From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V9 #191 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, July 13 2008 Volume 09 : Number 191 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [JP] TK Meet the Performers Visitor's Center Stage 6:00 Sunday [MercyHous] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:24:14 EDT From: MercyHouse1@aol.com Subject: [JP] TK Meet the Performers Visitor's Center Stage 6:00 Sunday >> > >I enjoyed them again through a few smaller >> > >workshops, and ended my Summerfest experience >> > >at a Meet the Performers set with the Kennedys in >> > >a small, cozy room with about 100 other folks. That >> > >last one left a glow that has not worn off (I'm not >> > >ashamed to say it brought tears running down my >> > >cheeks, as it does now as I write about it). >> > > > > > >Yeah I was the same way when I saw Finest Kind play > >that same room. More on that later. > I'm finally getting back to this. I saw Women in Docs in RI last night and Katryna Nields with Dave Chalfant in Boston today. Busy busy! The Meet the Performers Stage had no stage at all, being a tiny auditorium at the New Bedford Visitor's Center a short distance from the Whaling Museum. For every Meet the Performers set I saw on Sunday, I sat right in the front row, just inches from the performers. No sound system was used, and audience members were encouraged to interact with the artists. Prior to the Kennedys set in that small room, I saw the following sets there: PJ Wright, Dave Pegg, and Gareth Turner They mixed traditional Brit folk with eclectic selections like the Chantays' "Pipeline" and leading the audience in a singalong of Del Shannon's "Runaway." Great stuff! Women in Docs Biggest surprise was a completely impromptu performance by fiddler Savannah, breaking her weekend-long vocal silence by singing a song from her upcoming solo CD. Roz played along on guitar, completely unrehearsed. Very cool! Finest Kind I was wiping back the tears when this Canadian trio delivered their dead-on 3-part harmony renditions of traditional ballads. The same style as Steeleye Span's "Rosebud in June" or TN's "May Day Carol." The Kennedys They did their entire set by request only. Absolutely amazing! Namaste (great singalong) River of Fallen Stars Pearl's Eye View Give Me Back My Country Angels Cry Easy People (best-ever singalong of this song) Purple Haze - ukes Me Myself & I Gypsy Rose This Moment Dharma Cafe (another great singalong) 9th Street Billy Stand (fantastic singalong) The words of "This Moment" rang so true -- "This moment will never come again." Richard & Linda Thompson have a song called "Streets of Paradise" on their album Pour Down Like Silver. That's what it felt like for those two days of Summerfest, walking the streets of New Bedford, going from place to place to sample almost unimaginable riches of musical delight. "Walking down the streets of Paradise -- " I thought I was walking on air. TK's Meet the Performers set was one of the best Kennedys shows I'd ever seen. Their "Hot Time in the Old Town" workshop performance was maybe the best workshop stage I'd ever seen. Combined with my trip to see the full-band Nields in Westport, New Bedford constituted one of the best weekends ever for me, and I discovered an exciting group with 3 fresh new faces to boot, Women in Docs. I keep on following the Kennedys, and good things keep on happening. I could get used to this! To lift the line from TN's "I Would Have Done the Same For You" -- "What are we for if not for this?" 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 #191 **********************************