From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V7 #26 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Friday, January 28 2005 Volume 07 : Number 026 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V7 #25 [DrTobs@aol.com] [RS] NYC Gigs Added in April ["scott shindell" ] Re: [RS] RE: Woodsongs [adam plunkett ] [RS] Woodsongs ["Pam Pickering" ] Re: [RS] Woodsongs [Vanessa Wills ] [RS] Woodsongs (and Can't I fight City Hall?) [Vanessa Wills Subject: [RS] NYC Gigs Added in April Joe's Pub, 4/7 and 4/8/2005 212.539.8770 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:07:13 -0800 (PST) From: adam plunkett Subject: Re: [RS] RE: Woodsongs You're welcome! You're welcome! You're welcome! You can also thank the Garnet Rogers yahoo mailing list as someone there posted the link in terms of one of Garnet's shows. LOTS of great shows there. - --- Kevin Bohrer wrote: > This is why I love this list...I never would have > found this on my own! > Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!!! > > >> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:35:40 -0800 (PST) > >> From: adam plunkett > >> Subject: [RS] Woodsongs > >> > >> You can download the shows of Woodsongs from > their > >> site and they have some great archived shows > including > >> Richard's recent show. > >> > >> Richard sings Next Best Western, There Goes > Mavis, > >> Reunion Hill. > >> > >> http://www.woodsongs.com/showlist.asp > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:52:35 -0800 From: "Pam Pickering" Subject: [RS] Woodsongs How awesome!!! I was pouting because I couldn't spend my birthday on Saturday at the Richard Shindell concert in Ann Arbor and was stuck instead in foggy Sacramento! Then this wonderful video appears on my very own laptop. Now that's a great birthday present!!! Thanks for the info! Pam in California ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:02:16 -0500 From: Vanessa Wills Subject: Re: [RS] Woodsongs ooh! thanks for the link! I'm letting it play at this very moment. Does anyone know: is there really no way to fast forward? - --V On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:35:40 -0800 (PST), adam plunkett wrote: > http://www.woodsongs.com/showlist.asp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:43:24 -0500 From: Vanessa Wills Subject: [RS] Woodsongs (and Can't I fight City Hall?) Oh, cool: I didn't realize how close to the beginning Richard's set is. Gosh, he's in wonderful voice here! And I loved his answer to the question of what it was like to move to Buenos Aires: "Well, it's not like I left Ireland in 1848 on a ship and never got to go home again." Classic Richard, if I might say. :) The fingerpicked "Mavis" is all kinds of gorgeous. And it's really interesting to watch a videotaped recording of Richard, with these intense close-ups of his hands moving over that guitar. This reminds me maybe I should give "The Grocer's Broom" another listen tonight; it sure seems more resonant than ever. If I seem even more effusive about Richard than usual lately, it's probably because I'm really appreciative of anyone and anything that can cheer me up right now. My university and the city I live in are driving several small, independent street-food vendors out of their jobs, and I've been working together with two other grad students at Pitt to find a solution so that these people can just continue to do the hard work that they do. They don't have any other way of supporting their families, and they have been in their current location, a parking lot next to the main campus building, for as long as fifteen years in one case. I am shocked and saddened and outraged, which makes me feel that I must almost be pretty naive; and yet I never want to be so jaded that I would fail to have those feelings about something that is so profoundly cruel and unfair. :( We think we've got a couple thousand signatures on petitions, and we've been making calls to various city agencies. Of course, everyone blames everyone else: the city says the university wants it and the university says that the city wants it. It's crap! And in the meantime, I had a conversation yesterday with a vendor who was on the point of tears: a man who for fifteen years had taken pride in the fact that he got out there every day and worked hard for his family. Now he and other vendors are being forced out, and we're being told that when the parking lot they're on is destroyed (there's a parking shortage already, by the way), there will be built four kiosks, two of which are already accounted for (not by any of the current street vendors, of course), and the other two of which are going to go to the highest bidder. Well, who's more likely to be the highest bidder: Mohammed, the man I talked to for an hour today who supports his family of eight with the proceeds from his gyro stand? Or McDonalds? I'm so mad I could spit. I guess the point of me ranting here is that a) hell, long as I've been on this list I figure most of us are all old friends by now, and b) maybe, being the socially conscious folks that so many of you are, you've had some experience in trying to help in situations like this, and have some ideas about what works and what doesn't. Not that I really intended to rant: it just sort of all poured out, probably because the day of reckoning is drawing near for these vendors (the city is allowing all of their licenses to expire on Monday). Any advice folks could provide offlist would be much appreciated. :( - --V On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:02:16 -0500, Vanessa Wills wrote: > ooh! thanks for the link! I'm letting it play at this very moment. > Does anyone know: is there really no way to fast forward? ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V7 #26 **********************************