Edward Vielmetti is inviting you to A2B3 lunch on Thursday at Eastern Accents in Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104

"acoustic techno", what it might sound like

I asked on Twitter and got these replies.  Putting things into categories is hard; putting music into categories is harder.

Work your fingers to the bone, what do you get?

 Boney fingers.  (Hoyt Axton)

I first heard this song on a Carol Burnett special.

This one, on the other hand, is straight off of VHS from 1983, mustache, leisure suit and all.

Wasn't that a mighty storm

as seen in this excellent NY Daily News article -

Galveston had a seawall
To keep the water down,
But the high tide from the ocean
Washed water over the town.
Wasn't that a mighty storm!
Oh, wasn't that a mighty storm with water!
Wasn't that a mighty storm
That blew all the people away!
Their trumpets gave them warning,
"You'd better leave this place."
They never thought of leaving
Till death looked them in the face.
Death like a cruel master,
As the wind began to blow,
Rode out on a train of horses.
Death calls, you gotta go.

as sung by The Duhks (Amazon link), Nanci Griffith (forum link), Tom Rush (Amazon link), The Tex-I-An Boys on Smithsonian Folkways (Amazon link), Eric von Schmidt (Amazon), lots more I'm sure out there.

More commentary: Jon Taplin notes the parallel storms in the financial markets.

Here's a short encore performance by Tom Rush:

New music from Brian Eno and David Byrne

The whole album is available for streaming, or can be bought from their web site - this is a totally brilliant approach to releasing music.  Noted on Valdis Krebs blog "The Network Thinker".

Cindy Kallet and Grey Larson 2008 fall tour schedule

Link to Cindy Kallet and Grey Larson on NPR (no way to embed, sadly). It's a 6 minute segment.

Kallet is also known for playing what she calls the fiola: a hybrid fiddle that uses half- or three-quarters-sized viola strings. "It has the string sound of a viola," Kallet says, "and it has the low string of the viola, which I really love. But it's small enough that I can handle it easily."

Many of the pieces on the record possess elements of Scandinavian melody and harmony, yet remain Balkan in rhythm.

"Cindy and I love to play Swedish and Norwegian traditional fiddle tunes in which the fiddlers play in harmony with each other," Larsen says. "It's a beautiful sound, and you can get four-part harmonies going with just two people."

Here's a copy of Cindy's fall newsletter schedule -

Dear friends,

Turn your radios on! When? Saturday afternoon, August 2, National Public Radio's "Weekend All Things Considered!" Grey Larsen and I were interviewed by Host Andrea Seabrook, and the conversation will be one of many things considered, well, this weekend, sometime during the second half of the show. Many stations air the program between 5 and 6 PM, but to check on the exact time for your local station, you can go to:

http://www.npr.org/stations .

If you can't listen to it at the time of your local broadcast, you can waltz your browser over to

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=2

and locate the the August 2nd program. We were delighted to get the chance to do this, and hope you will tune in and enjoy!

If you'd like to listen to and/or order Cross the Water, please visit http://www.kalletlarsen.com or http://www.cindykallet.com/music. You can also download the whole album or individual tracks from iTunes, CD Baby, and other online download sites.

Kallet, Epstein and Cicone:

In other news, Ellen Epstein, Michael Cicone and I are still celebrating the release of our new CD, HeartWalk. You can listen to the songs and order it online at

http://cindykallet.com/music.

We were recently on one of the Top 40 Lists at Online Festival Radio (http://www.onlinefolkfestival.com/) and we've gotten some great feedback about the album from people all over the country. You can check out a July 4th review in The Vineyard Gazette at: http://www.cindykallet.com/press/1761.

Upcoming Concerts:

Grey and I have a bunch of concerts coming up this fall, in Maine, New York, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Wisonsin and Pennsylvania. We still have some open dates on a couple of those tours: Sunday, November 2 in Minnesota, and Friday and Sunday, December 5 and 7, in the Pennsylvania part of the world. Please let us know if you or anyone you know would like to host a house concert on any of those dates. All it takes is a room large enough for 20-50 people and a bunch of chairs! We'd be happy to fill you in on any other information about hosting a concert like this. Just e-mail either one of us and we can write or talk you through the process. Here's the link to the schedule page so you can find out what's up in the concert department:

http://www.kalletlarsen.com/schedule .

The first fall crop of them is also listed below.

Best of summer to you all,

Cindy

FALL 2008 CONCERTS

Friday, August 29, 2008

Winter Harbor, ME

CINDY KALLET and GREY LARSEN
Presented by Last Friday Coffeehouse
7:30 PM
427 Main Street
Winter Harbor, ME
(207) 963-7670 or e-mail dubber@midmaine.com
www.schoodicarts.org

Friday, September 5, 2008

Saratoga Springs, NY

CINDY KALLET and GREY LARSEN
Caffe Lena
7:00 PM
47 Phila Street
Saratoga Springs, NY
518-583-0022 or e-mail sarah@caffelena.org
www.caffelena.org

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Oneonta, NY

CINDY KALLET and GREY LARSEN

TWO Concerts at The Straw Bale House!
Hartwick College/Pinelake Institute for Environmental & Sustainability Studies

