From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V9 #60 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 Friday, June 1 2007 Volume 09 : Number 060 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [JP] The Kennedys' E-Newsletter Message ["The Kennedys' E-Newsletter" Subject: [JP] The Kennedys' E-Newsletter Message (Mailing List Information, including unsubscription instructions, is located at the end of this message.) __ The Kennedys E-Newsletter for June 2007 Contents: 1) Tour Diary: Memorial Day 2) New Ukulele CD released! 3) Tour Calendar for June 2007 4) Extended calendar through September 2007 5) Kennedys announce spring 2008 cruise! 6) Strangelings tour dates, including the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival 7) Upcoming Workshops: Right Hand Guitar Gym, Sun., July 1, Northampton MA; Vocal Tune-up, Sun. July 15, Northampton MA 8)"The Dharma Cafe", SIRIUS Satellite radio: Disorder 32 9) Kennedys/Strangelings/Stingbusters Mercantile ********************************************** 1) Tour Diary: Memorial Day Over Memorial Day weekend, we played the usual eclectic mix of music on our SIRIUS Satellite radio show, but we devoted all of the "voice breaks" to quoting from a great speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King, on April 4th, 1967, at the Riverside Church in New York City. The speech was his first major public commentary on world peace, reaching out beyond his usual forte of civil rights. He had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and he points out that he felt a "burden of responsibility" to humanity, a responsibility that prompted him to deliver this impassioned speech. We'd like to share a few excerpts with you: "A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us. The calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak, for we are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems to close around us. I believe that the Father is deeply concerned, especially for the suffering and helpless and outcast children, and I come tonight to speak for them. I speak not of the soldiers of each side, not of the ideologies, but simply of the people who have been living under the curse of war. We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for those we call the "enemy", because no document from human hands can make these humans any less than our brothers. It is clear to me that there will be no meaningful solution until some attempt is made to know them and hear their broken cries, and I am as deeply concerned about our own troops. Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and a brother to the suffering poor. I speak as one who loves America. A true revolution of values will land a hand on the world order and say of war, "This way of settling differences is not just. This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hatred into the veins of people normally humane, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one's tribe, race, class, and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for mankind. When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality. Now let us begin. Let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. If we will make the right choice, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our world into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. If we will but make the right choice, we will be able to speed up the day, all over America and all over the world, when justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream." It was one year later, to the day, that Dr. King was gunned down in Memphis.. ********************************************** 2) New Ukulele CD available! Pete & Maura with a different twist...On this CD, they give their twin ukuleles a workout, with a programme from the great songbook of 20s and 30s Swing. Tunes by Billie Holiday, Django Reinhardt, Gershwin and Jellyroll Morton come alive with Maura's vivacious vocals and Pete's hair-raising ukulele pyrotechnics. Featuring the uke solos Rhapsody in Blue, and the condensed version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, plus Maura's takes on a trio of classic Billie Holiday songs and a traditional Hula that she sings in Hawaiian! Order on our homepage: http://www.KennedysMusic.com ********************************************** 3) Tour Calendar for June 2007 Please check our website: http://www.KennedysMusic.com, or Musi-cal calendars for changes. Friday, June 1st - 8:00pm Fairlawn Community Theater 10-10 20th Street, Fair Lawn, NJ 07410 Price: $20.00 Phone: 201-794-5372 or 201-794-5420 http://www.fairlawncommunitycenter.org/theater.htm Saturday, June 2nd - 8:00pm Glenside House Concert, Glenside, PA Call for address Price: $15.00 Phone: 215-572-7715 email: glensidehc@comcast.net http://glensidehc1.home.comcast.net Friday, June 8th - 8:30pm Steel City Coffeehouse 203 Bridge Street, Phoenixville, PA Price: $15.00 advance/$18.00 day of show Phone: 610-933-4043 http://www.steelcitycoffeehouse.com/ Saturday, June 9th - 8:00pm Cullen House Concert 34 Clive Court. Titusville, NJ Price: $15.00 Phone: 609-406-1424 email: culcom@voicenet.com Sunday, June 10th - 11:00am WFUV presents: 10th