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From: preston@dawn.cs.rice.edu (Preston Briggs)
Subject: Re: What ever became of Uncle Bonsai?
Organization: Rice University, Houston
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 20:14:08 GMT

In article <BvLt45.KDt@rice.edu> riddle@is.rice.edu (Prentiss Riddle) writes:
>One of the funnier folk acts around a few years ago was Uncle Bonsai, a
>guitar and vocal based trio of two women and a man from somewhere in
>the Northwest.  They got lots of airplay on local folk shows here in
>Texas, at least, but they seem to have faded out of the scene.  I heard
>a while back that they broke up, but I don't know the details.  Have
>their members gone on to other things?

Extensive study of the suppressed literature of the ancients (old
rec.music.folk postings) reveals:

You can order everything, except for the "Boys want..." CD directly from
Andrew, who does business now as EBB Productions (short for Electric
Bonsai Band, his latest solo venture).    Send check or Money Order to

EBB Productions
9102 17th Ave NE
Seattle, WA 98115-3212
(206) 525-3546

"Myn ynd Wymyn" is a live recording of 22 all-acoustic songs.
It includes "Men and Women", which is also on the Windham
Hill CD "Legacy - A Collection of New Folk Music" in a studio
version with synthesizer.

Myn ynd Wymyn is a double-length cassette, for $15.00 (inc. S&H)
"A Lonely Grain of Corn" (LP only, from 1984) is $10.00

You might also consider picking up Andrew's solo album "I Am Joe's
Eyes" (attributed to the Electric Bonsai Band).

A live Uncle Bonsai "Greatest Hits" CD is in the works.

Preston Briggs
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: ellene@microsoft.com (Ellen Mitsue Eades)
Subject: LAST OF THE MOHICANS
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:21:22 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.

No, this isn't a misplaced posting!

Aside from the fact that it's a simply splendid movie with
breathtaking cinematography and wonderful romance, THE LAST
OF THE MOHICANS' soundtrack stars Phil Cunningham and Dougie
McLean!

There's something deeply satisfying about watching a coach
and four rattle through the deep forests toward one of the
colonial outposts while listening to Phil's gorgeous synthesizer
out of Dolby stereo sound!

See this movie!  Great music!

Ellen M. Eades
-- 
Ellen Eades					Microsoft Corporation
"Just call me F.G.M.  I hate excess verbiage."  _Twice Upon a Time_
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From: gorilla@cats.ucsc.edu (Joe Mama)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk,rec.music.makers
Subject: Wanted: Sea Music, lyrics to Tam Lin, and Barnacle Bill
Date: 29 Sep 1992 17:55:43 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


I'm looking for tapes and books of Sea Music (chanteys, forbitters,etc.)
and I'm looking for the lyrics to Tam Lin and the song
Barnacle Bill.

Thanks. Chris Arnold    gorilla@cats.ucsc.edu
From: tomve@lefty.West.Sun.COM (Tom Velazquez)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Michelle Shocked, Arkansas Traveler
Date: 6 Oct 92 22:29:53 GMT
Reply-To: tomve@lefty.West.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: lefty



Here is a chunk taken from "Does this road go to Little Rock" by Bart Bull, 
Michelle Shocked's husband. This booklet goes with the album "Arkansas Traveler"
I found the information on how to order it in the liner notes of the album.

			TV

P.S. This is re-printed with permission.