Concert #1: 2:00 PM Outdoors Performance
Concert #2: 8:00 PM Indoors Performance
1 Hartwick Drive
Oneonta, NY
bluep@hartwick.edu or 607 431-4520
www.hartwick.edu/

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Ithaca, NY

CINDY KALLET and GREY LARSEN
Bound for Glory Live Radio Program
with Phil Shapiro on WVBR
(It's his 41st year hosting this show!!)
Ithaca, NY
wvbr.com:9010/index.php?page=bfg

Friday, October 24, 2008

Watertown, MA

CINDY KALLET and GREY LARSEN
Tremedal Concerts
First Parish of Watertown
8 PM

Info and Tickets:
617 782-8718
BY MAIL:send stamped envelope and check made to:
Watertown El Salvador Sister City to E. Miller, 44 Mt. Vernon St., Brighton MA 02135.

Tickets can also be purchased at:
Sandy's Music
896A Mass Ave.
Cambridge, MA
617 491-2812
35 Church Street
Watertown, MA
617-782-8718 or dean@deanstevens.com
www.tremedalconcerts.org/concerts.html

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Scarborough, ME

CINDY KALLET and GREY LARSEN
House concert 7:30 PM
Details TBA
Scarborough, ME

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Lanesboro, MN

CINDY KALLET and GREY LARSEN
St. Mane Theater
Presented by the Lanesboro Art Council
8:00 PM
204 Parkway Ave N
Lanesboro, MN
507-467-ARTS or tickets@lanesboroartcouncil.org
www.lanesboroartcouncil.org/

Friday, October 31, 2008

Hayward, WI

CINDY KALLET and GREY LARSEN

Details TBA

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Shell Lake, WI

GREY LARSEN
Northern Heritage Fiddle Contest
Workshop with Grey Larsen
Details TBA
10:00 AM
802 First
Shell Lake, WI

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Lemont, PA

CINDY KALLET and GREY LARSEN
Acoustic Brew Concerts
7:30 PM
123 Mt. Nittany Rd.
Lemont, PA
acousticbrew.org/

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Le Tigre - "Get off the Internet"

Thanks to Prentiss Riddle for this gem from Le Tigre.

(Get off the Internet!)
I'll meet you in the street

get the whole scoop at last.fm.

Gilberto Gil on Digital Music at AADL, Tues June 17 2008

as seen on a umich mailing list:

In conjunction with his June 18 concert at the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, Brazilian superstar Gilberto Gil will participate in a panel discussion on Digital Music, Copyright and Internet Rights at the Downtown Library on Tues., June 17 at 7 pm. The famed tropicalist musician serves as Brazil's Minister of Culture. W. Kim Heron, editor of the Metro Times, will moderate the discussion.

In addition to Mr. Gil, panelists include: Prof. Mark Clague, Assoc. Director of the UM School of Music, Theatre & Dance's American Music Institute; Jessica Litman, expert on copyright law, author of Digital Copyright (2001), and Professor of Law at the UM Law School; and Christopher M. Taylor, a shareholder practicing in Butzel Long's Ann Arbor office in the areas of media law, intellectual property, technology and e-commerce.

Some Gilberto Gil stuff online:

St Urho's Day in Detroit - Conga se Menne - Cranbrook - March 15, 2008

For more St Urho's Day information see
St Urho - Legendary Patron Saint of Finland

Happy St Urho's Day 2007 (last year's links)
delicious tag urho

St Urho, of course, drove the grasshoppers out of Finland, saving the grape crop; his day is March 16, one day before St Patrick's, and two days after Pi Day (3.14).

15 (Sat) Conga Se Menne in concert, 8 p.m., Cranbrook Performing Arts Center, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. For information, call (248) 645-3000. (via the Finnish American Reporter)

From the Observer and Eccentric:

You've heard of singing in the shower? Get ready for songs about saunas...and hunting, fishing, forests and cold winters in the U.P. from the Marquette band, Conga Se Menne.

The group that combines traditional Finnish schottisches and polkas with blues, funk, Latin, reggae, rock, and Caribbean beats, will perform a concert called "Finnish Reggae and Other Sauna Beats," from 8-10 p.m., Saturday, March 15 at Cranbrook's Art Museum, in Bloomfield Hills. The concert, co-sponsored by The Finlandia Foundation National and The Finnish Club of Detroit, will include a cash bar and traditional Finnish refreshments. Doors will open at 7 p.m., allowing time to check out the museum's current exhibit, "Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future," a look at the life and work of one of America's most innovative architects. Admission to the concert, which includes entrance to the exhibit, is $15 per person for the general public and $10 per person for members of the Finlandia Foundation National, Finnish Cultural Center and the Finnish American Club of Detroit. The event is free for ArtMembers@Cranbrook. To reserve tickets, call (248) 645-3314.

"Living Inna Northern Paradise" (Conga Se Menne)

Take Five, Dave Brubeck Quartet on Dutch TV 1961

via Tom Brandt (thanks)

Upcoming music in Ann Arbor

Here's some shows on our radar.

Chris Smither, Oct 20, the Ark.
Garnet Rogers, Nov 9, the Ark

Yo-Yo Ma, Nov 10, Rackham. (sold out)

Leo Kottke and the Turtle Island String Quartet, Dec 9, Rackham.