Just Duet
Posted at 5:30 AM on March 30, 2009
by Dale Connelly
(31 Comments)
Thanks to everyone who came to the Fitzgerald Theater Saturday night for our Radio Heartland House Concert with three wonderful duos.
Here they are all lined up for the finale. Storyhill, Lou and Peter Berryman and Karen Savoca and Pete Heitzman put on a great show. I heard a lot of nice comments about the variety on display, from Karen and Pete's big sound and funky groove to Lou and Peter's hilarious word play and Chris and Johnny's tight, transcendent harmonies. We got a good sampling of the amazing potential when two talented people put their heads together.
History has blessed us with many famous duos. Sonny & Cher, the Everly Brothers, Sam & Dave, Proctor & Gamble, Simon & Garfunkel and Adam & Eve didn't make it, but you know what? We didn't miss them. There was plenty of magic available with the people on hand. We'll present the concert as a Radio Heartland webcast/broadcast special. Stay tuned for details.
Thanks also to Trial Balloon bloggers who showed up! Sherrilee met me in the lobby before the show with an Alba & Dream button. It's a keeper. Thanks!
Mark, Donna and Lora were also there. It was wonderful to see you!
Did I miss anyone? Please declare yourself if you were in the house on Saturday night, and we'll start a new list.
Speaking of lists, Kay H. has been busy over the weekend with the alphabet project from last Friday. She has assembled a perfectly lovely A to Z list of cheerful terms that anyone could keep close at hand in case they're lost for an appropriately optimistic word.
Here it is:
A Hyggelig ABC
A is Adventure; we're in this together.
B is a Blankie for warmth in cold weather.
C is for Chocolate, so silky and sweet, and
D is for Dance, which you do with your feet.
E is the Extra, that little bit more.
F is for Friday; let's close up the store!
G is for Goats with their hooves trailing mud.
H is for High Ground, well out of the flood.
I is for Ice Cream, which meets every need.
J is the Joy of a new book to read.
K is the Kiss of the breeze on your face.
L is for Laugh and a Loving embrace.
M is a Melody clear as a bell.
N is for Nutmeg, the taste and the smell.
O is for Oatmeal and Old-fashioned roses.
P is for Puppies with wet little noses.
Q is a Quilt Grandma made us with love
R is for Rainbow, a sign up above.
S is for Springtime, we know that it's near.
T is for Tulips we planted last year.
U is Unbridled, Unbranded, Unbroke.
V is soft Velvet in jackets bespoke.
W stands for a Word and a Walk.
X marks the place where we spotted the hawk.
Y is a Yawn so relaxing and deep, and
Z's are the symbol for each good night's sleep.
Our hyggelig ABC reaches its end with
A wish for your happiness, radio friend.
Comments (31)
Good Morning!
Off to the airport to drop off my sweetie (wishing I had and HD radio in the car...) but just had to pop in and say that Saturday night was one of the best shows I can remember. It was also great to meet those of the blogging contingent that were able to attend including Alba and Dream!
Have a Marvelous Monday everyone!
wow, Kay H! you are truly a talented word person! if someone were a talented cross-stitcher..... (not i - have no patience in that realm)
mondays are days i look forward to now - get to hear Dale and "talk" to RH folks.
Sherrilee, it just tickles me that you made Dream & Alba buttons. very cool.
good morning All!
Morning Heartlanders. I had a great time Saturday night as well.. wonderful to meet some of our little community in person. Linda and Beth Ann were there as well. I gave away all but two of my buttons.
But there was another great victory to the evening. I had made my daughter come with me to the concert. She's 14, so came under duress, proclaiming that she would "try to stay awake". Well, I came into my studio yesterday afternoon (where the computer is) and caught her downloading both the CDs that I bought Saturday night onto her iPod. Radio Heartland's world domination is off to a good start..... bwaa, haa, haa!
I LOVE Kay's Hyggelig ABCs...superlative work, thanks so much.
So sad to miss the concert, but will be so happy to hear it via computer.
Speaking of "hygglig" a friend found this quote on someone's blog: Hyggelig in essence means cozy. To me it is a place in my heart, no matter where I am in the world, that I can go to, that I can share, and that brings warmth, light, and compassion.
And over the weekend I found another lovely Norwegian word: koselig. another word for being cozy.
Morning all...off to a another week, waiting for another snow storm.
Happy Monday RH,
Completely enjoyed the show Sat. night! Thank you, Dale and all. It was fun meeting TB friends.
Kay H. - you are a marvel with words and rhyme. I am especially grateful you included ice cream! (Where's the coffee? ;)
Off to school early this morning. Something about leaving for the Twin Cities early on Friday left this right-brained teacher's lesson plans unfinished.
