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edheads-digest       Saturday, November 23 2002       Volume 05 : Number 242



                               Today's Subjects:
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  Re: A good discovery...     ["Melissa Schick" <melissa_schick@hotmail.com>]
  Falcon Ridge Presents: Summer in December               [Primecity@aol.com]
  Re: Falcon Ridge Presents: Summer in December  ["John Ryan" <jjrrutgers@ho]
  OT: Dave & Tracy Boots?            [Joy Elyse Greenwald <ely749@yahoo.com>]
  RE: a little off-topic but of interest... more  ["Will Foy" <willfoy@pobox]

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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:18:07 -0500
From: "Melissa Schick" <melissa_schick@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: A good discovery...

Ruminated Nicole the Wonder Nerd <ana.ng@tmbg.org>
>CC: edheads@efohio.com
>Subject: Re: A good discovery...
>Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 14:48:07 -0800

<snip>
>
>Something about "Our Fair City" has been puzzling me for years now.  What's
>the city?

Well, listeners to NPR's CarTalk know that "Our Fair City" is none other 
than Cambridge, MA.  And that's MA pronounced "Mah" of course.


- -Melissa, who:
a) is a first time EdHead list poster
2. owned Fishbowl for a year before it grew on her, and then it was after 
seeing EFO live and getting addicted to Quick.  I love it now.
III- blames it all on Shelly
D: all of the above

The answer is D.  Pronounced "dee" of course.


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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:17:50 EST
From: Primecity@aol.com
Subject: Falcon Ridge Presents: Summer in December

Falcon Ridge Presents: Summer in December

A series of concerts celebrating the holiday season with the spirit of the 
Falcon Ridge Folk Festival starring Nerissa & Katryna Nields, Susan Werner, 
and Pete & Maura Kennedy.  

Inspired by the workshops of the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, which involve a 
handful of musicians playing on each other's songs, adding harmonies and 
instrumentation, these artists decided to band together for the holidays to 
bring a community flavored event to audiences up and down the eastern 
seaboard.  

The shows will consist of both individual sets and a group finale.  Expect 
the unexpected;  these artists have known each other for years, have leant 
their talents to each other's recordings and stage shows in the past and are 
gearing up to present a show that promises to be a smorgasbord of musical 
variety.

Fans attending the shows are being asked to please bring a new, unwrapped toy 
to the show.  These toys will be distributed by a local organizations* to 
children in need during the holidays.

    
    ^Dec 5    Cutting Room - New York City  212-691-1900
            *Community Mediation Services, Inc (for Teens, please)

    Dec 6     Birchmere - Alexandria, VA     703-549-7500
            *America Red Cross

    Dec 7     Concert at the Crossing - Titusville, NJ  609-406-1424
            *Homefront of Trenton NJ

    ^Dec 12   Grand Auditorium- Ellsworth, Maine    207- 469-6600
            *Big Brothers & Sisters of Hancock County

    Dec 14    Joyful Noise Coffeehouse - Lexington MA  781-861-0142
            * Solutions at Work - Cambridge, MA

    Dec 15    Club Helsinki - Great Barrington, MA  (2 shows 3 & 7pm)           
                  413-528-3394
        * The Christmas Adopt a Family Program, sponsored by Copake VFW

^ Susan Werner will not appear on these shows

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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:43:00 -0500
From: "John Ryan" <jjrrutgers@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Falcon Ridge Presents: Summer in December

Count me there at the first show.  I love great bills!

- ----- Original Message -----
From: <Primecity@aol.com>
To: <edheads@efohio.com>
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 12:17 PM
Subject: Falcon Ridge Presents: Summer in December


> Falcon Ridge Presents: Summer in December
>
> A series of concerts celebrating the holiday season with the spirit of the
> Falcon Ridge Folk Festival starring Nerissa & Katryna Nields, Susan
Werner,
> and Pete & Maura Kennedy.
>
> Inspired by the workshops of the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, which involve
a
> handful of musicians playing on each other's songs, adding harmonies and
> instrumentation, these artists decided to band together for the holidays
to
> bring a community flavored event to audiences up and down the eastern
> seaboard.
>
> The shows will consist of both individual sets and a group finale.  Expect
> the unexpected;  these artists have known each other for years, have leant
> their talents to each other's recordings and stage shows in the past and
are
> gearing up to present a show that promises to be a smorgasbord of musical
> variety.
>
> Fans attending the shows are being asked to please bring a new, unwrapped
toy
> to the show.  These toys will be distributed by a local organizations* to
> children in need during the holidays.
>
>
>     ^Dec 5    Cutting Room - New York City  212-691-1900
>             *Community Mediation Services, Inc (for Teens, please)
>
>     Dec 6     Birchmere - Alexandria, VA     703-549-7500
>             *America Red Cross
>
>     Dec 7     Concert at the Crossing - Titusville, NJ  609-406-1424
>             *Homefront of Trenton NJ
>
>     ^Dec 12   Grand Auditorium- Ellsworth, Maine    207- 469-6600
>             *Big Brothers & Sisters of Hancock County
>
>     Dec 14    Joyful Noise Coffeehouse - Lexington MA  781-861-0142
>             * Solutions at Work - Cambridge, MA
>
>     Dec 15    Club Helsinki - Great Barrington, MA  (2 shows 3 & 7pm)

