Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Semi-Perfect GIG
After 20+ years of membership, I, SEMI-FREE, am finally playing the Park Slope Food Coop Good Coffeehouse series across the street from my house (!) at the Ethical Culture Society on Prospect Park West, for which I will receive a pass on a monthly work shift, good as gold.
Brandon Ross and I will be opening for the jazz bassist Alex Cuadrato on Friday, March 16 at 8pm SHARP. I say sharp because Brandon has to get to Nublu for a gig with Butch Morris later in the evening, but not that much later.
$10 at the door goes to the Co-op (the series is a fundraiser) and for another $10 I've got a really fine CD to sell you. I heard from Linda Thompson yesterday, Linda of Richard and Linda Thompson, and she wrote to say my singing was "sublime" with six exclamation points, that she was, in another word, "flabbergasted." Coming from the singer of The Great Valerio, Dimming Of The Day, I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight, well, I could hardly sleep for my delight.
Brandon Ross and I will be opening for the jazz bassist Alex Cuadrato on Friday, March 16 at 8pm SHARP. I say sharp because Brandon has to get to Nublu for a gig with Butch Morris later in the evening, but not that much later.
$10 at the door goes to the Co-op (the series is a fundraiser) and for another $10 I've got a really fine CD to sell you. I heard from Linda Thompson yesterday, Linda of Richard and Linda Thompson, and she wrote to say my singing was "sublime" with six exclamation points, that she was, in another word, "flabbergasted." Coming from the singer of The Great Valerio, Dimming Of The Day, I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight, well, I could hardly sleep for my delight.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Heavenly Sight!
In the two years since I met Tim Seggerman, arguably one of the two most knowledgeable white men in America on the subject of gospel music (the other being Anthony Heilbut, author of The Gospel Sound), I have had quite an education in gospel music, about which I am a little ashamed to say I knew nothing. But I'm educable and this is a deep well of music. Lately, I'm listening to the Barnes Family of Rocky Mount, NC, whose church I plan to visit when I drive down to Atlanta in June. I may be saved: The three gals who sing behind their father get into my head so deep, it's a 24/7 stay every time I hear them sing Come Unto Me.....
As usual, I digress. What I want to tell you about is a Kickstarter project called Heavenly Sight, a proposed radio documentary and online audio archive celebrating the music of the many, many blind gospel musicians whose ecstatic achievements deserve a wider audience. I encourage you to support this effort. I know all of the people involved; in fact, I have worked with all of them at one time or another. The music would be in good hands and truly, you can't have too much ecstatic singing in this world.
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