From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V6 #78 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Thursday, December 4 2003 Volume 06 : Number 078 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [MLL] New tour dates!! ["Ata Rivers" ] [MLL] MBTA compromises with subway performers on new policy [K3285@aol.co] Re: [MLL] MBTA compromises with subway performers on new policy ["Cinnamo] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 17:07:05 +0000 From: "Ata Rivers" Subject: Re: [MLL] New tour dates!! That Silverlake Lounge place is cool, very of the moment. No offense, but it's quite a contrast to Trenton "Hate your job/ Love your stuff/ If you think that's living you are wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong!" - - Juliana Hatfield >From: "Cinnamon Brunmier" >Reply-To: "Cinnamon Brunmier" >To: "Rachel Kramer Bussel" >CC: >Subject: Re: [MLL] New tour dates!! >Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 23:38:30 -0800 > >D'OH!!!! I can believe she is finally playing here and it's the NITE BEFORE >MY >CRIM FINAL!!!! aaaarrrghhhh > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Rachel Kramer Bussel > To: jinglejangle@smoe.org > Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 3:18 PM > Subject: [MLL] New tour dates!! > > > New Mary Lou Lord tour dates > > Thursday 12/18/2003 Los Angeles, CA Silverlake Lounge > Friday 12/26/2003 Cambridge, MA Passim > Saturday 12/27/2003 Rehoboth Beach, DE Dogfish xHead > Sunday 12/28/2003 Trenton, NJ Conduit _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:29:34 EST From: K3285@aol.com Subject: [MLL] MBTA compromises with subway performers on new policy Looks like Mary Lou will still be able to busk... >MBTA compromises with subway performers on new policy By Helena Payne, Associated Press, 12/3/2003 16:59 BOSTON (AP) The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has agreed to tweak its new Subway Performers Program, bending slightly to pressure from street artists and their advocates. Last month, the MBTA announced the new policy, banning all forms of amplified music and horns, imposing a new $25 fee for annual performance permits and requiring performers to be ''neat in appearance'' and ''wear proper clothing.'' The T said the changes were needed so that safety and emergency announcements could be heard by riders. The new guidelines, announced Tuesday, allow amplification, but set a maximum volume level of 80 decibels within 25 feet of the performer. A ban on all horns was also modified to ban trumpets, but allow other brass and wind instruments like saxophones and French horns. The performers can play in a designated location until 11 p.m. or the station's closing time, and the fee remained in place. ''I'm encouraged. It's a massive change of position,'' said Stephen Baird of the Subway Artists Guild, a group that represents over 600 subway performers and was initially critical of the proposed guidelines. ''There's still unresolved issues, but we do have an appeal process we can work with.'' MBTA General Manager Michael Mulhern said after a Thanksgiving Day conversation with his father, he realized the policy needed to be retooled. ''They make some good points,'' he said of the artists, ''but I had to balance that with the concerns I was getting from the disability community (and other customers),'' he said. Mulhern said the long cords attached to performers' instruments were a risk to people who were visually impaired, and loud music could affect those who had hearing problems. But now Mulhern is satisfied with the compromise. ''It is a very respectful and responsive policy while at the same time addressing many of the concerns of the MBTA,'' he said. Mulhern initiated discussions on the policy with the state's Public Safety chairman, Sen. Jarrett Barrios, D-Cambridge. An earlier discussion resulted between the two resulted in a delayed enactment of the policy, which was supposed to go in to effect on Monday. The new rules, which will go into effect on Monday, are based on a similar Cambridge policy that allows street performers to play at reasonable levels. ''It isn't so low that a singer or musician who uses amplification can't be heard,'' Barrios said. The MBTA has insisted that the regulations, which were created by an MBTA anti-terrorism task force, were intended to make sure messages on the subway stations' public address systems were not drowned out by the music of subway performers. The Subway Artists Guild had filed a complaint with the American Civil Liberties Union. The group's petitions have received more than 12,000 signatures opposing the policy. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 16:52:32 -0800 From: "Cinnamon Brunmier" Subject: Re: [MLL] MBTA compromises with subway performers on new policy Thank the Lord the dulcet tones of the French Horn will once again be heard in the subway!!! :) What about Sousaphones? I would probably give all the money in my handbag to a dude playing Sousaphone on the platform. ----- Original Message ----- From: K3285@aol.com To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 2:29 PM Subject: [MLL] MBTA compromises with subway performers on new policy Looks like Mary Lou will still be able to busk... >MBTA compromises with subway performers on new policy By Helena Payne, Associated Press, 12/3/2003 16:59 BOSTON (AP) The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has agreed to tweak its new Subway Performers Program, bending slightly to pressure from street artists and their advocates. Last month, the MBTA announced the new policy, banning all forms of amplified music and horns, imposing a new $25 fee for annual performance permits and requiring performers to be ''neat in appearance'' and ''wear proper clothing.'' The T said the changes were needed so that safety and emergency announcements could be heard by riders. The new guidelines, announced Tuesday, allow amplification, but set a maximum volume level of 80 decibels within 25 feet of the performer. A ban on all horns was also modified to ban trumpets, but allow other brass and wind instruments like saxophones and French horns. The performers can play in a designated location until 11 p.m. or the station's closing time, and the fee remained in place. ''I'm encouraged. It's a massive change of position,'' said Stephen Baird of the Subway Artists Guild, a group that represents over 600 subway performers and was initially critical of the proposed guidelines. ''There's still unresolved issues, but we do have an appeal process we can work with.'' MBTA General Manager Michael Mulhern said after a Thanksgiving Day conversation with his father, he realized the policy needed to be retooled. ''They make some good points,'' he said of the artists, ''but I had to balance that with the concerns I was getting from the disability community (and other customers),'' he said. Mulhern said the long cords attached to performers' instruments were a risk to people who were visually impaired, and loud music could affect those who had hearing problems. But now Mulhern is satisfied with the compromise. ''It is a very respectful and responsive policy while at the same time addressing many of the concerns of the MBTA,'' he said. Mulhern initiated discussions on the policy with the state's Public Safety chairman, Sen. Jarrett Barrios, D-Cambridge. An earlier discussion resulted between the two resulted in a delayed enactment of the policy, which was supposed to go in to effect on Monday. The new rules, which will go into effect on Monday, are based on a similar Cambridge policy that allows street performers to play at reasonable levels. ''It isn't so low that a singer or musician who uses amplification can't be heard,'' Barrios said. The MBTA has insisted that the regulations, which were created by an MBTA anti-terrorism task force, were intended to make sure messages on the subway stations' public address systems were not drowned out by the music of subway performers. The Subway Artists Guild had filed a complaint with the American Civil Liberties Union. The group's petitions have received more than 12,000 signatures opposing the policy. ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V6 #78 *********************************