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The John Denver Internet Fan
Club
Monthly Newsletter
January 2007
Editor: Emily M. Parris
Table of Contents
January 2007 * Issue #153
John Denver
Events..............................2
Traveling Around the World With the John
Denver Peace Cloth - Judy Lunn................3
Wisconsin Windstar Connection
Group.............4
"Folks are Carrying On About 'John Denver:
A
Holiday Concert'"...........................5
CD Reviews:
Steve Brook's cd "In The Fall"
reviewed
by Judy Therrien...........................6
"The Littlest Cowboy's Christmas"
by
Michael Chandler........................7
John Denver
Notes...............................8
Poetry Corner
"December 31, 1943" by Emily M.
Parris........9
John Denver Want Ads/For
Sale..................10
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January 5, 2007 Netherlands - John Adams and Guido
Bos will
perform. Information - Lia: w-helmink@hetnet.nl
January 10, 2007 - UK - "Country Roads - A
Celebration of
JD" - Wayne Denton at Warners, Bembridge on the
Isle-of-Wight * http://www.waynedenton.com
January 19, 2007 * Park City , Utah * Utah
"Friends With You
Concert" featuring Chris Collins, Mark Cormican,
Paul
Swanton, Dave Howard and others / Creekside Christian
Fellowship
Church / 1400 Bitner Road 7:00pm Tickets $10
Dave (435) 659-9654 * The
Sundance Film Festival will also
be going on from January 18 - 28,
2007.
February 9, 2007 * Voorhees, NJ - "Moving Forward:
A Concert
of Hope" by Christopher Westfall at the Hope United
Methodist Church / 700 Cooper Road / Tickets $12 in
advance or $15 at the
door. (856) 753-7355
March 3, 2007 New York City - Carnegie Hall "Three
Artists,
Three Instruments, One Evening at Carnegie Hall" -
Pete
Huttlinger, Chris Nole and Mollie Weaver
http://www.petehuttlinger.com
March 3, 2007 - UK - Concert by Neil & Gill
Sharman
"10 Years On - Remembering John Denver" at Ossett Town
Hall, Wakefield, West Yorkshire 7:30pm
http://www.timberwolf-studios.com
March 4, 2007 * Palm Desert, CA * Judy Lunn sings
a Tribute
to John Denver 2:00pm / 73-300 Fred Waring Drive /
Admission
is free but seating is limited. Call the Palm
Desert Library 760-346-6552
x253 to reserve your seat.
http://www.judylunn.com
April 28, 2007 * UK * In Concert: "Nickels &
Dimes" from
Holland at Walton Village Hall, Walton on the Hill,
Stafford 7:30pm Tickets: L10 (including light refreshments)
For tickets
please send a sae and a cheque made payable to
R. Gwilt to 29 Oldcroft
Road, Walton on the Hill,
Stafford ST17 OLS * < info@nickels-and-dimes.com
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http://www.nickels-and-dimes.com
May 4-5, 2007 * UK * Pete Huttlinger, Mack Bailey
& Chris
Nole in a 2-night special John Denver Tribute / Tickets:
Check or cash to Jackie Freeman, Feet First, 53 High St.,
Stokesley, North
Yorks, TS9 5AD include SAE
Venue is Kirkby Church Hall, Kirkby in
Cleveland, North
Yorkshire (Near Stokesley) Info: 01642 713575 or
714061
August 18, 2007 * Estes Park, CO * Fourth Annual
Estes Park
John Denver Tribute Concert / Estes Park Fair Grounds /
Fiddlin' Foresters 5:30pm / Brad and Kathy Fitch and the
TropiCowboy Band
7:00pm $15 in advance $20 at the door
Children 10 and under free http://www.cowboybrad.com
September 1, 2007 * Fort Collins, CO / Brad and
Kathy Fitch
and the TropiCowboy Band 7:00pm Fort Collins Senior
Center,
1200 Raintree Drive near the intersection of Drake and
Shields. $15 (970) 221-6645 http://www.cowboybrad.com
September 22, 2007 - UK - Concert by Neil &
Gill Sharman
plus Special Guest "10 Years On - Remembering John
Denver" at the Wheatsheaf Co-Operative Theatre, Wyken,
Coventry http://www.timnberwolf-studios.com
October 11, 2007 * Aspen, CO * John Willcox will
present his
1970's John Denver video "Alaska: America's Child" and
share
photos taken during the filming at a fund-raising luncheon
Pine
Creek Cookhouse www.pinecreekcookhouse.com /
More info - Jennifer: windwalker@samsco.org
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Traveling Around The World With the
John Denver Peace Cloth
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October 14, 2006 by Judy Lunn
I am writing this journal entry from the MV Explorer as we
are about
to enter the port of Chennai, India. This ship is
literally a "floating
university" and the program is called
Semester At Sea. I boarded the ship
August 27 in San Diego and
we picked up 580 students, plus 100 faculty and
staff in
Ensanada, Mexico. We've been to Hawaii, Japan, Hong Kong,
Vietnam
and Myanmar in the first half of this 3 1/2 month
voyage. After India we will
head to Egypt, Turkey, Croatia and
Spain, ending our adventure in Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida on
December 7, 2006.
