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Before the boom times in Ireland the Saw Doctors wrote a great song about leaving Ireland and working in a foreign land. The next generation saw the country transformed into one of the fastest growing economies in the world. With that came an influx of people seeking employment from Eastern Europe and from other countries.
Tolü Makay is an Afro-Irish singer, born in Nigeria and raised in the midlands of Ireland. Inspired by soulful artists across the globe such as Erykah Badu, Nina Simone, Amy Winehouse, Asa and Labyrinth, Tolu strives to create songs that will forever inspire, heal and touch generations to come as she encounters and deals with and shares challenges and growth in her own life. Tolü gave up a high pressure job with Google in Dublin to follow her dream.
Here she covers The Saw Doctors on Irish TV this past New Years Eve. It included images of Irish covid locked down in other countries unable to visit family for the holidays.
Marjorie Finlay was an American opera singer. She won a talent contest in 1950 then toured on the ABC radio network show Music With the Girls. Later she fled the Cuban revolution and had her own television program serving as an MC for El Show Pan-Americano in Puerto Rico. Finlay toured in South America and released an album in Mexico.
The backing rhythm of "Marjorie" was composed from an "Allovers Hi-Hat Generator", a software created by Minnesotan producer Ryan Olson, which has been used in many songs by Big Red Machine. Dessner went through the patterns, picked his favorite options, looped them, developed it into an instrumental track, and sent it to Swift. The singer wrote "Marjorie" to Dessner's track, documenting her feelings and memories of her grandmother Marjorie Finlay. Swift sent Dessner a folder of Finlay's old opera recordings; he sampled some of them on the final portion of the song. Marjorie passed away in 2003. She is credited with backing vocals on the Album. Scenes from her life and family videos of her teaching her baby granddaughter to play music are included in this video.
Great performance by Phoebe on SNL last night. She's been thinking outside the box throughout the pandemic delivering innovative live performances that are getting her a lot of attention. Her stock us rising.
Great performance by Phoebe on SNL last night. She's been thinking outside the box throughout the pandemic delivering innovative live performances that are getting her a lot of attention. Her stock us rising.
Yeah I watched these. Thought the songs were good. But the whole guitar smash seemed forced, fake, staged and out of place.
I know it’ll be an unpopular opinion. But that’s my thoughts.
Great performance by Phoebe on SNL last night. She's been thinking outside the box throughout the pandemic delivering innovative live performances that are getting her a lot of attention. Her stock us rising.
Yeah I watched these. Thought the songs were good. But the whole guitar smash seemed forced, fake, staged and out of place.
I know it’ll be an unpopular opinion. But that’s my thoughts.
Yeah it wasn't exactly The Clash or Sex Pistols level of mayhem.
Great performance by Phoebe on SNL last night. She's been thinking outside the box throughout the pandemic delivering innovative live performances that are getting her a lot of attention. Her stock us rising.
Yeah I watched these. Thought the songs were good. But the whole guitar smash seemed forced, fake, staged and out of place.
I know it’ll be an unpopular opinion. But that’s my thoughts.
I didn't make this connection because I didn't see the original Bright Eyes performance before but the fact that they had some same band members and Phoebe has collaborated with Conor makes this "tribute" make sense.
The first Wake the Folk Up video with Adia Victoria was pretty cool. If you donate, they send a bonus performance of her doing Gillian Welch's "Tennessee". Looking forward to seeing who else will be coming up over the next several weeks.
Post by theinscrutablejrt on Mar 3, 2021 12:09:50 GMT -5
Does anyone believe this? Let's say President Biden is correct and the U.S. has enough vaccine for everyone by the end of May. That doesn't mean everyone has received a vaccination. Can you really start putting together the logistics of a fest like NFF in a month or two?
It seems like a PR nightmare waiting to happen. You either say you're gonna try it and have to cancel later or you put it on but because of logistics you put on a below NFF standards fest. Those are both bad. And what do you do if the determined safe number of attendees is far below the number of people who held over passes from last year?
If either NFF or NJF happen this year, I wouldn't be surprised if capacity was capped at like 3000 and the lineup is much more scaled back than usual - and with a ticket price hike.
Could they logistically afford to put together a fest with a reduced capacity? Even if they could get away with cheaping out on the lineup, it still takes some bank to put it on.
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Does anyone believe this? Let's say President Biden is correct and the U.S. has enough vaccine for everyone by the end of May. That doesn't mean everyone has received a vaccination. Can you really start putting together the logistics of a fest like NFF in a month or two?
It seems like a PR nightmare waiting to happen. You either say you're gonna try it and have to cancel later or you put it on but because of logistics you put on a below NFF standards fest. Those are both bad. And what do you do if the determined safe number of attendees is far below the number of people who held over passes from last year?
