Delivered-To: mbaya@svaha.com From: TsunamiInc@aol.com Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 20:47:28 EDT Subject: The Jamie Anderson Newsletter To: DakotaAZ@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Here's another edition of the pedestrian but mildly amusing Jamie Anderson newsletter! You are on this list because you signed my mailing list at a concert or wrote to me and asked to be added. If you'd like to be deleted or if your address will change soon, please let us know at tsunamiinc@aol.com. Be kind and keep in mind that a real, feeling person answers your email. Please don't forward jokes, news items, virus warnings or petitions. I love personal notes from fans, though, and try to answer every email. Feel free to forward this newsletter to your friends, especially if I'm going to be performing in their area. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Table of Contents ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Where I've Been and Where I'm Headed 2. Requests 3. Tour, tour, tour 4. The ending quote ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Where I've Been and Where I'm Headed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Damn but I've put a lot of miles on this ol' body, starting in Florida in early March, going to the west coast after that, then coming back to Florida for the Southern Women's Music Festival. I leave for California tomorrow to teach at WoMaMu, a fab music retreat for women. Who booked this tour? Oh yeah, I did. I shared the stage with some awesome performers, including Mary Dolan (www.marydolan.com) in San Diego - think Ani Difranco and Melissa Ferrick's love child. Ask her to do "76 Miles." If you want to race home with your sweetie (or head for the chocolate ), you're definitely a lesbian. I also had the pleasure to hear Duval Speck (duvalspk@jps.net - sorry I don't have their website handy) in Davis. They mixed solid contemplative ballads with covers - an acoustic duo that can pull off Jefferson Airplane. Friggin' amazing. Also on the bill in Davis was Karie Hillery doing her sensible pop with two killer vocalists - great blend and a great show. Check out Karie's website: www.karie.com. She took some photos of us and said she'd put them up. I was my usual weirdo self. Let's just say I was wearing a very pretty bra that night. The Davis show was part of a women's music series that happens on a regular basis. Write to Duval Speck for more info - their upcoming line-up looked awesome, including Holly Figueroa and others. In San Franciso and San Jose, my friend Susanne Mulcahy did her tunes and backed me up, sometimes on songs we hadn't played for a year. What a trooper! She doesn't have a website but you can reach her at OspreyMuse@aol.com. Funny woman Monica Grant was on the bill in Berkeley. If you haven't heard her parody of Ferron's "Shadows on a Dime," life is passing you by. And oh, the Southern women's festival! Too much fun stuff to mention everything here. Highlights for me included the round robin on Sunday afternoon with Alix Dobkin, Amy Carol Web, Kara Barnard and a whole slew of others. Thanks to Kara and Deb D'Alessandro for letting me shake, rattle and roll during "Sway of Her Hips." I always thought that song needed a bellydancer. Saturday night, I was forced to act stupid with Alix Dobkin during Lisa Koch's set. It was Lisa's idea, I swear! I never thought I'd do such things with the Mother Of Women's Music. That night I also introduced Amy Ray (yes, THAT Amy Ray) in a, um, creative way. I looked over during the intro to find her standing in the middle of the stage laughing her arse off. Think I could put that in my press kit? My set on Sunday night was a blast, performing with the astounding mulit-instrumentalist Kara Barnard, culminating in A Family of Friends, sung with a kazillion back up singers. This month and next, I'll be in the midwest. Kara Barnard is doing many of the gigs with me. It's always been my dream to tour with a band and folks, she's pretty damn close to one. Below is my tour schedule. Be sure to come and bring 50 of your closest friends!! ~~~~~~~~~ 2. Requests ~~~~~~~~~ Remember that I'm happy to take song requests by email. Just tell me what you want to hear and what gig you'll be at. I can also take requests at the gig but my memory bites - if it's a song I haven't done in a while, I may not be able to do it on the spur of the moment. