NanciNet Digest 10-28-03(/b>(/head> (body> (hr> (pre> // A very short digest...a very quiet week. // Enjoy...[BP] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: NN: How far to see Nanci Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 19:14:02 -0500 From: "Lorrie Chase" (lchase@webshoppe.net> I once traveled from Alabama to Colorado to see Nanci. She was at the Telluride Blue Grass Festival, so I hung around for the whole four days... Time of my life! Lorrie "two kids later, seems like a dream" Chase ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: NN: Nanci in England??? Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:24:20 +0100 From: "Helen Mitchell" (ellie1980@blueyonder.co.uk> so where and when are the england dates, as in England UK i assume??? Emailed website was told no foreseeable plans so I am confused. I am in the North east saw Nanci for first time in Newcastle, 2 weeks after 9/11. We were on vacation as u guys say, had been in nyc 2 days b4, at bottom of towers, and (ironically after this week) on the staten island ferry, taking pics of the towers. Nanci talked of her friend julie gold, calling her as she watched the towers fall from her window, and dedicated, from a distance to all those of 9/11. I cried throughout, as did much of the audience. Then she did trouble in the fields, she calls that her uk song, and dedicated it to all those touched by foot and mouth - I did a 4 yr degree in cumbria, many of my friends are still over there - 2 of my best friends and their children live in the middle of nowhere as it were in the country, through them I know many people who lost their animals, and vividly remember driving out west one day and hearing the guns go off at orton; I pulled over on the side of the road, and broke my heart, was awful. So again, I cried. Quite proved the point just made tho about live music at certain times; there is a connection there as for those few moments you share something more than just a song, but feelings those songs induce. That's the power of music though. Looking forward to next live gig - sadly was in Mississippi at Easter to stay with a friend, came into Nashville to see Kate Campbell - she and nanci are my faves - but nanci was on the day after i flew home; grrrr. Love Helen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: NN: RE: Nanci in England??? Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:25:03 +0100 From: "John Graveling" (kai21@dial.pipex.com> If Nanci had been planning on playing dates in the U.K. this year they would certainly have been advertised by now. I think someone misread something, somewhere and sent out the red herring. John Graveling ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: NN: Nanci and Kate Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 18:26:19 -0500 From: "Lorrie Chase" (lchase@webshoppe.net> I was just listening to a Kate Campbell CD (Wandering Strange) and the song "Crazy in Alabama". I was just wondering, do you suppose Nanci knows Kate Campbell's music. So much of it is so poignant, and intelligent. Not that I know Nanci personally, but it seems she would appreciate it. Lorrie "Maybe I should take up knitting" Chase ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: NN: Nanci and Kate From: "Bill" (bpage3@earthlink.net> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 7:37 AM Lorrie wrote: >> I was just listening to a Kate Campbell CD...and...was just >> wondering, do you suppose Nanci knows Kate Campbell's music. So much of it is so poignant, and intelligent. Not that I know Nanci personally, but it seems she would appreciate it.(( Kate doesn't drop names, but I know that she is familiar with Nanci's work, and I would assume the reverse is true. Certainly they have mutual friends (including Emmylou Harris, Fran Brean, Mac McAnally). Those of you who have, in some unfathomable way, not yet discovered Kate Campbell's music should attempt to rectify the situation postehaste. You could certainly start with "Wandering Strange," or the CD "Visions of Plenty" (which contains that great song "Crazy in Alabama." If your taste leans toward classic country sounds, Kate's new CD "Twang on A Wire," her tribute to Nashville's distaff singers. If you have a chance to see Kate live, you will know that she is as real as it gets: a performer whose warmth is as genuine off-stage as on. http://www.katecampbell.com Bill "did I mention the moonpie list?" Page ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: NN: Sometimes you just have to wait Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 07:52:47 -0500 (GMT-05:00) From: Bill (bpage3@earthlink.net> Back when my life revolved around Nanci Griffith's music and the Nancinet, I tried to get my daughters to love her music as much as I did. Should have been easy; they grew up in a home where the previous generation of folk singers (John Denver, PPM, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez) pretty much stayed on the CD rotation. The younger one was, at the time, a Reba fan, so I though they would pick up on Nanci right away. Nope. Oh, it was okay, they agreed, but it didn't grab them. When we went to the BlueMoonpie fest in Atlanta (and I still think you guys are the greatest for helping Dawn-Marie and me make it there!), younger daughter liked Nanci okay, but she fell in love with Kate Campbell. Halfway there. Fast forward. Elder daughter has graduated from college (!), younger kiddo is a sophomore. Both of them know and enjoy Nanci's music (and will quote from the songs at the drop of a hat). Both of them know and enjoy Kate's music. And both of them enjoy other singer-songwriters, usually those of a Celtic bent, although elder daughter has taken quite a shine to Emmylou's latest CD. So sometimes we just have to wait awhile. Bill "it's always been more than the music" Page ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: NN: Three fab things Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 22:45:48 +1000 From: "Tony Cox" (tonycox@pacific.net.au> Here are three things that have had me ooh-ing and ah-ing in admiration and wonder in the last week: 1) The exhilarating live Sinead O'Connor DVD recorded at her Dublin 2002 show. It also features an inspiring documentary on the making of her 'Sean-nos Nua' album. After being moved to tears hearing/seeing her perform these Irish folk standards which previously had meant next to nothing to me, I've consigned my one Dolores Keane album to the 'for sale' crate. It now sounds like a collection of karaoke dirges. 2) The new live Patti Griffin CD/DVD, 'A Kiss In Time'. If anything, these versions of mostly '1000 Kisses' tracks sound even more magical performed live. I haven't had a chance to play the DVD yet - saving that treat for tomorrow - but the CD alone is worth the money. 3) The full-length film of Joni Mitchell's career (made by a UK team, I believe). I saw it on TV last night. It was awe-inspiring. I am left convinced that no one else has come close to doing what she has done with such consistent creative brilliance. See the film and marvel at the miracle of life. Tony ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Questions about NanciNet? Send e-mail to bpage3@yahoo.com Return to Archives or The Blue Moon Page