Another Boston event

[Squeech]

A couple of them, actually. Friends of mine are putting together two benefit concerts for Heifer International, a charity that provides livestock for subsistence farmers. The performers will include myself in my singer/songwriter mode, as well as Astro Al (poetry and music collaborative duo, sort of post-Casio neo-beatnik) and the Sob Sisters (two women who play '20s pop music on two cellos, and dress in period costume), among others.

Time/space coordinates are:

Sunday, July 17th, 2PM at Winnekenni Castle, Rte 110 in Haverhill, MA. For directions, see http://www.winnekenni.com

Saturday, July 23rd, 6:30 PM at the Nave Gallery, Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, 155 Powderhouse Blvd, Somerville MA 02145, For directions, see http://www.artsomerville.org

[stellanoir]

1. Sounds like fun

I've done a couple gigs at the Winnekenni Castle. Kind of a cool spot ironically situated in a very depressed area.

Hope it goes really well.

[Squeech]

3. Thank you

Should go well, although I'm concerned that some of my more pissed off songs might be too loud within those stone walls.

Yeah, Haverhill is hurting, like the whole greater Lowell area. When Priscilla took her course on textiles, part of her homework was to visit the old mill museums, so we made a day of it. Reminded me of Brazil, which has been whipsawed by business cycles for 450 years...

[papau]

2. I bought one a few years ago - and got a card saying "my" animal

had died before transport to the site it was being given to! :-(

It is a great cause non-the-less.

[Squeech]

4. Awww...

I suppose there really is a specific animal credited to your donation. I naively assumed transport would be the major expense.

This is really a thinly disguised kick for lunch hour.

[papau]

5. Awaaa is correct - I'd rather have been told that 98% of the aninmals

had arrived - sigh

By the way - if low on cash, a "goat" is really not that costly and really does help.

I rarely contribute to offbeat causes - but this is a good one.

[Squeech]

7. In that case

you may be amused to know that we're really pushing the goat option. The name we're using for the Somerville event is "Goatstock." Astro Al's bandmate (who is also his wife) made up a poster with a goat perched on top of a guitar's tuning box, nibbling on a frond, as a sort of parody of the original Woodstock poster.

Tim Mungenast, another singer/songwriter who I'll be playing with in Somerville (and I also play bass in his electric band), has been accumulating a whole set of songs about goats, many of which we will perform. His intention is to record them all for his next CD, under the title "Famous Goats I Have Known."

[papau]

8. cute! :-)

and good luck!

:-)

[hickman1937]

6. If someone sells a cow, and it dies before it can be shipped

shouldn't there be a refund, or the money transfered to another cow?:shrug:

[papau]

9. ??? - the note said it did not get to the intended - ?? I hope they got

at least a bit of meat ....

:-)