Natalie Merchant

mikalina

helplessdancer wrote:

http://www.nataliemerchant.com/calendar

8 shows in 2012?
sucks to be a fan sometimes

no it doesn't....

mikalina

Pap wrote:

New Yorkers Against Fracking: An Urgent Call to Action

Thanks for sharing pap.... :thumbup:

drivingrl

I'm glad to see so many fans of Miss Merchant on the board! She is so beautiful, and I hope she tours again soon!

helplessdancer

mikalina wrote:

helplessdancer wrote:

http://www.nataliemerchant.com/calendar
8 shows in 2012?
sucks to be a fan sometimes

no it doesn't....

seen her with the maniacs twice and solo twice ONLY
and i'm an old dude, been seeing shows for 30+years and i have never missed a local show of hers and live in a big city!
whats up with that?
really?
it's disappointing being a fan

Pap

http://www.nataliemerchant.com/news/2012/6/89


From the Introduction:

When Frances Foster contacted me with the plan to transform this collection of songs into a picture book for children I was intrigued. But when she suggested that Barbara McClintock be the illustrator, I was thrilled. Her work has delighted and charmed me for many years; it is of the greatest technical quality yet deeply soulful. I've always had a love for picture books; their illustrations, poems and stories create and preserve an enchanted place of innocence we move through as children but can return to as adults. My hope is that this collaborative book of poems, pictures and music will provide many enchanted hours to children eager for beauty and the sort of adventure that happens between the pages of a book and the words of a song.

mikalina

Pap wrote:

http://www.nataliemerchant.com/news/2012/6/89


From the Introduction:

When Frances Foster contacted me with the plan to transform this collection of songs into a picture book for children I was intrigued. But when she suggested that Barbara McClintock be the illustrator, I was thrilled. Her work has delighted and charmed me for many years; it is of the greatest technical quality yet deeply soulful. I've always had a love for picture books; their illustrations, poems and stories create and preserve an enchanted place of innocence we move through as children but can return to as adults. My hope is that this collaborative book of poems, pictures and music will provide many enchanted hours to children eager for beauty and the sort of adventure that happens between the pages of a book and the words of a song.

This is so beautiful... Thanks Pap. Natalie Merchant is such an incredible woman.

mikalina

Here Natalie Merchant sings to a poem....

I want to share this with you Pap - This concert is over an hour long but this will get you started.

http://youtu.be/FeZsGKig-_c

Pap

Wow! This is incredible! Thank you very much Mikalina!

mikalina

I'm Not Gonna Beg....

http://youtu.be/GWrhu7p6x2w

I've been listening to this song lately.

Pap

The Sky Is Pink
Songs Against Drilling

mikalina

bumpity bump....


Just in case there's any new info on her

Pap

We are excited to announce that on November 13th a beautiful picture book based on Natalie Merchant's album Leave Your Sleep will be in bookstores nationwide. Illustrated by award winning children's book artist Barbara McClintock and published by Frances Foster Books, this full-color, hard cover, 48-page, book will include a CD with 19 songs.

My hope is that this collaborative book of poems, pictures and music will provide many enchanted hours to children eager for beauty and the sort of adventure that happens between the pages of a book and the words of a song. Natalie Merchant

You can watch the video preview here: http://bit.ly/S2Zorb
You can pre-order your copy at Barnes & Noble here: http://bit.ly/V93AV4
You can pre-order your copy at Amazon here: http://amzn.to/PEkgzL

mikalina

^^^^^^^^^^^ Thanks for the info PAP.

What a wonderful gift this would make. Natalie does a wonderful job singing to childrens poems.

Pap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sERLf2moZ0c

Pap

I was reading Dan W. Deluca's The Old Leather Man, when in page xi I came across this Mother Goose's beautiful little poem called "One Misty, Moisty Morning", 1785:

One misty, moisty morning,
When cloudy was the weather,
I chanced to meet an old man
Clothed all in leather.
He began to compliment,
And I began to grin,
How do you do?
And how do you do?
And how do you do again?


Illustration from Little Mother Goose Rhyme Book.
Leroy F. Roberts collection, publisher unknown, early 1900s.

