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23 Mar 00 - 09:59 AM (#199858) Subject: Ronnie Gilbert! From: Peter T. your intrepid Mudcat Reporter went to hear Ronnie Gilbert of the Weavers last night in Toronto. She answered questions after a showing of the "Wasn't That A Time" film, and proceeded to blow everyone away. What a woman! About 5 times bigger than life. At one point a teenager in the audience said that he had never heard of her and the Weavers, but that just listening to her was totally inspiring. An activist asked her how she kept going -- we are here to inspire each other, she said. She talked about her plays (one on the story of Mother Jones), her time under the blacklist (a black teenager wanted to know about Paul Robeson, and she talked about him). Your intrepid reporter asked her about how she had been turned on to women's issues, and she talked about the influence of Adrienne Rich's poetry, and her experiences on the West Coast. All in the space of a half hour. What a woman (or did I say that already?). yours, Peter T. |
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23 Mar 00 - 10:42 AM (#199874) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: wysiwyg Wowww!!!!! Cool beans!!!! |
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23 Mar 00 - 10:49 AM (#199879) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: catspaw49 Peter I thank you for your report and I'm happy to say that my envy is as great as your happiness.......Sounded like a wonderful evening. Spaw |
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23 Mar 00 - 02:09 PM (#200029) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: Art Thieme In two days, Saturday night, I'll be heading in to the Chicago suburbs to hear a concert at the big theater at the College Of Dupage (Dupage County). The performers are a fine bunch of old friends, Michael Smith (as Lee Hays), Mark Dvorak (as Pete Seeger), Barbara Barrow-Smith (as Ronnie Gilbert) and Tom Dundee (as Fred Hellerman). Collectively, the are known as W E A V E R M A N I A !!! Next month the group is doing their show at the OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC in Chicago and (get this) FRANK HAMILTON---once a member of the Weavers (and a founder of the O.T.S. of Folk Music)--- will be the "opening act". Somehow, I think Frank just may join the other four for a few songs. Yep, that's the same Frank Hamilton who adds his two centavos here at Mudcat on occasion. Anyhow, this info seemed it might fit into this thread pretty nicely. Art Thieme |
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23 Mar 00 - 02:31 PM (#200042) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: Sean Belt You know, it's a terrible thing to admit, but every time I see a thread titled with a person's name, I'm certain it's going to be an obituary. Thank goodness this one wasn't! :-) |
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18 Aug 08 - 05:15 PM (#2417215) Subject: Ronnie Gilbert From: Thomas Stern I tried sending a message to the e-mail contact address on the Ronnie Gilbert website. It was returned with a delivery permanent failure. Is Ronnie Gilbert well, still doing her one-woman show, and does anyone know how to contact her? Thanks, Thomas. |
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18 Aug 08 - 08:09 PM (#2417344) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert From: GUEST,Ken Brock She sent an email to a newspaper two weeks ago on the passing of Erik Darling. Look in his memorial thread started by Stringsinger 4 Aug. |
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18 Aug 08 - 08:43 PM (#2417366) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert From: pdq I'm not saying that a Ronnie Gilbert item is not in the Erik Darling obit thread, just that I looked and did not find one. |
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18 Aug 08 - 09:38 PM (#2417395) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert From: Joe Offer Looks like a number of pages are missing on the Ronnie Gilbert Website, http://www.ronniegilbert.com/ - she says she's updating the site. Maybe the e-mail associated with the site isn't working, either. She did e-mail the Associated Press about the death of Erik Darling - I added the AP obit to the Erik Darling thread after pdq made mention of it. I can't find a current performance schedule for Ronnie Gilbert. -Joe- |
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18 Aug 08 - 10:37 PM (#2417416) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert From: open mike this is the e-mail address given on her web page. rg@ronniegilbert.com she did a one one woman show on Mother Jones. |
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31 Mar 11 - 02:58 AM (#3125334) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: GUEST I wonder if ronnie ever thought when she was starting with the weavers that 50 years later she would be a topic of a forum lok |
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31 Mar 11 - 04:47 AM (#3125352) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: Joe Offer Well, fifty years ago, even Al Gore hadn't thought of the Internet. Wikipedia says Ronnie was born September 7, 1926, which makes her almost 85 years old. I wonder how she's doing. I posted a link above to Ronnie's Website, ronniegilbert.net. I see it now leads to a real estate firm. Luckily, Archive.org still has a copy of Ronnie's Website - Click here. -Joe- |
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31 Mar 11 - 07:30 AM (#3125410) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: GUEST,kendall I love her singing. By the way, Gore never said he invented the internet. What he said was he helped develop it for government use. |
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31 Mar 11 - 08:49 AM (#3125476) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: GUEST,999 Wikipedia has a bio. |
