// Looks like our friends in the UK have good television ahead...
// That and more...
// Enjoy!  [BP]

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Subject: NN: Next Nanci
   From: "Paul Castle" (pdcmusic@freeuk.com>
   Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:05:42 -0000

Not sure, from the three tracks I've heard
so far, but I have a feeling that Mindy Smith
has a long career ahead of her.

I read that her debut album is not out until 
January but I'm already really taken by her voice.

My ears first pricked up when I heard her
version of 'Jolene' on the Dolly Parton tribute
album, so I found her website - and three songs -
at http://www.mindysmith.net/photosmusic.asp
Think Nanci fans will like her song 'Falling'
but she really takes my breath with 'Come to Jesus'.

From her stage set up, detailed on her website,
looks like she normally plays acoustic with just
a mandolin player - which is probably how I would
prefer to hear her live.  Anyone here seen her?

Very best

Paul
www.rosinators.com

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Subject: RE: NN: BBC 4 womens country night (Sat 20/12/03)
   Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:56:03 +0000
   From: "Robert Pugsley" (robertpugsley@hotmail.com>

I would say this is almost worth buying a DVD recorder for.
BBC4 is under quite a lot of pressure in the UK because it hasn't got
many viewers but I think this is exactly what it's for, minority 
programming.

So, UK readers go out and get it and support public broadcasting!

(Quite apart from the fact that its got Curb Your Enthusiasm on which
makes it worth getting a licence for)

All the best
Robert (Pugsley)

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Subject: NN: NanciNews: Nanci on BBC Four Sat. 20 December
   Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:22:15 -0500
   From: info@nancigriffith.com

BBC Four to air Winter Marquee concert Saturday 20 December

BBC Four television in the UK will air Nanci's Winter Marquee concert video
on Saturday 20 December, at 9:00p, as part of their Country Ladies Night
lineup of shows.  

It is an evening filled with performances from and profiles of the best
female singer-songwriters around, including Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton,
Emmylou Harris and Allison Kraus.  You can access the full evenings schedule
by clicking below.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/music/features/country-ladies.shtml

BBC Four is also running a special contest on their website, giving away 5
copies of Nanci's Winter Marquee CD.  You have until January 6th to enter.
You can click the link below to access the entry form.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/competition/bbcfour_comp8.shtml

Visit us online!  http://nancigriffith.com

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Subject: NN: Re: BBC 4 womens country night - request for video
   Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:16:09 -0500
   From: "Maureen Parr" (mreenparr@clara.co.uk>

Is there any kind friend out there in the madness who could video some or
all of the Friday and Saturday BBC4 programmes for me?  I'm living with my
mother at present and, although she has BBC4, the video has packed up and I
don't like to ask her to forego her usual diets of soaps and pop quizzes for
me (it is *her* home and television, after all!)

I'm specially interested in the Emmylou Harris programme on Friday
21.00-22.00 and the following four programmes on Saturday/Sunday:

Nanci Griffiths 21.00

Alison Krauss and Union Station Live 22.00

Emmylou Harris - From A Deeper Well 23.50

Emmylou Harris - Old Grey Whistle Test  00.50

If anyone could do even some of these, I would be so grateful.  Naturally,
all expenses, including time and trouble, will be met in full.

Gratefully,
Maureen Parr
(formerly from London, now living in Bournemouth, England)

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Subject: Re: NN: Re: BBC 4 womens country night - request for video
   Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:59:17 -0700
   From: catfan@extremezone.com

On 17 Dec 2003 at 11:16, Maureen Parr wrote:

Is there any kind friend out there in the madness who could video
some or all of the Friday and Saturday BBC4 programmes for me?

Me too!  I live in the states, so I can't see them at all(even if BBC 
America is running them, I don't have cable)!  8-(

Let me know what it'll cost and I'll get you a check.
Thanks!
Mark

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Subject: NN: A summing up...
   Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:19:19 EST
   From: ChocChippy@aol.com

We've reached the waning days of the year, bu I refuse to believe we've reached
the waning days of this lovely list. In fact, recent topics like the records
that have had long lives on our own playlists and the "next" Nanci have me as
interested as I've been in awhile. I haven't seen Nanci live in awhile, but I
treasure some of those shows as my favorites (one of the most fun was the
Sessions at 54 filming, at which I met the lovely & talented Ferg-man). 

I haven't traveled as much to see musicians I love in the last three years
because there's someone at home waiting for me, and when we go on the road,
it's together. It's as simple as that. I don't travel as much to seek things of
beauty because I've found someone very special. So there's that...

...though it was only this year that said Someone Special finally "got" Miss
Nanci. "That Winter Marquee's a pretty good album," she said. "For some reason,
I don't mind her voice on that one..." (As we all well know, there are those
who have a "little girl voice" phobia. In fact, I'm one of them, except for
NG). So we take turns stealing Winter Marquee from each other to take to work.
I may just break down and buy another copy so we can both have one.

Rather than a "new" Nanci, I've acquired a few other special musicians who give
me that kind of pleasure in the last three years or so. One is Melissa Ferrick,
who does put on one of the best live shows I've ever seen. The other is the
still unknown (but not for long, I hope,) Meghan Cary. 

(Shameless self promo: here's a link to a recent interview I did with Melissa
Ferrick. http://www.gaycitynews.com/gcn_249/theintimacyofsolo.html)

I found I bought hardly any new music this year, but went back to some albums
from '02 (which in many ways was a frozen blur, as it was for a lot of us in
NYC). Springsteen's The Rising was something I could finally listen to. The
Chicks' Home was the exception to the new rule that talented mature artists are
no longer on major labels. And of late, as I mentioned recently, I've been
loving the Dolly Parton tribute CD. 

I wish everyone a happy, loving, healing and active holiday season.

Kathleen W.

NP: Treasures Left Behind (Kate Wolf tribute)

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