From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V4 #63 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, May 7 2002 Volume 04 : Number 063 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [JP] KENNEDYS NEWSLETTER - PA, VA, MD, NY, MA, NJ [Kennedylst@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 03:55:54 EDT From: Kennedylst@aol.com Subject: [JP] KENNEDYS NEWSLETTER - PA, VA, MD, NY, MA, NJ Welcome to The Kennedys' E-Newsletter for May 2002! IN THIS ISSUE: The Countdown begins Start your clocks -- just a month away from The Kennedys' simultaneous CD and book release (book comes out June 3, CD comes out June 4). We'll be taking pre-orders for this new CD on our website and at shows, so you can be guaranteed to receive your copy by the release date. Celebrations are planned! Stay tuned... Web page revamped! Be sure to visit the newly revamped Kennedys' web page: www.kennedysmusic.com Touring Schedule Thursday, May 2 - Godfrey Daniels, 7 East 4th Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015. We're About 9 opens the show! 8pm show. $14.50. All ages, smoke-free. http://www.godfreydaniels.org/ 610-867-2390. Friday, May 3 - Birchmere w/The Nields, 3701 Mount Vernon Ave, Alexandria, VA 22305. $15.00. Kennedys play at 7:30, Nields play at 9:00. www.birchmere.com. 703-549-7500. Sunday, May 5 - The 1st annual Susquehanna Music and Arts Festival is planned at Ramblewood, 2564 Silver Road, Darlington, MD 21034 for the first weekend in May (3-5). People are making reservations pretty quickly and it should be a great time. Cabins, camping, or daily tickets are available. We will have great talent and dozens of nationally touring performers. A children's stage is planned with three other stages operating in a rustic setting very near Havre de Grace. Volunteers are needed. Check out the website at: http://www.smaf.info 1-800-466-CAMP Friday, May 10 - Caffe Lena, 47 Philla Street, Saratoga Springs, NY.Caffh Lena is America's oldest, continuously operating, folk music venue/coffeehouse. 8pm showtime. All ages, smoke-free. 518-583-0022. http://www.caffelena.com/ Saturday, May 11 - Mozaic Room, located at the Avon Baptist Church, 119 N Main St, Avon, MA. Chris and Meredith Thompson open the show with their haunting harmonies. 8pm show, all ages, smoke-free. 508-39-1109. www.mozaicroom.org Thursday, May 16 - Ram's Head Tavern with Cecelia, 33 West Street, Annapolis, MD 21401. $12.50 8:30pm show. 410-268-4545. www.ramsheadtavern.com Friday, May 17 - The Beat Goes On Volume 14: The Jagger/Richards songbook. Located at the Bottom Line, 15 West 4th Street, in the heart of Greenwich Village, New York, NY. Lots of artists including The Kennedys, Freedy Johnston, Willie Nile, Ricky Byrd, Don Flemming, Ed Rogers and Amanda Thorpe, and more. This show features a fantastic house band and one song from each of the featured performers. Doors open at 6pm for 7:30 show, and at 10pm for 10:30 show. E-mail Reservations are being accepted for this performance. Tell 'em The Kennedys sent you! BLTmailbox@aol.com $20. http://www.bottomlinecabaret.com/ Saturday, May 18 - Spring Gulch Folk Fest, located at the Spring Gulch Resort Campground, 475 Lynch Road, New Holland, PA 17557, near Lancaster, PA. 800-25-5744. We are already planning various collaborations, as we love to do. All ages! www.springgulch.com Friday, May 24 - Andy's, 337 1/2 High Street, Chestertown, MD 410-778-6779. www.andys-ctown.com/. Now smoke-free in the music lounge! 9pm. Saturday, May 25 - Acoustic Cafe, 2926 Fairfield Ave Bridgeport, CT 06605. Kennedys' favorites, The Martin Family open 9pm. 203-335-FOLK. www.acousticafe.com Friday, May 31 - Fridays at 5:15, a new concert series, located at Fountain Plaza, East Commerce Street, Bridgeton, CT 08302. 