Subject: Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen 2020
From:
Joe Offer
Date: 17 Jun 20 - 03:53 AM
I've been a fan of Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen for a long, long time. I even talked my wife into going on a Cindy & Steve cruise to four islands in Hawaii a few years ago, and we had singing every night.
Here's their latest newsletter:
Dear Friends,
This isn't the message we had hoped to be sending out this month, but then, we've learned to change our expectations these days. We've been rather peacefully ensconced at home for the past three months, surfacing only to grocery shop, mow the lawn, take the recycling to the dump ... you get the idea. Perhaps a lot like your own lives! That's how it will be for the foreseeable future (come on, vaccine!!!), but we do want to let you know about a few places where we'll virtually appear before your eyes in the next few weeks:
Saturday, June 20 8 PM Pacific Time
Occidental Center for the Arts
Keeping the Arts in our Hearts: Virtual Variety Show 2
We'll be doing a song, and so will 27 other talented artists, including The Black Brothers, Nina Gerber, Darcy (yes, THAT Darcy, Steve's sister) & Oak Reinier, Chris Williamson ... and more! OCA has been one of our very favorite West Coast stops for the past seven years, and it was actually the last concert we played before Covid shut us all down. So we're delighted to be part of their celebration of song and story. The show will be broadcast on OCA's YouTube channel, and will be available on demand after the 20th (for you East Coasters who don't feel like tuning in at 11 PM EDT).
Fri-Sat-Sun, June 26-28
This was to be 40th Anniversary of the Old Songs Festival, but we'll save that actual celebration for next year. In the meantime, festival director Joy Bennett has solicited new video sets from many of the scheduled artists. We don't have details yet on how and when to tune in, but we'll update you when we can. The audio portion will also be broadcast by Ron Olesko, who hosts "Traditions" (WFDU Radio) and Folk Music Notebook (internet radio). Cindy's pretty sure she's attended (or performed in) at least 37 of the Old Songs fests, so you can bet we'll be there in spirit.
Steve's been keeping busy with his web blog, About the Song, a series of weekly articles and videos focusing on the writing of individual songs and the issues that arise in the creative process. This week's article is on the writing of a "traditional" Irish song/story and its accompanying fiddle tune, Tir na nOg. Please take a look, whether you're a songwriter or just an innocent bystander.
Our music is always available on our website, so please remember that you can order CDs/books and download new songs from our webstore. The ten downloads are mostly original, including Other People's Money (Steve's rant on billionaires-behaving-badly) and Rule of Thumb (Cindy's alternative creation myth). You can see the list of songs and listen to clips here. We also have downloads available for three of our older CDs (Live in Concert, The Ways of the World, and A Sense of Place ). And if you're interested in PDFs of sheet music , we currently have eight leadsheets to offer.
We hope you're all surviving these current plagues and challenges. On the bright side, humanity was more than due to hit the Reset button, and the opportunity for positive change is everywhere. Keep the faith.
If you'd rather not receive these occasional emails from us, you can use the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of this message or just reply with "remove" in the subject line (but we'll miss you).
Cindy & Steve
|
sj