anniversary of John Platt's Sunday Morning Brunch "Sunday Breakfast Bash", with Judy Collins, Christine Lavin, The Kennedys, Little Toby Walker Joe's Pub, 425 LaFayette St, NYC Price: $200.00 SOLD OUT! (Benefit for WFUV) http://www.wfuv.org Note: The concert will be recorded and broadcast on the Sunday Breakfast on June 24 between 8-11 am. Friday, June 15 - 8:00pm Night Eagle Cafe 200 State Street, Binghamton, NY (new location) Price: $22.00 (save $3 when you buy online) Phone: 607-843-6105 http://www.nighteaglecafe.org/ Saturday, June 16 - 8:00pm Buffalo Friends of Folk Williamsville Historical Society Museum 5658 Main Street, Williamsville, NY Price: $12 members/$15 non-members/$6 student/$3 student member Phone: 716-361-1939 http://bfn.org/~folkmusic/ Saturday, June 23 - 7:30pm Common Ground Coffeehouse First Unitarian Society of Westchester 25 Old Jackson Ave Hastings on Hudson, NY Price: $17.50/ $10 for seniors and youth Phone: 914-478-2710 http://www.westchesteruu.org/commonground.htm Sunday, June 24 - 7:30pm Perkins School/The Janeway Education Center Annual Summer Celebration: Free Fireworks & concert Chris & Meredith Thompson open 971 Main Street, Lancaster, MA Phone: 978-365-7376 http://www.perkinsprograms.org Saturday, June 30 - 7:00pm Iron Horse Music Hall 20 Center Street, Northampton, MA 01060 Price: $12.50 adv/ $15.00 door Phone: 4143-586-8686 Nancy Rockland-Miller opens http://www.iheg.com/ Remember to always call venues ahead of time to confirm showtimes and locations. ********************************************** 4) Kennedys endless tour continues: ***Coming in July 2007*** Sunday, July 1 - Guitar workshop - "Right Hand Gym" with Pete Kennedy, Northampton, MA Saturday & Sunday, July 7-8 - New Bedford Summerfest, New Bedford, MA Sunday, July 15 - Maura's Vocal Tune-up workshop, Northampton, MA Saturday, July 21 - Green River Fest, Greenfield, MA http://www.greenriverfestival.com July 26-29 - The Strangelings at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Hillsdale, NY ***Coming in August 2007*** Tuesday, August 7th - Songs at Mirror Lake, Lake Placid, NY Sunday August 19 - Saturday August 25 - Summer Acoustic Music Week: a music camp for adults sponsored by WUMB Folk Radio ***Coming in September 2006*** September 1 - Songwriters Round Table, Potter County Fine Arts Council, Coudersport, PA September 2 - Blue Moon Sundays, 200 E. High Street, Shepherdstown, WV September 9 - Colorscape Chenango Arts Fest, Norwich, NY September 15-16 - Strawberry Park Resorts Folk Fest, Preston, CT http://www.strawberrypark.net/ September 21 - May Memorial Concerts, Syracuse, NY 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 http://www.kennedysmusic.com. Last minute changes in the schedule can occur. Please call venues to confirm before hiring baby sitters and making the trip! ********************************************** 5) Kennedys announce Spring 2008 cruise! Join us on a 6-night concert cruise on Carnival Cruise Line's Carnival Miracle from New York City to Bermuda and Newport RI, April 17-23, 2008. For further information, log on to: http://www.fanclubcruises.com/kennedys.htm ********************************************** 6) Upcoming dates for The Strangelings To read about the Strangelings, visit http://www.KennedysMusic.com, or http://www.myspace.com/thestrangelings Thurs, July 26 - Sun, July 29 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival The Strangelings are booked to play the main stage closing set on Saturday night! Phone: 866-325-2744 http://www.falconridgefolk.com/ Saturday, September 22nd, The Strangelings Caffe Lena 47 Phila Street, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Phone: 518-583-0022 Price: TBA Web: http://www.caffelena.org/ Friday, November 9, 8:00pm The Strangelings New Revival Coffeehouse 353 Great Road, First Parish Church of Stow and Acton Stow, MA 01775 Price: $15.00 Friday, March 14th, 2008, 8:00pm The Strangelings Me & Thee Coffeehouse 28 Mugford Street, Marblehead, MA 01945 Yes, that's 2008!! Phone: 781-631-8987 http://www.meandthee.org/ To preview the Strangelings DVD on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8OhvYTEBa4 For Strangelings tour dates, log onto http://www.Musi-cal.com For more Strangelings info, go to http://www.myspace.com/theStrangelings ********************************************** 7) Upcoming Workshops: Right Hand Gym, Sunday, July 1, Northampton, MA A friend of ours once said that the brain of the guitar is in the left hand, but the heart and soul are in the right hand. This workshop will cover right hand technique in many dimensions, from folk and African styles, to bluegrass and country chicken-picking, and from basic classical technique to shimmering harmonics. Well show you how to combine these tools in a versatile hybrid style. No complex chording, but expect a real right-hand workout. Offered Sunday, July 1, 2007 11am -6pm, Northampton, MA. Enrollment is limited: $120.00 http://www.kennedysmusic.com/GuitarSeminar070107.html Vocal Workshop: Maura's Springtime Vocal Tune-up, Sunday, July 15, Northampton, MA Maura has been singing as long as she can remember, and studying voice for all of her adult life. In this three-hour intensive