Great alphabet, Kay, and a wonderful positive way to start the week. Why are goats and chickens so appealing? I did not have goats growing up but had bantam chickens that provided me with tiny rich eggs; I can still hear their contented clucking as they kept our large yard and garden free of pests. Not having a cat or dog I also tried to train one to jump over a stick etc. Anyone else have a strange pet; or at least one they had unrealistic expectations for? I have not blogged before but this Heartland community feels like people I have known and want to know.
Jenny - welcome! I just said almost the same thing yesterday when describing the concert and meeting some of the group to a friend. I feel like Radio Heartland listeners are "my people".
I never had any super strange pets, although I did have a series of black and white mice when I was in high school. As each one passed on, I got another one. There were all named Omar (I had a super crush on Omar Shariff after seeing Lawrence of Arabia). Omar I, Omar II and Omar III.
Happy Day, All
Wish I coulda been there--will be listening online.
Looks like the water is abating around here; may it go in peace.
Am listening to my weekly 7 am Monday abulation....
Good morning-
It's true Saturday night was wonderful- winning tickets (thanks RH), goats, laughter, music. PowerPoint, and meeting fellow bloggers. The experience was hardly diminished by coming out to find my car surrounded by 5 police cars with lights flashing. Luckily they were there for somebody else's benefit and I could drive home listening to Dale on the radio.
Dale,
When you share the concert with folks who couldn't get to the Fitz, be sure to include your Powerpoint on Duos!
Welcome Jenny, I was just remembering the poached eggs I had yesterday. My old hens have just begun laying again after resting through the winter. Chickens are good...yes, and they keep the yard free of those pestiest of pests, the wood ticks. And those eggs with the rich orange colored yolks...very good.
I had a fabulous time at the show on Saturday night, and it's nice to be able to put faces to several of the names I see on the blog this morning. Thanks again for the button, Sherilee.
On a slightly related note, I looked over the weekend for a link to the Larry Long/Richard Shindell show that I missed, but couldn't find one. Am I looking in the wrong place? I had bookmarked the page http://minnesota.publicradio.org/radio/programs/radio_heartland/, but it's only showing up to March 21st.
Having once worked at Procter and Gamble, I felt obliged to point out the fact that you fell victim to the common misspelling of this company's name.
welcome, Jenny! good to know there are lots of chicken-lovers out there. did you ever get your chicken to jump over a stick? cool idea to teach tricks.
i'm just in from the goat barn. Dodger is due in 12 days and Alba in 19. my frequent, 24-7 visits to the barn begin soon. Dodger handles pregnancy like an old hand, this being her second. she is looking like she will have twins this time. both are doing well. Dream's not due until June 14 (remember that early, cold morning on January 15? Dale played Barry White for Dream and Majority's conjugal visit? :-)
I needed to come back and comment on Kay's wonderful list. Thanks Kay what a great list! Perhaps you will be able to make the next Dale Connelly Presents production. Thanks too to Sherilee for the buttons.
I will look forward to the show being re-presented and the slides were a hoot even though my eyes are still burning from that one Sonny & Cher slide.
thanks for putting on a great show, dale! i already loved storyhill and the berrymans, but wasn't familiar with karen and pete before the show. i loved their sound and will definitely download some of their music. "your love is a hammer" was a highlight, as was storyhill's "steady on."
i saw another great duo yesterday - anthony rapp & adam pascal, aka the original mark & roger in rent. so it was a great weekend for music!
thanks again, i'm looking forward to the next concert! i loved the morning show concerts you used to do and i'm glad you're keeping up that tradition.
That is a great list of happy words and what they are for. Geithner is in a very dificult situation and might have to be careful about using some of these words, such as the word goat, but the rest of us can think of goat as a happy word. Certainly some or all of the readers of this blog have a more positive additude toward goats.
Thanks for the Saturday show. I brought my fiance and he really enjoyed it. It takes a little persuading to get him out of the dinner and movie routine, so I'm really glad that he had fun too. Compromise: he brings me to basketball and I bring him to music events.
Couldn't resist posting this link to chicken training. There was a couple (Bob & Marion Baily) in Arkansas that did some amazing work training chickens and back when I was a dog trainer I knew some folks that trained with them. There are lots of You Tube videos out there but this is one to get you started and this one is pretty interesting as well.
Cheers!
I'll look forward to listening to the concert as well, and hope there will be other opportunities to meet in person.
