From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #118 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/onlyjoni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Saturday, April 30 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 118 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- [none] [Ann ] Legends of the Canyon [Paul Castle ] Re: lisa hannigan covers joni's "willy" [Garret ] RE: Legends of the Canyon [Susan Tierney McNamara ] Who could play Joni [Catherine McKay ] Re: Who could play Joni [Gerald Notaro ] Re: Who could play Joni [LC Stanley ] Re: Who could play Joni [Vince ] SOAPG, The play [Michael quebec ] Re: SOAPG, The play [Bob Muller ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 04:40:38 -0400 From: Ann Subject: [none] http://jubasuwi.t35.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:57:41 +0100 From: Paul Castle Subject: Legends of the Canyon Just found this - from yesterday's Santa Cruz Sentinel - about a new documentary film narrated by Henry Diltz http://bit.ly/j10wX1 'Legends of the Canyon' throws light on the musical renaissance of 1960s Laurel Canyon and the origin of Crosby, Stills and Nash > Diltz comes to Santa Cruz on Saturday for a one-time > screening of the documentary "Legends of the Canyon," > which revisits the time and place that defined Southern > California folk pop throughout the 1960s and '70s. Diltz > is not only a featured interview in the film, he works as a > kind of narrator/tour guide of the place and its personalities. > Though the documentary spends a good deal of time > with the most influential female Laurel-ites - namely > Mitchell and "Mama Cass" Elliot - the film is largely > the story of the coming together of David Crosby, > Graham Nash and Stephen Stills into one of the most > famous vocal trios in rock history. All three men are > interviewed in the film, reminiscing about their early > days together. > The screening of "Legends of Laurel Canyon" takes > place Saturday at the Digital Media Factory on the > West Side of Santa Cruz. The film begins at 7 p.m., > with a VIP reception with Diltz scheduled for 5:30 p.m. > Diltz will conduct a Q&A session after the screening > and show more of his photos. The event will benefit the > Digital Media Education Foundation. Anyone here going to this? best to all PaulC NP John Martyn - Fine Lines - http://blip.fm/~143div (John's final recordings are being released May 3 as 'Heaven and Earth' - see http://bit.ly/lhJtDQ ) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:43:35 +0100 From: Garret Subject: Re: lisa hannigan covers joni's "willy" That's a lovely version William, not quite what i expected. Lisa also did the amazing backing vocals on Damien Rice's album O. GARRET On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Lieve Reckers wrote: > You win the caption competition of the month, William! > > But thanks for the > clip, it's lovely indeed. I know Lisa Hannigan from a > tribute night to Nick > Drake in London's Barbican hall, one or two years ago. > She was one of the > highlights then, too. > Lieve in London > > > > ________________________________ > From: william burnworth > To: joni@smoe.org > Sent: Thu, 28 > April, 2011 20:46:40 > Subject: lisa hannigan covers joni's "willy" > > http://www.wearsthetrousers.com/2011/04/watch-lisa-hannigan-covers-joni-mitch > > ell/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wearsthetrous > ers+%28wears+the+trousers%29 > > > not a sentence I'd imagine writing ;) > happy > Jazzfest everybody > love, William(smiling wistfully from Miami) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:36:38 -0400 From: Susan Tierney McNamara Subject: RE: Legends of the Canyon I just watched this documentary on Netflix about two weeks ago. I think that Joni does get a good bit of time on this documentary but the focus was the three groups that ultimately made up Crosby Stills Nash and Young: The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and the Hollies. I really enjoyed this documentary especially for the fact that my appreciation for Stephen Stills' talent grew immensely. He is an amazing song writer, and I loved when Graham Nash talks about them not having a good opening song for Dij` vu and Stephen came to him a day later with "Carry On." One of my favorite albums of all time, probably in my top 10, is Manassas. I was under the impression that this documentary had already been discussed here ... was it? I guess I should check the archives. Thanks Paul!! Take care, Sue - -----Original Message----- From: owner-joni@smoe.org [mailto:owner-joni@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Paul Castle Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 4:58 AM To: joni@smoe.org Subject: Legends of the Canyon Just found this - from yesterday's Santa Cruz Sentinel - about a new documentary film narrated by Henry Diltz http://bit.ly/j10wX1 'Legends of the Canyon' throws light on the musical renaissance of 1960s Laurel Canyon and the origin of Crosby, Stills and Nash > Diltz comes to Santa Cruz on Saturday for a one-time > screening of the documentary "Legends of the Canyon," > which revisits the time and place that defined Southern > California folk pop throughout