In this issue:
EarthSong artistJim Savarino Review
Rory McLeod/Sloan Wainwright Concert
festivals, volunteers & photo shoots
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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 17:54:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: webmuse@ix.netcom.com (Nell C. Brickner-Eakin)
Subject: EarthSong artistJim Savarino Review
Victory Review
Acoustic Music Review Magazine
Volume 23 Number 06 June 1998
JIM SAVARINO: THE MAN IN THE STREET CD
#JS-001-2, POB 1349, Hawthorne CA, 90251
This self-produced CD features Jim Savarino's beautifully plaintive
singing, thoughtful songs, and elegantly simple arrangements. His
lyrics and melodies have a timeless quality, with strong, poetic song
forms and roots in folk, bluegrass, and country. Many of his songs are
about holding to one's spirit and truth in a world that often seems to
disdain the spiritual, including "Searching for Angels," "Radio," and
"The Man in the Street," an allegorical encounter with Jesus as a
homeless man. Other highlights are the beautiful "Lifedance," the
enigmatic "Little Pills...," and the charming fable, "The Sun and the
Wind." An enjoyable album. (Richard Middleton)
For ordering information, please contact me privately at
EarthSong Music
nell@esongs.com
818-951-1904
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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 17:54:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: EMcKeon@aol.com
Subject: Rory McLeod/Sloan Wainwright Concert
WWUH BENEFIT CONCERT
Rory McLeod and Sloan Wainwright
In Concert Friday July 10 at the University of Hartford
British musician and world citizen Rory McLeod makes his Connecticut debut and
Sloan Wainwright returns on the eve of her new album release in a July 10
concert to benefit WWUH-FM. The concert begins at 7:30 and will be held at
the Wilde Auditorium in the Harry Gray Center on the University of Hartford
campus. Tickets are $15 and all proceeds benefit alternative radio
programming on WWUH.
McLeod was born in London but has roamed the world for most of his adult life,
settling for short periods in China, West Africa, Gambia, Spain, Mexico,
France, Denmark, Australia, Mexico, the United States and many other
countries. While he sings in a broad and appealing English working-class
accent, his music has been marinated in his travels. His blues are textured
with West African rhythms, his ballads shaped with the joy of the mariachi.
He's a modern travelling troubador who uses guitar, harmonica, tap-shoes,
trombone, spoons, bandorea and djembe as guides on his musical travelogue.
He's played and recorded with Michelle Shocked, Ali Farke Toure, Taj Mahal,
Hassan Erraji, Flaco Jiminez, Ani Difranco, Butch Hancock and Jimmy Dale
Gilmore. He's also worked as a fire-eater in a Mexican circus, and most
recently provided the soundtrack for a BBC radio documentary about the East
London's 400 year old Spitalfields fruit and vegetable market. He's recorded
five albums for Cooking Vinyl, including his latest release last year,
"Lullabies for Big Babies."
Sloan Wainwright leads a funky, folky acoustic combo with what the Chicago
Tribune calls, "a brawny, extroverted sound that mingles pop, R&B, and
gospel...with a powerful, dramatic voice." She started singing early, at age
15, travelling from her Westchester, NY home to hoots in Greenwich village.
Despite her initial success, she retired temporarily from performing to raise
a family and run a very successful, and hip bakery in Katonah, NY. In 1990
she returned to performing, released a critically acclaimed eponymous album
for Waterbug, and is about to release her second, "From Where You Are." Sloan
and her fine band, which features Stephen Murphy on guitar, Liadain Clancy on
backup vocal, percussionist Greg Burrows and bassist Doug Wray, are familiar
to Hartford audiences after well-received appearances at The Folk Next Door.
Yes, Sloan is Loudon Wainwright's younger sister, and these days, Rufus
Wainwright's aunt too.
WWUH is a community supported, public alternative radio station which
broadcasts from the University of Hartford at 91.3 FM. Thirty years old this
year, WWUH has never failed to serve the community with a variety of musical
offerings, including more than 20 hours of folk and acoustic programming
weekly, along with jazz, rock, classical, and ethnic music. The station also
provides valuable public affairs programming with an alternative voice.
Tickets are available at the University of Hartford box office
(1-800-274-8587). Media representatives who would like to attend the concert
as guests of WWUH, please email Ed McKeon at emckeon@aol.com.
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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 18:55:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: PhotoRC@aol.com
Subject: festivals, volunteers & photo shoots
Dear Folks,
I'm writing as an amazing act of generosity. Well, ok, it's also an amazing
act of desperation, but hey, it's still a pretty good deal.
I've received a number of kind offers to help with my photo exhibit at summer
festivals. I've also received several inquiries about doing photo shoots at
Falcon Ridge. But, alas, no one seems to be available this weekend for
Clearwater's Revival, on New York's beautiful Hudson River. So here's the
deal:
Please help watch my exhibit for part of the weekend. Enjoy the music for
part of the weekend. And somewhere in there we will find time to do a photo
shoot as a gift from me to you. You pay for film, I provide the shoot and
reproduction rights for promotion. For those performers among you, I
sometimes charge as much as $1,200 for a promo shoot. For the rest of you, it
would make a heck of a nice Father's Day present.
All of you should note that this is one of the most pleasant festivals around.
Besides being graced by Pete Seeger's omnipresence, you will have a chance to
hear Judy Collins, Odetta, the Paul Winter Consort, David Amram, the Nields,
and lots of great ethnic musicians. I highly recommend it.
thanks again,
Robert Corwin
Photo-Arts
(215) 482-6502
PhotoRC@aol.com
on the web at Calendar.com/folk_gallery
photography for CD's, Promotion, Web Pages, Tour Books, and Exhibition
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