From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V9 #41 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 Sunday, April 22 2007 Volume 09 : Number 041 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [JP] Loreena McKennitt 4/21/07 Boston [Nieldsforever@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 00:09:21 EDT From: Nieldsforever@aol.com Subject: [JP] Loreena McKennitt 4/21/07 Boston I've described the Strangelings as "Loreena McKennitt meets the Roches" -- and the Loreena McKennitt song "The Mystic's Dream" even sounds vaguely like the song "Nuah" from the Strangelings' Nuah Suite. Tonight at the Wang Theater in Boston, it was Loreena McKennitt with her band, defying any kind of comparison at all. Loreena McKennitt is a Canadian singer-songwriter-guru-enchantress who has drunk deeply from the well of the world-music-tinged folk rock vibe of Peter Gabriel, even recording some of her albums at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in England. With her striking blonde tresses, Old World witchcraft look, penchant for learned-sounding erudition, and haunting Celtic otherworldly sound, she's carved out quite a career for herself, not only as musician, but as producer of her own albums and founder of her own record company as well, Quinlan Road. At the Wang Theater, Loreena McKennitt sang lead vocals while alternating between accompanying herself on grand piano, concert harp, accordian, and electronic keyboard -- with her band -- Tal Bergman on drums, Ben Grossman on percussion, Tim Landers on bass, Sokratis Sinopoulos on lyra and lute, and longtime McKennitt collaborators Rick Lazar on percussion, Donald Quan on viola, keyboards, and percussion, Caroline Lavelle on cello, Brian Hughes on guitars, oud, and bouzouki, and the incomparable Hugh Marsh on violin. She Moved Through the Fair The Gates of Istanbul The Mummer's Dance Bonny Portmore Marco Polo The Highwayman Dante's Prayer The Bonny Swans Caravanserai Raglan Road The Mystic's Dream Santiago The Lady of Shalott Beneath a Phrygian Sky The Old Ways Never-Ending Road Huron Beltane Fire Dance Penelope's Song The Wang Theater was a humongous venue on a huge North American tour full of humongous theater dates. I was quite frankly in the nosebleed section of the balcony. A far cry from the last time I saw Loreena McKennitt -- 1994 at Greene Hall in Northampton -- 5th row front, with a young Dar Williams as my usher! Loreena McKennitt's come a long way since then, 13 years ago -- as has Dar Williams, who now plays theater shows, instead of ushering for them! 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 V9 #41 *********************************