the 1960s and '70s. Diltz > is not only a featured interview in the film, he works as a > kind of narrator/tour guide of the place and its personalities. > Though the documentary spends a good deal of time > with the most influential female Laurel-ites - namely > Mitchell and "Mama Cass" Elliot - the film is largely > the story of the coming together of David Crosby, > Graham Nash and Stephen Stills into one of the most > famous vocal trios in rock history. All three men are > interviewed in the film, reminiscing about their early > days together. > The screening of "Legends of Laurel Canyon" takes > place Saturday at the Digital Media Factory on the > West Side of Santa Cruz. The film begins at 7 p.m., > with a VIP reception with Diltz scheduled for 5:30 p.m. > Diltz will conduct a Q&A session after the screening > and show more of his photos. The event will benefit the > Digital Media Education Foundation. Anyone here going to this? best to all PaulC NP John Martyn - Fine Lines - http://blip.fm/~143div (John's final recordings are being released May 3 as 'Heaven and Earth' - see http://bit.ly/lhJtDQ ) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:59:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Who could play Joni The issue has come up before about who we think could play Joni in a movie about her (for example, "Girls like us," based on Sheila Weller's book. I was watching one of my favourite comedies last night, "Community" and it occurred to me that, with her cheekbones and facial structure, the girl who plays Britta on that show could work. I hope the link below works. http://www.google.ca/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1276&bih=819&q=Gillian+Jacobs&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:15:23 -0400 From: Gerald Notaro Subject: Re: Who could play Joni After watching Gwyneth Paltrow on a few episodes of Glee, I'll vote for her. Jerry On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Catherine McKay wrote: > The issue has come up before about who we think could play Joni in a movie > about > her (for example, "Girls like us," based on Sheila Weller's book. > > I was watching one of my favourite comedies last night, "Community" and it > occurred to me that, with her cheekbones and facial structure, the girl who > plays Britta on that show could work. I hope the link below works. > > > > http://www.google.ca/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1276&bih=819&q=Gillian+Jacobs&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:54:26 -0500 From: LC Stanley Subject: Re: Who could play Joni Very cool. On Apr 29, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Catherine McKay wrote: > The issue has come up before about who we think could play Joni in a movie about > her (for example, "Girls like us," based on Sheila Weller's book. > > I was watching one of my favourite comedies last night, "Community" and it > occurred to me that, with her cheekbones and facial structure, the girl who > plays Britta on that show could work. I hope the link below works. > > > http://www.google.ca/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1276&bih=819&q=Gillian+Jacobs&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:13:14 -0400 From: Vince Subject: Re: Who could play Joni The only person who could illuminate Joni is Erykah Badu On Apr 29, 2011 7:03 PM, "LC Stanley" wrote: > Very cool. > > > > On Apr 29, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Catherine McKay wrote: > >> The issue has come up before about who we think could play Joni in a movie about >> her (for example, "Girls like us," based on Sheila Weller's book. >> >> I was watching one of my favourite comedies last night, "Community" and it >> occurred to me that, with her cheekbones and facial structure, the girl who >> plays Britta on that show could work. I hope the link below works. >> >> >> http://www.google.ca/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1276&bih=819&q=Gillian+Jacobs&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 04:00:07 +0000 From: Michael quebec Subject: SOAPG, The play Folks in Ottawa are in luck. The National Arts Center is presenting a Joni tribute musical show in a small theatre venue next week. Limited engagement. Full story here http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/theatre/one-play-six-different-versi ons-of-joni-mitchell/article2001076/ More than 500 artists from Saskatchewan and Manitoba will take over Canadas capital for the next two weeks as Ottawas National Arts Centre presents Prairie Scene, a festival celebrating the regions art and culture. The fifth in a series  the NAC has already presented Atlantic Scene, Alberta Scene, Quebec Scene and B.C. Scene  the focus on the Prairies, like previous festivals, offers a chance to better understand the country. Learning about the country through its artists is eye-opening, says Heather Moore, producer and executive director of Prairie Scene. The festival covers music, dance, comedy, film and theatre, including Songs of a Prairie Girl, Jim Guedos play featuring six different women who portray various aspects of Joni Mitchell. Guedo created the play in 2005, when Mitchell released a compilation CD of the