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31 Mar 11 - 12:55 PM (#3125598) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: GUEST,Doug Saum God bless Ronnie Gilbert. We can't rely on commercial media to celebrate the Weavers. Does everyone know about Ruth Crawford Seeger's (Pete's step-mother's) life and major contribution in creating the music the Weavers (and probably you, too) performed? It's a fascinating story of conscious political art that casts a long shadow. May well the world go, Doug |
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03 Nov 11 - 05:16 PM (#3249916) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert of Weavers in Toronto From: GUEST,banjopicker Ronnie opened the road for many women folk singers and other singers after her. It's because of her I can sing. |
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03 Nov 11 - 05:30 PM (#3249926) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: Joe Offer Ronnie had her 70th birthday tour in 1996, so I guess that makes her about 85. She hasn't updated her website since 2006. I hope she's doing OK. -Joe- |
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04 Nov 11 - 12:34 PM (#3250292) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: Elmore When Ronnie was 83, she was living in Caspar, Ca with her daughter and happy to be done with touring. I presume she's OK. |
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06 Nov 11 - 08:51 AM (#3251328) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: GUEST,banjopicker I just ordered the dvd Festival! newport. I heard that there's footage of ronnie singing "masters of war" anyone know if it's true |
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28 Jan 13 - 02:43 AM (#3472325) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: Joe Offer Meg - see /thread.cfm?threadid=148946 for lyrics top "Love Will Find a Way." -Joe- |
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10 Mar 13 - 01:39 AM (#3488580) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! a song From: GUEST,Martha Does this song description ring a bell with anyone? (I emailed this to rg@ronniegilbert.com but it was bounced back.) Dear Ronnie Gilbert, Many years ago I was at a concert where you and Lee Hays, or maybe it was Fred Hellerman, sang a song about a man and his wife thinking about each other. If my memory isn't too far off, the man was working in the farm fields, and the woman was working in the house. The refrain was, "Round about now", and then a verse telling what one was imagining the other doing while they were apart, taking turns. Does this sound familiar?I have tried searching for it several times, to no avail. |
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15 Mar 13 - 09:41 PM (#3490930) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: GUEST Do you mean "Bring Me Little Water Sylvie"? Or it could be The Deaf Woman's Courtship |
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15 Mar 13 - 11:10 PM (#3490945) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: Amos In any case thanks for resurrecting the immortal voice of the much admired Peter T. He has been away too long. |
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16 Mar 13 - 03:58 AM (#3490971) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: Joe Offer Every time this thread gets refreshed, I hope to see updated information about Ronnie Gilbert. Does anyone know how she's doing? -Joe- |
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16 Mar 13 - 04:03 AM (#3490974) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: GUEST,Larry Saidman The song Martha Guest is asking about sounds like "Round About Now", which I heard recorded by Harry Belafonte. I just remember the opening line: "round about now, my woman's waiting". Is that the one? If so, I'm sure more info could be found by googling those lines. |
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16 Mar 13 - 04:07 AM (#3490975) Subject: ADD: 'Long About Now (Hellerman/Minkoff) From: GUEST,Larry Saidman OK...maybe this should be on a different thread. It's called "Long About Now" by Fred Hellerman and Fran Minkoff. Is this the one? 'LONG ABOUT NOW (Fred Hellerman and Fran Minkoff) 'Long about now, my woman's waking Shaking the sleep from out of her eyes Smiling a smile so warm That smile is making the morning sun Ashamed to rise 'Long about now, my woman's bending Tending the fire and setting the bread Starting a song so sweet That at its ending the fire Is burning extra red 'Long about now, my woman's waiting Shading the sun from off of her brow Searching the winding road with eyes that Try to find me And longing after me, 'long about now 'Long about now, 'long about now |
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16 Mar 13 - 05:53 AM (#3490992) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: Joe Offer Thanks, Larry. I'll leave your response and Martha's question in this thread for a while, since this is where Martha asked it (and where she is most likely to find it). Then, if I remember, I'll move it to a thread titled "'Long About Now." -Joe Offer, Mudcat Archivist- |
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22 Mar 13 - 02:18 AM (#3493311) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: GUEST,Martha Thanks for the responses, GUEST, and Larry Saidman! This memory is from quite a while ago but I'm almost sure the female singer, who I think was Ronnie, sang a verse about what she imagined her husband was doing while he worked in the field, and the male singer who was in the Weavers, (Lee or Fred-I would have remembered better if it was Pete Seeger because he was more familiar to me) sang a verse about what his wife was doing working in the house and it went back and forth a few times. I'll try to find "Bring Me Little Water Sylvie", "The Deaf Woman's Courtship", and "Long About Now" and see (hear) if any seem familiar.