I think often of how Michelle Shocked encountered this tradition of 
field-recording and folk-collecting, partly because I see her around the house a
lot, but partly because her experience is dead-typical other than for the fact 
that it occurred in 1986. I've gone back and read the review of the 1986 
Kerrville Folk Festival written by an Englishman, Pete Lawrence, written not in 
his capacity as an entrepreneurial co-owner of a budding folk label in need of 
artist promotion and publicity, but as a "journalist." Published in Britain's 
glossy Folk Roots magazine amidst ads for bands with gigs at London's Cecil 
Sharp Centre and  ads for books by Pete Seeger on the working folk of America 
and on how to play the five-string banjo, the August 1986 review begins this 
way: "`Lose your heart to the hills' was the slogan imprinted on the hat that I 
brought back with me from Kerrvile, and you would certainly struggle to find a 
more idyllic setting than Quiet Valley Ranch, 20 acres of rustic campground 
situated amongst the green rolling hills of East Texas."   You'll note 
"struggle," "rustic" and "idyllic" loaded into the back half of that sentence, 
but you'll struggle like a rustic bug in an idyllic galvanized feed-tank trying 
to find Kerrville in East Texas. Kerrville is about an hour's drive northwest of
San Antonio, about a hundred miles or so due west of Austin. You could mistake 
it for East Texas, I guess  __  although Hill Country is dry cedar desert, and 
East Texas is one step up from swampland  __  but only if you were studying up 
to be a folklorist. It's a lot like being on the boat with Columbus when the 
sailor up in the crow's-nest hollers out "Land ho!" in Spanish, and Chris sweeps
the horizon with his spyglass, only to have his eyes bug out and the fateful 
words that would cue the action of ten thousand Westerns cross his lips: 
"Injuns!"
From: wsanders@ffeine.Sun.COM (Wiley Sanders)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Tish Hinojosa Tour Schedule - SPELLING CORRECTION
Date: 5 Oct 1992 20:36:09 GMT
Organization: Tradeshow Tech Support
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ffeine.corp.sun.com

The name of Tish's management company is MANAZO Music, not
Manzano, as incorrectly posted in the previos article:

Manazo Music Management
708 Rio Grande #250
Austin, TX  78701-2720

-wiely snaders
--
"True love is learning to love your lover's obsessions,
or at least being able to say '...oh...that's nice...'"
                                                        -Greg Brown
From: "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: world party
Date: 5 Oct 92 05:11:06 EST
Reply-To: "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

On 10-03-92 PATRICK LAPLAGNE wrote:

PLPS: For trivia buffs, Karl Wallinger, singer and leader of World Party,
PLwas with the Waterboys for albums two and three.

So, with how expressive you are in recommending the Waterboys (to
whom I listen avidly, especially Fisherman's Blues), can you
please describe World Party? I've never heard them. Thanks.

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From: kassover@rumsey.crd.ge.com (David Kassover)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Penny Whistles
Date: 28 Sep 92 20:34:25 GMT
Organization: nope

In article <1992Sep28.053229.28432@nwnexus.WA.COM> osiris@halcyon.halcyon.com (David Ruggiero) writes:
...
>
>Indeed: the opening clarinet solo in Gerswin's "Rhapsody in Blue" (that
>looooong slide up to the first note of the theme) is done with chromatic
>fingering up to the 'break'; the rest is entirely a function of throat
>size, shape, and airstream pressure. This 'trick' was apparently a special
>of the lead clarinetist in the Paul Whiteman Orchestra (which premiered the
>piece) - Gershwin wrote it with him specifically in mind.

Billy Novick does this on the Penny Whistle; it has to be heard
to be believed


-- 
David Kassover             "Proper technique helps protect you against
uupsi!khazad!kassover	          sharp weapons and dull judges."
kassover@aule-tek.com                   F. Collins
kassover@ra.crd.ge.com
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: mcc@cimage.com (Mike Champion)
Subject: Re: Lyrics to Rogues In A Nation
Organization: Cimage Corp, Ann Arbor, MI
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 13:16:06 GMT

aabjpt@gsusgi1.gsu.edu (John Thompson) writes:
: 
: We need the lyrics to Rogues In A Nation from the Steeleye Span album 
: Parcel Of Rogues.  Also any misc info about the song would be greatly
: appreciated. 
: 

I saved this from soc.culture.celtic some time ago ...

>From: morna@cs.ed.ac.uk (Morna J. Findlay)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.celtic,rec.music.folk
Subject: Words to Parcel O Rogues etc


Fareweel tae a our Scottish fame
Fareweel tae ancient Glory
Farweel e'en tae the Scottish Name
Sae famed in martial story.
The Sark rins ower the Solway sands
And Tweed rins tae the Ocean
Tae mark where Englands province stands
Sic a parcel o rogues in a nation!

What force or guile could not subdue
Through mony warlike ages
Is wrought now by a coward few
For hireling traitors wages.
The English steel we could disdain
Secure in valours station
But English gowd has been our bane
Sic a parcel o rogues in a nation!

Oh would ere I had seen the day
That treason thus could sell us
My auld grey heid had lien in clay
Wi Bruce and loyal Wallace.
But pith and power till my last hour
I`ll mak this declaration
We're bought and sold for English gold
Soc a parcel o rogues in a nation!


