{"id":842,"date":"2006-02-06T07:07:59","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T12:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=842"},"modified":"2006-02-06T11:49:46","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T16:49:46","slug":"natalie-and-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2006\/02\/06\/natalie-and-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie and Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About as often as Karen drops off those magazines, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll call to say she and John have extra concert tickets.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Would you like to come with us?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll ask.  We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve yet to say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Our first event with them, at the Fleet Pavilion, featured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finnbros.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Finn Brothers<\/a>, <a href= \"http:\/\/www.martinsexton.com\/\"target=\"_blank\" > Martin Sexton<\/a> and  Angela McClusky.  Then it was off to The Regatta Bar in Cambridge to see <a href= \"http:\/\/www.charliehunter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Charlie Hunter Trio <\/a>.  And Saturday night they took us to Sanders Theater to see <a href= \"http:\/\/www.nataliemacmaster.com\/recordings\/blueprint.htm \" target=\"_blank\"> Natalie MacMaster <\/a> (Click on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemacmaster.com\/schedule.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Schedule<\/a> to see her current mates, minus the cello player)<\/p>\n<p>After watching Natalie, the frenetic sprite at the center of her talented touring group, I was too jazzed on Irish Jig music to sleep. It was a foot stomping, rip-roaring, encore producing good time.  That hallowed Hall rocked, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not talking heavy metal or hip-hopping teenagers in attendance, but an audience which otherwise might be attending lectures on the still life art of Paul Cezanne.<\/p>\n<p>My obvious advice would be, if you get the chance, to see Natalie. But, better yet, introduce yourselves to John and Karen. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/natalie_center.jpg\" title=\"natalie_center.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image840\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/natalie_center.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"natalie_center.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/natalie_sitting.jpg\" title=\"natalie_sitting.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image841\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/natalie_sitting.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"natalie_sitting.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/natalie_viola.jpg\" title=\"natalie_viola.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image843\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/natalie_viola.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"natalie_viola.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/natalie_close.jpg\" title=\"natalie_close.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image844\" src=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/natalie_close.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"natalie_close.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(All images clickable)<\/p>\n<p>I did my best to to frame a motionless Natalie, but she never stopped moving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About as often as Karen drops off those magazines, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll call to say she and John have extra concert tickets. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Would you like to come with us?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll ask. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve yet to say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Our first event with them, at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2006\/02\/06\/natalie-and-friends\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}