Pennsic house

[cellio]

Somebody at Sunday dinner (can't remember who now) asked about the little house I use for Pennsic. Here is a link. The pictures are out of date; we added some decoration this year. I have the new pictures scanned now (yeah, actual film -- no digital camera yet), but I haven't updated the site yet.

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Re: Zemer Chai

[jeannegrrl.livejournal.com]

heh that's kind of a long story but the nutshell is this. Eleanor, our founder and leader is only NOW after 25 years willing to consider a Zemer Chai recording. It's a lot of work and energy and she's a perfectionist (I say that with love) who believes that groups can "get away with" a lot in a live performance that will never work as a recording since microphones are very unforgiving. She also thinks you can never get as good a performance in a studio as you get live in front of an audience. I hope she takes the plunge. I would SO LOVE to have a professional recording of us and there a lot of patrons out there who want a recording too. I'll be sure to let you know if we make any progress on that front. :-)

Re: Zemer Chai

[cellio]

There's always the live-recording approach to get away from the studio problem. If you record every show you do (or at least all the ones in good accoustic venues), eventually you'll have enough raw material to pick and choose the best rendition of each of the songs you want to include. (Hint: AFAIK this is how most groups do it; the "live from such-and-such location" style of live recording is the minority approach for really really polished groups.)