From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V8 #21 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 Monday, April 17 2006 Volume 08 : Number 021 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [JP] 4/14/06 Kennedys @ Tremedal Coffeehouse, Watertown MA [Nieldsforever] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 22:28:48 EDT From: Nieldsforever@aol.com Subject: [JP] 4/14/06 Kennedys @ Tremedal Coffeehouse, Watertown MA Tremedal Coffeehouse in Watertown -- yet another great MA coffeehouse I'd never even been to before! Folk venues in NE, they just never end. It's an embarrassment of riches up here in Pilgrim Country, folk-music-wise, seriously. I have a very good feeling about TK moving up this way soon, and I honestly invite anyone who's able to do so to do the same. Because the folk riches are about to be getting even richer! :-) I spent the most time talking to P&M after a show last night since Hingham in 2002, the first time I saw TK after Dave Carter died. Suffice it to say that this MA dweller is very, very excited about the prospect of hopefully seeing TK more often. To put it in some perspective. When TK lived in VA, I always counted myself lucky to even see them at all. They didn't come up to New England all that often. I mostly saw TK at FRFF every year, and when they toured with TN - -- Karma Club in Boston, Outpost in the Burbs in Montclair NJ, Newmarket Cafe in Philly, the Bottom Line in NYC, Acoustic HaHaHa in E Greenwich RI, and the rare Nields-Kennedys twin bill at the Iron Horse. When TK moved to NYC, I turned it up a notch and did my best to go to every New England Kennedys appearance I could, to make up for lost time, in a long string of Kennedys appearances which included the entire Nields-Kennedys-Susan Werner FRFF Summer in December tour -- NYC, the Birchmere, Pennington NJ, Ellsworth ME, Lexington MA, and both shows at Club Helsinki. That tour was the bomb. Then when I moved 2 hours (by car) east from CT to Boston a couple years ago, that mostly cut off my west flank (PA, NJ) and I had to kiss most NYC shows "sayonara." A Birchmere weekend now became a rare road trip for me. At least TN still played MA a lot! But now TK are moving much, much closer my way. To Northampton, in fact! The Hub of the Nields Galaxy! Northampton may soon be justly redubbed, "the Hub of the Nields-Kennedys Universe." :-) This is all the perspective I need to relate for the purposes of this review. Here's what TK played Saturday night on Easter Eve, 4 years and a day after the Sounding Board show where they played Kate Wolf's "Across the Great Divide" -- Life is Large Didn't It Rain Half a Million Miles Namaste 9th Street Billy Nuah Shearwater Chimes of Freedom Midnight Ghost Stand Dharma Cafe Across the Great Divide ( !! ) Listen Live Here & Now Sirens (incl. Bouree, Jesu Joy, 8 Miles High, and Gershwin uke solo) Not Fade Away (Pete used the uke as a slide! :-) 8 Days a Week (encore) P&M have recently recorded in Dave Chalfant's studio for a track on Nerissa & Katryna's upcoming "new traditionalist" album Sister Holler, apparently on a song N&K haven't played live in concert yet. How exciting! TK were really psyched about the next Nields album too. :-) Unfortunately April's report from the Cape that TK will not be at this year's FRFF was confirmed. This made me sad. TK embody the FRFF folk music spirit as well as anyone I know, and I will miss them if they're not there! Imagine having a Dharma Cafe at the GFP with no Kennedys! :-( On a much happier note, P&M were very excited about their impending move to Northampton, which I think bodes well for the New England folk scene as a whole, besides making this particular MA pilgrim "happy as a clam"! :-) 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? ------------------------------ End of jangle-poets-digest V8 #21 *********************************