When I found out I had the
wonderful opportunity of going
on this voyage, I wanted to participate in an
active way and I
felt the Peace Cloth was a worthwhile project to adopt on
my
"Voyage of Discovery."
Debra Chilton was kind enough to loan me a
portion of the
John Denver Memorial Peace Cloth so that I can take it
around
the world with me as I share John's music and message of Peace
with
the citizens of the world I am meeting along the way.
The Peace Cloth is
one way to get people to STOP and
think, focus, meditate, pray, formulate an
opinion, articulate
a thought and get it in a tangible form so that it can
be
shared with complete strangers from around the world to MAKE
A
CONNECTION.
My goal is to collect 50 pieces for the Peace Cloth from
my new international friends as well as the students here on
the ship. I
am really sorry to be missing all of the JD events
in Aspen this year -- but
opportunities like this don't come
along very often! I'm already planning to
be in Aspen next
October and hope to present a large new section to the
Peace
Cloth to Debra next year.
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WISCONSIN WINDSTAR CONNECTION
January 1, 2007
It is with great excitement and anticipation that we
announce the
organization of the Wisconsin Windstar
Connection. Our charter was approved
by the Windstar
Foundation in late August of 2006. Since this group was
started by a small grassroots group of people, we have spent
some time
fine-tuning our mission statement and goals. With
this new year we are ready
to move into the action phase by
welcoming new members who will come with
fresh ideas and
optimistic energy.
The Windstar Foundation was
founded in 1976 by John Denver
and Thomas Crum as a global approach to
addressing
environmental and related global issues. The emphasis
has
always been on individual action and responsibility. As John
Denver
said, "It's not the choice between you or me that will
create a healthy
future. It's learning to choose ways of
living that make it possible for you
and me to live together
on a peaceful planet."
The connection program
was created as an action-oriented
global network of Windstar members who have
accepted
responsibility for improving the sustainability of the planet
at
a local level. The Wisconsin Windstar Connection's mission
statement reflects
those core beliefs.
"The Wisconsin Windstar Connection is a
family-friendly
organization with a mission to inspire people of all ages
to
act locally, make responsible choices and take direct personal
actions
to achieve a peaceful and environmentally sustainable
future. Through local
environmentally-based projects and
partnerships, the WWC creates
opportunities for individuals
and families to learn from each other, while
raising
environmental awareness."
We invite you, your family and
friends to join the
Wisconsin Windstar Connection. Membership is open to
any
Windstar Foundation member living in Wisconsin or the
surrounding
area. To become a Windstar Foundation member visit
http://www.wstar.org.
Some goals we have
identified include partnering with
state-based organizations to help spread
environmental
education; planning activity-based, educational
meetings;
either sponsoring or partnering for an annual Earth Day
event;
hosting an EARTHcamp for area children; and creating a
presence in
Wisconsin to promote the Windstar Foundation.
As John Denver said, "Together
we can make a world of
difference."
Wishes for a wonderful,
peace-filled new year!
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"Folks
Are Carrying On About
'John Denver: A Holiday Concert'" at the Rubicon
Theatre
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"True holiday spirit...the Rubicon should be on your yuletide
celebration list." Ted Mills, Santa Barbara News Press
" John Denver will fill your evening with holiday
cheer...irresistible warmth and joy" -
Rita Moran, Ventura County
Star
"With Back Home Again, it is the spirit of Denver that takes
center
stage. We all might just be able to go home and
discover we are a country
boy, or girl, at heart"
- Broadway
World.com
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"John Denver Territory, Christmas Style"
Theater Review
Los Angeles
Times
December 6, 2006
by David C. Nichols, Special to the
Times
A revue fashioned after the entertainer's TV specials takes
audiences to
a much-loved place.
