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Thread #10800   Message #78319
Posted By: Mark Cohen
14-May-99 - 01:42 AM
Thread Name: Stan Rogers
Subject: RE: Stan Rogers
I saw Stan in concert at Penn's Landing in Philadelphia, I think it was the summer of 1981, but I might be off by a year or two. It was a folk concert series for which the stage was the deck of an old sailing ship, the Gazela Primeiro -- I think she was a schooner, but I might be off by a mast or two. She was moored at the waterfront park, near the Moshulu and the Olympia. The audience sat on the grassy bank facing the Delaware River. I remember he sang Archie Fisher's "Witch of the Westmereland" and I got chills, even on that warm summer night. At one point he looked around him at the old wooden deck and then said in that wondrous voice of his, "This is a beautiful old boat, and by God, Philadelphia, you're lucky to have her." We were...and we were lucky to have him there, too. No discussion of Stan would be complete without a reference to Eric Bogle's tribute to him, SAFE IN THE HARBOUR, which is in the DT here. (Joe, did I do that right?)