{"id":60,"date":"1999-09-10T17:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-09-10T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1999\/09\/10\/freebies\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T15:41:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T23:41:55","slug":"freebies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1999\/09\/10\/freebies\/","title":{"rendered":"Freebies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Have I mentioned how much I love <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sessionsatwest54th.com\" >Sessions at West 54th Street?<\/a><\/i><\/strong> It&#8217;s great show to watch &#8211; one more reason to support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\" >public television<\/a>, I say. It&#8217;s much greater, though, to be able to live where they tape. Last season I got to see great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rumpus.org\/fun\/fun.html\" >live performances<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talking-heads.net\/davidbyrne\/\" >David Byrne<\/a> and the Balanescu Quartet, Lyle Lovett, and the Afro-Cuba All-Stars. Even though I couldn&#8217;t use my tickets this season for Cibo Matto, Los Lobos, or Marianne Faithful, I am going to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caboverde.com\/evora\/evora.htm\" >Cesaria Evora<\/a> today, and I scored tickets for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moby.org\" >Moby<\/a> on Monday. And it&#8217;s free! <\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE!<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caboverde.com\/evora\/evora.htm\" >Cesaria Evora<\/a> is so captivating! She&#8217;s so dignified and lovely, and her voice is just wonderful &#8212; rich and haunting. It frustrated me, though, to be surrounded by so much Portuguese again. I can never manage to translate enough to keep myself from getting frustrated at my lack of comprehension. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdrmusic.com\/atnatalie\/\" >Natalie Merchant<\/a>, who sat in front of us, seemed less troubled by it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have I mentioned how much I love Sessions at West 54th Street? It&#8217;s great show to watch &#8211; one more reason to support public television, I say. It&#8217;s much greater, though, to be able to live where they tape. Last season I got to see great live performances by David Byrne and the Balanescu Quartet, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/1999\/09\/10\/freebies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Freebies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70696,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/70696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}