From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V9 #28 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 Thursday, March 22 2007 Volume 09 : Number 028 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [JP] Falcon Ridge and no "official" Kennedys? ["Rebecca Derry" Subject: Re: [JP] Falcon Ridge and no "official" Kennedys? Bruce wrote: > > Frankly, I don't understand how the booking for FR works, it's a mystery > > to me. Perhaps it's tied to CD sales figures in the merch tent, I don't > > know. > If being part of the team that books our little podunk Ohio folk festival is any indication, I'd say that it's a probably a complicated process involving balancing big names that will ensure a draw and cheaper but less well-known performers, the bookers' personal musical aesthetic, appealing to a diversity of tastes, and more politics that anyone likes to admit. So perhaps getting in touch with Anne will help tip one of those in the direction of TK. That said: Oberlin Folk Fest. May 5 (and 4). Tracy Grammer, Kris Delmhorst, Guy Mendilow Band, Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, and lots of local musicians. Not bad for a little podunk Ohio folk festival. fwiw, ~'becca 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 V9 #28 *********************************