From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V5 #210 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 Sunday, October 26 2003 Volume 05 : Number 210 In this issue: [lucy-list] The Pi song and Jim Thorpe [lucy-list] Lucy @ Kentuck Festival of the Arts - Sun 19 Oct [lucy-list] NYC show tomorrow Re: [lucy-list] NYC show, red ants, pi clarification ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 06:36:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Gilmore Subject: [lucy-list] The Pi song and Jim Thorpe Benay: Is this something you wrote, or was it written by Susan Werner? In any event, I love it! You ought to run it by Lucy K's Mathematically distinguished father. As for Jim Thorpe, is it in the Poconos, or do they extend south of I-80. I've been to the Poconos, but not south of I-80. Regardless of what you call it, it's beautiful country. Steve Gilmore Charlotte, NC USA Let's Round It Off Completely Pi's a well-known number--it's even got a song. The trouble is, that number can be endless digits long. Who can think about it? Who can comprehend? Only one thing's left to do---MAKE PI COME TO AN END! Let's round it off completely...let's give pi a break... Who needs to be that accurate? How much could be at stake? Let's round it off completely...how long does it have to be? 3.14's unwieldy...hey, let's just call it 3! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 08:50:03 -0500 From: "Larry Kunz" Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy @ Kentuck Festival of the Arts - Sun 19 Oct Little late posting this review because of a busy week, but here it is. KENTUCK (Park) FESTIVAL of the ARTS 10/18&19 in Northport, AL. Northport is across the Black Warrior River from Tuscaloosa, the home of the Univ of Alabama. Artists Market - 300 of the country's finest artists and craftspeople (mainly from SE USA, some from midwest & southwest) show and sell one-of-a-kind treasures. Southern Folklife - Craftspeople demonstrate the best in traditional southern craft. GUEST ARTISTS - Nationally renowned folk artists exhibit and demonstrate a dazzling array of work (their words; means SING & PLAY INSTRUMENTS !) Sunday's lineup was Kate Campbell, Hot Club of Cowtown , Steve Forbert, and Lucy, each for an hour & a half set. Saturday was mainly Cajun and zydeco. SETLIST I'm not good at remembering song titles and rather than spend the day researching my Lucy CDs, have just included below some key lyrics - you'all know the song or someone can add the song titles. 1) Angels Rejoiced 2) Written on the Back of His Hand 3) 'Hit the ground running' Lucy then told the audience that she stepped in a red ant hill and got bitten many times upon arriving at the park. She was hurting and called Richard in NYC and shook him up. She then went to see the paramedics at the park. She said there are no red ants in NYC. (If you haven't had the pleasure? of being bit by red ants, you haven't lived!) Lucy then talked about going to the UK and broadcasting live on the Women's Hour on BBC. There was a panel discussion on Air Guitars, which apparently is a big thing in the UK. Then: 4) Mary and the Soldier: 5) I Had Something (new song) Lucy talked about the movie project, writing a song for it, and being written into the movie as Miss K, a folk singer, and the project dying. Then sang the song: 6) Don't Mind Me (which is one of my favorites) Lucy then told us that she and Richard are going to China in 10 days (less than a week from now) to adopt a 10 1/2 month old girl who's name will be Molly, named after Lucy's grandmother. (After the show I asked Lucy if it was OK to mention this on the web. She said OK so the news is already out.) Her new album coming out in February +/- will be entitled "The Red Thread". Chinese lore says that when a child is born, a thread ties the child to all his/her peers. Lucy then dedicated the following to her mom and daughter. 7) 'Girl who learned to love from watching you' (new song?) Lucy then switched to the keyboard (first time I've heard her live on the keyboards after many shows). Said she and Richard live in NYC and subways are a big part of a New Yorker's life. Refering to the Williamsburg bridge on 9/13, played a dark song 8) about people on the subway Then back on guitar, said got new daughter's photos few weeks ago and dedicated the following to Richard, her husband of 18 years: 9) Ten Year Night 10) Scorpian 11} Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" Then said she needed to sing a song about Alabama and received a request for: 12) Boulder to Birmingham (by Emme Lou Harris) Also received a request for Guineverre which she said she'd sing later. 