Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: jacqui.c
Date: 02 Feb 10 - 02:48 PM

We can start booking for 2011 whenever you and John want to, Deb.

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 01 Feb 10 - 09:15 PM

Excellent --- stew comments passed on to the chef!   Maeve - your voice sounded lovely to me........and Deb was wonderful. Sadly we had to leave as soon as the concert was over -- work is the curse of the ages and I had to work next day.....

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: DebC
Date: 01 Feb 10 - 06:23 PM

You got it. 2011 seems to be the year for Deb n' John shows. Stay tuned!

Deb

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Feb 10 - 12:21 PM

And bring Anglo with you.

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: jacqui.c
Date: 01 Feb 10 - 01:49 AM

Wish I could have been in two places at once.

Come back soon y'all.

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: DebC
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 08:01 PM

I am home now, having arrived at 3 AM this morning from a wonderful trip in Maine, ending last night at Sinsull's. I have been thinking about Mary's house concerts a lot today and I am sorry that I can't get to So. Portland more often.

Sins and Jacqui (and the folks who attend) have created a truly wonderful community. This (to me at least) is what folk music is all about.

Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who was there last night. A thousand thank yous to Mary and Jacqui for continuing to foster this wonderful community in New England. I am proud to call you all friends and I am grateful to have you all in my life.

Deb Cowan

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 07:36 PM

And I have hot lunches for the week. A perfect evening.
Linn, I never doubted that you would love the hairy legged foot stool. Now, if you want to have some fun, put it in your trunk all the way to the right. Then throw a pile of blankets to the left.
Scares the crap out of people.

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: Jeri
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 06:43 PM

The concert was wonderful, even if Deb didn't give me a nose solo in 'Lather'. Seriously--great music, great food and great folks, and I am going to sleep really well tonight.

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: gnu
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 06:26 PM

Warms my heart to read your posts. Thnaks. Yer a great bunch.

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 06:00 PM

At the risk of disappointing the giver(s), I LOVE the foot stool! And it's PERFECT for our decor!

Actually, it helps make the single mannequin leg fit in... (into what, I don't know)

Never told you, I guess, about the occasional table we used to have (back in Cinematheque days) that was an upraised (and formally attired) arm and hand holding a clear plexiglass table top as if it were a tray.

Thank you, Mary!

Linn

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 04:39 PM

Pictures!! On the way home I realized that my camera never left my bag! If I'da took pictures I'da posted pictures. Oh, well.
Hunt and I had a perfectly lovely time seeing all you good folks and hearing Deb's wonderful singing. Highlight Deb-songs for me were "All the tunes in the world", one about the coming of the Danes (?), a shanty for Barry Finn (tears!), and, oh, my tired brain is too foggy to think of other specifics. But oh, dear Debra, how lovely to see and hear you again!!

Maeve, darling, it was wonderful to meet you. Your song was beautiful! And I also loved hearing your harmonies from across the table, and hearing your voice and mine (and Jeri's) adjust to each other's harmonies!

Charley's songs were fantastic, and just being with such fine folks gave both Hunt and me such pleasure. Mary, you are a great hostess!

Jeri, Tami, TruBrit, Cuillion and all- it's a pleasure to know you in person! (and that was the best beef stew I have ever, ever eaten- ever!)

It was also great to see Tom looking so well. (He was delighted with You-Know-What, Mary!). Now we're home, the wood is in the stove, the cats are done (for now) with their "the hoomans are home!" freakout (we figure they associate us with bringing the warmth back into the house, so we think they're pleased).

No sooner did we step in the door than a fellow member of the town Planning Board came to yak to Hunt for an hour, so now we will begin decompression and savoring the time we spent in Maine.

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: gnu
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 01:26 PM

Ahhhh... dunno how that happened... I swear I was on another thread... hmm... maybe I was on another planet.

