From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V8 #57 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, October 4 2006 Volume 08 : Number 057 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [JP] Kennedys Monthly Newsletter - "Songs Of The Open Road" released today [Kennedylst@aol.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 18:48:54 EDT From: Kennedylst@aol.com Subject: [JP] Kennedys Monthly Newsletter - "Songs Of The Open Road" released today Welcome to The Kennedys' E-Newsletter for October 2006! In This Issue: 1) Kennedys announce guitar workshop: The First Annual Holiday Feast of Riffs and Hot Licks, December 17, Northampton, MA 2) Kennedys' October tour dates 3) Kennedys' endless tour continues 4) Kennedys' CD, "Songs of the Open Road" in stores now! 5) Kennedys weekly radio show on SIRIUS Satellite radio 6) Kennedys Myspace page includes exclusive video 7) Mercantile, including new CD: Songs of the Open Road Be sure to check our web site www.KennedysMusic.com for future dates and up-to-the minute news! ******************************************* 1) The Kennedys Present... A very special guitar workshop: The First Annual Holiday Feast of Riffs and Hot Licks. This cornucopia of valuable techniques will sample a variety of topics that will be explored in depth in our upcoming 2007 series of guitar workshops. A bountiful buffet of riffs, this workshop will demystify the upper regions of the neck and then plunge into a generous sackful of scales, modes, chord progressions, harmonics and stylized licks that will have you slumped over your guitar right into the new year! While the rest of your family and friends celebrate the holidays, you'll be practicing the mixolydian mode, and loving every minute! This workshop would make a perfect holiday gift for the intermediate to advanced picker in your household; a spouse, a kid, or an in-law you just want to get out of the house for a while! This day-long seminar will include two intensive 3-hour sessions, with a break to explore the cafes and shoppes of beautiful downtown Northampton, MA. Tuition is $120 for the full day. Enrollment is limited. For more info, go to: http://www.kennedysmusic.com/GuitarSeminar2006.html ******************************************* 2) Kennedys' October CD release tour schedule! 10/5 - Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, NYC, NY with Jess Klein. This is a double CD release show! The Kennedys "Songs of the Open Road", and Jess Klein's "City Garden" are both new releases! 7:00pm showtime. $15.00. (212) 539-8770. www.JoesPub.com 10/6-8 - Folk Project Fall Festival, located at a rural campsite in Stillwater, NJ (northern NJ). Attendance by pre-registration only! Contact: Karyn Grunwald; Phone: (609)426-9064,; Email: FestReg@FolkProject.org. http://www.folkproject.org/Fall06.html 10/14/06 - Vintage Vinyl in-store, 51 Lafayette Road, Fords, NJ. One of the last of the cool record stores. They still believe in rock and roll at Vintage Vinyl. Come for the concert, stay to run your fingers through their awesome selection of vinyl records and CDs! 2:00pm. Free www.vvinyl.com (732)225-7717 10/15 - Colby Court Concerts, 60 Colby Court, Belvedere, NJ. 3:00pm. This is an intimate house concert. Get tickets early to insure a seat! $20.00. for tickets and other information, contact 973-916-1688. colbyconcerts@comcast.net 10/20 - Uptown Coffeehouse/Cellar Stage, basement at Faith Community UMC, 5315 Harford Rd at Gibbons Avenue, Baltimore, MD. 8:00pm. $16.00. www.uptownconcerts.com afternoon of the show (443)540-0226, CD Release Concert! 10/21 - Seabury Center, 45 Church Lane, Westport, CT opening for Janis Ian. We love Janis! Great guitar player, songwriter, singer, icon! 8:00pm. $40.00. www.westportartscenter.org 10/27 - House Concert, Gahanna (a Columbus suburb), Ohio. This will be our 3rd house concert for the Hartges, and we always have a great time. VERY limited seating. Email for exact location, information: frankhartge@wideopenwest.com 10/28 - The Winchester Tavern and Music Hall, 12112 Madison Avenue, Lakewood (Cleveland), OH. Our first time at this cool (relatively) new place. Very comfortable, with seating for all. Check out their website to see details of the venue. Non-smoking! 