From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V3 #53 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 Wednesday, March 7 2001 Volume 03 : Number 053 In this issue: [lucy-list] Lonely gigs [lucy-list] Backing vocals for New Album ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:21:20 -0600 From: "Timothy Bruce" Subject: [lucy-list] Lonely gigs >>Buddy , who wrote "The Kid" as covered by Cryx3 , appeared in a pub with an audience of around twenty people. Are gigs that you guys go to often poorly attended despite the musicains being top notch ? >>they were in Aberdeen to do some TV stuff for our local station with artists such as Slaid Cleaves , Jimmie Dale Gilmour and many others<< Yeah, Sometimes I feel supremely privileged to be present at poorly attended gigs and sometimes I feel sorry for the promoter, the performer, or both! Two recent examples. Ellis Paul in St. Paul (no relation) last Fall. The coffeehouse (obviously expecting a bigger crowd) moved the show to an auditorium in the college nearby. The crowd never got bigger than a hundred and Ellis had brought a second guitar player and a drummer and were hooked-up to a PA. When they realized the sound was way out of adjustment and the crowd a little small and distant, they jumped off the stage and played unplugged...first in the orchestra pit area in front of the audience, then on the stairs in the aisle between the left and right sections. They rocked! And it was VERY, VERY magical. The other one was last Fourth of July with Slaid Cleaves at a backyard barbeque house concert in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It, too, never got very big, but I talked to the host and it sounded like he could make ends meet. In that case, I just felt happy to see Slaid and band in such an intimate setting with all of that good food! Three days later, I saw him play three times up at the heavily attended (20-30 thousand per day) Winnipeg Folk Festival. So it depends! To see a performer with twenty people in a pub that only holds 30 or 40 I wouldn't feel badly at all. It is not too far removed from expectations. But to see a superb performer with a hundred people in a room that could hold five or ten times that, I do sometimes do have mixed feelings. But, as for the performers, I think they take it all in stride. Consider Lucy's last two trips to Great Britain (in which many of the shows were...intimate). She played her last stateside shows before travelling at the Cedar in Minneapolis to sell-out, turn-them-away, double-encore crowds of about 500. And I bet less than a month after Lucy took the Mainstage at Falcon Ridge last summer (to a crowd of several thousand) she again found herself performing in front of a crowd of thirty or forty. They are troopers, all of them. And I kinda admire them that they can take it all in stride so graciously. ETimothy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 20:34:59 -0500 From: "Pat Grismore" Subject: [lucy-list] Backing vocals for New Album The following was clipped from another mailing list, the poster was reviewing the Peter Mulvey/Jennifer Kimball show in San Diego, and passing on some info that he acquired while conversing with Jen. >> Hasn't had a call from Lucy Kaplansky >>yet, re any backing vocals on that other notable new recording due this year Ms. Kaplansky if your reading this, pick up that phone, make that call!! My .02 Pat ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V3 #53 ****************************** 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