It instantly reminded me of Natalie's The Man in the Wilderness adapted by the homonymous Mother Goose's British poem (dates unknown):

The man in the wilderness asked of me,
"How many strawberries grow in the salt sea?"
I answered him, as I thought good,
As many a ship as sails in the wood.

The man in the wilderness asked me why
His hen could swim and his pig could fly.
I answered him as I thought best,
"They were both born in a cuckoo's nest."

The man in the wilderness asked me to tell
All the sands in the sea and I counted them well.
He said he with a grin, "And not one more?"
I answered him, "Now you go make sure."

For most English speakers, poetry most likely makes a first appearance in the cradle or on our mother's knee through Mother Goose rhymes. With the lines of these simple popular verses, all logic is suspended: women live in shoes or pumpkin shells, a husband is no larger than a thumb, blackbirds are baked in pies, dishes dance with spoons, pretty maids grow in rows, and a cow jumps over the moon. We all recognize the cast of characters - Old Mother Hubbard, Little Boy Blue, Wee Willie Winkie, Jenny Wren, Miss Muffet, Jack Sprat, and poor Solomon Grundy. A bygone world is preserved in these nonsense rhymes where gentlemen sport topknots and velvet waistcoats; ladies wear stockings and bonnets. Both master and mistress sup on pease porridge, halfpenny loaves, gooseberry pie, and current wine. Their villages teem with butchers and bakers and candlestick makers with carving knives, pokers, and tongs. They pay farthings for cakes and ale and dance to pipers on bandy legs and leave empty pudding bags behind. They give sore beatings and paper plasters, then sleep curled in the straw or tucked warm in trundle beds. "The Man in the Wilderness" is one of the inhabitants of my shadow world of childhood rhyme. I can remember being frightened by his sudden appearance in the dark wood. I didn't trust him and his riddles made me uneasy; they still do today. - From the Leave Your Sleep CD booklet


Mother Goose illustration by Joseph Martin Kronheim courtesy of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature.

Girls and boys, come out and play,
The moon doth shine as bright as days;
Leave your supper, and leave your sleep,
And come with your playfellows into the street.
- Mother Goose

Pap

Happy belated Birthday Natalie!

Jeremys Spoken

Tigerlily is seriously one of my favorite albums..ever.

mikalina

Pap wrote:

Happy belated Birthday Natalie!

Happy Birthday Natalie -


Truly an inspiration.

Pap

Hello,

Select tickets for Natalie's orchestral show are still available for Sunday in New Jersey:

Sunday, December 9, 2012 - New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, NJ
http://bit.ly/L9x8zQ

Upcoming Orchestral Shows:

Friday, January 18, 2013 - Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, FL
http://bit.ly/OS9PeV

Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - The Smith Center, Las Vegas, NV
http://bit.ly/Ruogpr

Saturday, February 16, 2013 - Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY
http://bit.ly/VxBlze

Thursday, March 14, 2013 - Phoenix Symphony Hall, Phoenix, AZ
http://bit.ly/11OlQ9B

Saturday, March 23, 2013 - Belk Theater, Charlotte, NC
http://bit.ly/YLCuHZ

Friday, April 12, 2013 - Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Ft. Worth, TX
http://bit.ly/MiO7i2

Saturday, April 13, 2013 - Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Ft. Worth, TX
http://bit.ly/MiO7i2

Sunday, April 14, 2013 - Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Ft. Worth, TX
http://bit.ly/MiO7i2


Also, don't miss the concert protest film, "Dear Governor Cuomo" featuring musical performances and interviews with Natalie along with other artists, scientists and activists all calling for the governor of New York State to ban the controversial gas drilling technique of hydraulic fracturing.


Here is a list of upcoming screenings:

December 5 -- SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
December 5 -- Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY
December 7 -- The Linda Auditorium, Albany, NY
December 7 -- Chatham Real Food Market and Co-Op, Chatham, NY
December 9 -- Sperry Center, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY
December 13 -- Jamestown Community College, Jamestown, NY
December 14 -- Cherry Hill Unitarian Universalist Church, Cherry Hill, NJ
December 14 -- Daemen College, Buffalo, NY
December 15 -- Flying Squirrel Community Space, Rochester, NY
December 16 -- Keegan Ale's, Kingston, NY
December 19 -- Glen Theater, Watkins Glen, NY

Enjoy!

mikalina

^^^^ Thanks for sharing Pap ....