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19 Mar 08 - 12:57 PM (#2292719) Subject: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor, From: Big Mick I just got the call from Flemming Artists and am very pleased to announce the following: Benefit concert for Bruce "Utah" PhillipsMay 14, 2008 The Ark, Ann Arbor, Michigan Featured Guest Artist: Garnet RogersGuest Host: Matt Watrobaof "Folks Like Us" on WDET, and host of Sing Out! Radio Magazine heard on XM Radio, many public radio stations and streamed live on FolkAlley.com I will post more detailed information as it becomes available in this thread, but mark the date. It is going to be a great concert. And I believe that Utah will be doing a callin to the show, as well as another good friend of his. All the best, Mick |
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19 Mar 08 - 02:43 PM (#2292836) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: Mark Ross Got the message Mick, I'll let Utah now. Mark Ross |
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20 Mar 08 - 09:03 AM (#2293454) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: Big Mick refresh |
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27 Mar 08 - 10:01 AM (#2298703) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: Big Mick This benefit concert continues to come together in fine shape. It looks like Utah will be doing a call in that night, Garnet is excited and honored to be a part of it, Matt Watroba will be performing and hosting. It will be a great time. Those of you in the Eastern Michigan precincts can help be spreading the word, and we are putting it out through other channels as well. I hope there will be a nice Mudcat contingent (leftydee, Cool Beans, Maryanne, and others) so put it on the calendar. Mick |
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27 Mar 08 - 10:44 AM (#2298737) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May From: Charley Noble Someone might alert the Elderly Instruments crew in Lansing if they don't already know. Charley Noble |
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27 Mar 08 - 11:22 AM (#2298768) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: maire-aine Hi, Mick & all. Thanks for the reminder, because I missed the first post. Didn't see it on the Ark calendar yet, but watch this space Maryanne |
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27 Mar 08 - 11:24 AM (#2298771) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: maire-aine Oops. Sorry I messed up the link. http://www.theark.org |
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27 Mar 08 - 11:24 AM (#2298772) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: Big Mick Yep, MaryAnne, we are putting it together fast. It will show up on the calendar soon. It will be nice to see you again. Mick |
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27 Mar 08 - 01:21 PM (#2298860) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: leftydee Hi Mick, I'll try to be there! Bob |
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27 Mar 08 - 05:24 PM (#2299063) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: Art Thieme The Siglin clan and all at the Ark are great folks who built a perfect setting for folk music shows. Not being able to be there for Utah pisses me off exceptionally. Being part of a song swap show at The Ark with Michael Cooney, Sally Rogers, Barry O'neil and Joe Hickerson was a grand memory for me that I will always cherish!! I hope you make a million for Utah. Art Thieme |
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27 Mar 08 - 06:22 PM (#2299116) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: Big Mick Well, buddy, I am looking for you to do a callin that night. I spoke with Jim Flemming about it and he wondered how you were. So if you can't be there for it, you surely can be a part of it. I am sure Anya Siglin will be happy to hear that. All the best, Mick |
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28 Mar 08 - 03:05 PM (#2299807) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: Big Mick I just spoke with Mark Damron of the IWW General HQ. They are fully onboard with the project, and are making available for sale at the event copies of the centenary reproduction of the Little Red Songbook with all proceeds to go to the fund for Utah. This is really shaping up nicely. It is going to be an event worth travelling to. All the best, Mick |
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28 Mar 08 - 10:17 PM (#2300128) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May From: Charley Noble Best of luck with this special event. I have fond members of the "seven wonders tour" we provided Utah in Lansing, way back in the Pleistocene. Charley Noble |
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30 Mar 08 - 04:04 PM (#2301342) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May From: Dan Schatz What a treat for the folks of Ann Arbor, and anywhere within a decent radius. Thank you, Mick, for doing all the legwork to put this show together! Dan |
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30 Mar 08 - 07:42 PM (#2301558) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: Big Mick Doing the legwork for something like this isn't much strain, Dan. Everyone that knows Utah Phillips wants to help out. The show is going to be fun. We really appreciate Garnet Rogers, bless him, for donating his time. This is a simple principle. It's called taking care of our own. All the best, Mick |
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02 Apr 08 - 02:21 AM (#2304213) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: Big Mick It looks like Len Wallace and Chris Buhalis are going to join us for the event. We will probably do a singaround of labor music for a set on stage. Pass the word, pass the word. Going to be a special night. Mick |
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02 Apr 08 - 07:30 PM (#2304994) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: Big Mick I just got off the phone with Utah. He sounds great and is very excited about the event, as well as others out there that are helping him. This gentle man is such a wonderful spirit, one cannot help but slip into idolizing him. He is going to send me CD's which will be for sale that night, along with the centenary reproduction 1905 songbook. I am asking all that I contact to treat it as it is, a fundraiser. Come prepared to spend a little, enjoy a lot, and help out a Brother who needs the help, and who has spent his life spreading the word. Art Thieme told me that Utah taught him the secret to spreading a message is to do it with humour and grace. I heartily second that notion. Please pass the word, and let's make this a night to remember. Al the best, Mick |
