From: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org (good-noise-digest) To: good-noise-digest@smoe.org Subject: good-noise-digest V5 #49 Reply-To: good-noise@smoe.org Sender: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-good-noise-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk good-noise-digest Tuesday, April 30 2002 Volume 05 : Number 049 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Gorka in Madison ["Mike Smith" ] michelle[bloom] [thepsyche@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 15:45:21 +0000 From: "Mike Smith" Subject: Gorka in Madison I was lucky enough to see John Gorka a couple of times this past Saturday at the Madison (WI) Folk Festival. Weather-wise, the day was pretty miserable, windy with a cold drizzle (I mowed my lawn in the morning with my winter hat and gloves on, by the time I finished it was snowing!), but the cozy confines of the Festival were warm both physically and mentally. I went to the afternoon workshops (a first for me) which turned out to be the highlight of the event. I met Susan Smith there, a fellow Good-Noiser, and it was nice to put a real person to words in the e-mails. The workshop was in the third story of school connected to the church where the concert would be later that night. It was a small room that normally serves as a nursery classroom (the kids names and artwork on the walls was a nice unintended extra). John walked in a little before he was supposed to go on and sat next to Susan, her husband and I. We talked a little before he started his workshop, which was a bit surreal to me, never having spoke to the man before. The workshop was supposed to be about songwriting but turned into more of a Q&A session. There were about 30 people there and it kind of had that living room feel to it, very friendly. He played a few songs in between questions, the hour went by very quickly. After, the other performers at the festival came in and joined him in a workshop where they each took turns playing other peoples tunes. It was my first experience hearing Cosy Sheridan, who is a very talented person and quite funny too. Mustard's Retreat (David Tamulevich, are you still a lurker on this list?), Eric Hester and someone else I'm ashamed to admit I forget his name, were there also. John ended the session with a song I hadn't heard him play before, What A Wonderful World (the old Louis Armstrong song). Incredible. The concert that night was classic Gorka. He can still make me laugh at the same jokes and still leave me in awe of his musical talents. It ended too soon (don't they all) and I'm already looking forward to the next time he comes to my neck of the woods. Mike _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 22:04:23 -0500 From: thepsyche@aol.com Subject: michelle[bloom] Take a look at this: www.michellebloom.com thepsyche@aol.com (recommended by your friend) ------------------------------ End of good-noise-digest V5 #49 *******************************