From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V2 #303 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 Friday, December 1 2000 Volume 02 : Number 303 In this issue: [lucy-list] Jeff & Peter/Lucy in UK&Ireland [lucy-list] UK dates-Sheffield [lucy-list] Re: Lucy in UK&Ireland [lucy-list] Lucy in Glasgow [lucy-list] europe counts down ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:16:33 GMT From: dgmckay@cwcom.net Subject: [lucy-list] Jeff & Peter/Lucy in UK&Ireland >If you are anywhere near Whelan's in Dublin on Tues, 12/5, (or in the >Boston area this weekend, for that matter,) you should really try to see >Peter Mulvey & Jeff Lang. Jeff was definitely the surprise discovery of Falcon Ridge for me. He's also opening for the Mutton Birds at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London this Saturday. A veritable feast of Antipodeans! :-) >These two guys could have quite a blast together. > >Wish I could be there. Go. He and Peter Mulvey are going to be making sparks on Tuesday, mark my words! Peter is one of my favourite people. And a fantastic musician and showman. See if he'll play his *definitive* version of Dar Williams' "The Ocean". I wish I could be there too, but two trips to Dublin within a week wouldn't do my bank balance any good! So, let's have a heads-up on the Lucy UK&Ireland attendance from the list. Preferably without multiple re-quotings from the Ramshorn contingent! Kay and I will be at the Jazz Cafe in London. Come wish us a happy anniversary! One whole year since our first date ... at the Borderline Lucy concert! We get Zev Katz as a present, but no Rick Litvin ... he flies in later, apparently. Sorry we won't see you, Rick. Dave. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 12:33:20 EST From: BrainCC@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] UK dates-Sheffield If any listers are going to see Lucy on the 13th at Sheffield, as a recent joiner I'd be happy to buy you a drink before the show. Also, if anyone wants a lift up there from the south on the 13th and back on the 14th, let me know (BrainCC@aol.com)...I'll be leaving Hampshire at around 9am. Thanks to all US contributors for recent radio info & reviews...it makes me feel part of a warm and clued-up community! Brian ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:26:06 -0500 (EST) From: Mari Wilson Subject: [lucy-list] Re: Lucy in UK&Ireland > From: dgmckay@cwcom.net > > > So, let's have a heads-up on the Lucy UK&Ireland attendance from the list. Preferably > without multiple re-quotings from the Ramshorn contingent! Hi Lucy-list, my name is Mari and I'll be at The Belfast show on the 21st. :-) Well, I'm fairly new around here. I've been pretty much lurking around the Dar list for ages, and thought that this would be an opportune time introduce myself, and gloat about getting to attend one of Lucy's upcoming UK shows. There's actually kind of a story to this, it might run on a little bit, okay, a lot, but I'll share anyways :-) I live in Canada actually, and so far the only times I've been able to see Lucy is at Falcon Ridge in 1999 and her Toronto show last winter, which turned out to be much, much, more crowded than my friend and I initially expected because of all Lucy's family members in attendance. Still, it was a great time. (Lucy needs to come to Toronto *more often* !!! :-) ) I was born in Belfast though. My family moved to Canada when I was quite small, a mixed religion marriage, a better future, all that kind of stuff. And it pretty well all came about. Except my Dad died when I was 15, and from that time on, my Mum wanted to move back home. I could tell. But she put it off until her 3 kids were more established. So eventually we three did just that, got established, with the education, the jobs, the homes, etc. My Mum remarried, and she and my stepfather, Jim (incidentally, the sweetest man in the world) moved back to Ireland 4 years ago. Since then, obviously, we don't see as much of each other as we used to. But sometimes they'll come here, or one of my brothers or I'll go there. This year, I figured to spend Christmas in Belfast. When Musi-cal told me that Lucy would be playing Belfast during the *one* week in the past 3 years that I was in town, whether by serendipity or by fate, I thought it was too cool. Knowing very few people, I expected that I might encounter a little difficulty convincing my Mum to come along. Ya gotta know, this is my *Mother*, the