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From: bobsoron@world.std.com (Bob Soron)
Subject: Re: WXXI-TV vs. Austin City Limits
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:36:02 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.212043.25327@spectrum.xerox.com> 
wegeng.henr801c@xerox.com writes:

[info that WXXI won't be carrying Austin City Limits regularly deleted]

>My source for this information is Bob Moore, who is Program Director
>for WXXI-TV.  I had called the station after noticing that the new
>season of ACL programs was not listed in the station's program guide.
>Bob called me back a couple hours later.  During our conversation
>he said that he simply could not justify broadcasting a show that
>very few people were watching, so finally he had made the decision
>to cancel it.  We also discussed the steps that he had taken to try
>to improve the ratings, including moving the show to different
>time slots (though IMHO none were very good) and better policity.

[more discussion deleted]

If anyone follows up on this with a letter to Moore, you might mention
-- if you can do so fairly -- that changing the time slots can make the
show significantly *harder* to find. Boston's WGBH and WGBX do this
frequently, and to make matters worse, they'll often start showing ACL
on one station at one time, then move it to the other station at a
completely different time. If someone gets interested in the series but
can't find it a few weeks later, the station has cost itself a viewer.

Bob
bobsoron@world.std.com
"With Velcro, gravity is obsolete" -- Mister Boffo
From: lanih@herald.Berkeley.EDU (J. Lani Herrmann)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Arkansas music: Almeda Riddle Recordings
Date: 21 Jan 1993 18:40:49 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: herald.berkeley.edu

Almeda Riddle also recorded two discs for Vanguard and one each for 
Minstrel and for the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, AK. She also
did TWO recordings for Rounder. Most are, alas, out of print.
 	She was one of the artists who did the folk circuit (the 
northern-city-and-college-campus circuit) for long enough to learn 
the jargon, so she began introducing her songs by assigning
Child-ballad numbers and such, belying the illusion that she was
a simple country singer. (I think Kenneth Goldstein, lately of the
University of Pennsylvania folklore department (retired, not expired),
wrote a paper about the intellectual adroitness and sophistication of 
supposedly simple folk. He certainly commented on it at frequent intervals!)
	Of course we are all more enlightened now, aren't we? -- Lani
From: entrpoop@access.digex.com (Dexter Medley)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Four Bitchin' Babes II
Date: 26 Jan 1993 08:33:46 -0500
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

altinbay@netcom.com (John Altinbay) writes:

>I've been excited about this group after I heard at Lavin's show
>at the Great American a couple of months ago that Julie Gold had
>joined.  Is her "From a Distance" on this CD?  Is it on *any* CD?

Well, first off, I'll concede that FAD is a fine piece of songwriting.
That said, there are many of us out here who think that Julie Gold
is a local, open-mike quality performer. Her inclusion on this tour
certainly lowers the talent level from that of last year's babes -
I may have to turn in my Babes comb!

Now that I've said it semi-politely, my personal opinion is that Ms
Gold can't carry a tune in a sack. She's awful in person. I'm a real
fan of singer-songwriters (Lavin, Larkin, Steve Key, Wilcox, Cross,
etc.), but it's rather disgusting to see a person attain such status based
on one hit and no other discernible talent.

-- Larry



-- Larry

Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: thom@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (thom kevin gillespie)
Subject: Phil Oks & Tom Lehr
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: iu
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:25:58 GMT

s there any good place to get book/sheet music & tapes for the music of
Phil Oks & Tom Lehr in the Bloomington area? Thanks

--Thom
From: rice@scws3.harvard.edu (Ken Rice)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Review:  On the Banks of Helicon
Date: 22 Jan 93 01:57:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1993Jan21.205718.19642
Distribution: world
Organization: Museum of Comparative Zoology

I've had this CD for a few months, and I like it a lot.
It's _On the Banks of Helicon:  Early Music of Scotland_  
by the Baltimore Consort.  Dorian Recordings, DOR-90139.

