From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V2 #83 Reply-To: jangle-poets@smoe.org Sender: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jangle-poets-digest Wednesday, December 20 2000 Volume 02 : Number 083 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [jangle-poets] "Merry Merry Christmas" [rhiannon ] [jangle-poets] Re: NYT Review ["David J Percy" ] [jangle-poets] pop quiz [Fantine729@aol.com] [jangle-poets] Re: jangle-poets-digest V2 #82 ["groovy fish" Subject: Re: [jangle-poets] "Merry Merry Christmas" OH NO! I forgot to give Rob White my address at home... so now I won't get my package until after christmas break is over and they start forwarding mail again!!! Phooey on me! - -rhiannon - ----------------------------------- "I sold my computer for a used acoustic guitar" - -the nields! - ----------- my homepage: http://www.unca.edu/~rcrichar/ - ----------------------------------- Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/ Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy merchandise...what more could you ask for? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:41:08 EST From: Fantine729@aol.com Subject: Re: [jangle-poets] Videos... > Does anyone have any info on the type of kit that was used > to make them - cameras and the like ? Presumably it was all fairly low / no > budget stuff (which is a compliment, rather than a critism). I'm keen to > Digital Sony DCR-TRV900 camera Sony Vaio computer with 13 gigabyte hard drive (could use more) There is I-link capability between the camera and the computer, so there is no compression/loss in transfer. Adobe Premier software That's it. The cost of all this gear is much less than the cost of making a single music video with an outside production company. Peace, Sheila So I say merry, merry Christmas; winter's here again. Time for every person to remember every friend, and so i share with you this greeting and wishing you were near: Merry, merry Christmas this year. ~ The Kennedys It's, it's.....VIDEORAMA!! Please check out Pete and Maura Kennedy's music videos!! http://www.hakmusic.com/kennedys/kennedys.html Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/ Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy merchandise...what more could you ask for? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:49:55 EST From: Fantine729@aol.com Subject: [jangle-poets] Ithaca College Quarterly article/interview Ithaca's magazine recently interviewed Maura, so I thought I'd send along the article. I've included the text below, but you can also see the article with a picture (the Evolver promo photo) and all at: http://www.ithaca.edu/icq/2000v4/misc/cnkey.htm Peace, Sheila ~SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE~ Maura Boudreau Kennedy '88 is writing a song. When she finishes talking on the phone, she's going upstairs to lay down her vocal tracks. Her husband, guitarist Pete Kennedy, is already working up in the studio. They're taking a few days at home in Reston, Virginia, a break from a solid few months on the road. It's another normal day in the life of a pop chanteuse, a life that Kennedy can hardly believe is hers. "I'm living out my dream," she says. "I've been making my living as a musician since 1991. Pete and I are really, really lucky to be doing music together." Maura and Pete and their band, the Kennedys, recently released their fourth album, Evolver, on Zoe Records. Their previous three, on Rounder and Green Linnet, were folky; on Evolver, the duo rev up their guitars. Not bad for a girl who used to sleep through sight-singing class. Kennedy studied voice at Ithaca College with Roland Bentley, whose warm-up exercises she and Pete still use every day. After graduation, she spent three years back home in Syracuse, working as a computer trainer by day and singing in a country band, the Delta Rays, by night. But in 1991 she made a decision. "The more demanding my day job got, the less energy I had to play the weekend shows," she says. "So I finally decided that it didn't matter how I did it, but I had to quit my day job and do music full time." She turned down a big raise, packed her things, and headed for Austin, Texas, which she had heard was a happening music town. Soon she was playing nine gigs a week, trying to make ends meet. It was then that she met Pete. "In 1993, when we met, he had been traveling on the road for three years, playing for Mary Chapin Carpenter and Nanci Griffith," she explains. "He was in Austin playing a solo gig, and then he went back on the road. We stayed in touch, and after about 10 days we decided to go on a date." But Maura was in Austin and Pete was 1,000 miles away in Telluride. So they split the difference, each driving 500 miles to meet in Lubbock, Texas - at Buddy Holly's grave. Luckily for their blooming romance, a spot for a backup singer opened up on Nanci Griffith's tour, and Maura joined the band. She and Pete immediately began to write songs together, and soon they were the opening act. They've been playing together ever since. Their folk-funk fusion has garnered them a loyal following in the metro D.C. area, and they've toured almost every state in the union. Critics enjoy Pete's guitar pyrotechnics and Maura's inventive melodies. (She still uses skills she learned in Steve Brown's jazz improv class.) "One time a little girl came up to me at a show," recalls Kennedy, "and said, 'Are you famous?' My response was, 'Apparently not.' " She laughs. "A lot of people think that you have to be a household name to be making a living as a musician, and it's not true. We're really happy to be doing what we're doing. That's the key to life." - - Bridget Meeds '91 Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/ Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy merchandise...what more could you ask for? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:21:38 -0800 (PST) From: Katie Stohlmann Subject: Re: [jangle-poets] Videos... So then I guess you just throw the song into the video editing program... very cool. i'm sort of learning about this stuff in school and i heard that advanced audio for video (which i'm taking next semester with the added knowledge that i'm the only person form my class that actually knows protools) is going to be making MUSIC VIDEOS!! maybe we can check out the kennedys' for inspiration. hey, i made everyone use my nields cd when we practiced "how to load audio into the computer" (it's NOT THAT HARD!!) it could happen. see ya, katie (who got the bestest ever nields/dar/lucy/cliffie (no kennedys because we do'nt know them) related birthday present) oh and I'm Finally 21 so COME PLAY BARS in N. CA Pete and Maura because I can FINALLY be in the audience!!! :-) http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~stohlman/nields.htm Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/ Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy merchandise...what more could you ask for? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:42:31 +1100 From: "David J Percy" Subject: [jangle-poets] Re: NYT Review I'd have *loved* to hear Siberry have at crack at Messiah. "Ethereal" is the word that springs to mind... DjP Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/ Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy merchandise...what more could you ask for? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 20:42:06 EST From: Fantine729@aol.com Subject: [jangle-poets] pop quiz This is the most hysterical thing I have ever seen: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/archives/indc/popquiz/1998/pop0213.html Peace, Sheila So I say merry, merry Christmas; winter's here again. Time for every person to remember every friend, and so i share with you this greeting and wishing you were near: Merry, merry Christmas this year. ~ The Kennedys They're breeding!! Please check out Pete and Maura Kennedy's music videos!! http://www.hakmusic.com/kennedys/kennedys.html Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/ Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy merchandise...what more could you ask for? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 23:19:29 -0500 From: "groovy fish" Subject: [jangle-poets] Re: jangle-poets-digest V2 #82 i got fresh new clean water today....so i could see really well that survey...and i just have to say that the kennedys are very very silly, and i think we need more silliness in the world....more people like the kennedys. im very distressed, though, that there are new videos up to see, because we have a very very slow connection here at home, and it takes a very long time to download them....so it probably wont happen for awhile...one day when we're really bored...oh well..i will get my chance soon!!!! rock on kennedys! ~~ groovy the fish ~~ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/ Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy merchandise...what more could you ask for? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 23:59:19 EST From: Fantine729@aol.com Subject: [jangle-poets] seminars and information gathering Part One of Post: Ever wanted to try your hand as a lyricist, put pen to paper and end up with a song? Are you an intermediate guitarist who perhaps wants to stretch yourself a bit into the next level? Well, look no further! Pete and Maura have just announced dates for two seminars: Songwriting: February 24 - 25th. Intermediate Guitar: March 31 - April 1. Space is extremely limited...they have room for no more than 12 students per weekend. To read more info about these seminars or to reserve your spot, visit their web page at http://www.KennedysMusic.com. Pete and Maura will be scheduling a beginning guitar seminar and possibly a booking/management seminar for later in the spring. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. Part Two of Post: There is now an on-line press page for Kennedys articles, archived radio appearances, and album reviews. If you know of any such animals out there in cyberspace, please feel free to e-mail me the links and I'll be happy to add them!! If you'd like to take a look: http://members.aol.com/fantine729/pmpress.html Peace, Sheila So I say merry, merry Christmas; winter's here again. Time for every person to remember every friend, and so I share with you this greeting and wishing you were near: Merry, merry Christmas this year. ~ The Kennedys Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/ Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy merchandise...what more could you ask for? ------------------------------ End of jangle-poets-digest V2 #83 *********************************