Robert Burns


The "rogues" concerned are the members of the Scottish parliament
who signed the Act of Union with England in 1707. A very powerful
song, but hardly suitable for a national anthem in my opinion.





The same person also wanted flower of Scotland - I'll leave that
to someone else. I can't be bothered typing it just now!


M




--
Morna Findlay 					JANET:morna@uk.ac.ed.lfcs 
	Thanksgiving For a National Victory (Robert Burns)
Ye hypocrites! are these your pranks? To murder men and give God thanks?
Desist, for shame! Proceed no further: God won't accept your thanks for murther.
From: "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: incredible string ban
Date: 5 Oct 92 05:11:06 EST
Reply-To: "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

On 10-03-92 DAVID ELWORTHY wrote:

DE(Less sure about the order from here on. Also, there is only one
DEconsistently good album in the rest of their work. The others are
DEpatchy, with the odd good song here and there.)
DE
DE10. Changing Horses.
DE Has a silly song about a pig ("Big Ted's dead, he was a big old
DEpig//Eat most anything, never wore a wig"), which I enjoy singing with
DEfriends but not listening to. Also a bizarre track called Creation,
DEwhich goes on a bit.

Changing Horses comes much earlier than you indicate. As a matter
of fact, it's before `U'. And IMHO it belongs in the category of
unequivocally good disks, rather than spotty. White Bird, Dust Be
Diamonds, Sleepers Awake, etc. etc.

The only song on the albums you mention I can find that's
credited jointly to them both is _The Song Has No Ending_, which
isn't really fair because it's a compilation of instrumental
pieces. But I don't have their eponymous first album. Are you
referring to something on there?

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From: rmura@world.std.com (Ron Mura)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Any News on Loudon Wainwright III in U.K.?
Date: 29 Sep 92 14:40:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: world.RMURA.92Sep29094026
Organization: The World

Has anyone in the U.K. heard any news about Loudon Wainwright III?
Someone posted that we was playing some shows there now.

Also, I read that his new album, _History_, was released in the U.K.
on Sept. 21.  The release date here is the U.S. is Oct. 20.  Has anyone
heard the album or seen reviews of it?

-- 
- Ron Mura, Boston, Massachusetts              rmura@world.std.com
From: dalton@epoch.Geop.UBC.CA (David Dalton)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Vancouver, BC: Rogue Folk Club Concert listings
Date: 29 Sep 92 00:31:57 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Geophysics & Astronomy, UBC, Vancouver, Canada

Here are the Rogue Folk Club listings for the next while.  Unless
otherwise stated, all concerts are at the W.I.S.E. Club Hall, 
1882 Adanac Street, Vancouver.  Prices are in right margin as   regular/member.

Friday,    October  2 (8:30)  Martin Simpson   English guitar player      11/8  
Saturday,  October  3 (8:30)  Country Dance (caller Marion Rose and      
                                            stringband the Headbenders)    7/6
Saturday,  October 10 (8:30)  Suffering Gaels  Seattle based Irish band    9/7
Friday,    October 16 (8:30)  Country Dance  (with local English Ceilidh  
               band Jiggery Pokery and Scandinavian band Gameldansk)       7/6  
Sunday,    October 18 (8:30)  La Musgans    Spanish folk band             11/8
Saturday,  October 24 (8:30)  Ad Vielle Que Pourra  New French Folk Music 11/8
Sunday,    October 25 (8:00)  Russian Tornado (Russian/Ukrainian tunes) and
        Rattle in the Dash (celtic/gypsy tunes).  This concert is at the
                           Vancouver Museum Auditorium, 1100 Chestnut St.  8/6
Wednesday, October 28 (8:30) Keith Hancock  and Lee Collinson             11/8
Saturday,  October 31 (8:30) CELTIC FIDDLE FEST: Kevin Burke, John Cunningham
                              and Christian Lemaitre (Kornog)             16/14
Thursday,  November 5 (8:30)  BOURNE AND MACLEOD at Commodore Ballroom    14/12
Saturday,  November 7 (8:30)  Country Dance with Marion Rose (caller) and
          a band featuring  Ruthie Dornfield, Paul Kotapish, Cyd Smith     7/6
Sunday,    November 8 (8:30)  Makvirag  Hungarian folk band               11/8
Friday,    November 20 (8:30)  John Gorka and Brenda Baker                11/8
Monday,    November 23        RAWLINS CROSS  (To be confirmed)
Friday,    November 27        Ron Kavana     (To be confirmed)
Sunday,    November 29 (8:00) Tom Northcott + guests, at Vancouver Museum  8/6
Thurs.--Sat. Dec.3--5 (8:00)  Connie Kaldor  at Van. East Cultural Centre 14/12
Friday,    December 11 (8:30) Patrick Ball celtic harpist and story-teler 11/8