This music is around 400 years old, and it's played
superbly on strings, flute, and pipes by the Baltimore
Consort.  The singer, soprano Custer Larue, has an expressive
and well-trained voice.  Her singing is not overtly
operatic, and it is a good match for this difficult music.

About half of the songs are instrumentals, and the rest
are sung in Scots.  The Scots lyrics are included, and 
a Modern English translation of non-cognate words is provided
at the right margin.  The lyrics are also translated into
German and French.  

Over half the works are anonymous, and most, according
to the detailed liner notes, are "music fyne" of 
the sixteenth century Scottish court.  It is what
I would call art music.  It is also wonderful music,
in my opinion.

The recording is a splendid, minimally miked affair,
done at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy NY.
The producer is Douglas Brown.  It sounds like real
music in a real room.

Ken Rice

(I have no relation to the performers or to the record 
company.)
-- 
----
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Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: martin@lyra.cis.umassd.edu (Gary Martin)
Subject: Re: Folk Festivals in New England?
X-Reply: martin@cis.umassd.edu
Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 14:23:25 GMT

In article <1993Jan19.191821.4503@samba.oit.unc.edu> Tyler.Johnson@launchpad.unc.edu (Tyler Johnson) writes:

   Is anyone aware of folk music festivals in New England between May and
   September of 1993 ?  Please post phone numbers or addresses if available.
   I would also be interested in any contra-dance festivals or weekends
   during this period.

I don't have dates, phone numbers or addresses handy, but I have only 
seen one response so far, so I'll list what I can think of.  I don't
know whether all of these are actually going to be held this year.

May:  Jamaica Plain Festival (MA)
June: Great Hudson River Revival (Westchester County, NY)
      Old Songs Festival (Just west of Albany, NY)
      Mystic Sea Song Festival (Mystic, CT)
      Mass. Maritime Festival (Salem, MA)
      Irish Festival (N. Easton, MA)
      The Big Easy Bash (RI)
July: Harvard Summer Folk Festival (MA)
      Hartland Folk Festival (Hartland, CT)
      Rockport Folk Festival (Rockport, ME)
      High Ridge Folk Festival (Stamford, CT)
      Falcon Ridge Folk Festival (Hillsdale, NY)
      Lowell Folk Festival (Lowell, MA)
      Champlain Valley Festival (VT) (or is this in August?)
Aug.: Newport Folk Festival (RI)
      Maine Festival (Thomas Point Beach, ME)
      Connecticut Family Folk Festival (Hartford, CT)
Sept: Cajun & Bluegrass Festival (RI)
      Bread & Roses Labor Day Heritage Festival (Lawrence, MA)
Oct:  Eisteddfod Traditional Music Festival (N. Dartmouth, MA)

(While typing this, I found the phone numbers & addresses.  e-mail
me with requests.)
--
Gary A. Martin, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, UMass Dartmouth
Martin@cis.umassd.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: wing@canada.ceo.dg.com (Brian Wing)
Subject: Re: help me find this please
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 19:08:57 GMT
Organization: Data General (Canada) Inc.

SXC3@psuvm.psu.edu () writes:
: Hi all,
:    A while back I was listening to Thistle and Shamrock (public radio prog)
: and heard a wonderful rendition of "She Moved Through the Fair", done with
: minimal background music.  Unfortunately I missed getting the artist's name
: and the name of the album the song appears in.  It was a female vocalist, and
: I believe it was a fairly new release.  The program aired late November or
: December, I think.  If you have any idea who it might have been, please let me
: know!
:             Thanks,
:                Sabrina Chase
:                sxc3@psuvm.psu.edu
I wonder if that was Loreena McKennitt's rendition of that song on
her "Elementals" album.  She uses no background music at all in that
version so that might not be it.  "Elementals" is not a new release
- 1985, I think.  Best of luck trying to find it in your local
record stores, but she's worth the search.  Her production company,
Quinlan Road, accepts mail orders; let me know if you want the
address.
-- 
Brian Wing                         
Software Support Critter           dotdot: brian_wing@canada.ceo.dg.com
Data General (Canada) Inc.        "Hello?": +1 604 273 5100
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: ccksb@trentu.ca (Ken Brown)
Subject: 5 minute hamlet - poor hamlet
Organization: Trent University, Ontario
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:39:06 GMT