Musing on his career, the late John Denver said, "My
purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience
in living."
That viewpoint adorns "Back Home Again: A John
Denver Holiday Concert" at
the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura.
This entrancing revue by Randal Myler and
Dan Wheetman could
not be more sincerely entertaining, thanks to dulcet
singers
Jim Newman and Gail Bliss and a festive band.
Fashioned after
Denver's annual Christmas specials, "Back
Home Again" plies its wares with
fetching simplicity.
Western-clad musicians enter and casually tune up, and
Newman
launches the show with Steve Weisberg's loping "Christmas
for
Cowboys," backed by panoramic shots of range riders (many of
the
photos projected throughout were taken by Denver himself).
Bliss croons
Denver's "Aspenglow" with open-throated
expertise, followed by the rousing
title song, and a Colorado
Christmas cantata ensues.
It blends sacred
and secular music with unassuming patter
and enormous audience regard, sort
of a "Rocky Mountain Home
Companion," minus Keillorisms and commercials.
"Silent Night"
and "Away in the Manger" jockey with Jim Connor's
"Grandma's
Feather Bed" and Bill and Taffy Danoff's "Please, Daddy
(Don't
Get Drunk for Christmas)," here done as a purposeful singalong
that
stops the show.
After longtime Denver collaborator Wheetman
introduces
"Matthew" as his favorite Denver song (mine too), Act 1
closes
on a buoyant rendition of "Thank God I'm a Country Boy."
Exactly,
and director Myler aims to celebrate Denver without
canonizing him, while
musical director Wheetman knows just how
much gloss is required. He and
colleagues Douglas Clegg and
David P. Jackson play multiple instruments with
entitled
panache and winking humor, and both soloists are superb.
Newman initially seems a shade more Broadway than
homespun. Yet the purity
of his chops and easy charm are
utterly apt, and he opens up by the number,
with a stunning
"First Noel" and impish "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer."
The
rich-voiced Bliss, incapable of a false note, blends
thrillingly
with Newman in the duets and tosses off repertory
as varied as "What Child
Is This?" and "Sweet Surrender." The
show ends with Denver's heartfelt "I
Want to Live," and a more
valid philosophy for our troubled times is
impossible to
conceive. Here, as everywhere, "Back Home Again" finds the
essential humanity within concept and material, producing the
lingering
glow of an instant seasonal classic.
"Back Home Again"
Rubicon Theatre, 1006 E. Main St., Ventura,
California
Ended: Dec. 24, 2006
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CD REVIEW: Steve Brook's "In The Fall"
Reviewed by
Judy Therrien
Steve Brook has recently released his new cd titled "In The
Fall". There
are 10 very fine songs on it, but my favorite
song is (and my favorite place
to be is Aspen IN THE FALL.)
The cover of the album shows Steve with his
guitar at Maroon
Lake at the Bells, the morning after that 2005
Aspen-In-October snowstorm on Monday when the Bells looked
awesome!
Anyone who has been to Aspen in October, will relish
this cd with this song.
The first verse begins: "We flew into
Denver on a dark and rainy night;
red-eyed and weary from a
long distance flight. We set out for the mountains
on a
highway heading west." What happens next, you will love! Do
you
have loved ones who enjoy Aspen? If so, this is the
perfect holiday
surprise. Steve and Lali live in Cadiz Spain,
and they have a great view of
the Rock of Gibraltar from their
home. He just recently hosted Judy Lunn who
also sang in Aspen
in 2005 in the "New Friends to Find" concert at the
Mountain
Chalet. The cd was recorded in England, where Steve is a
favorite among the John Denver fans.
Judy
Therrien... Monterey, CA
The cuts on the album "IN THE FALL" are
Seachanheaba
The Old
Dublin
Aspen Colorado (in the fall)
A Friend To Me
This Waltz With
You
Greydust Memories
Joshua
a Prayer From Me to You
Nothing I
Wouldn't Do
Late One Night
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THE LITTLEST COWBOY'S CHRISTMAS
By Michael Chandler
Illustrated
by Terry Jacobsen
WITH A MUSIC CD BY JOHN DENVER
A never-before-told story about superstar John Denver!
Author Michael
Chandler and his young son, Preston, spent
many winter afternoons working a
snowplow through the drifts
of Colorado snow near their Little Woody Creek
horse ranch.