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13 Dec 13 - 05:18 PM (#3583897) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: Thomas Stern Does anyone have current contact information for Ronnie Gilbert? Is she well, still active ?? Thanks! Thomas. |
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13 Dec 13 - 07:29 PM (#3583912) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: Joe Offer Hi, Thomas - I'd like to know, too. I'll betcha Holly Near's agent could give you up-to-date information. http://www.hollynear.com/booking.html |
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14 Dec 13 - 10:29 AM (#3584045) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: GUEST There was a interview in a newspaper with her a few months backs sounds from that like shes doing okay |
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14 Dec 13 - 11:13 AM (#3584056) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: GUEST http://www.ronniegilbert.com/ Email her through that site. |
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14 Dec 13 - 12:46 PM (#3584085) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: Thomas Stern GUEST - please identify yourself! The Ronnie Gilbert website has not been updated for many years, and e-mail sent to address on that site is undeliverable. I tried it prior to posting my request for contact info. Thanks. Best wishes, Thomas. |
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14 Dec 13 - 01:04 PM (#3584090) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: GUEST Sorry. I should have checked. Won't happen again. |
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14 Dec 13 - 01:12 PM (#3584095) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: Elmore There are so many inactive web sites on line. It's ridiculous |
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14 Dec 13 - 03:49 PM (#3584131) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: BrooklynJay The last I read (within the last year or so) she was retired and living in a retirement community in California. Jay |
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02 Jan 14 - 12:13 AM (#3588254) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: Joe Offer I saw Holly Tannen at San Francisco's Camp New Harmony this week. She's been in contact with Ronnie Gilbert recently, and she says Ronnie is doing well and enjoying retirement in a community of old activists in Marin County. -Joe- |
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02 Jan 14 - 06:08 PM (#3588499) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: Felipa that's nice news. I'd be interested in getting the script of Ronnie's play re Mother Jones, and info on what other plays she's written. First time I remember hearing Ronnie Gilbert was on a folk compilation album which came out in the 1960s, singing The Golden Vanity. |
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03 Jan 14 - 01:51 AM (#3588560) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: GUEST,Bill Amatneek I believe she's at a retirement home in Mill Valley. I'm hoping she makes it to Faith Petric's memorial at Freight & Salvage on January 15. Happy New Year to all, Bill Amatneek |
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03 Jan 14 - 10:17 AM (#3588672) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: GUEST Felipa: try at Ronnie Gilbert on MOTHER JONES: Face to Face with the Most Dangerous Woman in America (Essay and playscript.) Google that. There seem to be PDF downloads available. |
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16 Jan 14 - 01:05 AM (#3592510) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: Elmore Ronnie appeared earlier this evening (Wed) at the Freight and Salvage in Berkley, Ca , as part of a memorial concert for Faith Petric. She didn't sing, but looked and sounded fine, and was well received. |
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16 Jan 14 - 01:10 AM (#3592511) Subject: RE: Ronnie Gilbert! From: Elmore P.S. What Ronnie did perform were a couple of recitations. |