Hello,

Last night the group I'm in opened for a Scottish band called Black Eyed
Biddy.  They sang a tune called either "Poor Hamlet" or "5 Minute
Hamlet".  This is a very funny synopsis of Hamlet which was supposedly
written by some professor which they set to music.

Can anyone provide me with the words and/or a reference of where to find
the words?

Please e-mail me at the below address...I'll post the results.

Thanks in advance

-- 
Ken Brown                                   internet: kbrown@trentu.ca
Trent University Computing & Telecommunications  tel: (705)748-1540
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, K9J 7B8           fax: (705)748-1246
From: dbader@eng.umd.edu (David Bader)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: "Amazing Grace" - Origin Folklore
Date: 27 Jan 93 23:37:12 GMT
Organization: Professional Student, University of Maryland, College Park
NNTP-Posting-Host: mountaindew.eng.umd.edu
Originator: dbader@mountaindew.eng.umd.edu


In article <rpcfod-260193173827@rpcfod.worldbank.org>, rpcfod@worldbank.org (Robert Patt-Corner) writes:
>Recently I've been told a remarkable story about the way that the
>well-known hymn "Amazing Grace" came to be written.

I have Arlo Guthrie on tape talking about the origins of Amazing Grace.  It was
written by John Newman, who was the English captain of a slave ship out of 
Africa.  One day, he woke up and decided what he was doing was wrong, and 
turned that ship around, back to Africa. 


-david
Organization: Doctoral student, History, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:48:13 -0500 
From: Lori Cole <lc1r+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Arkansas music

Check out anything by Jimmy Driftwood!

Lori Cole
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: wcsanil@superior.carleton.ca (Anil Prasad)
Subject: Re: What was that Leo Kottke Song on Austin City Limits?
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 06:26:54 GMT

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Leo Kottke was on Austin City Limits this weekend and NO-ONE
POSTED ANYTHING IN ADVANCE!?!?!?!!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Umm, perhaps you can tell... I'm a wee bit upset... :-(

If someone can help me get a tape copy of this show, please get
ahold of me asap before I jump off my 22nd floor balcony....

Thanks,

Anil Prasad
wcsanil@ccs.carleton.ca
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace)
Subject: RE: Apology
Reply-To: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:51:00 +0000


>What kind of jerk would complain about a two-line birth announcement?
>Tell them to take a hike.

>HHENDERSON@vax.clarku.edu 

Seconded -- the number of wasted cut and paste lines is far more 
bandwidth consumning than the original posting and the follow-ups.

Yours in solidarity

... get ready... someone want to complain about my 8 line sig then?




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Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: birkelan@adtaz.sps.mot.com (Joel Birkeland)
Subject: Re: good music shop in Austin
Reply-To: birkelan@adtaz.sps.mot.com (Joel Birkeland)
Organization: Motorola SPS
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:52:07 GMT


One of the best recorded music stores I have ever been to is
Waterloo Records on the corner of 6th Street and Lamar.  This
is about 1-2 miles from campus, though.  They sell only CDs;
their "Vinyl Annex" is just around the corner, where they still
carry new and used LPs.

There is a pretty good sheet music store closer to campus, on
about 26th Street and Guadalupe, but the name escapes me.  It is
actually just off of Guadalupe, now that I think of it.

But hey, when you are in Austin, you ought to check out the live
music.  They have about the best live music in the U.S.


