Art Thieme & Utah Phillips: Honor 'Em!

Subject: Art Thieme & Utah Phillips: Honor 'Em!
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 14 Apr 03 - 05:36 PM

This just in from the Folk Alliance:

Legacy Life Membership begins!

Art Thieme and Utah Phillips are first nominees.

Thanks to a suggestion Joel Mabus made at the Membership Meeting in
Nashville, our Legacy Life Membership program has begun.

A Legacy Life Membership is a gift Life Membership in the Folk Alliance. Legacy Life Members are nominated by an individual or group of Folk Alliance members, as a way of honoring them. It's a chance for Folk Alliance members to think about who we want to bring in to the organization, and who we want to say thanks to. And a way to honor some of our personal heroes.

A beginning donation of $50 made by a Folk Alliance member in the name of the person they would like to honor will start the ball rolling. We'll announce the names, and anyone else can contribute towards reaching the $1,000 needed for the membership. Additional contributions can be made in amounts of $20 to $100 to reach the goal.

We'll have 10 nominees at a time so that each potential Legacy member gets the concentrated efforts he/she deserve to ensure the success of each membership.

We're proud to announce our first two nominees. Legacy Life Memberships have been started for Art Thieme and Utah Phillips. You can help fulfill these memberships by sending your donation earmarked for one or the other (or both!) of them to the Folk Alliance office, 962 Wayne Ave. Suite 902, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Credit card payments are also accepted.

And you can start your own nomination by sending in the $50 beginning
donation in your honorees name.

More details on the program can be found in the March/April Folk Alliance newsletter (on its way to you now), and shortly will be posted on our website (www.folk.org). We look forward to this roster becoming a growing and tangible expression of who we honor and what folk music and folk dance are.

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~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: Art Thieme & Utah Phillips: Honor 'Em!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 14 Apr 03 - 07:48 PM

Wow, how should I respond to this honor? I am speechless. I feel like a sperm that has just been ejaculated into------Oh, let's not go there.

I feel like a "Roman Candle" that just had his fuse lit.----Either that or I'm now in the International Star Registry. I do think/hope this is a slow-burning fuse that'll last as long as it takes before I am LAUNCHED, spectacularly, into the cosmos---where I can be worthy of the honor that might/could be in my future.

Thanks---maybe,

Art

Subject: RE: Art Thieme & Utah Phillips: Honor 'Em!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 14 Apr 03 - 07:50 PM

*********BIG SMILE****

Subject: RE: Art Thieme & Utah Phillips: Honor 'Em!
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Apr 03 - 07:55 PM

What a great pair to start with!! Congrats, Art and U. Utah!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme & Utah Phillips: Honor 'Em!
From: Walking Eagle
Date: 14 Apr 03 - 08:19 PM

I just wish I had extra money to send in.

Good on you again Art!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme & Utah Phillips: Honor 'Em!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 14 Apr 03 - 08:33 PM

U. Utah has been a social mentor and a huge source of purloined jokes for me for over 30 years. And the biggest honor I ever had was when he started using my jokes just like they were his own too. What goes around, comes around, I suppose. We are both doomed and destined,I fear, to have our jokes outlive our politics. If our songs go into tradition, I do suspect that Mr. Phillips would be as happy as I would be given that exceptional eventuality.

Love,

Art

Subject: RE: Art Thieme & Utah Phillips: Honor 'Em!
From: Ebbie
Date: 14 Apr 03 - 10:19 PM

Art, now that you're on the line- Paul Roseland was at the Alaska Folk Festival again last week. He's looking good- younger and fitter and happier looking than last year.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme & Utah Phillips: Honor 'Em!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 12:44 AM

Ebbie,

That is good to hear. We've not been in contact lately and I was wondering how he's been these days. A very unique man, but maybe not for Alaska.   ;-) He has one hell of a huge songbag. Many of his songs I've never encountered anywhere else. Thanks.

Art

Subject: Art Thieme & Utah Phillips
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 02:30 AM

I was just informed by the Folk Alliance (of which I am a proud member)
that our esteemed Art Thieme and Utah Phillips have been nominated for the first Legacy Lifetime Membership Program.
How 'bout them apples!
Way to go gentlemen, and congratulations.

Seamus

Subject: RE: Art Thieme & Utah Phillips: Honor 'Em!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 10:43 AM

I think I will send a thousand dollar check ;-)

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Art Thieme & Utah Phillips: Honor 'Em!
From: Fortunato
Date: 15 Apr 03 - 10:55 AM

I can think of no one more deserving. Congrats, Art and Bruce. Best regards, Chance Shiver.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme & Utah Phillips: Honor 'Em!
From: GUEST,Marty Peifer
Date: 29 Dec 09 - 03:30 PM

Art,
I don't know of anyone who is more deserving of this honor than you are. You have earned the love and respect of everyone who has heard you over these many years. Congratulations old friend! Marty.

Subject: RE: Art Thieme & Utah Phillips: Honor 'Em!
From: gnu
Date: 29 Dec 09 - 03:33 PM

Gosh. Great stuff!

Subject: RE: Art Thieme & Utah Phillips: Honor 'Em!
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Dec 09 - 03:40 PM

Congratulations Art. Well deserved.
But reading your reaction, I think it is time to limit your contact with Spaw to two minutes per week.
Ejaculated sperm, indeed!
Mary

Subject: RE: Art Thieme & Utah Phillips: Honor 'Em!
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 29 Dec 09 - 04:29 PM

I just got an e-mail from Art with a link to the video and newspaper article. As I said to him, that made the e-mail an Art-link letter.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Art Thieme & Utah Phillips: Honor 'Em!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 29 Dec 09 - 06:02 PM

Jerry, I also got that email from Art. It's always good to hear from Art, and it was a pleasure to read the article.

Here's a link: News Tribune.

SRS

Subject: RE: Art Thieme & Utah Phillips: Honor 'Em!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Dec 09 - 07:37 PM

I loved the pic of Art & Utah on Art's wall.

sandra

Subject: RE: Art Thieme & Utah Phillips: Honor 'Em!
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Dec 09 - 07:42 PM

Jerry...that's right up there with Fine Art's puns. LOL!