Horses Report
From: Ralph Litwin [mailto:ralphlit@juno.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 6:52 PM
Subject: HSNOI Report
Lori Lieberman had to back out of her taping scheduled for 5/25 about 3 weeks prior to the date. I then booked a local songwriter-led group, Caren Kennedy Bandnto fill the spot. Then with 1 week lead-time Blue Moose & the Unbuttoned Zippers contacted me saying that they had that night free and couldd I fit them in? Caren Kennedy graciously agreed to postpone her taping to August.
We thought we were short on volunteers, but things worked out OK. Bob, our regular director had to bow out a few days before the taping , but Alice Weimer volunteered after that for the first time in many months (because the Census scared off her Tues. night ESL students) and I had taken note of her fine directorial skills the first time she was drafted for the position last year. Sandie's sound tech skills were needed for the Zippers show and she brought her son, Matt, to do camera when Larry Flanagan got sick and had to cancel the morning of the taping. Tommy Mahoney showed up with a friend, who was drafted and camera-trained on the spot by John Eisler, the Cablevision tech and new Public Access Coordinator.
We taped two these two great shows:
490) 5/25/10 Richard Stillman – Actor, Singer, Musician, Tap Dancer, Storyteller performing original neo-vaudeville schtick; including a show-stopper – tap-dancing, playing bones, harmonica & juggling simultaneously RichardStillman.com
491) 5/25/10 Blue Moose and the Unbuttoned Zippers – quartet featuring original & trad. w/ nickelharpe, hardanger fiddle, 5-string fiddle, snappy guitar, 4 vocals www.bmuz.net www.myspace.com/unbuttonedzippers
Upcoming:
6/10/10 6:45 George Mann www.georgemann.org (George is moving away in July and I had promised him a booking for May or June, but spaced it out, so Laura Birdsong agreed to postpone her taping to Sept., saying it would actually be easier for her)
6/10/10 8:00 Blue Plate Special – sounds like Western Swing-grass to me; Jay Friedman (vocals, guitar, fiddle), Dave Gross (vocals, mandolin, guitar), James Hempfling (vocals, guitar) and Tom Wise (vocals, bass); American roots originals w/ strong harmonies has been on PBS, NPR BluePlateSpecial.us
7/13/10 6:45 Seth Glier - sethglier.com
7/13/10 8:00 Fred Gillen, Jr. - prolific songwriter w/ 7 CDs & 2 e.p.s, has toured all over the U.S., Ireland, Germany & Czech Republic, his music has been on “All My Children” (ABC) fredgillenjr.com
Sometime in 2nd half of Aug. (tentative): Jessica Kane – highly entertaining slice of life autobiographical short story writer-reader & songwriter jessicakane.com
same date in 2nd half of Aug. (tentative): Caren Kennedy Band - drums, guitar, bass guitar, and two singers myspace.com/carenkennedy
9/16/10 (tenative) Acoustic Eidolon – acousticeidolon.com
9/16/10 (tentative) Laura Birdsong - laurabirdsong.com