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: maeve
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 01:15 PM

PM sent, gnu.

maeve

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: gnu
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 01:07 PM

Any way one can see pics without logging in to Facebook?

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: maeve
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 12:31 PM

Thanks, Charlie.

m

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 11:13 AM

Jeri just left. All is quiet except for some demanding cats annoyed at having been ignored for more than an hour. Deb was wonderful - an interesting mix of old and new, lots of choruses. So amazingly good to see maeve fussing around in my kitchen - it's been too long.

And I got to keep the banana bread encrusted with pecans. Yum!

Off to a nap.

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 10:27 AM

Animaterra and Hunt are planning a visit in Nottingham on their way home. Curmudgeon will be here, but I'll be at work.

Hunt is going to start to think I'm a fictional character!

Linn

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: Charley Noble
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 10:25 AM

maeve-

Lovely song that you composed and sang.

The second song I did was Evening Shadows Fall, my fond memory of late night gatherings in the sacred groves of the Gurage country in Ethiopia from when I was resident there in the early 1960's. The words came to me when I was flying back from a revisit last year.

Deb did her usual great job with her concert, a mix of traditional and newly composed traditional sounding songs, with a few wild cards thrown in; her first song, for example, described in detail an exploration of a sister's nose. Unfortunately this one was not on the CDs I purchased, unless the title is in disguise.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: maeve
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 07:58 AM

You try typing in the dark, young lady! Would somebody please make the 12:38 post go bye bye? LOL

m

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: My guru always said
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 06:05 AM

Ah, I had been wondering what a 'miced salad' was. We have some here but the cat keeps eating them....

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: maeve
Date: 31 Jan 10 - 01:10 AM

Just home, me. Kendall was kind enough to come early for some hugs before heading home to peace and quiet. Thanks, Kendall.

Tom's beef stew was delicious (lots of mushrooms, gnu.) I saw chili too, a mixed salad, and Jason's delectable quiche as well as many kinds of good cheese, homemade bread, dessert goodies, strawberries and Clementine oranges.

Deb sang a wonderful variety of songs and managed the unruly members of the audience with skill and humor. Ask her about her folding guitar with the beautiful tone when it's your turn to hear her sing.

Charley Noble played his banjo and sang a charming song whose title I missed while in the kitchen. Hunt and Animaterra played/sang a couple of bluesy numbers, too. I sang "New Hampshire Spring" before I left- a song I had just finished a week before the fire, and one that would have been in ashes like most of the others except that I had sent the lyrics to a couple of trusted friends. I'm finding singing difficult these days- I'll do better another time.

Thank you to Mary for another lovely night, and Deb for the music. It was a treat to finally meet Animaterra and her Hunt (thank you both for the special gift), Cuillion, Sue - oh dear, I've forgotten some new names already- and to see Tami, Jason, Jeri, Kendall, TRUBRIT, and Tom.
maeve

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: kendall
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 08:44 PM

Hangovers are not contagious Tinker. What I have is the wrath of grapes.

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: Tinker
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 08:36 PM

SINSULL, I'd have ya give Kendall a big hug from me, but neither one of us wants what he seems to have caught so it'll have to be air kissess.....

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: gnu
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 08:34 PM

I am glad I could help in getting the lad to attend... >;-)

As if.... heheheheee

I am sure youse all will have a wonderful time. If I could hear angels sing this eve, so would I.

Enjoy!

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 08:28 PM

Thanks, Tom. We'll drink to your health.

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: curmudgeon
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 06:04 PM

Share and enjoy! We'll drink to your merriment - Tom

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 06:01 PM

Kendall is here along with Allison and Hunt, Maeve, Deb, me

We are awaiting the arrival of a few more before serving food.

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: gnu
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 04:27 PM

Jaysus Cap'n. Ya gotta stop hangin with reprobates what egg ya on the drink. I put that to an end years ago. Now, I limit myself to a party of three... me, mois and Jimmy Suis. And I sends Jimmy home early. He gets a tad wild, even fer me.