I had a good excuse - Saturday evening, my family was attending the coronation of the Freeborn County dairy princess and milk maid - somewhat of an annual tradition for us, although the only livestock we have is three cats.
This also meant I missed most of the first hour of the Saturday night radio show, but will make that up too.
holely moley, Mark! pretty cool chicken tricks! gives me inspiration. funny - like Border Collie agility except in slow motion. thanks
and THANKS DALE!! for the throat singing - just gives the day a boost!
Great list, Kay! We appreciate your talent!
Sorry to have missed the concert Saturday as I was in WI for a Girl Scout camp mini-reunion. Lots of good music there, too! Was there a good turnout at the Fitz?
Will we be able to see what the famous buttons and power point look like?
I think Dale mentioned something about spelling errors or something--- but you still have Lloyd's of Monday insurance, don't you? So that's okay then.
I tuned in late while Dale was talking golf this morning and I thought I was back in Morning Show days with Jim Edd doing the sports! :+)
Have a great week everyone! It's Spring Break in St Paul, so it'll be relaxed around here in the mornings.
Thanks, everyone for the comments.
I don't know when we'll broadcast the duos concert, but I'm thinking it might make nice evening listening .
Would a Sunday night work? We're planning to present the Susan Werner / Cheryl Wheeler concert we recorded a few weeks ago, and this coming Sunday night is our prime candidate.
Your suggestions are welcome.
And a tip of the Heartland Hat to Dave for the correction on Procter & Gamble.
At least I got Gamble right.
It seems right that the Heartland Blog has developed a fascination with Chicken Tricks. The first appearance of Jim Ed Poole on the Garrison Keillor Prairie Home Morning Show was as Ed Jim Poole, a trainer of attack chickens.
Some areas of fascination never fade.
thanks for the kind words, folks!---it just shows what can be accomplished when one has a no social life :-) i actually had a lot of fun working on it and mixing your contributions with my own and dale's and some incidental inspirations.
re chickens: i'll look at the videos shortly---but i've got two chicken tales---
One is my high school friend Kathy, who saved her little chick from being dissected in junior biology class, named him Gus, and raised him as her pet-- Gus went along on many a partying adventure to local parks in her Ford Fairlane (which was named Mercedes); so that's an amusing memory from my youth
the other is a friend up here in the cities who does animal-assisted therapy with troubled kids--a very cool and effective thing---mostly with horses and dogs as assistant therapists, but she also has a certified therapy chicken named woodstock! (great for giving simple emotional feedback to kids who don't yet get their impact on others: chicken clucks softly when happy, and squawks when upset)
p.s. Hi, Donna!
(we met for coffee sunday morning---so additional blogger fraternizing occurred over the weeken)
My sis and her son had 2 pet rats, Smokey and Cloudy, and they weren't white ones either. We all (well, not my husband) actually learned to cuddle them and let them sit on our shoulders like you would a parakeet. But it WAS kind of creepy when they skipped their cage and you'd find one down in the overstuffed chair...
I've decided I really like my old Charlie the Cat.
My brother brought home a chicken from a middle school zoology class one summer. Peeps stayed with us until the fall, sitting on our shoulders and heads (no accidents!) and being all around good company. She never appreciated our dog though. When it got cooler, she moved to a neighbor's grandma's farm to join her chickens and for a couple years would come to this woman when she called her.
My junior year of college, one of my section mates was a psych major and would bring her pet rat home from the lab occasionally. It wasn't too bad, unless you didn't know it was loose and it squeezed under the door in your room and scared the bejeebers out of you....
Linda (and anyone else searching), the audio for the Saturday night Radio Heartland show with Larry Long and Richard Shindell will be posted later today. You were indeed looking in the right place.
a sunday night broadcast of past concerts sounds good to me, Dale and Mike! but how do others feel about that time? we are usually home sunday night. well, we're usually home every night :-) so Kay, don't feel like the Lone Ranger.....
Sunce I don't have access to broadband computer connections or HD, anytime that you can broadcast past shows over FM (KCCD or KCCM) wld. be much appreciated. Meanwhile, thanks for the blog and the Sat. night show.
I vote for Sunday Night also. I usually listen to Acoustic Sunset on another channel, but that's getting pretty repetitive. Plus, they play those nasty commercials. There's not much on TV either, so Radio is good for me.
Hi all! So glad to hear that the Saturday concert was wonderful. When booking my flight, I actually thought of returning early from my daughter's in Dallas just to be there; however, couldn't do that since she's not yet an RH convert! Looking forward to the broadcast...I vote for Sunday. Also, looking forward to another RH sponsored concert in hopefully not too distant future. Enjoy another cozy bout with winter.
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