An item where Grexers can tell us about their upcoming performances of 
all kinds.

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The Vocal Arts Ensemble will present a concert of mainly French music 
on Saturday, Oct. 21, at 8 PM.  The venue is Temple Beth Emeth/St. 
Clare's Episcopal Church at 2309 Packard.  Admission is $15, $10 for 
seniors and students.  We're calling this concert "C'est la VAE!"  Yes, 
we realize this conflicts with the first game of the World Series, but 
it's worth it!

We'll be singing choral works by Poulenc, Hindemith, Villette, Debussy, 
Massenet and a couple of others.  There will also be several solo 
songs, including Cole Porter's "I Love Paris."  I will be singing a 
very sexy cabaret song by Erik Satie, "Je te veux." 

  (((  Fall Agora 90  <--->  Music 30  )))

Friday Nov 10 at Green Wood Coffee House: Katie Geddes and Friends, featuring
Michael ("Bluer Than Blue") Johnson, Mary McCaslin, Matt Watroba's Jukebox
Folk Quartet and All About Eve. 

Sat Nov 18, I appear with Matt Watroba at Off The Wall Coffee House in
Walled Lake. 

Fri Nov 24 I am part of Matt Watroba's Jukebox Folk Quartet, appearing
at the Ark.

(Mary adds November 10th concert to her calendar.)

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his 
hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an 
idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

Into this Universe, and why not knowing,
Nor whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing:
And out of it, as Wind along the Waste,
I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing.

Round the world and home again
That's the sailor's way
Faster faster, faster faster

There's no earthly way of knowing
Which direction we are going
There's no knowing where we're rowing
Or which way the river's flowing

Is it raining, is it snowing
Is a hurricane a-blowing

Not a speck of light is showing
So the danger must be growing
Are the fires of Hell a-glowing
Is the grisly reaper mowing

Yes, the danger must be growing
For the rowers keep on rowing
And they're certainly not showing
Any signs that they are slowing

(That last sounds like something from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate
Factory.")

re# 8
Yea..so?
 I like it better than Fitzgeralds translation of "The Rubayyat of Omar 
Khayyam"

I'll be playing piano at the annual West Coast Ragtime Festival in
Sacramento, California.  The festival runs from Friday, November 17
through Sunday, November 19.  It's one of the largest ragtime festivals
in the world, with well over 40 performers participating this year. 
Details can be found at <http://www.westcoastragtime.com/06wcrf-home.htm>.

If you're in that part of the world and enjoy old-time (and
contemporary) music of the syncopated variety, drop by and check it out.

Cool, I'd love to go!

This evening, I went to see my nephew in the musical "Aida".  I was impressed
with how well he did. The other actors and actresses, too.

 When you say "the musical 'Aida'" is that the well know opera, or some
 other musical based on the story?

There's a new musical.  Somebody decided that Verdi hadn't done a 
good enough job on the first version.  :)

This version is based on the opera that's based on the story... Elton John
composed the music, [Tom?] Rice wrote the lyrics.

My Green Wood show Friday night was sold out/SRO. Please come hear me
the day after Thanksgiving at the Ark!

Re 15  Tim Rice.

Yep, I realized that later when I looked at the program again. Thanks for
clearing that up!

Matt Watroba and I appear at Off the Wall Coffee House in Walled Lake
Sat night.

This is me reporting live from the West Coast Ragtime Festival in 
Sacramento, California.  Did one set so far today, with washboardist 
extraordinaire Kitty Wilson.  Another solo set this evening, another 
tomorrow, last one on Sunday.  Plus scads of fine musicians to listen to 
when I'm not busy.  Great fun.

The weather here is partly sunny, temperature in the upper 60s, with a 
view of palm trees out the hotel window.  Eat your hearts out, 
Michiganders!

katie had a really nice newpaper writeup in aa-snooze a while back - about
her being on stage and lots about greenwood ... forgto toenter it.
  

I read it. It was good. I marvel that she's made a successful venue out of 
a church. I imagine it blows a few fundie minds to acknowledge the success 
of a church venue in A2.

rotfl.

Maybe Fundie minds like the idea of singing in a churc.

The Clancy Brothers used to perform almost exclusively in churches, IIRC.
They would NOT perform in any venue that served alcohol.

singing in church ....; who'da thunk it?!     
  
kinda like 'the plush bathtub' in el paso --- precursor to 'greenwood.'
  
but the talent list wasn't as extensive - and i t didn't last as long.
  
same denomination though!

On December 10, I'll be performing in the annual Ragtime Bash at the 
Unitarian church in Ann Arbor.  Other performers include pianist/composer 
William Bolcom, singer Joan Morris, dynamo boogie woogie pianist Bob 
Seely, legendary ragtime historian Mike Montgomery, and Kent "Cannonball" 
Eshelman.

Time and place:  7:30 PM, December 10 at the Unitarian Universalist 
Church, 4001 Ann Arbor-Saline Rd. at Ellsworth.

Admission is $15.  Tickets can be purchased at the door or in advance at 
Nicola's Books.

Tomorrow (Sat Dec 2) eve I will sing one or two songs with Don White
at the Ark. Don White is alternately amazingly funny and downright
poignant. Get in line early, he's very popular.

This coming Tuesday the Calvin College Men's Chorale, of which I am a member,
and Lyric Singers will be singing a concert in the Calvin chapel at 8:00 PM.

Re #25:  What, a family of Irish musicians didn't approve of drinking 
alcohol????  That sounds just wacky.

They recongnised the problems drink has caused the Irish and wanted to do
at least a little to improve the situation.

without drinking, the irish wouldn't be the irish.  They'd be the welsh.

Pfft....because non-drinking Irish are so lame?

The Clancys were just worried they'd be one-upped by real singing Irish.

The Irish and Welsh languages, cultures, etc, are much more different than 
just in their consumption of spirits.

Good point.

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