Four Men and a Dog, Dick Gaughan, The Tannahill Weavers, Rory Macleod,
the House Band, the barely works, Teresa Doyle, Lennie Gallant, Vin Garbutt,
Garnet Rogers, Balzac, and Silk Road all played recently so they probably
won't be back for a while.   Usually bands such as the Battlefield Band,
FIGGY DUFF, Capercaillie, and Altan play after Christmas.

The Rogue Folk Club listings can also be obtained by calling 604-736-3022,
which is also the reservation line.  The club mailing address is
2982 West 3rd Ave., Vancouver, B.C., V6K 1N1, CANADA.

There is also a Local Folk Night at the W.I.S.E. hall the first and third
Thursday of each month, featuring a guest host and a variety of local
performers.  Also, a mini-festival will occur the weekend of March 5--7.
For more info on these events call 604-732-1305, or E-mail me closer
to the event date.

David <Dalton@Geop.UBC.Ca>
From: "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: ian mathews whois ?
Date: 6 Oct 92 09:54:15 EST
Reply-To: "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

On 10-05-92 85P8379 wrote:

PQuestion:  Who is/was Ian Mathews ?  I have a feeling he used
Pto be in awell-known band in the 70's, but not sure which one.

Oh, not so important, just one of the founding members of
Fairport Convention.



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Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: wrp@pslsrv1.gvl.unisys.com (Bill Pringle)
Subject: Re: Cheryl Wheeler Concert Dates Query
Organization: Paramax Systems, Ivyland, PA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 00:59:07 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.201311.4268@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> kdawson@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Kathryn E Dawson) writes:
>I thank the person who posted these earlier this month (I've got my
>tickets safely stashed in my purse for Cheryl's Columbus concert in
>November).  Now I need to know if and when she will be appearing in
>Indianapolis or Pennsylvania.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You're welcome.  Glad to see some other Cheryl Wheeler fans out there.
So often I hear, Cheryl who???

Here is her schedule again.  

BTW - I just talked to her manager last week, and he said she will be
starting a new album this week or the next, if all goes according
to schedule.

-------------------------------------------------------------------

As with all concert tours, things change.  Check with the venue before
you show up.  I will post updates as I get them.  For concert bookings
or information on venues call:
	Concerted Efforts
	(617)969-0810

A complete discography for Cheryl Wheeler is available in the
music ftp archives.


9/26     Gardner          MA  Fresh Ground Coffee House
10/1     Bryn Athyn       PA  Common Ground CoffeHouse
10/2     Alexandria       VA  Birchmere
10/3     Annville         PA  Lebanon Valley College
10/8     Piermont         NY  Turning Point
10/9     Clinton          NY  Kirkland Arts Center Coffeehouse
10/10-11 Cambridge        MA  Passim
10/24    Roseland         NJ  Closing Circle Coffeehouse
10/30    St. Petersburg   FL  State Theater
11/6     Brattleboro      VT  School for Int'l Training
11/7     Marstons Mills   MA  Liberty Hall
11/12    Seattle          WA  Backstage
11/14    Anchorage        AK  University of Alaska at Anchorage
11/20    Columbus         OH  Columbus Music Hall
11/21    Dayton           OH  Canal Street Tavern
11/24    Ann Arbor        MI  The Ark
11/27    Thomaston        CT  Thomaston Opera House
12/4     Westboro         MA  Old Vienna Kaffeehaus
12/5     Lexington        MA  Joyful Noise Coffeehouse
12/11    New London       CT  Friday Night Folk
12/12    Needham          MA  Home Grown Coffeehouse

