From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V5 #62 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, September 10 2003 Volume 05 : Number 062 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [JP] More thoughts on Cadence's "Evolve" [Nieldsforever@aol.com] [JP] (no subject) [JanglePoets@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:00:52 EDT From: Nieldsforever@aol.com Subject: [JP] More thoughts on Cadence's "Evolve" There are two sides to evolution, and to evolving to a place of love. There is the outer and the inner side to everything. On one hand evolution is something that "just happens," and evolving to a place of love is very largely beyond our control as well. The path of least resistance can be to go with the flow of the way the tides of fate are sending you. Yet there is also a sense in which we get to choose the road that we travel upon, and this can be a choice for goodness, hope, and love and can make a real difference in the outcome. There's a paradoxical duality therefore between our choosing and our "letting the mystery be." And there's kind of a constant ebb and flow between these two poles as we navigate the journey to parts unknown. So evolution and evolving to a place of love can be both an art and a science. It takes practice. We have some control over our destinies, but there are mysteries too over which we have very little control, to keep us humble and to keep us from getting too overconfident and just plain pig-headed. I love the line from Led Zep's "Stairway to Heaven" --- "There are 2 paths you can go by, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on." There's a lot of craziness in this world, bad craziness I mean, over which we don't have a whole lot of control. And we can get swept along by this bad craziness and wind up bottoming out in a very sad place and a bad scene. That's *not* the kind of "going with the flow" we should be emulating or modelling for anyone else. But unfortunately that's a trap that we all too often fall into. But there is a *good* craziness too, the "good crazy" of crazy love and crazy hope and keeping faith even when it looks impossible to hold one's head above water. It's *really crazy* by the world's standards to be a hopeful person in a despairing, embittered and cynical world. We can choose this good craziness, and go with the flow of *that* once we start to get the hang of it. But it does take work. It takes commitment to the place of love that we want to be evolving more and more *to*, by steps and stages. Believe in love. Believe in yourself ITO someone who *can* love and be loved. Believe in the power of music to express this love and to bring us closer together. It's hard *and* it's simple at the same time. It's paradoxical. But it's really doable if you try. Choose the "good crazy" --- choose love, choose hope. You can choose it today - --- and tomorrow, and the day after that. "Evolve." Evolving to a place of love can make all the difference in the world. Bruce 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, 9 Sep 2003 21:06:35 EDT From: JanglePoets@aol.com Subject: [JP] (no subject) Approve Cosette Welcome to The Kennedys' E-Newsletter for September 2003! IN THIS ISSUE: 1) "Stand" CD release is just days away! 2) Kennedys September touring schedule 3) August Road Diary 4) Mercantile 5) Find radio station in your area that plays The Kennedys music 1) UPDATE ON "STAND" CD RELEASE! "Stand" will be in CD stores on September 23rd. If you happen to come to any of this month's Kennedys shows, chances are very good that we'll have copies to sell in advance of the street date! You can also order it today on our web site!! For updated information on "Stand", please visit www.KennedysMusic.com This September is special for us for several reasons. Of course, you know about the new CD. We're also playing a couple of shows with our friend Tracy Grammer! (see schedule for details). We return to ZooFolk with Patty Larkin, and we play some new places and some old standbys. Our big CD release concert this month is at Jammin' Java in Vienna, VA, just 15 minutes from Washington, DC. We hope to see you somewhere in September. Read on for September concert dates. We also hope you enjoy our new road diary entries in these newsletters - -- see below. 