same name, in a sense her contribution to Saskatchewans centennial. With dialogue taken entirely from various interviews Mitchell has given over the years, the play aims to be a theatrical version of Mitchells life as viewed through the music from Songs of a Prairie Girl. Older Joni Christine MacInnis plays the old Joni, she says, capturing the singer as she looks back over her life and work. Im kind of the narrator. Its almost like looking back over [her] career. At 53, MacInnis is Mitchells junior by 14 years, although she does bear a striking resemblance to the singer. People are kind of freaked out when they see me ... especially when theyre showing shots of her, MacInnis says. To capture the fullness of Mitchells life, MacInnis sings Circle Game with the other actresses at the beginning of the play and then, near its end, she alone sings Stay In Touch, a fitting song to conclude with, considering the lyrics: This is really something/ People will be envious/ But our roles arent clear/ So we musnt rush /...We should stay in touch. Young Joni Playing the young Joni Mitchell, Alyssa Billingsley has the task of portraying her prairie-girl roots, the nomadic, lone child wandering on the prairie in a small town finding ways to amuse herself, she says. That includes everything from the time when Mitchell was a 9-year-old struggling with polio, through to about age 14. For me, having grown up in rural Saskatchewan, its a part of me. Im getting in touch with my own roots, says the 24-year-old actress. Billingsley sings Urge for Going and River to capture that youthful restlessness. Its a feeling bred in the bone for people who grew up where Mitchell did. Its definitely a part of being in the rural part of the Prairies, she says. Painter Joni Mitchell has always liked to say that shes a painter first and foremost  music is just her day job. The role of painter Joni falls to Vesti Hanson. Im the middle-aged, still painting, still working [Joni], says Hanson, who played the older version of Mitchell in the original production of the play at the University of Saskatchewan. Even though she studied Mitchells paintings, the music was the secret to unlocking her character, Hanson says. If you get to the heart of the music, you get to the heart of a lot of the mystery, she says. Shes very unpredictable. Fittingly, Hanson sings a number of songs from Mitchells work from the 1980s and 1990s, including Chinese Cafe and Face Lift. 1950s Joni Mitchell may be best known as a folk icon from the late 1960s and early 1970s, but her musical coming of age occurred in the 1950s, when rock n roll was born. Amy Matysio plays Mitchell during this period. She describes Mitchell during this time as the rebellious teen, the dancer when she just started getting her hips going, Matysio says. Thats when Joni was discovering where she was going. Theres lots of stuff she talks about in the play about ... what she liked to do when no one else was doing it  sneaking out and going to dance halls, listening to music that no one else was listening to. As the burgeoning rebel, Matysio, who hails from Regina, sings Rays Dads Cadillac and Harlem in Havana. Hippie Joni No play about the life and times of Joni Mitchell would be complete without covering the singers hippie period in the 1960s and early 1970s, a period portrayed by Leora Godden. Its sort of like the beginning of her boom into stardom and becoming very popular, Godden says. Its also a difficult time for Mitchell, which sees her in a bad marriage and having to give up a child. Because a lot of the stuff that went on when she was that age was quite heavy, and youre there for all of it and what shes saying, I take on that heavy, sombre stuff, Godden says. Those turbulent times are brought out in the songs A Case of You, Let The Wind Carry Me and Paprika Plains. Late-1970s Joni Jacklyn Green, a member of the original cast during her time at the University of Saskatchewan, portrays Mitchell as the musical explorer, she says. A lot of her stuff is very different and eclectic and edgy, and this is really where shes exploring, pushing the boundaries of music. In the songs from this period, there is a wrestling with the idea of settling down with somebody, Green says. Mitchells experimentation in this era is reflected by the songs Don Juans Reckless Daughter, one of Mitchells most experimental works, and Song for Sharon. Delving into Mitchells life is very humbling, Green says. Shes had a lot of hardship in her life and she goes on to explain a lot of these things that shes experienced, but she has no regrets. Shes always moving forward. Songs of a Prairie Girl runs May 4-7 at the National Arts Centre Studio in Ottawa. Michael in Quebec ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 22:39:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: SOAPG, The play This looks to be VERY impressive indeed. Are they REALLY going to perform "Paprika Plains"? (he said, his head spinning). Just now on radioparadise I heard KD's "Jericho" and Joni's "For Free". Always cool when this stuff pops up unexpected. Bob NP: Joni, "For Free" ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2011 #118 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe