From: Suffet@worldnet.att.net   
      
   MacDougal Street Rent Party   
      
   The Party's Over :-(   
      
   Maybe by now you heard that following Eric Levine's recent death, the surviving   
   members of MacDougal Street Rent Party agreed the time has come to formally   
   dissolve the band. That had already happened de facto, since the last time all   
   five of us -- Eric Levine, Gina Tlamsa, Anne Price, Joel Landy, and Steve   
   Suffet   
   -- appeared together was on October 29, 2006, for our one and only Halloween   
   Hoot. The first time was at the Third Annual Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash on   
   July   
   13, 2003, although three of us -- Joel, Anne, and Steve -- had used the name   
   MacDougal Street Rent Party at the New England Folk Festival three months   
   earlier.   
      
   Over the past five we had the good fortune to put on some wonderful   
   performance.   
   Among these were two gigs at the Peoples’ Voice Cafe and one at the Community   
   Cabaret, both in Manhattan, several at the Aubergine Cafe in Queens, one at the   
   Mine Street Coffee House in New Brunswick NJ, another at the Peacesmiths Coffee   
   House on Long Island, two appearances at the Dissident Folk Festival in Beacon   
   NY, a house concert for the Philadelphia Folksong Society, and an outdoor   
   concert in Frank Sinatra Park by the water in Hoboken NJ. The list can go on   
   and   
   on.   
      
   As you may have heard, Eric been scheduled to appear as part of MSRP at the   
   Eighth Annual Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash this coming July 13 at the Bowery   
   Poetry Club in New York. Even though he was no longer able to play his banjo   
   and   
   12-string guitar, his voice was still strong enough to sing. Sandy Pliskin, who   
   frequently pitch hit for Eric when MSRP performed at the New England Folk   
   Festival, will be coming down to New York from the Boston area to sit in for   
   Eric one last time. That will be MacDougal Street Rent Party's last performance   
   as a group. We intend to go out with a bang, not a whimper. The show starts at   
   7:00 PM. The address is 308 Bowery, between Houston and Bleecker in Lower   
   Manhattan. Please join us!   
      
      
      
   PS: We get by with a little help from our friends! :-)   
      
   MacDougal Street Rent Party could have never lasted the five years that we did   
   without tactical (and sometimes strategic) air support from our various and   
   sundry friends, lovers, fans, advisors, hangers-on, and unindicted   
   coconspirators. Foremost among them, in no particular order, are Chris Lang,   
   Wayne Price, Ellen Nuzzi, Takako Nagumo, and Marilyn Suffet. They all deserve a   
   great big round of applause. But we would be remiss if we didn't also recognize   
   some others as well. They include, once again in no particular order, Jessica   
   Feinbloom, Carlos Vazquez, Heather Lev Krasna, Ray Korona, Axel Henri, Hillel   
   Arnold, Jody Kolodzey, and many more. Muchas gracias, señores y señoras. We   
   couldn't have done it without you.   
      
      
   PPS: We expect the annual Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash will continue for years   
   to   
   come.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)