Git yer ass in gear lad and get there. If ya still feel bad after listenin ta that lass sing a couple tunes, then ya probably shoulda stayed home. I am kinda thinkin, after a couple a tunes, ya just might stay.

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 03:50 PM

Kendall -- but not well enough to come to SP - correct???? You are on the West Coast I hope....

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: maeve
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 03:08 PM

I'll head along down in a few minutes- maybe stop for fuel and pick up some fresh fruit for a dessert. See you soon.

maeve

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: kendall
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 03:06 PM

I still don't feel good but I hope to be well enough to come.

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: gnu
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 02:01 PM

Yes, SINS... her loss not being at your house tonight. But, I suppose she'll make do with the Hollywood types and their second rate parties and food. I'll bet them Left Coasters couldn't hypnotize a lobster to save their Mercs!

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 12:36 PM

Thanks, Charlie. I think once again we will have more than enough - not a complaint by any stretch of the imagination. Jacqui usually coordinates this stuff. But she had to go and get nominated for a Grammy. SIGH

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: Charley Noble
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 10:46 AM

I think we're bringing wine, cheese and crackers.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 10:07 AM

Thanks, Maeve. Jeri said she would bring a dessert too. So all systems go...

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: maeve
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 08:19 AM

I'll bring a dessert if I can.

maeve

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 08:10 AM

We are low on desserts. Other than that we're OK.
Word of warning - I really did hurt my back when I fell Monday. Cleaning is never a priority here. This time it's barely a possibility. Expect tumbleweed dust balls. Sorry. But I did manage clean sheets and towels.

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 08:04 AM

Gearing up for the trip to Maine- can't wait to see you all tonight!

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: My guru always said
Date: 30 Jan 10 - 05:30 AM

Know you'll all have a Fab time, love & Hugs to all!!

Can someone please let DebC that we are 'people like us', as we're hoping she'll be able to join us at Easter while she's over here!

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: ranger1
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 10:20 PM

Have the Piper make another trifle! Yum!

Jason is planning on making a quiche. Should we bring anything else?

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: Cuilionn
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 07:59 PM

We are looking forward to tomorrow night...

Ought we to bring anything for the buffet? My PiperSweetie will be picking me up right from work, but maybe I could put something into the crockpot in the morning...or would you prefer baked goods? I could maybe do up a batch of bannocks.

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 05:29 PM

No snow but it is wicked cold. And windy.

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 11:57 AM

We'll be bringing wine. Not sure what else to bring.

Weather looks fine!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 10:46 AM

I'm so looking forward to seeing everyone and hearing Deb!!

Allison

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: gnu
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 09:46 AM

Good thing it's not up here. Only supposed to be 6" but the storm has stalled and is swirling around us. Got 6" in just over two hours.

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: maeve
Date: 29 Jan 10 - 09:06 AM

Weather permitting, I'm a definite for the DC concert.

maeve

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 28 Jan 10 - 11:33 PM

Hey Cuillonn - if you are just in Pownal you should be here!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: Cuilionn
Date: 28 Jan 10 - 10:19 AM

Jeezum! Wanna have the concert up at my place in Pownal? No hazards here except a wicked horn section (thanks to our Hieland Kye). Plenty of on-lawn...er...on-pasture...parking.

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Jan 10 - 10:00 AM

It was freed. Temporary closure until they checked for more loose concrete.
Amazing no one was killed. A 15' section of the facade broke loose from the third floor and hit the pavement. No one was walking underneath - almost impossible. A piece went through the back window of a passing car missing two children in the back. The only casualty -the awning on the store below.

Subject: RE: Deb Cowan Concert at SINSULL's 1/30/10
From: DebC
Date: 28 Jan 10 - 09:49 AM

Yeah...if only JR would show up. Now that will be a fun time! Too bad about your car being held prisoner, Mary.

Deb in a Panera in Augusta, Maine.