Re: A Very Ecto Evening

Mmmm...Rachel Sage.... I also had downloaded her stuff from Kazza, and fell
in love with The Spirit We...  even used it in my last mix tape....  I love
how these little accidents create new and interesting paths...

rich

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