>                   413-528-3394
>         * The Christmas Adopt a Family Program, sponsored by Copake VFW
>
> ^ Susan Werner will not appear on these shows

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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:09:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Joy Elyse Greenwald <ely749@yahoo.com>
Subject: OT: Dave & Tracy Boots?

Hey y'all,

I'm listening to When I Go...again, and I was thinking
that I really wish that I really wish I had something
more to listen to (I mean besides the trhee studio
albums.  I have all three.) and it occured to me that
someone must have a boot...or a few boots.  I never
got to see them live.  Seemed like something always
came up and there would always be more time.  There's
a lesson it that.  Can you e-mail me?  As always, I
have much to trade if I can just figure out how to
track by myself.  Ben has it down, but he's a busy
guy. :)

Joy Elyse
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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:17:08 -0500
From: "Will Foy" <willfoy@pobox.com>
Subject: RE: a little off-topic but of interest... more

Since it's been a couple of days, and I've had a couple of takers to my
"puzzle" of the Kevin Bacon game applied to music [ which is actually a
really interesting math concept. But that's another long story ], I
thought I'd pose a few answers.

Lyle Lovett's "Bacon Number" relative to EFO is 3, it seems. No one
could find a shorter path than 3.

Here's the answer I got in response:
EFO->Bela Fleck->The Chieftains->Lyle Lovett

However!! I also had thought of another pretty inventive one...
EFO played with Bela Fleck on Fishbowl.
Bela Fleck played with and won a Grammy with Edgar Meyer for his work on
Bela's solo classical album "Perpetual Motion" [ for the liner note
curious, he's a bassist, a darn tootin' good 'un too, and the album won
2 grammy's, one for "Best Classical Crossover Album" or some such, and
another for an individual song, the award title for which eludes me
right now ]
Edgar has played several times with Lyle Lovett as his bassist when he
needs a doublebass player, notably, on I Love Everybody [the album], and
on The Road to Ensenada [ I think ].

[bela also played with Edgar on Mike Marshall's Uncommon Ritual, and
they did a tour for the album in 1997. killer shows, and great album. If
you like your bluegrass classically flavored, or wanna try a new taste,
it's a good one! Bela also teamed up with Edgar if memory serves on
Double Time a series of duets of banjo and... ]

OR

EFO played with Bela on fishbowl
Bela played with Sam Bush et al on The Bluegrass Sessions:Tales from the
Acoustic Planet II [ as well as on Double Time ]
Sam has played with Lyle several times, including live in Greensboring [
I mean Greensboro, NC ] a few years ago on mandolin.

There's probably a path featuring Jerry Douglas, but I'm less certain of
that one.

Someone at UVA or one of the other VA area colleges in their math
department about the concept of Bacon numbers [ ie, the Kevin Bacon game
], and found that while there exist a few actors whose Bacon numbers are
greater than 6, they are VERY few in number. The average Bacon number
for any actor is < 3. Interestingly, Kevin Bacon does not have the
lowest average "bacon number". That honor belongs to.... Wait for it....
Wait for it... Sean Connery [ as of 2001 ]. His is a couple of tenths
less than Kevin Bacon's.

What I'd be interested to know is what musician has the lowest bacon
number.  If I had to guess, I'd say someone like Jerry Douglas [ do a
search for him on half.com or amazon.com, he's on some unbelievably
large number of albums as the guest dobroist. ], or perhaps Bela Fleck.
Most likely, it's some session musician we've all heard the work of, but
just can't quite put his name in our heads, but at the tip of our
tongues.

Enough math for the night.  Just thought some of you might like an
"answer"  can anyone beat 3? I'd love to hear some tries. Namaste, will


Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to
see and even more difficult to harvest - Brian Herbert

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