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3. Tour, tour, tour ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As always, check with the venue before you head out to a show. 4/6 - 8 Healdsburg, CA, WoMaMu (Women Making Music) 4/13 Champaign-Urbana, IL, 8 pm, Univ. of IL, room 314 in Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., with Kara Barnard, 217-244-8863, p-morey@uiuc.edu, www.odos.uiuc.edu/lgbt 4/14 Decatur, IL, 7:30 pm, GLAD, St. Thomas Community Center, 2170 N. Edward St., GLAD@GLADdecatur.org, www.GLADdecatur.org, 217-425-2665, with Kara Barnard 4/20 Ft. Wayne, IN, 7:30 pm, Unitarian Church, 5310 Old Mill Rd., benefit for pride, traficmama@aol.com, 219-424-3255, with Kara Barnard 4/21 Cincinnati, OH, 8 pm, St. John's Unitarian Chruch, 320 Resor, 513-891-8781, Margal1@aol.com, with Kara Barnard 4/22 Kokomo, IN, 3 pm, Country Club Hills Bldg., 1805 St. Charles Ct., with Kara Barnard, 765-452-5935, sandlisa@netusa1.net 4/27 Morris, MN, 8 pm, Univ. of MN, student center, Turtle Mountain Cafˇ, http://www.mrs.edu/~pehng/Equality/pride.html 4/28 Des Moines, IA, 8 pm, Friends Meeting House, 4211 Grand, Jbelluchi@aol.com, 515-267-9065, with Laura Berkson 4/29 Minneapolis, MN, 7pm, Jump Start Espresso Cafˇ, 21 SE 4th St., 612-623-0550, AzoraMinda@cs.com 5/3 Chicago, IL, 8 pm, Grinder Showcase, Coffee and Tea Exchange, 1100 W. Thorndale (1/2 blk. east of L, free parking across the street), with Scott Free and Robert Klein Engler, 773-907-3500, scottfree@mailcity.com, www.scottfree.net 5/4 Galesburg , IL, 7pm, Knox College, Gizmo, awatts@knox.edu 5/5 Rockford, IL, 8 pm, Charlotte's Web, Mendelson Club, 416 N. Church St., 815-964-2238, with Kara Barnard 5/6 Bloomington, IN, 5 pm pitch in dinner, 7 pm concert, RSVP required, cvpetdoc@kiva.net, 812-339-4283 after noon, with Kara Barnard 5/9 Chicago, IL (Oak Park) 7 pm, OPLAGA Cultural Arts Coffeehouse Soirree, Buzz Cafˇ, 905 S. Lombard Ave., 708-848-0273, 708-524-8581, cabox@aol.com, www.OPLAGA.org 5/11 St. Louis, MO, 8 pm, Sheldon Hall, with Random Access and Kara Barnard, WiredWomen@aol.com, www.sheldonconcerthall.org, tickets: www.metrotix.com 5/12 Lawrence, KS, 8 pm, Westside Folk, ECM Bldg., 1204 Oread, with Kara Barnard, westsidefolk@yahoo.com, 913-842-1163 5/19 Carrboro, NC, 8 pm, The ArtsCenter,300 E. Main, 919-929-2787 with Tret Fure 5/24 Durham, NC, teaching Getting Gigs workshop at Duke, www.learnmore.duke.edu 5/26 Kents Store, VA, CampOut, 804-783-6001, campoutva@campoutva.com, www.campoutva.com 6/1 Corvallis, OR, 7:30 pm, Corvallis Congregational Church, with Jubilate!, bettybusch@home.com 6/2 Glen Eden Beach, OR, 8 pm, Eden Hall, with Jubilate!, bettybusch@home.com 6/9 - 16 West Indies, Olivia at Turkoise Club Med, www.oliviatravel.com 6/19 Carrboro, NC, Songwriter's Circle class begins, www.learnmore.duke.edu 6/20 Carrboro, NC, Songwriting class begins, www.learnmore.duke.edu 6/21 - 24 Muncie, IN, National Women's Music Festival, www.wiaonline.org 7/4 - 8 Bakersville, NC, Camp Pleiades, www.starcamp.com 7/28 Ithaca, NY, Common Grounds Womens Music Festival 8/5 - 13 Hart, MI, Michigan Women's Music Festival, teaching intensive workshops, www.michfest.com Fall NY, PA, New England 9/22 Hartford, CT, Pride Festival Nov Florida ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4. The Ending Quote ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A bird doesn't sing because it has the answer, it sings because it has a song." - Maya Angelou Keep singing everyone! -- Jamie Jamie Anderson Singer - Songwriter - Parking Lot Attendant *** Touring nationally for over a decade *** http://www.jamieanderson.com http://www.mp3.com/jamieanderson 4201 University Dr., Ste. 102, Durham, NC, 27707 tsunamiinc@aol.com Order Jamie's recordings! Goldenrod: www.goldenrod.com Ladyslipper: 800-634-6044, or www.ladyslipper.org Harmony Ridge: www.hrmusic.com