Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash IX (7/12/09)

Subject: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash IX (7/12/09)
From: Suffet
Date: 28 Apr 09 - 09:00 PM

Hold this date!

Ninth Annual
Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash
Round Robin Songfest
Sunday • July 12, 2009 • 7:00 - 9:30 PM

Featuring...

Oscar Brand • Jessica Feinbloom
Robin Greenstein • Joel Landy • Anne Price
Steve Suffet • Gina Tlamsa
plus Carlos Vazquez on bass

Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
Between Houston & Bleecker Streets
New York City

$6 cover + one drink minimum. For info call 212-614-0505.

Be there!

--- Steve

Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash IX (7/12/09)
From: GUEST,Anne Price
Date: 29 Apr 09 - 07:32 AM

I'm looking forward to it. We have a new CD of past Woody Guthrie Birthday Bashes called Open Your Hearts to the Paradise. It sounds great, and many of the past participants that are on the CD are in the show again this year. Plus, great to have Oscar Brand with us this year!

Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash IX (7/12/09)
From: GUEST
Date: 03 May 09 - 11:43 AM

It's Pete Seeger's birthday, and there's a Birthday Bash for him at Madison Square Garden. I'd go but it's sold out.

Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash IX (7/12/09)
From: GUEST,Robin Greenstein
Date: 03 May 09 - 10:00 PM

I checked for tickets today, and there were some available at ticketmaster, so it wasn't sold out (the cheap seats were sold out). I'm sure it's being filmed and eventually you'll be able to see the performances...

but anyway, I hope y'all can come down to the Woody fest on July 12th. It's a nice intimate venue and Oscar says he roomed with Woody, so I'm sure he'll have some interesting stories to tell.

Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash IX (7/12/09)
From: GUEST
Date: 04 May 09 - 05:24 PM

Yes, Oscar loves to talk about the old days, and he has lots of memories to share.

Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash IX (7/12/09)
From: fumblefingers
Date: 04 May 09 - 07:36 PM

Here's a link to the annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, held in his hometown, Okemah, Oklahoma.

Woody Guthrie Folk Festival

Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash IX (7/12/09)
From: Suffet
Date: 18 May 09 - 09:16 PM

The Ninth Annual Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash on 7/12/09 will also be the official release celebration of Open Your Hearts to the Paradise / The Best of the Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash / New York City 2001-2008. Copies of this new CD are already available for purchase from CD Baby. Click here for information.

--- Steve

Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash IX (7/12/09)
From: GUEST,Anne Price
Date: 22 May 09 - 09:14 AM

I'll have my new CD, A Few More Miles to Go, for sale and the show too. It's now available on CDBaby.com

Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash IX (7/12/09)
From: GUEST,Jessica
Date: 30 May 09 - 01:48 AM

Hello to everyone who has attended any of the previous Guthrie concerts! There's two additions to the regular crew. You all know Oscar. Many of you may also already know the talented and accomplished Robin Greenstein. I would like to welcome her to this group. This will be a terrific evening. Come and join us!

Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash IX (7/12/09)
From: GUEST,Anne Price
Date: 31 May 09 - 10:33 AM

Robin also added some great banjo parts on my CD A Few More Miles to Go.

And I have another new CD just released, Very Early Anne, recorded live when I was in college in 1965-66.

This year's Guthrie Birthday Bash should be the best one yet.

And thanks to Bob Sherman, who plans to play the new CD, Open Your Hearts to the Paradise, on his WFDU radio show, "Woody's Children" just hours before the show.

Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash IX (7/12/09)
From: GUEST,Gina Tlamsa
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 08:56 PM

Once again, we are preparing a musical birthday tribute to Woody Guthrie, including an impressive assortment of singers and instruments. Come to the Bowery Poetry Club for an enjoyable evening of song on the evening of July 12 and be prepared to sing along and have fun!

Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash IX (7/12/09)
From: Suffet
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 11:35 PM

One small correction: Bob Sherman and his program Woody's Children are on Radio Station WFUV FM 90.7. Maybe Anne was thinking of our own Mudcatter Ron Olesko? His Traditions program is on WFDU FM 89.1. Then there is Oscar Brand, who will be in the show this year. His Folk Song Festival can be heard on WNYC AM 820.

I believe Anne has been on all their programs.

--- Steve

Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash IX (7/12/09)
From: GUEST,Anne Price
Date: 04 Jun 09 - 06:01 PM

Whoops. Got WFUV mixed up with WFDU. Guess, I was thinking of Ron Olesko's show. WFUV is broadcast from Fordham University. WFDU is from Fairleigh Dickenson. They're both great radio shows, and so is Oscar Brand's. Oscar's show has been on for something like 40 years. Amazing. And yes, I have had the pleasure of being on all three programs.

Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash IX (7/12/09)
From: Suffet
Date: 04 Jun 09 - 10:24 PM

Greetings again:

Oscar Brand's Folk Song Festival has been on the air since 1949. It will celebrate its 60th anniversary this December. Oscar will celebrate his own 90th birthday this coming February.

So I was right; Anne Price has appeared on all three radio programs. Are there any 'Catters out there who can match that claim? And I'm talking about live performances, not canned music.

--- Steve

Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash IX (7/12/09)
From: GUEST,Jessica
Date: 07 Jun 09 - 08:46 PM

Whether or not you've been on the radio you can enjoy singing at the Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash. I hear there will be lots of songs with choruses you will know and some new ones you can easily pick up. Hope to see you July 12th. If you're a Mudcatter please say hello!

Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash IX (7/12/09)
From: Suffet
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 11:35 PM

Please click here for Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash webpage.

Thanks.

--- Steve

Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash IX (7/12/09)
From: Suffet
Date: 26 Jun 09 - 06:22 AM

Time to refresh this message!

Ninth Annual
Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash
Round Robin Songfest
Sunday • July 12, 2009 • 7:00 - 9:30 PM

Featuring...

Oscar Brand • Jessica Feinbloom • Robin Greenstein
Joel Landy • Anne Price • Steve Suffet • Gina Tlamsa
plus Carlos Vazquez on bass

Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
Between Houston & Bleecker Streets
New York City

$6 cover + one drink minimum. For info call 212-614-0505.

Be there!

--- Steve

Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash IX (7/12/09)
From: GUEST,Joel Landy
Date: 01 Jul 09 - 12:02 PM

Great to hear that the new Woody Birthday Bash CD will be played on the radio as we are getting going in the Village!

I'm daring myself to do a Woody song that is more talk than song. I looked for information about Mean Talkin' Blues on the internet. More than info about the song's history - which is what I was looking for - I found lots of people in love with this little known Woody tune and its "take no prisoners" attitude.

See for yourself at
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=vvh&q=mean+talkin%27+blues+woody&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

I like it because it is entertaining and I get to be MEAN!

Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash IX (7/12/09)
From: GUEST,Anne Price
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 09:52 AM

Dress rehearsal tonight. We're raring to go. Hope to see you there.

Subject: RE: Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash IX (7/12/09)
From: Suffet
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 09:16 PM

Here is a great big THANK YOU! to all who attended the Ninth Annual Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash this past Sunday.

The Tenth Annual Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash is tentatively scheduled for Sunday, July 11, 2010. We will once again be back at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.

--- Steve