2) KENNEDYS SEPTEMBER 2003 TOURING SCHEDULE: Wednesday, September 10 - Iron Horse Music Hall with Tracy Grammer, Northampton, MA. Located at 20 Center Street, showtime at 7:00pm. $12.50 advance/$15 at the door. 413-584-0610. http://www.iheg.com/iron_horse_main.asp Saturday, September 13 - Beardsley Zoological Gardens, with Patty Larkin, Bridgeport, CT. Located at 1875 Noble Ave, 06610. Held outdoors in the Zoo's Peacock Pavilion and Picnic Grove (or indoors if inclement weather in the Carousel Museum Building). Gates open at 6 p.m. for dinner, which people may bring to the Zoo or purchase from the Zoo's Peacock Cafi. (No alcohol is allowed.) Showtime is 6:45pm. Ticket price is $17.50 ($12 seniors and children 3-11) at the gate. Proceeds benefit the Zoo's education and conservation programs. 203-394-6565. http://www.beardsleyzoo.org/ Sunday, September 14 - Muse at the Grey Goose, Londonderry, New Hampshire. Located at Gray Goose Village Shoppes at Two Young Road. Alcohol and smoke-free. Light refreshments including desserts. All ages. Advance reservations strongly recommended. http://www.musegraygoose.com/ 603-437-6085 Showtime 7:30pm. $18.00 Saturday, September 20 -Music at the Mission, Milford, NJ. Located at 253 Marshall Hill Road, West Milford, NJ 07480. Showtime 8:00pm. $20 ticket / members $18. All ages, smoke-free. (973)728-4201 Email: info@MusicAtTheMission.org http://www.musicatthemission.org/ Sunday, September 21 - Joe Davies Folk Festival, Middleboro, MA. Located at the Soule Homestead Education Center, 46 Soule Street, Middleboro, MA. Festival hours - 11AM - 5PM. Kennedys play at 3:30pm. If you have any questions or comments concerning the Joe Davies Folk Festival, please email: music@soulehomestead.org http://www.soulehomestead.org/joe.htm Tuesday, September 23 - Release of The Kennedys' "Stand" CD (KOCH). Order on-line at www.KennedysMusic.com, or visit a CD store near you! Happy Autumnal Equinox!! Something good's gonna happen! Friday, September 26 - Jammin' Java, Vienna, VA (DC-area release party for "Stand"!) Jammin' Java is a premier music venue presenting the finest local, regional and nationally touring acts seven nights a week in an intimate, enjoyable setting. Audiences and performers alike enjoy the first-class sound system, lighting, and personal attention we provide. Jammin' Java is located in Vienna, VA about 15 miles west of Washington, DC. All concerts are general admission. Jammin' Java is nonsmoking and all-ages at all times. 8:00pm showtime. Tickets can be pre-purchased by calling 703.255.1566 ext. 8 or by stopping by. Reservations are recommended for this show!! Tickets $10.00. http://www.jamminjava.com/ Saturday, September 27 - Andy's, Chestertown, MD. Located at 337 1/2 High Street, Chestertown, MD. 21 and over only, please, by town ordinance. Concerts take place in the smoke-free lounge. Sit by the fireplace or in a comfy overstuffed chair, and take in the show in this charming laid-back Eastern Shore college town! 9pm show. (410) 778-6779. http://www.andys-ctown.com/ For all kinds of Kennedys info including future tour dates, road diary, tour photos, and more, check out our official web site at: www.KennedysMusic.com. 3) AUGUST ROAD DIARY The "dog days" when Sirius, the dog star, dominates the night sky, were true to form this year. Hot, muggy, and filled with a sense that the season had gone on long enough. When the blackout hit, we were sitting in a little teahouse on St. Mark's Place. On the boombox, the Beatles were just about to launch into the second bridge of "Nowhere Man" when the lights went out and the air-conditioner let out a long, weary sigh. Outside, people gathered on streetcorners, around battery powered radios. "It's all the way from here to Ottawa." "It's gonna be a while. Days, maybe." We headed down to the grocery for water and batteries. Waiting in a line that snaked through the darkened aisles, the residents of the East Village drew together, and, in the midst of the emergency, they continued their ongoing political discourse. "This is all Edison's fault" said a voice in the dark. "I thought Edison was a genius," said a voice from the produce aisle. "Edison was a fraud!" the cereal aisle angrily responded. "Tesla invented a better system before Edison, but he got shut out!" Political and social passion, both local and global, are part of the fiber of this little town. In the darkened grocery, we thought about the political discussions that must have gone on in the young, wild America, just after the Constitution was ratified, when there were no phones, no TV, no railroads, no electricity, and people sat in the dark and talked by candlelight about their passion for democracy, and how they had risked everything for that passion, and about their dreams for the generations that would come after them. If we, today, lost all of this stuff; the TV, the cellphones, the trains and boats and planes, would we have the passion in our hearts to build a new nation, dedicated to an