From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V3 #89 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 Tuesday, June 5 2001 Volume 03 : Number 089 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [jangle-poets] Kennedys at Herndon Festival ["Jay Votel" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 09:48:00 -0400 From: "Jay Votel" Subject: [jangle-poets] Kennedys at Herndon Festival Hey everyone: We went to the Herndon Festival Sunday to catch the Kennedys. We wanted to get there by noon, their starting time, and as we were walking in, we heard Maura singing Dickie Chappell. I checked my watch. No -- we were still early. Then Pete announced that they had been filling in for Steve Gellman (another D.C.-based folk artist who didn't show for the first set of the morning.) Ooops. Here's the set list from noon on: 1. Life is Large 2. Run Red Lights 3. Right as Rain 4. Not Fade Away 5. Come into my Kitchen (The blues standard in which Pete jams on everything from Purple Haze to Stairway to Heaven.) 6. Jesse 7. Wall of Death 8. The Coo-coo 9. Orange Blossom Special Great show. Saw Sheila again. Happy birthday to her! - -- Jay 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: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 20:02:34 -0400 From: "Jim Coffin" Subject: [jangle-poets] Re: Wilton Folk Fest & that awakening moment (NNC) Cone Posted : >The Kennedys will B playing the Wilton Folk Fest on >Sunday 10 JUN 01 in nearby Wilton, CT. Check it out! OMG! That's my home town! (Scribbling furiously in little black book) Thanks for the heads-up there, Cone! I hope to see all you good Nookers and Janglers at this show. I almost went to this event a year or two ago (I think Susan Werner was playing) but somehow those plans came to naught. I won't miss this one. That's so cool. Charlotte Shoneman wrote: > > anyone else have that awakening moment with politics? While in the 5th grade at Miller School (in Wilton), my teacher, Miss Fry, asked us to write letters to her boyfriend. This was her first teaching job and she was really young, maybe 23 or 24. It was the Winter of 1968 and her fianci had been MIA for six weeks since the Tet offensive. She started falling apart, emotionally, before our eyes with each gray, March day that passed without news. Until that time the Vietnam War had seemed a very distant story going on in the background of my ten-year-old world. Something to be discussed objectively in Current Events class. Something entertaining to watch on the Six O'clock News in the evening - like a football game - who won the "body count" tonight? But poor Miss Fry, breaking down and sobbing as she tried to finish her lessons every day. For me it cast the events and all the political arguments of our dirty little war into a different, and disturbingly personal context. Strange, how these two threads came together. ~jim Trying to clear his inbox after a hectic week. 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: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 21:48:17 EDT From: Fantine729@aol.com Subject: [jangle-poets] Frederick, MD and Herndon, VA This past weekend was the second annual Great Birthday Road trip, which saw me in seven states for four shows in three days. I'm still trying to decide if I survived. :-) Only two of those shows were Kennedys shows -- Saturday was the Frederick Festival of the Arts in Frederick, MD: Life is Large Rappahannock Common Bond The Coo Coo River of Fallen Stars Day In and Day Out Wall of Death You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Dylan) Pearl's Eye View Mystery Orange Blossom Special One Heart, One Soul Wall of Death reprise (explained below) Sirens Here Comes the Sun (for obvious reasons) Wall of Death had to be reprised because before the last verse, there was a video camera person shooting Pete and Maura, and Pete felt that he had to make it worth her while. So, in his best rock star stance, he put a foot on the railing of the stage while holding his right fist out above his head. This reduced Maura to a fit of hysteria that entirely rendered her incapable of finishing the song, so Pete promised that they'd get back to us on that one, and they did. Frederick was cool in that the festival was held along two sides of a canal, with bridges allowing you to cross back and forth. The stage was at the entrance to the canal, and the stage straddled the entire width of the water. And though the day started out grey, the sun DID come out. The coolest part of the afternoon was meeting someone who had waited for SIX YEARS to see the Kennedys live, and she was very excited that I had on a Nields T-shirt. I also got to meet fellow Jangle Poet Robbie White, who runs the Kennedys' fan club (check the website for details on how to join -- the Christmas CD last year was worth every cent :-) Sunday saw me in Herndon, where I missed much of the first few songs because I was embroiled in negotiations with the festival crew who much preferred that I leave the cat in the car in the sun, even though she was in a carrier and I was only going to be there for an hour. "We think you should go home," they said. The talks broke down shortly thereafter and I ended up smuggling the cat in, sticking her under the stage for the rest of the set. Anyway, Jay got the set list from Pearl's Eye View on. Before that, they played: Common Bond Rappahannock Angel Fire Just Like Henry David Jesse Eight Days a Week Pick You Up There were an awful lot of adorable kids in Herndon, all dancing and acquiring temporary tattoos. Pete proclaimed that he was the Good Vibes Weather Man who would only tell us what we wanted to hear -- namely, that the sun was coming. I think he was right! Thanks to Robbie for helping me keep track of the set lists for both days, especially Sunday, when I missed so many songs trying to figure out