one who complains about the high cost of petrol, toilet paper and *Celine Dion CDs* in the U.K. She's also a real ABBA and Anne Murray fan. I was prepared to do my own bit of emotional blackmail with the "but I'm going to go anyways, even on my own, so why not just come with me?" stance. HA!!! So I start small on the phone, "Hey Mum, do you know where the Errigal Inn is?" Mum: "Ach aye, just up the Ormeau Road". then "Why?" Me: "Well there's a concert there I want to see, thought you'd like to come with me" Mum: "They've been playing music there for donkey's ages, your Dad used to take me there before we were married. I haven't been there in years" I'm thinking *allright*, this is waaay too easy. So when she asks "who's playing?" I try to outline the parent-friendly, all ages appeal and overall excellence that is Lucy :-) But I tell my Mum "well, her name is Lucy Kaplansky, she's not very famous but she's very good and I think you'll like her" HA!!!! Mum: "Oh, I've heard of her. I really like her, she's on the radio all the time" Me: "No Ma, really, she's really good, but not many people in Toronto even know, and she's American, she's not Irish, so, really you're probably thinking of someone else" HA!!! Mum: "No, that DJ I like on the radio, the one that tells all the stories and plays all that Joni Mitchell Magdalen Laundries that I think you'd like, she's on the radio all the time, he interviews her, he loves her, you can tell she's one of his favourites. She's real down to earth, from Chicago, her Dad's a professor or something, and sure, she's a psychiatrist herself. They play one of her songs, I can't remember how it goes, but I really like it, and when I heard it I thought that you would like it. Oh I forget how it goes, but when I hear her I think of you, just cause of the accent you don't hear a lot of women on the radio talking with that American or Canadian accent." Me: NO WAAAAY!!!!!! Mum: "What's that song? I don't remember the words now, but I'd know it if I heard it" and Mum again: "I'd love to go see her, I'd like to see her even on my own, sure we'll go" Anyways, after I crawled back into my chair, and thought about what a funny old world it is, and couldn't stop smiling for the entire day, I thought I'd share the little story. So, here's one Lucy-lister that will *definitely* be at the Belfast show, parent in tow. My Mum is happy, never thinking she'd be back at the Errigal Inn again, never mind being asked for her first "date" back there in 35 years by her now-so-Canadian daughter. I think it's both unexpected and lovely that my Dad and I, despite the fact that we've grown up in different places and he's been gone so long now, *still* manage to want to seat ourselves in front of that same small stage at the Errigal and listen to some wonderful music. And damn, my Christmas shopping just got way easier: Lucy CDs for Mum this year ! So, if there are other Lucy-listers gonna be there, say hi. I'll be the Canadian girl, sitting there beside the Irish Mum, the Scottish Step dad with the stupid, sentimental and completely non-stop grin on my face :-) Mari ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 19:48:44 -0000 From: "Walter from Glasgow" Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy in Glasgow Good idea, a Lucy Lister Head count for Glasgow. Jenny, I hope you have persuade your dad to bring you, Ian & Iain, surely you will be there, Joy and Walter, with their friends Marie & Louis, not Lucy Listers but welcome as they are attending their third Lucy show in Glasgow. Anyone else joining us from the List and does anyone know if the show is a sell out? Walter ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 15:28:04 EST From: Sdgold60@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] europe counts down .this is my favorite time of year Europe gets lucy.. you all have to make up for all the shows me and sheila turner logged in combined. Lucy wins hte ARTIST MOST SEEN by me in 2000. its tough one.. lucy dar lucy dar.. well enough of that tally-- it will come later gerry in dublin is the meister of the brownies and lucy will tell you that it is not a LUCY KAPLANSKY show without BRownies who is bakin.... start those ovens.... sharon i brought her some on saturday... ask her ASK RICK.. brownies only substitute with cookies ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V2 #303 ******************************* 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