Joel Birkeland
birkelan@cs1.sps.mot.com
From: rm4@st-andrews.ac.uk (Rosa Michaelson)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Witch of Westmoreland shares tune
Keywords: Brooksbanks, Fisher, Banks, Atwater, Miller
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:32:14 GMT
Organization: Dundee University


Mary Brooksbanks (?) was a mill worker in Dundee in the 1920s onwards.
She was a staunch union fighter, and communist. She also wrote some
wonderful poetry, and folks songs - often based on scottish tunes/songs
she ehard as a child. I do not have her collection with me but she
wrote a great song with the refrain of Ho Donald, Hi Donald concerning
a piper (and sex I suppose). Its a small ditty, and maybe was set
to the same tune the Archie used. Personally I am not fond of his songs
- they are often very slushy - but I do like the Witch of The westmorland.
I suspect that many of the female singers from Angus and Aberdeen knew
Mary's songs (the most famous is that of the weary mill-work with the
refrain 'Oh, Dear Me, the mill gangs fast, the poor wee shifter cannie
get a chance' or the Weaver's Wedding) and that variuos singers recorded
the above Donald song, including one of the Stewart's of Blair (with Irish
connections).
But of course the same type of refrain is used in more war-like ditties!
So this may be a red-herring....
From: martin@lyra.cis.umassd.edu (Gary Martin)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: "Who'd a Thunk It" by Greg Brown/discography
Date: 24 Jan 93 15:04:46 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

In article <74255@cup.portal.com> drchip@cup.portal.com (MYRON A LIEBERMAN) writes:

   Which Greg Brown CD includes "Dream Cafe?"

"Dream Cafe", the most recent.

--
Gary A. Martin, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, UMass Dartmouth
Martin@cis.umassd.edu
From: peter@sysnext.library.upenn.edu (Peter C. Gorman)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Arkansas music
Date: 21 Jan 93 13:45:51 GMT

Hello -

I believe Arthur Smith was from Arkansas; he played some great tunes like  
Evening Shade and Single Footing Horse.  Someone told me he was also  
responsible for the bluegrass version of Blackberry Blossom.

--
Peter Gorman
University of Pennsylvania
Library Systems Office
peter@sysnext.library.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: an5445@anon.penet.fi (Bad Elf)
Subject: "Jock o' the Side"
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: rec.music.folk
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:13:56 GMT

	If anyone could find it in their hearts to post or Email a reference
for a recorded source of the old Scottish border ballad "Jock o' the Side",
I would be eternally grateful.
						Wind to your wings,
						Keighvan
						wrsstu@sun.cc.westga.edu
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From: draya@carson.u.washington.edu (Andrea Bolliger)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Sally Fingerette, Cheryl Wheeler recordings
Date: 21 Jan 1993 18:14:33 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu

>Sally Fingerett [no "e"] has only a single album that I know of -- called
>  _Unravelled_.  It's a nice album....
>
>LadySlipper, of course, has her album.  Just call 800-555-1212 and ask for
>  their phone number.

LadySlipper's at 1-800-634-6044.  Their '93 catalogue also lists Cheryl
Wheeler's "Circles and Arrows," if you out there are still looking.

-Andrea Bolliger

Newsgroups: rec.music.folk,rec.music.compose,rec.music.makers
From: joe@bnlux1.bnl.gov (joseph christian)
Subject: Re: Newsgroup: a cappella music
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:55:11 GMT

In article <1993Jan19.154204.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> bcimmet@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
>I am interested in starting a new Newsgroup on a cappella music. Please email
>me at the below address with any response. Thank you.
>
>					- Brian Cimmet
>
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YES! I'm all for it!

Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
From: Kim Holburn <kim@csc.canberra.edu.au>
Subject: I want the words for Right said Fred
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A7897FAD8C010743@taijiquan.canberra.edu.au>
X-Xxdate: Mon, 25 Jan 93 19:29:49 GMT
Organization: University of Canberra
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d16
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 23:58:29 GMT

I'm sorry if this is the wroing group but then I'm not sure what the
right one would be. I want to get a copy of the words to the song
'"Right!" said Fred' (punctuation mine), you know the one about the piano.
As I don't read news much please email to me and I will post it back to
the news if anyone else is interested.