13) 'by way of sorrow' by Julie Miller Then mom's favorite "It's Zippy!": 14) End of the Day Back on keyboards: 15) 'if you see what I can see' Also on keyboards: 16) 'someone for me somewhere --- I miss someone' (by Johnny Cash) Back on guitar re her new daughter: 17) 'when we find her, we'll belong to her --- this is home where I want to be' Dad's 1951 love song to her mother: 18) On an Astoroid with You Said did 4 shows this year with Judy Collins and sang: 19) Someday Soon (Great new phrasing of): 20) Turn Lights Back On In closing the show, Lucy said it's dangerous to walk around the park, "You'll buy too much stuff". ( I know. I bought a kaleidoscope type glass and metal ornament for a overhead fan pullchain, a bowl, a walking stick, and a beautiful picture made with feathers (she also makes masks) from a artist from Arkansas. She got her start in NYC buying feathers intended for ladies hats. And 4 CDs --- 2 of Kate Campbells, 1 of Hot Club's, the latest out,but they didn't have the one being released Tuesday. Lucy then said she had at the CD table and recommended "Going Driftless,an artist's tribute to Greg Brown", sung by 16 female singers, including Lucy which I bought. Lucy then closed with: 21) Guineverre I stayed at the back of the line at the CD table to talk to Lucy. Had already talked to her earlier during sound checks. Nice touch was that a young man about 25 to 30 years old just ahead of me told Lucy he was Korean, was adopted at a very young age, and how happy he was to be able to grow up and live in the USA. Lucy said she really appreciated his comments. By then it was 5 o'clock, end of the concert, end of the art show, and nearing the end of a beautiful fall day in Alabama. Larry in Birmingham ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 12:27:05 -0400 From: "Kristen Myshrall" Subject: [lucy-list] NYC show tomorrow Hi guys, Just wondering what time everyone is getting to the show tomorrow in NYC. I'm going to leave CT around 12ish and make the 2 (3-4??? god traffic sucked on Wednesday coming through there) hour drive there. I'll probably park and wander around since it's been awhile since i was last in New York. That at least gives me plenty of time for traffic, crappy mapquest directions, parking, etc. :) Yay I can't wait...see you all there! - -K _________________________________________________________________ Enjoy MSN 8 patented spam control and more with MSN 8 Dial-up Internet Service. Try it FREE for one month! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 12:35:15 -0400 From: Benay Bubar Subject: Re: [lucy-list] NYC show, red ants, pi clarification I'll be at the Y probably 6 or 6:30 tomorrow, Kristen...they let you stand in line inside, so it shouldn't be a freezing endeavor, but you can't sit down...and since being first in line did no discernible good last year because of the way they ended up letting people in, it's probably not worth hours and hours. Have fun wandering NY and we'll look forward to seeing you! Thanks for the great review from Alabama, Larry! Poor Lucy with the red ants! Ouch. Just what she needed---another unpleasant bug encounter. (She used to tell a bug-killing story onstage.) Hope she quickly recovered. THAT pi thing was all me, Steve...me at three in the morning...heaven forbid I should become known for passing things off as written by Susan Werner! (But I'm incredibly honored that anybody could think it was hers for even a moment.) If you should ever look at the archives, you will find I was at one point slightly infamous for Lucy-related parodies...though this was more commentary than parody, I guess. And Lucy's dad would probably be scandalized, given that HE wrote not only the REAL Song About Pi, but a whole mnemonic for remembering what the first 15 digits of pi are, which I've quoted here before (each word having a number of letters equivalent to the number in pi): "Boy, I need a drink----alcoholic, of course---after the tough lectures involving quantum mechanics." My fake Susan song would sure take the wind out of the sails for THAT...if pi got rounded off to 3, well, heavens, people could remember pi just with the "Boy" part! Or "Hey" or "Wow"! And you'd have to seriously wonder about anybody who would NEED a mnemonic at that point. Nope, Lucy's dad probably wouldn't like it at all. :-) Benay still tired because after she went to bed at 3, her smoke alarm went off full-blast at 6 for absolutely NO discernible reason, right in the middle of a nice dream...you gotta love it... ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V5 #210 ******************************* 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