Talent I Saw Live That Must Be Seen

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Comment by wiffledust on September 5, 2011 at 11:51am

will do, rita! thanks!!!

Comment by wiffledust on September 2, 2011 at 11:05pm

awesome, rick. thank you! this is exactly the kind of stuff i'm looking for. i would never know people like this until they were famous otherwise!

Comment by Rick Reiley on September 2, 2011 at 10:12pm

Krista Detor. One of the nation's greatest musical/lyrical assets. 

Mudshow is one I highly recommend. http://www.last.fm/music/Krista+Detor

And an Oklahoma poet who is absolutely stunning to me is Lauren Zuniga. Her performance work is powerful and magnetic. She travels to country and may be in your neighborhood soon. Here's a sample. Check out LaurenZuniga.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqF487vAeTw 

Comment by Elle MacNeil on July 18, 2011 at 11:12pm

Rita - Will do.  A lot will depend on the hubby - we'll be in Seaside this weekend, through Monday but he has to work early on Tuesday.  It will ALSO depend on the weather!!!  If it storms, they'll have to cancel.

 

Have fun at Martel's!!  We were in Pt. Pleasant for the first time in YEARS last year.  I really like it, but we get the bungalow in Seaside for nothing, so.....!!!  LOL

Comment by wiffledust on July 18, 2011 at 10:55pm

thank you, margaret! and thanks rita and elle for keeping the group happening...exciting stuff!

 

Comment by Elle MacNeil on July 18, 2011 at 10:28pm

Rita!!!!  We may have the chance to see them on Monday!  : )

Comment by margaret kraft on July 18, 2011 at 9:34pm

Four days of love, friendship, family, and generosity.  Oh yeah, and the music too.  This was my ninth year attending this festival.  The performers are not paid, and the festival is free except for a $15 charge per car for parking.  This year started with David Crosby and Graham Nash and ended (technically) with Jimmy LaFave.  There are 50 or so performances in between.  What makes Jimmy LaFave's ending unofficial, is the Hootenanny Sunday morning.  Twenty-two of the performers were there this year.  Musicians who could have been on the road to paying gigs, sleeping in after staying up until the wee hours in song circles, and as one said "making my liver employee of the month," roll out and show up one more time.  They each play a single song, and the hat is passed to raise money to assist families affected by Huntington's Disease and support research and education.  It is hot as blazes (to put it politely), and every year I wonder how I am going to survive the 110's every day.  However, July rolls around and I know there is no place else on the planet I would rather have my feet than in that Oklahoma red dirt.

 

The musicians have fun with each other...you see folks inviting people they just met the night before up on stage to accompany them.  You just never know when an amazingly magical moment is going to happen.  I initially went for three of my favorites:  Ellis Paul, Don Conoscenti, and Vance Gilbert.  I continued to go for the ones that have become favorites:  Sam Baker, Audrey Auld, John Fullbright, Joel Rafael and too many others to count.   I look forward every year to the new favorites I will add to the list.  For me this year it was Emma's Revolution, Gretchen Peters, Peyton Tochterman.  If you don't know Sam Baker, please go to his website and read his bio at the very least.  His story is brilliant and inspiring.  John Fullbright is an Okemah native who first amazed and awed me with his lyrical wisdom at age 19.  Keep an eye on him.  He is the definition of an old soul if there ever was one.  

 

I got home this afternoon, and I am still bleary-eyed, feet-hurting and set the a/c on "arctic" for the foreseeable future.  I am a pale chick who wilts in the heat.  But when the situation is such that one year I got to shake Pete Seeger's hand as he roamed to crowd eating an ice cream cone???  Sign me up for #10.

Comment by margaret kraft on June 30, 2011 at 8:42am

Certainly not a "newbie," but I saw John McCutcheon this weekend.  I had seen him once before--many years ago.  I remembered I loved his show, but did not remember just how amazing he is.  We were treated to music played on the jaw harp, autoharp, hammered dulcimer, banjo, fiddle, guitar and Tibetan singing bowl.  I can't describe his voice--but it is one that soothes and relaxes me from the first note forward.

Comment by wiffledust on April 1, 2011 at 9:34am

thanks so much for this, elle!!! i bet that was a great experience. i love her trad favorites. i'm not sure how i would have felt about her newer stuff. so glad you got to experience this!

Comment by Elle MacNeil on March 31, 2011 at 11:21pm

Meant to come sooner to tell you about Melanie - she of the "Brand New Roller Skate" song/baby-cruising-in-a-walker commercial fame (although to some of us, she was famous long before that!).  We saw her live a few weeks ago and she brought back some great memories.  I was a little disappointed that she didn't do more than the 3 familiar songs (most of them were from later albums) but was delighted that of the three, one of them was an old favorite, Alexander Beetle (which I sing to my grandsons!).  It was a relatively short show, but I'm surprised she was able to do it at all.  The last time she did that venue (the Record Collector in Bordentown, NJ) last year she had her husband with her.  Three days later, he died suddenly!  Must have been hard for her. 

She was very entertaining to listen to - had quite a few stories about her childhood and even more from her "hippie" days.  (I can't imagine what performing at Woodstock must have been like for her!)

And her opening act and accompianist was her son, Beau Jarrod, who was a phenominal guitarist!!  If you get a chance to catch either of them, I highly recommend it!

(And I'll apologize here because this is NOT my forte!  <laughing>  That was just for you, Lisa!)

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