the best I've ever heard it, though she had a throat lurgy which she thought gave her a Billie Holiday edge. She sang along with a busker in the distance, "a New York mash-up." Shara's current band consists of drums, violin, viola, clarinet, other woodwind, brass and the new music is artful chamber pop, sometimes bluesy. I prefer her doing rock but this was great live. Her hand gestures when singing are somewhere between sign language and dance. She leapt about exuberantly, and danced with a broom in a song about mice in her house. Shara and family now live on a group farm/home-steading thing 5 minutes from the center of Detroit. Detroit. There's a blues jam session that happens every week on a piece of carpet: the carpet used to be on the porch of someone's house, but the house has been torn down. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #146 ***************************