Re: A Very Ecto Evening

Cool Review. Loved the bit about what you ate :-)

I think I'll look for some Rachel Sage. I love cello in music & all the better if she 
is a nice human & someone who would wait for 6 hours in the cold in NYC to see Kate.

Btw... If anyone Ever knows about a time when Kate will be out in public... concert 
(yeah dream on I know...) or signing autographs... please post here. Doesn't matter 
what continent or state... I would strongly consider going.
Thanks.

On Monday night I went to Club Passim in Harvard Square to see Rachael
Sage. I didn't know much about her -- I just recognised her name because
there was a song of hers going around on Kazaa that was mislabelled as
being by Kate Bush, and it was actually a pretty good song.

As it turned out, she sounds a lot more like a cross between Tori Amos
and Ani DiFranco with a hint of a Sinead O'Connor-like timbre in her
voice than she does like Kate Bush, but that's quite fine and her gig
was excellent. She had a cellist to accompany her on piano, and the
combination was good. She is also very nice and after the show she
introduced herself to me when she saw me wearing a Red Shoes T-shirt and
she told me that she had waited out in the cold for six hours at Tower
Records in NYC when Kate Bush was there doing autographs. I wonder if I
met her back then -- that would have been before she was releasing her
own CD's.

Rachael brought along with her a folk singer named Jenny Bruce. Jenny
has clearly gone to the Suzanne Vega school of acoustic guitar
playing. Her voice is much less understated than Suzanne's, though, so
that gave her a different feel.

After Jenny and Rachael, there was this rather amazing woman named Molly
Zenobia, who also played piano and she had a guy with her who played
drums and synthesizers. She had a beautiful voice and performed music
that was very dark and dense. I wasn't expecting anything quite so goth
at a folk club, but it was a very pleasant surprise. The only
improvement that Molly needs is to work on her stage presence a bit --
she looked for the entire set like she was going to puke from
stage-fright, but this was more than made up by the quality of her
music, which was a joy to hear. Her shyness did not translate into her
voice, which is a rich, powerful alto, or her piano playing, which was
adept. Like Rachael, she was also very nice, and I chatted with her for
a bit after the show.

When I got to the Passim I was starving because I hadn't eaten all
day. Fortunately, they serve food there -- health-food pizza, which
turned out to be quite good. I got a cheddar cheeze pizza on a whole
wheat crust with brocolli and fresh tomatos. For desert, Rachael Sage
had brought butterscotch suckers that actually say "Rachel Sage" on
them. Rad. Alas, I didn't try out their tea, which is allegedly their
house specialty.

|>oug