From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V6 #124 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 Thursday, July 22 2004 Volume 06 : Number 124 In this issue: [lucy-list] Lucy in Madison Square Park, NYC 7/21/04 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 22:12:16 -0400 From: Benay Bubar Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy in Madison Square Park, NYC 7/21/04 Hi, everybody...[pokes slumbering Lucy-list with fork to see if it's dead or alive]... Well, thanks to the Madison Square Park Conservancy, Lucy treated New Yorkers, established fans and the newly curious alike, to a free show tonight in the newly renovated Madison Square Park. Madison Square Park---which Lucy referred to as "the most beautiful park in New York," and tonight one couldn't argue with that assessment---is in the middle of Manhattan, but a mile and a half south of Central Park...it's about three blocks long by two blocks wide. Even after 10 years in NYC, I'd never been there before, but it was gorgeous...and pleasingly but not uncomfortably crowded on this warm summer night. I made myself at home in the crowd and was immediately fielding questions from those around me once my set list pad made its appearance...upon my admission that yes, I had seen Lucy "ummmm...a lot" and was taking notes not for some major metropolitan newspaper but merely for the Lucy-list, I found myself branded a "Lucy Kaplansky freak" and summarily introduced as such to new arrivals...warmly, I think, but it was hard to tell. :-) Anyway, I couldn't exactly deny it. Lucy was introduced by John Platt from WFUV promptly at 7, and without an opener or any delay she made her way onstage and launched into a magnificent hourlong set, with sound as good as I've ever heard it at an outdoor show. It was easy to tell right away it would be a good show, because she started with: Lord, I Have Made You a Place in My Heart (Yup, this was the Greg Brown song from the Cry Cry Cry CD...but in Cry Cry Cry, it was sung by Dar, not Lucy! I'd never heard Lucy sing it herself before...but wow, did she ever nail it! Coming from Lucy solo, it seemed like a different song entirely, amazingly so...and from now on, whenever I think of that song, it will be Lucy's voice I hear in my head. It was gorgeous, and I hope it will be a permanent addition to Lucy's solo repertoire.) Then followed: Written on the Back of His Hand I Had Something Ten Year Night (Lucy said she was trying to do a lot of New York songs, and she did) Love Song/New York The Red Thread Don't Mind Me Brooklyn Train Line in the Sand Ring of Fire (a rocking version of this...Lucy mentioned that she'd thought Johnny Cash had written it, but no...and I had a moment of worry that she thus wouldn't be doing it for the Johnny and June tribute at Falcon Ridge...but it turned out it WAS a June Carter Cash song, so hopefully the song will indeed reappear then!) This Is Home (with mention that some of the families who had gone to China with Lucy and Rick to adopt Molly were there...Lucy was worried about making it through the song, but she managed) End of the Day Turn the Lights Back On Land of the Living By Way of Sorrow Encore: Broken Things The show was notable for the fact that through most of it, Lucy had a "mosh pit"---a group of little girls and a couple of boys, ranging in both age and number from about three to about eight who danced energetically in the front through many of the songs. (Interestingly, their dancing was most frenzied during some of the LEAST obviously danceable songs, including the beautiful but dirgelike Lord, I Have Made You a Place in My Heart!). Lucy seemed enchanted with them, and at one point when two of them came right up next to the stage, she reassured them it was fine to watch from there...which was how it happened that during This Is Home, about eight of the little ones took a break from dancing and lined up right at the stage's edge, appearing to be staring worshipfully up at Lucy...which couldn't have made This is Home any easier for her to sing! By the end of the show, the kids were getting perhaps a bit TOO comfortable---several of them were perched and fidgeting right on the stage itself, and I got the feeling that had the show lasted much longer, the frenzied dancing would have moved up there too, Lucy or no Lucy! Although this show was a reminder to some of us, especially with Falcon Ridge coming up, that sitting on the ground is not as easy as it used to be, it was well worth a few aches and pains to see Lucy's performance. Quite a night. Benay ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V6 #124 ******************************* 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