1/2      Woonsocket       RI  Chan's
2/20     South Acton      MA  South Acton Coffeehouse
3/20     Saratoga Springs NY  Caffe Lena
5/7      Providence       RI  Stone Soup Coffeehouse
6/4      Kingston         MA  S. Shore Folk Music Club/Beal House
6/12     Burlington       MA  The Listening Place
============================================================================
Bill Pringle                      Software Tools
Paramax Corporation               Voice: (215)443-7500 X4023
Internet: wrp@ivy.unisys.com      UUCP: ...!uunet!mimsy!widener!gvls1!wrp%ivy
From: culberts@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Bruce Culbertson)
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 21:17:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Irish vs. Greek bouzouki (was: Re: Help a novice folkie!)
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk

Regarding whistles, here are my opinions:

Get a standard brass Generation whistle in D (not low D).  I think brass
might sound just a speck better than nickle -- they are very close to
the same.  The real reason for getting brass is that the lacquer wears
off and the brass oxidizes to a beautiful antique finish, which will
identify you as someone who has been around for awhile!

You can pay ten or a hundred times the price of a Generation whistle and
get something no better.  The Generation is the closest thing there is
to a "standard" whistle.  Just look at all the people playing them on
record (CD) jackets.  You can hardly find a record jacket with someone
playing a non-Generation whistle.  I would almost go so far as to say
that the definition of "good sound" should be something like this: the
closer it sounds to a Generation, the better it is.  If you don't like a
Generation, you just don't like whistles.

Having said all that, I have to admit that not all Generation whistles
sound the same.  Many have fipples (the plastic part) with defects.
Music stores often won't let you try a bunch of them and buy the best --
you might have nasty germs.  If you face this problem, just buy several
and play the best one.  They aren't that expensive.

If you want to play traditional Irish style whistle, D is all you need.
All the tunes are "designed" for it.  People composed and evolved the
music while playing D instruments.  If the tune is in G, A, e minor, b
minor, etc., you still play it on a D; you don't play a G tune on a G
whistle.  Not if you want to be traditional, anyway.  The only exception
would be if you are playing with a piper whose pipes are a little sharp
or flat.  In that case, choose a whistle which matches.

Don't buy a wooden whistle.  Move all the way up to a wooden flute.  The
traditional kind has about five keys and was made 150 years ago,
preferably in England.  Since they are scarce, they can cost a bundle.
Several instrument makers make copies of the old instruments; some are
very good for a lot less money.  By the way, they are difficult to play.

But, you never need to feel like you've out grown your six dollar
Generation whistle.  No one will look down on you for playing one.  You
can play it for a life time and still be learning new tricks.  Lots of
people have.  They are not just for beginners and children.
From: "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com>
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: greg's best now on cd
Date: 1 Oct 92 03:56:01 EST
Reply-To: "eliot gelwan" <eliot.gelwan@channel1.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Channel 1 Communications

Finally out on CD: IMHO, Greg Brown's best album, _Songs of
Innocence and Experience_, William Blake's poetry set to music.
Works amazingly well, hypnotic and transporting. Much better than
the sameness of his own songwriting once the novelty wore off.
I've been waiting for it to come out on CD ever since its
release....

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From: Lindsay.Marshall@newcastle.ac.uk (Lindsay F. Marshall)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Phil Ransom
Date: 28 Sep 92 08:34:11 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

Those of you who are familiar with the folk scene in the North East
of England will be sad to hear that Phil Ransom died last Thursday
night.

Lindsay

MAIL :	Lindsay.Marshall@newcastle.ac.uk
POST :	Computing Laboratory, The University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK NE1 7RU
VOICE:	+44-91-222-8267
FAX  :	+44-91-222-8572
From: jmf@endor.harvard.edu ( ghost )
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: "Stand of for Judas" author & album?
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:41:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: das.1992Sep29.174114.15393
Organization: DAS Purchasing, Harvard University

In article <1992Sep26.045735.12091@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> stevena@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Steven Alexander) writes:
->Would anyone be kind enough to e-mail (or post) the author of
->and album containing the song titled (I think) "Stand up for
->Judas" (in which Judas is portrayed as politically preferable
->to Jesus)?

I'm nearly sure Leon Rosselson wrote it & performs it, sure Dick Gaughan
(spelling??) performs it, & almost sure he performs it on the same
album with 'Handful of Earth', possibly also called 'Handful of Earth'
--hows that for certainty?
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