Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 20 Aug 10 - 07:24 PM

have a wonderful time -- we have cancelled our anniversary dinner on account of our eldest having been taken into hospital yesterday to have her appendix appendage removed. She is feeling pretty crappy and we will be over there offering love, support and food. See you at the next one!

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 20 Aug 10 - 09:51 PM

Key lime pie!!!

Linn

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: jacqui.c
Date: 20 Aug 10 - 10:33 PM

Deb - hope Penny is OK. Give her my best wishes please.

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Aug 10 - 11:03 PM

Deborah, Tell Penny we are thinking about her. Poor Tom - that dinner just was not meant to be.


Did I miss something? Am I holding a reunion of Kendall's ex wives?

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: jacqui.c
Date: 20 Aug 10 - 11:10 PM

From Kendall

16 Aug 10 - 05:17 PM

I'm beating the bushes, even talked my ex into coming.

Annie says that she might try and make it - it's not set in stone.

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: ranger1
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 01:48 AM

Jason will be joining us after all, and I may be able to make Sunday AM breakfast. The annual laying off of the summer help has begun and I think I'm the only person on the crew available to do the evening shift in the campground on Sunday and Monday...

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 03:27 PM

We're on the road, in Maine, but so is apparently everyone else. What's the agenda tonight besides Meet the Wives? Looking forward to meeting the perpretrators of these Portland threads!

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: kendall
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 04:16 PM

Jeez, one lousy ex wife and I get a pageant!

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: jacqui.c
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 04:42 PM

Annie's not lousy, Kendall.

Barbara - pot luck supper from 6pm. Bob will start his performance at about 7.15pm. Break for dessert when he finishes the first set and then more Bob until he decides he wants to finish. After that we usually finish with a song circle until everyone gives up and goes to bed.

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: CET
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 06:49 PM

Sounds like you will be having more fun me, here in Brandon, Manitoba where the best thing on the radio is some FM called "The Farm" - endless Nashville hat band music. Gaah!

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: Charley Noble
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 10:19 PM

I suppose sometime people will stop having fun and report a summary of the music and the carrying on.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble and JudyB, back from Alison's birthday party

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: jacqui.c
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 07:09 AM

We had the BEST time! Bob is an amazing entertainer with the ability to play so many instruments well. His partner, Jeanne McDougal, joined him in the second half, and they complement each other so well. Bob even made the hurdy gurdy sound classy!

More later - we're off out in the antique car this morning.....

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: kendall
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 07:48 AM

We are going to try to get them back up here sometime this winter, so a few gigs would help defray expenses for them.
What a great couple they are, and so talented.
I had to miss the second half because of a splitting head ache that started at mid afternoon and would not let me up.
Getting old is like being a democrat; the alternative is not an option. (Curmudgeon)

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: maeve
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 09:19 AM

Wonderful! I'm delighted you have had, and are having, such fun. I'm sorry I couldn't join you last night.

maeve

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: Charley Noble
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 10:30 AM

Kendall and Jacqui-

Thanks for the brief reports. Bob and Jeanne are certainly fine performers, as well as great people to hang out with.

And I love the quote from Curmudgeon:

"Getting old is like being a Democrat; the alternative is not an option."

Speaking of getting old, this evening we have a triple birthday party at the farm. Does that mean I'll be three times as old? I'll probably feel three times as old after the festivities.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 10:56 AM

Bob Zentz put on a wonderful concert, along with Jeanne. He gives new meaning to the term multi-instrumentalist. There must have been at least a dozen instruments around him, and he played them all well. He and Jeanne did some wonderful duets, with her on whistle? recorder? ukelele? and him on everything.

It was great to meet some of the people whose names I've seen on these house concert threads, and it was fun to go to our very first house concert. Frank and I performed at one with our band, but have never been to one before. Jacqui and Sinsull assured me this was not your typical house concert...

Sorry Kendall had to leave early, but we got to see and hug the ole curmudgeon. Jacqui, whom I expected to look sickly, looked terrific.

Lots of fun, great people, and those desserts!! Thanks for the wonderful hospitality, Mary.

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 12:28 PM

Bob and Jeanne are a pleasure. Non-stop music from 6PM last night to noon today. I got nervous after the 35th instrument came through the door. LOL Every song had a chorus and the audience joined in enthusiastically. Popeye the Sailorman to Kendall's Reel. A Whale Of A Tale to This Little Light of Mine. We really had fun.
More music afterwards and both Tom and Kendall contributed. Now I need a playlist. What is the name of the song about not caring until they came for me? Too good not to be passed on.
Barbara and Frank's songs and harmonies were wonderful. Only A Miner and My Hill Home (?) were beautifully written and performed.
I'm tired but very happy. Linn, Jacqui, Jeri and I contributed. Some great parodies.
Did Bob ever learn how to tune a 12-string?
Thank you all.
Mary

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: Jeri
Date: 22 Aug 10 - 02:32 PM

Re: tuning a 12-string: he didn't sound so bad, did he?

Had a great time! The CD I bought played for a bout a minute then stopped working. I'll have to try it on my computer. Had a migraine Friday and it came back this morning. Oddly enough, it was fine when I was driving, but I got out of the car, and WHAM! The concert was wonderful. Lots of stories, and Bob sang my request "Ocean Station Bravo", that Gordon Bok has also recorded. The first time I heard it and met Bob was at the one and only beautiful little "Oak Grove" festival I attended in 199-longer-than-10-minutes-ago. I already owned a tape and I'd seen him on Armed Forces Korea Network.