Thanks in advance.

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From: 3169611@jeff-lab.queensu.ca (Troy Kay)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: IRISH MUSIC SUMMER SCHOOL
Keywords: irish celtic piping
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:55:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: knot.C1GxKB.Bxn
Reply-To: 3169611@jeff-lab.queensu.ca
Organization: Queens University

Hi there... I got this in snail-mail to distribute to people in Comhaltas but it applies to anyone:
 
	MUSIC 
	MAKERS

	--- Learn Music in Ireland with the ---
	--- Music Makers Summer School      ---
 
They offer in their 1993 programme:

One and two week intensive tuition courses (group and individual) in various instruments including traditional Irish harp, fiddle, accordion, and whistle, taught by the ancient Irish oral method.

Tuition in other instruments upon request.

Full accomodation can be arranged and a full programme of optional leisure activities will be available.

For further details and an enrolment form please complete and return the reply slip below to the following address before end March 1993.

THE ADDRESS TO CONTACT IS:

MUSIC MAKERS SUMMER SCHOOL
Craigendarroch, Tirkeenan
Monaghan, IRELAND

FON:   047-81524
       047-51046
       088-599925

From the US prefix the above numbers with: 011 353

...now obviously there isn't a reply form here BUT they want to know:
 
- Name
- Address
- Telephone
- Age (if under 18)
- Instruments
- Level of Proficiency (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)

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From: lanih@herald.Berkeley.EDU (J. Lani Herrmann)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: "Jock o' the Side"
Date: 26 Jan 1993 09:07:34 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: herald.berkeley.edu

Jock o the Side is a "Child ballad," number 187, so will be found in the
usual collections, such as the Viking Book of Folk Ballads, as well as
in Professor Francis J. Child's collection reprinted by Dover Pubs., and
in Bertrand Bronson's Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads published
by Princeton U. Press.
	The address for Blackthorne Records is still good (as of a couple
of months ago), though Ewan MacColl has, alas, left us;  his widow Peggy Seeger
still lives there. -- Lani
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk,rec.music.cd,rec.music.afro-latin
From: corman@Ingres.COM (Anthony Corman)
Subject: Re: Melodica 
Reply-To: corman@Ingres.COM (Anthony Corman)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:55:17 GMT

I remember Steve Allen playing bebop on melodica; there was this hose-type
attachment that allowed you to put it on a table in front of you. An
instrument that makes you pass out when you play it...now's *that's*
a macho instrument!
From: jackson@JADE.UCDAVIS.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: REQUEST: Dave Barry list
Date: 28 Jan 93 18:03:38 GMT
Reply-To: jackson@JADE.UCDAVIS.EDU
Organization: Geology Department, University of California, Davis

Would someone post or e-mail me the Dave Barry list of the worst songs that
appeared in his column recently? --Hiram Jackson
From: rm4@st-andrews.ac.uk (Rosa Michaelson)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: 5 minute hamlet - poor hamlet
Summary: Rosa Michaelson
Date: 25 Jan 93 15:54:32 GMT
Organization: Dundee University

I am sure Black-eyed Biddy would name sources and credit authors -
a glaswegian teacher, now retired and selling second hand books, called
Adam, wrote the words to 'hamlet' and set it to a famous scottish
dance tune.
The only bit I remember at the moment goes(to the chorus) -
Hamlet, Hamlet, wants his mammy.
From: GC.SUL@forsythe.stanford.edu (Sullys Maze)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: lyric request: Raglan Road
Date: 28 Jan 1993 10:33:11 -0800
Organization: Stanford University
NNTP-Posting-Host: morrow.stanford.edu

The Lyrics to Raglan Road have been posted here a number of times
and I'm sure I had got them, but now I can't FIND them.

Some kind soul please email a set to me?

Thankee.

Mike