Does anyone believe this? Let's say President Biden is correct and the U.S. has enough vaccine for everyone by the end of May. That doesn't mean everyone has received a vaccination. Can you really start putting together the logistics of a fest like NFF in a month or two?
It seems like a PR nightmare waiting to happen. You either say you're gonna try it and have to cancel later or you put it on but because of logistics you put on a below NFF standards fest. Those are both bad. And what do you do if the determined safe number of attendees is far below the number of people who held over passes from last year?
“Coit said that the festivals could happen with reduced capacity while being spread out over several days.”
Well this was my guess as to what would happen months ago so I kinda believe it. I'm still like, 75% thinking the fest won't happen, but if it does I'm 100% certain it will be like this.
PR I don't think it's as much of an issue. They didn't cancel until April last year, and they were announcing bands that entire time. I'm sure they're booking acts and making a variety of plans in hopes it happens. I'm also sure they'll keep their mouths shut until they know, definitively, one way or another. If it can't go forward again, we'll just get a cancellation announcement and never know what they tried.
But to the folks who think there's no chance logistically I mean...there's options. They've already got the fort booked for two consecutive weekends a year, so the idea of doing consecutive weekends isn't out of the question. I assume the state and city would much rather have the tourism dollars than not have them, and thus be willing to work with NFF, which could mean extra days (Thurs-Sun?) and/or two weekends. They could also go the opposite direction if the lineup is lean and go down to only two days and two stages, or even one. The question of whether attendance could be capped at people who already locked in from last year is an interesting one, and sad for me.
As for the lineup, there's already an emphasis on up and comers, and like the city and state I assume that they'd prefer some money to no money. Jay has implied many times that headliners sometimes take a financial hit to play newport already. There's probably enough "local" acts to fill a stage for a day, Deer Tick, Guster, LSD, Low Anthem, Haunt the House are all Northeast based off the top of my head, expand local to New York and you're more than good. I could also see them doubling down on a "folk family reunion" and not trying to bother with any new acts.
As for whether or not a scaled down fest like that would be "worth it" I mean...that's up to each of us. If I could get back to the fort for a day, masked, showing my vaccine card, with 100% bands I'd see before that would still be worth it to me.
Post by jumpinjamesbrown on Mar 3, 2021 18:29:01 GMT -5
As badly as I want to get back here I don’t actually want to experience a watered down version of the festival. I think something realistic is if they have a few dates over the summer where some folk veterans play distanced sets in the quad to help raise money for the foundation. I went to a couple shows at South Farms over the summer and that was enjoyable. I think all of this gets more complicated to pull off because I’m sure a high percentage of ticket holders last year rolled into this year with their fingers crossed and they would very quickly exceed an attendance number of 3,000 if we’re using that as a benchmark. How could you determine who gets to go which days without damaging such a huge brand that they have made for themselves over the last 10 years? I thought maybe we would get some announcements since those are tied to charitable donations but I’m sure the cashflow is incredibly difficult with an uncertain future. All of that said I miss the excitement of reading everyone’s suggestions and speculation about lineups and surprises. Love you all
I know we’ve debated the possibility of Anderson Paak at Newport, but lord please give me this Bruno Mars, Anderson Paak, and Bootsy Collins collab at the Fort!
Post by theinscrutablejrt on Mar 6, 2021 11:34:56 GMT -5
Rhode Island currently has the 3rd highest rate of infection. They're only behind the Dakotas, which are being run on a seemingly pro-COVID policy platform. RI is literally the worst non-insane state. They're in no position to responsibly rollback restrictions. “Outdoor event venues can increase to a 50% capacity, capped at 10,000 people“
So your scenario is dead on if RI follows suit. [/quote]
Post by theinscrutablejrt on Mar 6, 2021 11:35:42 GMT -5
Rhode Island currently has the 3rd highest rate of infection. They're only behind the Dakotas, which are being run on a seemingly pro-COVID policy platform. RI is literally the worst non-insane state. They're in no position to responsibly rollback restrictions.
Rhode Island currently has the 3rd highest rate of infection. They're only behind the Dakotas, which are being run on a seemingly pro-COVID policy platform. RI is literally the worst non-insane state. They're in no position to responsibly rollback restrictions.
"There’s a couple festivals still hanging on to the possibility of happening this summer, but otherwise we’re kicking everything to ’22. I know Newport is trying to make it happen. I could see a festival like that—it’s so small and contained. Maybe they could pull it off? And that one I’d like to do with Jimbo if that happens. But my rolling tours, my bus tours are all being postponed again and again and again."