8:00 showtime. $10. http://www.thewinchester.net/welcome.html Remember to always call venues ahead of time to confirm showtimes and locations. ******************************************* 3) Kennedys endless tour continues: ***Coming in November 2006*** 11/1/06 - Traverse Brewing Company, Elk Rapids, MI 11/3 - Inside Out Art Gallery, Traverse City, MI 11/4 - Flint Folk Music Society, Flint, MI 11/5 - Carrick House Concert, Clarkston, MI 11/7 - TBA House Concert, Chicago, IL 11/9 - Joey G's, Madison, IN 11/10 - Cousin Andy's, Carbondale, IL 11/11 - Lucas School House, St Louis, MO 11/16 - WAMC sponsored show at the Linda Norris Auditorium, Albany, NY co-bill w/Sons of the Never Wrong 11/17 - Woodstock Galleries, Woodstock, CT 11/18 - Turning Point, Piermont, NY ***Coming in December 2006*** 12/2 - (tentative) Holiday show at Bodles Opera House, Chester, NY w/The Kennedys and Sloan Wainwright. 12/3 - Direct from the stage of World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, a live radio concert on Gene Shay's Folk Show on WXPN. "Stay tuned for more details" 12/8 (tentative) Holiday show (The Kennedys/Sloan Wainwright), cape cod, MA 12/9 - Holiday show (Kennedys, Sloan Wainwright, Gandalf Murphy & Slambovian Circus of Dreams), Circle of Friends Coffeehouse, Franklin, MA 12/10 - Holiday show at Middle Earth Music Hall, Bradford, VT (Kennedys, Sloan, Gandalf) 12/14 - Holiday show, Blackrock, MD. (Kennedys, Sloan, Gandalf) 12/16 - Holiday show at the Harvey School, Katonah, NY (Kennedys, Sloan, Gandalf) 12/31 - Annual New Year's Eve Celebration at the Starland Cafe, Washington, DC! ***Coming in January 2007*** 1/5 - Outpost in the Burbs, Montclair, NJ 1/6 - Sounding Board, West Hartford, CT 1/12 - Pioneer Arts Center of Easthampton (P.A.C.E.) - Easthampton, MA 1/13 - Joyful Noise, Lexington, MA with Nerissa and Katryna Neilds 1/18 - Evening Muse, Charlotte, NC 1/19 - Fiddle & Bow, Winston-Salem, NC 1/20 - Unity Center for Peace, Chapel Hill, NC Look for more Holiday shows in December featuring: The Kennedys, Sloan Wainwright and Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams!! For info on future tour dates, and all kinds of Kennedys' info including road diary, tour photos, and more, check out our official web site at www.kennedysmusic.com. Last minute changes in the schedule can occur. Please call venues to confirm before hiring baby sitters and making the trip! ******************************************* 4) Get your copy of our next CD, "Songs of the Open Road" NOW! Our new CD, "Songs of the Open Road," is officially released! Get yours now by logging onto our web site: www.KennedysMusic.com. Pay with Paypal, and we'll pop your copy in the mail! Or send a check...the web site tells you how. Or better yet, come to a gig! The disc is a collection of our favorite songs by other writers, and songs that we always listen to when we travel the highways and byways of America. It's our favorite road music, and so we recorded our own versions! "Songs of the Open Road" will be our second release on the very groovy Appleseed Recordings label. Songwriters represented on this disc include Victoria Williams, Jimmy Webb, Gene Clark, Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman, Dave Carter, Nick Lowe, Bob Dylan, John Stewart, Bob Neuwirth, Mahalia Jackson and Nanci Griffith. We recorded many more songs than we can fit on this disc, so we imagine there will someday be a volume two! ******************************************* 5) Kennedys weekly radio show on SIRIUS Satellite radio Note: upcoming guests in October include: Catie Curtis, and Jim Lauderdale! Our weekly show airs on SIRIUS Satellite radio channel 24: SIRIUS Disorder, every Saturday from 7 AM - 10 AM eastern time, and every Sunday from 11 AM - 2 PM, hosted by us, Pete & Maura Kennedy! These are two DIFFERENT shows each weekend, not a rebroadcast! Past guests have included: Chris Smither, David Jacobs-Strain, Ray Lamontagne, Susan Werner, The Roches, Janis Ian, Tom Russell, Mark Erelli, Catie Curtis, Jim Lauderdale, Susan Cowsill, Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, Tracy Grammer and Jim Henry, Kris Delmhorst, Salif Keita, Eric Andersen, Robert Kirby, and others. Anyone