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This weekend is my last ever Community Festival in Columbus, or as it is lovingly referred to , Comfest.
http://www.comfest.com/schedule.htm
It is the biggest non-sponsored, community
organized, free music festival in the country...without a doubt the best three days of the year.
So if any of you are on good terms with God or Mother Nature or whoever is in charge of the making it rain....could you put in a call for me and make sure that the weather holds out f... MORE
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Another of my favorite artists, I discovered Beth Orton in graduate school. (Hey, we're out of college!) Actually, I "discovered" Beth in much the same way that I discovered most of my favorite music... A friend of mine made me listen to her.
Beth's music is difficult to classify. I wind up putting it into my "folk rock" genre, in part because it's soft enough to not disrupt my listening while I listen to others in that genre. But she's collaborated with the Chemica... MORE
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I went to see Beth as I promised in my last update.
She was great, far better than when I saw her in March. I thought it had been earlier than that but it was that recent. When she walked out on stage, my friend Kevin and I looked at each other and said simultaineously "is she pregnant"? We weren't sure if she was trying to hide it with her billowy dress but she certainly wasn't successful. Later in the program she blamed "San Francisco" for her big changes. She sai... MORE
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I am going to see Beth Orton this weekend.....YEAH!
I am really excited to be seeing her. She is very sweet, constantly says "Thank you" to her fans and she puts on a nice long show even when she is feeling under the weather like she was feeling back in February when I saw her last.
I always go with a certain bud of mine who shall remain nameless....
We talk about performers a lot and of course I am just wrong about everything most of the time, but I am starting to... MORE
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I'm not sure why Beth Orton can't do the midnight shift for the birds of prey or Hitchcock shaped birds living in the 7 barked cypress outside my flat. Or fill in for every commercial verbage, "brilliant" on WCup, or gingerly pump through the speakers while I hurriedly shuffle Blake from market to naptime. I'm just not sure why she can't sing me to sleep every night, or wake me every morning.... MORE