what to do with Cosette! And, it was great to see Jay again (sorry I didn't remember your face!). Overall, a very cool weekend, though I am now exHAUSTED. Peace, Sheila 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: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 23:11:31 EDT From: Jupitr12@aol.com Subject: Re: [jangle-poets] Re: Wilton Folk Fest & that awakening moment (NNC) OMG! That's my hometown too!!! Ok, well at least now and for the past 5 years..... I'm really from Norwalk. But anyway, I hope to meet a bunch of you Janglers there at the Wilton Folk Fest. So who out there is going??? This is so exciting!!! Nothing even remotely cool happens in Wilton, so this is such a treat!!!! Yippee!!! And I'm only a 5 minute bike ride from the location too. Bonus! Well, I look forward to meeting y'all :-) - -Melissa 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: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 23:41:39 EDT From: Fantine729@aol.com Subject: [jangle-poets] Memorial Day Weekend I was asked to send in this review of the Memorial Day hike! ~ Sheila From: LivePoetry31@AOL.com (Greta Ehrig) Hello, fellow music-n-nature lovers. Here's the list of e-mails I promised to send to our Stony Man Mt. lunchtime/post-lunchtime bunch: G.D. Conehead Hellman=coneh@usa.net Libby Wiebel=ewiebel@cs.wm.edu (or is it "um"?) greg_berke@artemco.com (? not sure I'm reading your writing correctly) Joanne=jnanna@erols.com Rick, Sue, Alex & Shennandoah=RHolberger@aol.com Me, Greta E.=LivePoetry31@aol.com I really enjoyed your company last Friday and Saturday. Also appreciated your encouragement about my songwriting and my first official solo gig at the art gallary on Sunday. I ended up getting inadvertently "creative" with some of the lyrics and a few chords, but people were forgiving, and it was wick-ed fun! The audience -- which included a potter throwing clay on a kick-wheel, a weaver weaving shawls, painters, art-lovers, musicians, children, sunshine, raindrops, a video camera, a magic mirrored garden globe, and two very attentive lammas -- was warm and receptive. And because I was sharing the spot with friends, I played a relatively short set, which was just perfect, given my sleep deprivation and skill level (i.e. MAJOR gi-t-ters...). Pete and Maura, I have to say: I have renewed respect for your incredible stamina and ability to perform hour after hour, night after night! I've done a fair amount of dance, theatre, and choral performance before, but for some reason, this solo music thing is MUCH more exhausting. (Of course, I am a little older now and in less good shape...) Does it get any easier with time/experience? Enjoyed the Bob Dylan Tribute at the Birchmere, by the way. It took us awhile to get there from the airport, but we were able to catch the second half. Disappointed to miss May Fair, though. I'm very fond of that rose garden. My parents used to take my brother and I there for picnics all the time when we were little. Even today, whenever I smell roses or see lilypads floating on gray-green water or hear the word "gazebo," I'm four years old again and dropping a coin into the wishing well. Well...I *wish* I could join you all for more jamming before my roadtrip out west, but that's not looking very likely. I hope you'll keep in touch anyway and that we can play together again someday. Have a great summer, everyone. Peace, Greta Ehrig 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: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 23:49:57 EDT From: Fantine729@aol.com Subject: [jangle-poets] Happy 6/5 Birthdays Not only is it Positively Live's official release date, but it's also Cone's birthday! So, congratulations to Pete and Maura, who, in the official liner notes, thank the Jangle Poets, and happy birthday to Cone! Peace, Sheila 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, 05 Jun 2001 09:03:00 -0400 From: bern Subject: [jangle-poets] HA!-pee bURrTH-daY to Conehead Rex 6/5/2001 Speaking of Easy People, Conehead is celebrating his 21st birthday today. Many of us have benefited, directly or indirectly, from Cone's beneficence, basked in the glow he emits, and garnered wisdom from his sagacity. Here's a moment to thank him for all he is, does, will be, has done, and undoubtedly will continue to do. He has proved himself a valuable member of thess communities and has enabled countless Nookers to make shows they'd never have made alone, and his list of random kindnesses is endless and broadly based. And boy! can he play the mandolin! Hats off, Three Cheers, Hurrah! and Huzzah! for Conehead-Rex, who has probably pissed off everyone here at least once. I say he's so worth it. let's keep 'im. b-dette, who despairs of finding a good enough gift for such a decent person. :-) NetZero Platinum No Banner Ads and Unlimited Access Sign Up Today - Only $9.95 per month! http://www.netzero.net 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, 05 Jun 2001 00:43:51 -0400 From: rhiannon richard Subject: [jangle-poets] cats and cones >Sunday saw me in Herndon, where I missed much of the first few songs because >I was embroiled in negotiations with the festival crew who much preferred >that I leave the cat in the car in the sun, even though she was in a carrier >and I was only going to be there for an hour. "We think you should go home," >they said. oh no! NOBODY messes with cosette. I'll kick 'em! All of them! And anybody that's ever met me know just HOW intimidating i am! But damn it, you just don't mess with that cat. Also...sheila said it's cone's birthday. happy birthday cone! and didn't sheila have a birthday or something recently? i didn't even know about it. but happy birthday to her anyhow!!!! - -rhiannon grrrrrrrr...don't mess with cosette. 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 V3 #89 *********************************