This is a little late, but some my find it interesting.
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TestingTesting will be doing another TestingTesting special. This will
be
full length concert featuring Christine Lavin on Tuesday (not Monday)
November 9 at 7:30pm (pacific) broadcast from the South Whidbey High
School.
For those that don't know, Christine is a national figure on the folk
scene.
She is very funny and actually very twisted. We were very lucky to get
her
(the full story is below in the official TestingTesting Christine Lavin
Press
Release going out to all the major papers on Whidbey Island). A
combination
of a hole in her schedule and an agent that liked what we are doing with
TestingTesting is bringing her to TT. She is looking forward to
interacting
with the TT audience (read the press release) and the show will be a
hoot.
Local TT fans come on down and see TestingTesting in action (ticket
information in the press release) and the rest should click on in Nov 9.
The regular Monday show will still go on Nov 8 with Local Buddha.
Press Release
The local weekly web music show, TestingTesting, presents Christine
Lavin at
the South Whidbey High School Auditorium November 9 at 7:30pm. Tickets
will
be $13.50 for adults and $10 for students and seniors. Tickets are on
sale at
the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts ticket office at 360-221-8268 or
800-638-7631. TestingTesting will also be broadcasting this show live
via the
Internet at http://www.electricedge.com/testingtesting.
TestingTesting has become a fixture for music and Internet fans alike.
TestingTesting broadcasts shows live on the Internet from Gordy Coale's
living room in Langley every Monday night at 7pm. TestingTesting
features
Derek Parrott, Joanne Rouse, and Steve Showell who make up the
TestingTesting
House Band. Each week a special guest musician headlines the show. They
consist of local area musicians and bands based from Oak Harbor to
Clinton
here on Whidbey Island.
The TestingTesting crew is also local to the island including Gordon
Coale of
ElectricEdge Web Solutions, who produces and maintains the web site as
well
as acts as the on-line MC; Robbie Cribbs of Sound Trap Studio is
responsible
for sound production; Zoe Gillman is the show's videographer; and Robby
Coale
is the show's digital photographer.
The TestingTesting crew has wanted to move the living room atmosphere of
the
show to a larger venue for special events. Earlier this year, they
produced a
show at the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts featuring The Gods of
Mongrel
Folk (which is available for listening to in the TestingTesting archives
at
http://www.electricedge.com/testingtesting/archives.htm). The positive
feedback and success of this show encouraged TestingTesting to be on the
lookout for something special to follow up with.
Gillman, a longtime fan of Christine Lavin, learned that Lavin was going
to
be in the Northwest on her current U.S. and Canada tour. She contacted
Lavin's agent to see if she might make it over to Whidbey Island to be
on
TestingTesting. Her agent liked what he saw at the TestingTesting web
site,
and Lavin had an open spot in her schedule. Recognizing that there
wasn't
anything else quite like it on the web, Jim Fleming, a progressive and
forward thinking representative of Fleming & Tamulevich Associates, Inc.
believed that Lavin and TestingTesting would be a dynamic combination.
Arrangements were soon made to bring Lavin's show to the new auditorium
at
South Whidbey High School here on Whidbey Island.
Lavin's songs are funny and wise and she has a hard-core group of fans.
The
New York Daily News said "Christine Lavin puts delightful melodies
behind
wry, witty and perceptive observations about life"; Performance Magazine
wrote "Her lyrics combine the wit of poet Odgen Nash, the crazy view
point of
the Roches, the sensitivity of Judy Collins and the voice of Joni
Mitchell".
Interaction with the audience is a strong part of Lavin's shows. She
uses a
wireless set up enabling her, as Lavin says, "to turn any size concert
hall
into a living room." She can get up close and personal with the entire
audience, even those in the back row. This fits right in with the
TestingTesting living room feel. TestingTesting has always invited
audience
participation from its Internet audience and is looking forward to see
how
Lavin will incorporate this into her show. Lavin e-mailed Gillman, "I am
looking forward to doing this. Last time I was tested I typed 88 wpm. Do
you
want me to actually do the typing for the Q&A part of this online
concert? I
certainly could." The TestingTesting crew is looking forward to this
show and
wants it to be a success with a lot of audience participation.
The TestingTesting House Band will open the show.
Visit Lavins award-winning web site at http://www.christinelavin.com
--
Jim Coon
Not just another pretty mandolin picker
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