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10 Apr 08 - 02:12 AM (#2311786) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: Big Mick If you go to The Ark's website and go to the May Events Calendar, you will see the listing there for the concert, with all the appropriate details. It starts at 8:00 PM on May 14, the cost is $20.00. The lineup for the night is: Garnet Rogers Len Wallace Matt Watroba Chris Buhalis Eleni Kelakos Mick Lane We are going to have CD's for sale, centenary reproductions of the 1905 songbook, and just a great night of music. I am hopeful we can do as good a job as our friends down east did, and have one of those special musical nights. Sure hope Mudcatters within 3 hours can make it. I am going to be a busy big boy that week. I will be coming back from Indian Neck the weekend before, and leaving to play Beaver Island with my band right after. All the best, Mick |
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10 Apr 08 - 04:21 PM (#2312348) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: kendall I wish I could be there. A gang of us did a benefit for the great man in Blue Hill Maine last Sunday, and it was a great time. I wasn't able to sing, but I did do the narration in Phoebe Snow while Jacqui did the singing. She also sang Miner's Lullaby. |
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10 Apr 08 - 05:11 PM (#2312391) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: Big Mick Yep, Captain. I wish I could have been there to see you and Jacqui perform. This special man deserves this, and I expect the music to be mighty on May 14 at the Ark. Mick |
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11 Apr 08 - 01:01 PM (#2313082) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: SINSULL Wish I could be there, Mick. It is amazing how warm and fuzzy the crowd is when they are there for Utah. Make sure someone records the festivities so that you can share it with the rest of us. Mary |
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11 Apr 08 - 09:30 PM (#2313413) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: maire-aine Hi, Mick. Thanks for the update. I sent 86 emails to local folks about it. Hope some of them turn out. Maryanne |
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12 Apr 08 - 12:29 AM (#2313454) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: Big Mick You are the best, Maryanne!!! And Sins, I really wish you could be there too. Gonna be a great show. All the best, Mick |
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12 Apr 08 - 12:40 AM (#2313459) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: katlaughing Mick, what 1905 songbook, please? (Sorry, if I missed an earlier reference to it.) |
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12 Apr 08 - 01:55 PM (#2313775) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: Big Mick kat, apparently they IWW did a 100 year anniversary reproduction of their Little Red Songbook. I am not sure yet if is all the songs over 100 years or if it is a reproduction of the songbook from the first year. But they sell a lot of them and they are sending me as many as I want at cost so I can mark them up a bit and give the proceeds to Utah. I will let you know when I have them in hand. All the best, Mick |
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14 Apr 08 - 01:27 AM (#2314850) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May From: Seamus Kennedy Wish I could go. Seamus |
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16 Apr 08 - 10:15 AM (#2317260) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: SINSULL And?????? |
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16 Apr 08 - 10:23 AM (#2317269) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: Big Mick Things are progressing swimmingly, m'dear. Just had a conference call with Jim Fleming (Utah's agent, and a producer) and Matt Watroba, host of Folks Like Us on WDET in Eastern Michigan, as well as the host of the Sing Out! Radio Magazine. We laid out the format for the night, and put the finishing touches on an email flyer that I will post a link to as soon as it is done. It is great looking. I expect a sold out audience that night, and I hope to see many Mudcatters. May 14..... 8:00 PM..... The Ark in Ann Arbor,MI...... be there or be square.... All the best, Mick |
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06 May 08 - 12:02 PM (#2334104) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May From: GUEST,Judith Hoffman I have two tickets to the Utah Phillips benefit concert that I will not be able to use. Great seats, 3rd row center. $20 ea. Please contact me 769-4853 or NorthernLightTranslations@gmail.com. Thanks! |
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06 May 08 - 03:43 PM (#2334273) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May From: open mike Judith...you should add an area code--this is an international forum.. Mick..--we are holding a folk music festival in Chico May 17th and would like to have some Utah products to sell there for him. Apparently he and Joanna are too involved to send any thing...any idea of another source of his goods? Perhaps...if you have any c.d's or song books after your gig, perhaps you could forward along to our Folk Music Society to market? There is a benefit for him in the Bay Area tonight..too. |
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06 May 08 - 05:50 PM (#2334380) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: Big Mick Laurel, I will see after our concerts what I have left. I have two of these two do. When I speak to Utah, I will mention this to him. I know he wants to sell this stock. We are fast on track to a wonderful night that will greatly help this wonderful man. I want to urge all Mudcatters within a reasonable driving distance to please help make this a successful event. All the best, Mick |
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13 May 08 - 07:39 PM (#2339787) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: Big Mick Tomorrow night is the benefit at The Ark. And we have two additions to the lineup. Peter "Madcat" Ruth How cool is that? This is going to be a whale of a show, and do some good while we are at it. If you are within a couple of hours of Ann Arbor, you would do well to be there. All the best, Mick |
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13 May 08 - 09:14 PM (#2339866) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May From: Dan Schatz Have a wonderful show, Mick - I wish I could be there. Dan |
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13 May 08 - 09:37 PM (#2339892) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: Mark Ross Give my regards to Claudia will ya? Good luck, Mick. Mark Ross |
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14 May 08 - 08:11 AM (#2340149) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: maire-aine Hi, Mick. Well, this is the big night. I talked with Len a couple of weeks ago, and he's excited. If it's a sell-out, you gotta make sure I get in. C-ya, Maryanne |
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14 May 08 - 08:14 AM (#2340151) Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Benefit-The Ark-Ann Arbor 14 May 08 From: maire-aine PS: for local folks going to A2 from Detroit, I heard on the tv that M-14 is down to 1 lane in each direction, for bridge work at Sheldon Rd. Ford Rd or I-94 is the alternate. |