From: owner-octoroon-digest@smoe.org (octoroon-digest) To: octoroon-digest@smoe.org Subject: octoroon-digest V2 #27 Reply-To: octoroon@smoe.org Sender: owner-octoroon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-octoroon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk octoroon-digest Saturday, February 27 1999 Volume 02 : Number 027 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [octoroon] Laura in New Mexico [BassBrain@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 11:25:35 EST From: BassBrain@aol.com Subject: [octoroon] Laura in New Mexico Hi folks - not much traffic on this list lately, what with Laura being at the Folk Alliance conference/showcase this week, so thought I'd sent out my 2 cents. While I didn't get to catch any of her short performances at the Alliance, my friends and I are going down to Socorro (about 80 miles south of Albuquerque) to see Laura perform on a bill with Greg Brown at the Macy Center on the small campus of NM Tech Univ. Laura had a short but sweet writeup in the music column of the Albuquerque Journal Venue section this morning, which also contained a great photo of her ala the Shum-Ticky album look. We are really looking forward to the show, having last seen Laura perform about 2 years ago at the same venue. The Macy center draws a real diverse crowd, from children to seniors, since Socorro sits pretty much in the center of nowhere and the NM Arts people help subsidize performances there for the college. Last time she got a great response and I imagine that will be true this time as well! Not like seeing Laura in a club, but great all the same! Socorro is a strange and funky old town, founded in the 1500s, near the Rio Grande on the old El Camino Real---the old highway from Mexico City to Santa Fe. The old part of town has lots of old adobe buildings from clear back to the 18th century---and it has a movie theatre that is like stepping back into the 40s or 50s, as well as a good restaurant/bar in a renovated old railroad hotel that used to be a Fred Harvey deal (the Val Verde). Socorro is also about 18 miles from one of the best bird refuges in the country---Bosque Del Apache--which is the winter home for one of the largest flocks of sandhill cranes in the U.S. (oh so prehistoric looking) as well as 3 rare whooping cranes, thousands of geese and ducks and many other kinds of water birds, lots of bald eagles, hawks, etc. If you go a little ways east of town you can savor the best green chile cheeseburgers in the world (they say) at the Owl Bar and Cafe in San Antonio. Or if you go south and then west thru Magdelena and beyond, you can see the Very Large Array radio telescopes which fill a huge, empty area between the area mountains called the Plains of Augustin with their surreal presence. They were featured in the Jody Foster film "Contact" and many others. Now that you've had your history/geography lesson (LOL) let me just say that excitement is high for Laura's performance and that we will report later on how it all went! And to boot we are gonna pay another visit to the Bosque Del Apache and savor the aves! Regards, Barbara ------------------------------ End of octoroon-digest V2 #27 *****************************