800-319-3379. Free and open to the public! All ages! Looking Ahead... Saturday, June 1 - The Point, 880 West Lancaster, Bryn Mawr, PA. The Kennedys Philadelphia-area CD release concert! 9pm show. All ages, smoke-free. $9.00. 610-527-0988. www.atthepoint.com. Wednesday, June 5 - The Cutting Room, 19 W. 24th St, Between Broadway and 6th, New York, NY. The Kennedys New York-area CD release concert. 7pm sharp! $10. 212-691-1900. www.thecuttingroomnyc.co m/contact.html Friday, June 14 - Cellar Stage, located at 5315 Harford Rd, Baltimore, MD 21214. 8pm show. $15. 410-521-9099. www.charm.net/~dirtylin/st johns.html As always, call ahead to make sure that the concert is on. One never knows, do one? Be sure to visit The Kennedys' website at http://www.kennedysmusic.com to see extended schedule, read tour diary, join the email discussion group, see tour photos and more! Kennedys Mercantile: Pre-order your copy of "Get It Right" - we guarantee that you'll receive your copy by the release date (June 4th). Get it right features all new songs by the Kennedys, with special guest appearances by Nanci Griffith, Pam Bricker (Thievery Corporation) and Starz Vanderlockett! This CD is an enhanced CD, and includes photos, video and more! Order your copy today for $15, and be the first one on your block to have it! POSITIVELY LIVE! (Jiffyjam Records, 2001.) Kennedys first live acoustic concert recording! Includes seven previously unreleased songs, including "Come In My Kitchen" "Orange Blossom Special," "Rappahannock," "Distant Thunder," "Highway 10," "Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring" and the classic Pete song, "Run Red Lights!" $15.00. "EVOLVER" (Rouner/Zoe Records, 2000) Kennedys return to the incandescent pop style of "Life Is Large," with catchy hooks and splashes of psychedelia. Featuring the songs "Pick You Up," "Can't Kill Hope With A Gun," and "Down, Down, Down" CD only: $15.00. "ANGEL FIRE" (Rounder/Philo, 1998). Featuring "Jesse," "Common Bond", "Angels Cry" and "The Coo Coo." CD only: $15.00. "LIFE IS LARGE" (Formerly on Green Linnet, 1996, now out-of-print) Their 1996 guest fest, featuring the likes of Steve Earle, The Dixie Hummingbirds, Nils Lofgren, John Gorka, Peter Holsapple and many others. CD $13. Not available in stores. "RIVER OF FALLEN STARS" (Formerly on Green Linnet, 1995, now out-of-print) This is Pete & Maura's first CD, written entirely while on tour with Nanci Griffith in the British Isles. NAIRD -winner. CDs are $13. Not available in stores. Pete Kennedy's Solo Titles: "SHEARWATER: THE ART OF THE UNPLUGGED GUITAR" (Pete solo instrumental). Guests include Jerry Douglas, Tony Rice and Jon Carroll. CDs only $13 "CHANNEL 3" (Pete's electric solo album) Available in CD only. $13. "Fingers On Fire" Pete Kennedy and Tom Principato. This is a newly released CD of a concert "Pete and Pato" played back in 1978, when they were both in their early teens. You gotta get it if only for the haircuts on the cover. Picture Pete Kennedy as Doug Henning, if you can. And the music? Guitar swing at its finest. $15.00. Kennedys' temporary tattoos! (see web site for design) $1.00. Special thanks to Danny O. for the awesome artwork!!! (These tattoos will last about a week and are nontoxic. 2" x 3") AND...bumper stickers that say "The Kennedys" (burgundy letters on bright yellow background) $1 Sheet Music: Life Is Large/St. Mark's Square (2 song folio) $4.00 River of Fallen Stars/Day In & Day Out (2-song folio) $4.00 Send check or money order to: The Kennedys, 1 Astor Place #3J, NY, NY 10003, or fax your credit card order to our secure fax line: 1-415-329-1828. If you'd like to print out an order form, you can print it at: www.kennedysmusic.com/orde rform.html , or order using Paypal by clicking here: www.kennedysmusic.com/order Peace & Love, Pete & Maura... 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 V4 #63 *********************************