ideal that our grandchildren would live in freedom? A heavy responsibility, preserving freedom; it takes a lot of real passion, might even be risky, as the founding fathers were well aware. These things were in our thoughts, because we had just come from a gig at a municipal park in Maryland. An old friend of ours had booked the music there for years, and he sometimes got up and sang a little Woody Guthrie, and maybe read a little Walt Whitman. Early in the summer, he was doing just that when he exercised his right to crack a few jokes about political leaders (remember when Clinton was in office, and that was a national pastime?), and, after reading a few verses from "Leaves of Grass," he wound up the show with a rendition of "This Land is Your Land." He was summarily fired. Max's dismissal may be the first "firing for singing "This Land is Your Land" " since the McCarthy era, and it's scary. Our gig was coming up at this venue, and we decided to honor Max and his forbears who sat by candlelight talking about this new possibility, the democratic experiment. We couldn't let them down, so we made plenty of jokes about political leaders, paid lavish tribute to Max, recited lots of anecdotes about the first amendment (did you know that Ben Franklin, no sissy, cried as he signed the constitution, seeing the culmination of his passion?), and of course we closed the show with a rousing rendition of "This Land is Your Land." Maybe we're fired from there. Don't know. But we're Americans, and we celebrated being Americans at that show. Two weeks later, standing in line in the dark grocery store, we felt kinship with the voices, sounding all around us in English, Russian, Japanese, Arabic, and languages we didn't recognize. The power was out for all of us, but we all got together in Tompkins Square and jammed the night away (our jam ended at 2 am, when a tired upstairs neighbor emptied his garbage can down onto our little drum circle). There was no TV, no lights, no Clear Channel radio, but there was freedom in the air. This was America, and we loved it. Viva NYC. Peace, and may your drum circles end harmoniously, Pete and Maura 4) KENNEDYS MERCANTILE: "STAND" IS HERE!! You can find the new CD, "Stand" in fine stores like Borders Books & Music, Barnes & Nobel, Tower, Newbury Comics and lots of independent stores starting on September 23rd. If you want to get a jump on your neighbors, go to our web site, and we'll send it out this week! "Stand" features all new songs by The Kennedys, as well as cover versions of Dave Carter's "When I Go," and Nerissa Nields' "Easy People." Guests include Joziah and Sharkey of Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams! $15.00 "GET IT RIGHT" Order your copy of Get It Right! Get It Right features "Didn't It Rain," "Pearl's Eye View," "Get It Right," "Angel and You" and more. Special guest appearances include Nanci Griffith, Pam Bricker (Thievery Corporation) and Starz Vanderlockett! This CD is an enhanced CD, and includes photos, video and more! $15.00. Make Your Own Music Videos with Adobe Premiere (Hungry Minds, 2002) The "for dummies" people asked Pete and Maura to share the secrets of making low-budget, do-it-yourself music videos, and here it is! The book is a complete music video-making kit, which includes a CD-ROM filled with all the software, clips and finished video examples you need to make your own music videos. The book also includes Kennedys road diaries, and some critical history of music video. $30.00. "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 La 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: $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 - $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. And the music? Guitar swing at its finest. $15.00 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, PO Box 533, NY, NY 10276-0533, 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/orderform.html If you order using Paypal by clicking here: www.kennedysmusic.com/order4.html 5) GROOVY RADIO STATIONS IN YOUR AREA... that play The Kennedys (and other cool music). Now that radio stations have the new CD, call and request to hear a track! For a list of AM, FM, Satellite, and Internet radio station that we know play The Kennedys music, log onto: www.kennedysmusic.com/RadioStationsList.html. Thanks to everyone who has informed us of additional radio stations in their area that have aired our songs. We will continue to update this radio list as we hear of more stations that play our tunes. Support your local community radio! 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 V5 #62 *********************************