with requests or comments on our show should email us at: thekennedys@sirius-radio.com. We create a virtual cafe on the Dharma Cafe, and include not only great music, but poetry, commentary, and words of wisdom from the great writers and thinkers who have inspired us! We run a comprehensive list of live concerts across America. If you're interested in subscribing to SIRIUS Satellite radio, with it's more than 100 channels of commercial free music and news, visit www.sirius.com to try it for three days free on your computer. Once you subscribe, you must purchase the hardware, which can be installed in car and/or home (you will also be able to listen online). Sirius also offers a satellite boom box. Other DJs on SIRIUS that we like are Meg Griffin, Vin Scelsa, David Johansen, Dave Marsh, Andrew Loog Oldham, Michael Tearson, Cousin Brucie, Marky Ramone and others. ******************************************* 6) Kennedys new video exclusively on myspace. Check out our groovy Myspace page! Just to entice you, we've posted a new video on our myspace site which we shot on location in Moundridge KS on a recent tour. To view the video, "Listen", visit our page at http://www.myspace.com/thekennedysmusic ******************************************* 7) Kennedys Mercantile "SONGS OF THE OPEN ROAD" (October 3, 2006) See full description, item #4, above. Songs include: This Moment, Eight Miles High, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, Pretty Girl Why, Gypsy Rose, Raging Eyes, Gypsy Rider, Galveston, Jasmine, Eye on the Road, Happytown (All Right With Me), Sin City, I'm On My Way, Late Night Grande Hotel. CD: $15.00 "HALF A MILLION MILES" (August 23, 2005) Songs include: Half a Million Miles, Midnight Ghost, Namaste, Live, Listen, Nuah, 9th Street Billy, Everything's On Fire, Time Ain't Long, Here and Now, plus cover versions of Richard Thompson's How Will I Ever Be Simple Again, and Bob Dylan's Chimes of Freedom. CD: $15.00 "STAND" (2003) "Stand" features original 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 "RIVER OF FALLEN STARS" reissue, with bonus tracks (Varese Sarabande). The new reissue of our first CD contains six bonus tracks, including "Belfast", "Sendera Blessing" and "Fog" (all previously unreleased), and instrumental versions of "River of Fallen Stars," "Run the Red Horses," and "Spirit Compass". $15.00 "LIFE IS LARGE" reissue, with bonus tracks (Varese Sarabande) The reissue of our second CD, originally released in 1996, contains six bonus tracks, including "She Just Don't Care" and "And Your Bird Can Sing" (a Lennon/McCartney song), both non-album tracks, as well as acoustic remixes of "Life Is Large", "One Heart, One Soul", "St. Mark's Square," and "Sirens." $15.00. "GET IT RIGHT" (Jiffyjam Records 2002) 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! SALE: $10.00. "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 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. 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 - $15 "CHANNEL 3" (Pete's electric solo album) Available in CD only. $10. "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 Holiday CD available! "On a Night Before Christmas" - Sloan Wainwright and Friends (Kennedys are among the friends!) This Holiday Celebration CD features guest performances by The Kennedys, Cadence Carroll, Penny Nichols and Gandalf Murphy and The Slambovian Circus of Dreams. Kennedys contributions are their acoustic version of "How Beautiful Are the Feet" from Handel's Messiah, "We Three Guitarists", featuring Pete on electric sitar, and background singing and playing scattered here and there. "On a Night Before Christmas" was recorded Live at Northern Westchester Center for the Arts in Mt. Kisco, NY on December 18th, 2004. See our December schedule, above for more of these holiday shows! CD - $15.00 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 1264, Northampton, MA 01061-1264, or fax your orders 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 Or order using Paypal by logging onto: http://www.kennedysmusic.com/order2005.html Please, buckle up, and drive safely and responsibly! Peace and 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 V8 #57 *********************************