I got to play in Bob and Jeanne's "petting zoo" after the concert. I do like that little accordion, but luckily for everyone, I didn't try messing with the hurdy gurdy.

It was good to see folks I hadn't seen for a while, and the post-concert music was great. It was great to hear both Shaws and the two songs Barbara wrote, and I'd think of more to say, but I'm tired (not to mention medicated and currently headache free).

Thanks Bob and Jeanne, and THANK YOU MARY!

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 23 Aug 10 - 07:10 PM

Alas, I never got any of the key lime pie...and I was so hoping for a piece for breakfast on Sunday.

So I got a chunk of the other pie on Sunday morn instead.

It was a really, really great gathering. Nice meeting and hearing Barbara and Frankp; lovely to see Bob and Jeanne again.

Linn

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: gnu
Date: 23 Aug 10 - 07:25 PM

Jeepers... I gotta win the lottery. Sigh.

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Aug 10 - 08:23 PM

Just get busfare, gnu. We will plan a celebration around your arrival.
Found the key lime pie wrapped in tin foil. Sorry Linn. I can't imagine it will last long.
M

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 24 Aug 10 - 10:14 AM

I opened several foiled plates in the fridge looking for the key lime pie -- took each item over to the front door because foil is so damned LOUD uncrinkling and I didn't want to wake you.

Linn

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: Jeri
Date: 24 Aug 10 - 01:46 PM

You never got any key lime pie, and I never got any bacon. (The pie was great!)

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: CET
Date: 24 Aug 10 - 02:01 PM

Sins, did you do your famous rendition of Poor Kitty Popcorn?

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: kendall
Date: 24 Aug 10 - 03:34 PM

The bacon was a real hit, 4 people ate a whole pound of it.

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: kendall
Date: 24 Aug 10 - 05:19 PM

At least now I know what ailed, ails me. Prostate infection.
I've never felt this unnecessary before.

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: GUEST,jeannemcd
Date: 26 Aug 10 - 09:43 AM

Hello -- and thanks and love to all, especially hostess Mary, and host/hostess Kendall and Jacqui, who put us up (put up with us?) in the Portland area! And Charley and Judy, who opened their home to us in Richmond (happy b'day, Ch!), and Nick in Rockport, the finest luthier ever -- was there ever a richer tone than that of the low strings on an Apollonio guitar? ... and everyone who had a kind word or a great song to share. We met no strangers -- everyone was family. We are truly grateful, and reminded again why Maine is one of our favorite places on Earth! We will treasure these memories, and your kindness.

Mary, the sing-around song you asked about is "By My Silence," by Ellen Bukstel and Nick Annis. There must be a Mudcat thread on it, and it is easily accessible online. There are two recorded versions; I prefer the simpler, earlier version that Bob and I first heard on Ken Connors and Cee Cee Severin's program on Radio Free Jacksonville just before Ken interviewed Bob last May -- we were so taken with the song, Bob could barely keep his mind on the interview! We've been sharing it everywhere ever since. Please check it out -- a truly wonderful song that has received many accolades but not nearly enough airplay!

We also sang Lorre Wyatt & Pete Seeger's new song "God's Counting On Me, God's Counting On You," maybe the most singable song of the year, and one that -- contrary to Rolling Stone reports -- is so much more than just a BP protest song! :-)

There is much more to say, and plenty more thank yous unsaid. We love you all! I will be doing research in the Northeast over the winter months and, yes, we would love to explore any chance to lure Bob north for the winter! Hope to sing with you then. Love, Jeanne

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Aug 10 - 05:44 PM

Come back soon Jeanne and bring Bob with you. If you time it right Jed Marum might be here or John Roberts and Deb Cowan or...it will be fun.
SINS (Mary)

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: Barbara Shaw
Date: 02 Nov 10 - 08:51 PM

Two videos from the house concert have finally been uploaded to youtube. Sorry for the poor quality of the recording: I did them on my iPhone, which doesn't do well in low light.

Bob and Jeanne on hurdy gurdy and whistle

Bob and Jeanne "Sweet Song of Yesterday"

There were a few others, equally dark. Maybe another day.

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 Nov 10 - 09:33 PM

Thanks, Barbara!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: GUEST,gazza2
Date: 18 May 11 - 09:36 AM

Hi from over here on this side of the pond! Jeanne I have finally got round to following up all the songs you got Helen to write down at Nick's mess of lobster supper and am after simple chords for By My Silence. Hope that you can make it over here sometime, you're welcome.
Gary

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: Charley Noble
Date: 18 May 11 - 01:22 PM

Just noticed this was an old thread from 2010 revived.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: GUEST
Date: 19 May 11 - 11:22 AM

gazza2

Hi Charley it was me trying to get in touch again while following up songs I heard with Bob and Jeanne last year, I'm a bit of a slow learner!

Subject: RE: Bob Zentz house concert in Maine 21 Aug 2010
From: Charley Noble
Date: 19 May 11 - 08:51 PM

gazza2-

Not to worry but why not become a Mudcat member as long as you're here. Then you can send a PM to Bob and Jeanne.

Charley Noble