the Johnson Girls at the Brooklyn Museum

Subject: RE: the Johnson Girls at the Brooklyn Museum
From: Joy Bennett
Date: 20 Jun 07 - 08:25 AM

We hope to be over again in the not too distant future. perhaps in 2008, but we're not certain. Send me a PM of your email address and I will be happy to add you to the UK email list to let you know when any/all of us will be in the UK.

We love the Warwick Festival --   and many of the other great festivals there.

Subject: RE: the Johnson Girls at the Brooklyn Museum
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 18 Jun 07 - 04:33 PM

Are The Johnson Girls coming over to Blighty in the near future ?-we loved you at Warwick and hoped you might be over again soon.

Subject: RE: the Johnson Girls at the Brooklyn Museum
From: Joy Bennett
Date: 18 Jun 07 - 11:38 AM

hi Linda -- we'd love to come back to the DC area -- hopefully it won't be too long before we do!

Subject: RE: the Johnson Girls at the Brooklyn Museum
From: Linda Goodman Zebooker
Date: 16 Jun 07 - 04:06 PM

I hope you will all come back to the DC area for a concert before too long! Really enjoyed the one you did for the FSGW Monthly Program at the Ethical Society a few years ago. I have your tape "The Johnson Girls" and play it over and over and ...

Subject: RE: the Johnson Girls at the Brooklyn Museum
From: stallion
Date: 15 Jun 07 - 09:05 PM

ooo Joy, naughty naughty!

Subject: RE: the Johnson Girls at the Brooklyn Museum
From: Joy Bennett
Date: 15 Jun 07 - 05:01 PM

and on the cover of "On the Rocks" - heh, heh

Subject: RE: the Johnson Girls at the Brooklyn Museum
From: Greg B
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 05:45 PM

And the Johnson Girls always go naked on stage---
vocally, I mean.

Subject: RE: the Johnson Girls at the Brooklyn Museum
From: Celtaddict
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 04:58 PM

"There is nothing like the naked voice."
Frame it and put it on your wall.

Subject: RE: the Johnson Girls at the Brooklyn Museum
From: Joy Bennett
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 04:51 PM

Hey Texas guest -- it would be great to share a bill with you again. Hope you are doing well. We absolutely love it when people share their experiences with us. I love instrumental accompaniment, but there is nothing like the naked voice. Glad you found it!!

Joy

Subject: RE: the Johnson Girls at the Brooklyn Museum
From: stallion
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 04:47 AM

Hi Joy,
We were singing with the Shellbacks at the Holmfirth Festival a couple of weeks ago, we were in a pub full of noisy people and some started singing football chants midway though one of our songs, Ron restrained me , had I not had a plaster cast on my arm I think I would have had a go at booting them out, not really a good idea, they left anyway. Anyway one of life's rich pleasures, cope with it! Nice to hear you are all still doing a bit, miss you all
Pete

Subject: RE: the Johnson Girls at the Brooklyn Museum
From: GUEST,Texas Guest
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 10:46 AM

Joy Bennett - shared a bill with you all down in Rockport, Texas, back in 2003 (me thinks!). You all and Geoff Kaufman were responsible for teaching me that I needn't have a guitar in my hands in order to sing a song - a lesson I have thanked you for many times along the road.

The Johnson Girls always cross my mind in March at the time of the North Texas Irish Festival. Ireland is so tied to the sea and it would be great to get you all down here to perform. If you haven't contacted them, please do so. Yes, it's an Irish festival, but, every year there is a theme and in the last decade, "the sea" has not been featured - it's about time. Say, "Hello!" to the gang for me with hope that a fair wind always blows your way. Cheers.

Subject: RE: the Johnson Girls at the Brooklyn Museum
From: Joy Bennett
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 08:22 AM

we were in the Hall of the Americas on the entrance floor. We had been scheduled for the sculpture garden, but moved due to T-storms.

The audience was great.

Over the years we have performed in all kinds of situations. One that sticks in my head is in the midwest, we were doing a festival workshop and in the middle, a rock band started its sound check nearby.

when you perform you need to know how to change courses in an instant. Modify, adapt, change, be flexible, roll with the punches, make lemonade.

Subject: RE: the Johnson Girls at the Brooklyn Museum
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 06:38 PM

Group was great as always but the acoustics made listening just painful. The Brooklyn Museum should be ashamed of themselves for showcasing a talented group like this in such a dismal aural setting. Sound broke up and no matter where you sat it was bad.

Kudos to JG for being troupers thru it all.

Subject: RE: the Johnson Girls at the Brooklyn Museum
From: EBarnacle
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 06:13 PM

Were you upstairs or down? In general, the sound people they provide do not seem to understand balance or level, which makes the acoustics worse.

Subject: RE: the Johnson Girls at the Brooklyn Museum
From: Joy Bennett
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 03:44 PM

It was a fun time, though the acoustics were not great.

Subject: RE: the Johnson Girls at the Brooklyn Museum
From: Big Mick
Date: 01 Jun 07 - 09:50 PM

Joy, thanks for posting this. We just might see you there. Give me a good chance to see you folks before we move.

Mick

Subject: RE: the Johnson Girls at the Brooklyn Museum
From: karen k
Date: 01 Jun 07 - 08:34 PM

Wish I could make it to this one.

karen

Subject: RE: the Johnson Girls at the Brooklyn Museum
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Jun 07 - 05:30 PM

Joy-

Thanks for posting this. I'll pass the information on to my Brooklyn tribe.

Charley noble

Subject: the Johnson Girls at the Brooklyn Museum
From: Joy Bennett
Date: 01 Jun 07 - 11:39 AM

Ok, shameless self-promotion, the J-girls will be at the Brooklyn museum June 2 at 7pm for a free concert with TheNexTradition.

info and other happenings:

Saturday, June 2, 2007, 7PM
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York
1st floor, Hall of the Americas or the Sculpture Garden
FREE ADMISSION


Saturday, June 16, 2007
RiverSing on the Blackstone Festival,
Pawtucket, R.I.
FREE ADMISSION
info? http://www.riversing.org

Wednesday, July 11, 2007, 1:30pm
"Sea Shanties for Land Lubbers"
Hudson River Museum
511 Warburton Ave. - Yonkers, NY 10701
Call the museum for directions and admission price
914 963-4550
info? http://www.hrm.org

Sat. & Sun. Sept. 22 & 23
Working Waterfront Festival
New Bedford, MA
Fisherman's Wharf/Pier 3 - Steamship Pier.
FREE ADMISSION
http://www.workingwaterfrontfestival.org/

and we've just begun working on our new CD - so look for it sometime next year.