workshop, shell give you all the vocal tips and secrets shes been collecting for over 20 years. Shell share her pre-performance meditation, vocal warm-ups, tips on how to keep your vocal mechanism at its peak, and recipes for libations to keep the lungs and vocal chords happy (with included tea-time tasting). Walk out with your own warm-up CD, tips, and recipes, all included in the price of this workshop. Student performance is encouraged but not mandatory. Pete Kennedy assists.Offered Sunday, July 15, 2007 noon-3pm, Northampton, MA. Enrollment is limited: $75.00 http://www.kennedysmusic.com/VocalSeminar071507.html ********************************************** 8) Kennedys weekly radio show - The Dharma Cafe - on SIRIUS Satellite radio, Disorder 32! The Winterpills will be our guest on Sunday, June 3. All interviews are usually scheduled in the noon EST sunday slot. Our weekly show airs on SIRIUS Satellite radio channel 32: 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, Cliff Eberhardt, Catie Curtis, and Jim Lauderdale, David Jacobs-Strain, Ray Lamontagne, Susan Werner, The Roches, Janis Ian, Tom Russell, Mark Erelli, Susan Cowsill, Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, Tracy Grammer and Jim Henry, Kris Delmhorst, Salif Keita, Eric Anderson, 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, Mike Malloy (he's finally found a home on SIRIUS Left 146!), Stephanie Miller, Dave Marsh, Andrew Loog Oldham, Michael Tearson, Cousin Brucie, Marky Ramone and others. ********************************************** 9) Kennedys Mercantile. To order, send check or money order to:The Kennedys, PO Box 1264, Northampton, MA 01061-1264. If you'd like to print out an order form, you can print it at: http://www.kennedysmusic.com/orderform.html Or order using Paypal by logging onto: http://www.kennedysmusic.com/order2007.html NEW: Pete & Maura Present The Stringbusters: Rhapsody in Uke (June 2007). Pete & Maura with a different twist...On this CD, they give their twin ukuleles a workout, with a programme from the great songbook of 20s and 30s Swing. Tunes by Billie Holiday, Django Reinhardt, Gershwin and Jellyroll Morton come alive with Maura's vivacious vocals and Pete's hair-raising ukulele pyrotechnics. Featuring the uke solos Rhapsody in Blue, and the condensed version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, plus Maura's takes on a trio of classic Billie Holiday songs and a traditional Hula that she sings in Hawaiian! $15.00 NEW: "The Strangelings: The Nuah Suite" (April 2007) Live concert DVD of their debut show, recorded at the Pioneer Arts Center of Easthampton in January 2007! Hot off the presses! Songs include: Nuah, Harvest Moon, Tanglewood Tree, Didn't it Rain, The Wiildest Sea, Wayfaring Stranger, Matty Groves, Anna and the Magic Gown, Sirens, A Bend in the River. Two electric sitars, flute, percussion, acoustic guitar and a wall of ethereal voices. DVD: $20.00 "SONGS OF THE OPEN ROAD" (October 3, 2006) 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! 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: $15.0 0 "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. "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." CD only: $15.00. Pete Kennedy's Solo Titles: "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 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. If you'd like to print out an order form, you can print it at: http://www.kennedysmusic.com/orderform.html Or order using Paypal by logging onto: http://www.kennedysmusic.com/order2007.html Thanks, all! Namaste, Pete & Maura Kennedy Visit The Kennedys online at http://www.KennedysMusic.com or MySpace.com for lots more! Also, visit The Strangelings myspace page at: http://www.myspace.com/thestrangelings - -- The following information is a reminder of your current mailing list subscription: You are subscribed to the following list: The Kennedys' E-Newsletter Using the following email: jangle-poets@smoe.org You may automatically unsubscribe from this list at any time by visiting the following URL: If the above URL is inoperable, make sure that you have copied the entire address. Some mail readers will wrap a long URL and thus break this automatic unsubscribe mechanism. You may also change your subscription by visiting this list's main screen: If you're still having trouble, please contact the list owner at: The following physical address is associated with this mailing list: The Kennedys PO Box 1264 Northampton, MA 01061-1264 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: Thu, 31 May 2007 08:26:12 -0400 From: "Ken Yavit" Subject: [JP] TK at Glenside (PA) House Concerts Due to cancellations, we find that we have a few seats available to TKs at our house concert this Saturday night, June 2 at 8PM. We're in Glenside, PA, near the Willow Grove exit of the PA Turnpike, and near the famous Keswick Theater. Donation is $15, song circle follows the concert. More details at http://glensidehc1.home.comcast.net. Please call 215-572-7715 to reserve a seat. Call soon, these won't last long. Ken Yavit & Donna Ryder Glenside House Concerts 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 #60 *********************************