tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933746125516994241.post4295684536472466079..comments2024-01-27T21:46:39.398-08:00Comments on Utah Phillips: Feb. 17,Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097726705563639118noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933746125516994241.post-35094368612859645062008-02-18T09:15:00.000-08:002008-02-18T09:15:00.000-08:00Hey Utah,Hello. Sending you lots of love. When I l...Hey Utah,<BR/>Hello. Sending you lots of love. When I last saw you in northern California at the Kate Wolf Fest, Pat took a picture of you that is so elegant and full of grace. Makes me smile every time I see it. Big hug to you my dear. Thanks for telling the stories and teaching us how by example. Holly NearAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933746125516994241.post-10703717535538640512008-02-18T07:49:00.000-08:002008-02-18T07:49:00.000-08:00Thanks so very much, Duncan, for keeping all of us...Thanks so very much, Duncan, for keeping all of us who love Utah informed about his condition. I'm thinking about him every day. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.<BR/><BR/>ksternberg@acm.orgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7933746125516994241.post-64256221747982283862008-02-17T10:58:00.000-08:002008-02-17T10:58:00.000-08:00Friends-Last night we attended the New Old Time Ch...Friends-<BR/><BR/>Last night we attended the New Old Time Chautauqua show at St. Joseph's in Grass Valley, California, which was organized by Utah Phillips, Joanna Robinson, Robin Worley, and friends as a benefit for the Hospitality House homeless shelter. In its last performance tonight--Sunday--it is a must see.<BR/><BR/>I suppose one way to describe this variety show is that it will make you laugh until you cry or wet your pants. Another is that a good number of the people involved have been working together for more than thirty years. Another is that the show's sense of social conscience and irreverent fun somehow embodies that of a whole generation: those longhairs who are now going gray. It is a moment not to be missed, one to be savored and understood.<BR/><BR/>Will you have another chance, while she's still performing, to see tiny Faith Petric, now 92 years old and a living treasure of the era of Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and the Weavers, belt out a couple of folksongs without so much as a quaver in her voice and the whole audience singing along? When was the last time you saw the Flying Karamozov Brothers, whose zaniness, polymath instrumental skill, and polished comic timing is impossible to over-rate? The senior member of that group has been doing shows for 35 years. Did you know that Tom Noddy is still doing his "Bubble Magic" show? You had to be very loaded to think up this show, but then, you had to practice it straight--at least part of the time--for three decades to get it this good. <BR/><BR/>There are poignant moments--the richness of Jim Page's songwriting. And of course, the splendor of Haute Trash. I have left out three quarters of the show. <BR/><BR/>Do it for Utah and Hospitality House, but prepare to be wildly, richly entertained and leave with some clues about who this generation--now facing the kind of physical mortality that Utah is--are, and what they have contributed to what was otherwise becoming a brittle and moribund American spirit. <BR/><BR/>Jordan Fisher SmithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com