From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V2 #79 Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk lucy-list-digest Monday, March 27 2000 Volume 02 : Number 079 In this issue: Re: [lucy-list] The Festival RE: [lucy-list] The Festival [lucy-list] Alison Krauss [lucy-list] Ani, Greg and Gillian [lucy-list] the festival and landmines and venues (longer than usual) Re: [lucy-list] The Festival Re: [lucy-list] Nanci for Sharon's Chapin fest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 09:05:05 +0100 From: "Iain Geddes" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] The Festival Jenny Ian does not speak with forked tongue on this occasion. The gig is a reality to be staged in the grounds of Hopetoun House Estate near Edinburgh. Given that Emmylou and Steve Earle are already lined up, what greater incentive could Lucy want to get herself over here. She may even want to bring a few chums (Dar, Richard &c.). Oh well time to wake up!! Iain (2 i's) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:05:24 +0200 From: Katrin.Uhl@t-online.de (Katrin Uhl) Subject: RE: [lucy-list] The Festival in reply to a couple of different things: > does anybody know where i can buy peter mulvey cds/jonatha brooke cds in > glasgow?? I've checked all the usual places including borders > and have had no luck. I don't think Peter's CDs can be found anywhere in Europe other than at his gigs, I don't think he has a label / distributor here (Kerry?). So his website would be your best bet I guess. > > Okay, now for my Festival. My festival would be...I am struggling between > my native west end of glasgow soil and the countryside. ... hey Jenny, very cool line up! Let me know the exact dates and I will get on a plane in a minute! It's been years since I was in Scotland anyway. > > Now to the worst gig ever imaginable. I have lived it folks. The worst is > being crammed by thousands of people at an rem concert, suddenly > remembering > you're claustrophobic ... not sure if I can compete with that but my worst (true) gig would be: after moving to Seattle just a year or two too late for the grunch thing I decided that I'd have to kick off my Seattle life with something at least sort of grunchy and went to see Soul Asylum (yes, sad but true) in what is otherwise a rather neat theatre, the Moore. I ended up sitting right under the balcony (I'll never understand why concerts like that are in venues with seats, here you wouldn't come across any rock concert where you'd have to sit), the music was awful (alright, so that was to be expected, but...), the bass so loud that I thought my head was going to explode and the balcony above me vibrated so hard from the beats, I was afraid it was going to fall down on me. Yuck. Concert from hell. I made up for that by seeing Joan Baez in that very venue just a bit later, much better! Oh, Dar opened, so it was very very much better! :-) happy Sunday everyone, Katrin - ---------------------------------------------- Oh how I wish I was a trinity, so if I lost a part of me I'd still have two of the same to live Emily Saliers (love's recovery) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 08:09:34 EST From: Wblr4@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] Alison Krauss We went to see Alison Krauss and Union Station on Fri.nite at the Chicago Theatre. We like Alison Krauss so it was a really good concert....all the musicians in her band were really extraordinary and the music they put out was great. There were a few things that they could have done better...she is very quiet and the in between patter sometimes was hard to hear but when you did it cause you to laugh or smile. Because they were all tuned in pros, one of the guys, in particular, spent way to much time retuning his instruments (different guitars, banjo) to almost be distracting. It also took away from the pace of the music...Alison at one point chided him that he is working on a tuning CD....no, a double CD, she said! Anyway, it was really good...if you haven't seen she and Union Station, don't miss the opportunity. Also, the Chicago Theatre has just recently been completely renovated and it was beyond magnificent. She commented that it was the most beautiful place they had ever played and brought up the house lights at the end so she could look at it during the last few numbers. It's kind of a large theatre...it was near full with a capacity of 1500 I would guess. Great venue. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 09:38:26 -0800 From: ptpower@juno.com Subject: [lucy-list] Ani, Greg and Gillian "witch baby" wrote: << By the way, last week I went to what was a fantasy concert for me -- Gillian Welch, Ani DiFranco, and Greg Brown -- an amazing show but I could have done without the 12-year-old wannabe babydykes in the audience screaming out for Ani during Greg's set... I felt old... >> . . . and Anne responded: <> I attended the Ann Arbor version of the Greg, Ani and Gillian ("GAG"?) show and, frankly, I just don't get it. While I have to admit that the "Ani legionnaires" were fairly well behaved during her performances, those of us who came to hear the *entire* show had to endure the screaming of "Ani" and "I love you, Ani" during Greg's and Gillian's sets. It was also clear that during the songs in which Ani didn't participate, her fans did quite a bit of talking. I *do* understand how people can be enormously enamored of a performer (or shall I say the "performance facade"?), but when someone's lyrics are supposedly so important, why is *listening* not an option at the concert? If Ani has enough respect for the other people on-stage to tour with them, why can't her fans show the same respect? I think that she's begun to write about the phenomenon. She sang a song that evening while playing a beautiful red guitar that to my ears seemed to address the whole issue --a line I'm trying to recall mentioned looking out (from the stage) into the "red eyes of the monster." She said that she wrote it while on this particular tour. I can't help but think that she'd really, really like to do a concert tour in which she felt that her audience was there to hear what she had to say, instead of there to propose marriage to her. Pat ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 09:27:19 PST From: "sharon g" Subject: [lucy-list] the festival and landmines and venues (longer than usual) hey Witchbaby- tell the tale that Ani came back on stage to provide crowd control- NO i wasnt there, i have sources though... hey froggy save me a seat at your fest and at the SteveEARle emmylou fest meybe that is a landmines event like the ones staged in california with SE and ELH. look for Nanci. or shawn or MARY _OH my dear- geta plane ticket_ Chapin Carpenter.. they were added partcipants on the project... kris krstofferson, willie nelson, john prine, guy clark, terry allen, bruce cockburn, patty griffin, gillian welch.. there were 5 dates, with 6 preformers at each in teh round. campaign for Landmone free world.. Walter, no one but me wants your venue question he goes: in the New England area there are pubs, clubs, church coffee houses (big in MASS) and standing room only clubs. and house concerts.. for example, house concerts, in someone's house hosted by the home owner generally up to 25 people - all monies to the artist up close and personal..unplugged.. some pubs, clubs here serve drink and food and i have been in some like the Turning Point that hold 35-50-75 people to FEZ 150 people to teh bottom line 400 seats. Concert hall, like Town hall and the somerville theater - an ex theater. or the calvin in NOHO. TownHall holds 1400 people Churches- are churches that generally open one or two rooms the main chamber- for larger shows, princeton and dar was 800 people easy. and outpost in the burbs. have used the large church or smaller sanctuary like room for more intimacy and the need for lesser space. teh common sense cafe and the livingroom are store fronts with tables and couches, and seat 25-50 at most. the most intimate for example i saw ellis paul with 11 other people. the acoustic cafe in stamford and Makor are set up like a nightclub and hold 100 people the emerlin theater and the Rich forum are 600-800 people theaters with assigned seats. Palace in stamford is like the sommerville 1200 i believe... some have food -The IRON HORSE has the best of all the pub food.. and most sell drinks...and depend on it.. they open Newport in a hotel Ballroom atmosphere. BIG ballroom- jumpin on the east coast.. enough from me who has seen and adores allison Krauss who is playing with jerry douglas these days... Robert earl keen was a good show with lots of misplaced austinites in manhattan..and last night was JOAN BAEZ sharonG ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:24:30 +0100 From: "IAN BUCHAN" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] The Festival Jenny, I have not been partaking in waccy baccy or any other mind distorting substances. This gig is for real. It was also adverised in the Sunday Mail magazine but no more extra news than I have already given. I suppose you will be going along? Ian - -----Original Message----- From: Jenny To: lucy-list@smoe.org Date: 26 March 2000 00:15 Subject: [lucy-list] The Festival > >Okay, not unusually i am having trouble defining reality; Ian are you >serious? Is this happening? Are you kidding? If so, do you know what you are >doing to this gullible kid? > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 18:03:01 -0500 From: "Kristina Plath" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Nanci for Sharon's Chapin fest >>I'm tryin' to fit in Nanci Griffith but I jist cain't... anyone? > > >Two come to mind: > >either "Only a Dream" or "Hometown Girl," ah-HA! Beautiferous! Only a Dream would be awesome... so would Hometown Girl... ok, way to go!! Now I'm happy. Flyer Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V2 #79 ****************************** This has been a posting from the Lucy Kaplansky mail list digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe lucy-list-digest" in the body of the message