Sometimes they made paths for cars, for people, or for
cattle,
and sometimes they just made paths for fun. One day they
decided
to clear a road that led to a snowbound home. The
owner, a rugged cowboy
named Joe Henry, asked if someone had
hired them. When they said no, the
cowboy smiled, and they all
became fast friends. A few weeks later, Joe
Henry--a one-time
miner, hockey player, and sailor who now wrote
cowboy
poetry--invited them to his Christmas Eve celebration.
The
party was held in Joe's barn in honor of his horse,
Lefty, who was to enjoy
his annual Christmas carrot and oats
pie. Another man and his son had also
been invited. What
occurred that magical evening was to be the most
memorable
Christmas Eve in Michael Chandler's life . . . an evening
of
live acoustic music in the Rocky Mountains with John Denver!
The
three men, two boys, and one horse enjoyed each
other's company with
stories, song, food, laughter, and
peaceful silence. John Denver, known to
the author's son only
as a "guitar playing fella," completed the evening
with a
peaceful rendition of "Silent Night." His version of the song
is
included as a CD in The Littlest Cowboy's Christmas. This
heartwarming true
story evokes the special spirit of Christmas
and is a celebration of the
simple pleasures of good music and
good friends. John Denver fans will
especially appreciate this
glimpse at his life "offstage," when he was simply
a "guitar
fella."
About the Author and Illustrator:
Michael Chandler resides in Glenwood
Springs, Colorado, with
his wife. Terry Jacobsen was born and raised in
Minnesota and
now lives in Arizona.
THE LITTLEST COWBOY'S CHRISTMAS
By Michael Chandler Illustrated by
Terry Jacobsen
31 color illustrated, Music CD Ages 5-8
ISBN:
1-58980-381-7 $17.95
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Stonewall Studios JD Tribute Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dnIxbi7TwQ
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There's a video clip
on YouTube of "Denver, Boise & Johnson"
doing "I Wish I Knew How It Would
Feel To Be Free"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-RozWqJQjY
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Christine Moon * www.fojd.org.uk
* 12-10-06
Some of us had a great afternoon yesterday at Neil &
Gil
Sharman's charity Christmas concert in Chapeltown, Sheffield.
The show
featured plenty of John's music as well as Christmas
songs recorded by John
and others. They even included "The
heart of Man's a Palace (The Magi)" from
the "Merry Christmas
Aspen" cd which is one of my favourite JD Christmas
songs.
I've posted some photos of the concert on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/gp/25505015@N00/17M1ow
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Part four of the
CMT special "Inside Fame" is now available on
my website. Michiel
http://home.wanadoo.nl/mtenbrug/denver/denver_1.htm
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Christine Moon:
Stein has found another source for the George
Burns dvds - one that will ship
anywhere in the world.
http://tinyurl.com/yecrb3 The specials
included on the dvds
are listed with their guest stars. John guests in two of
the
shows. http://www.fojd.org.uk
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Carole Romanowski < whispjesse@aol.com >
John Denver US
Postage Stamp
Great news! I received a letter today from the
Citizen's
Stamp Advisory Committee stating that John Denver is
definitely
under consideration by the committee for future
stamp issuance. Since the
committee decides on new stamp
recommendations far in advance of the issue
date, the 2007-8
stamp programs have been chosen and completed, but stamp
subjects for 2009 and following years are being currently
selected.
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To send a letter
to the Stamp Advisory Committee:
USPS Stamp Development
Attn:
Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee
1735 N. Lynn St. - Suite 5013
Arlington, VA 22209-6432
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December 31, 1943
by Emily M. Parris
Beautiful baby born this day
Come to bring your special cheer
A rocky
mountain legacy
That we would shortly hear
You would be a voice of comfort
Singing of nature in a song
Making a
place of home and hearth
Where we could all belong
Writing beautiful long songs
That we could all take to heart
You
brought us all back home again
So we were no longer apart
Beautiful baby, we love you
You became such a wonderful man
Your
songs live on forever in
The heart of each John Denver fan
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Copyright 12-31-06 by Emily M.
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Judy in Monterey, is
taking orders for JD sweatshirts.
Quote says "Still rides in the mountains,
Still sings
in the canyon, Still lives in my heart" with mountains
and a
lake in the background. $50 - $60 depending upon
the style. Email for more
details. Please put
"JD sweatshirt" in the subject line.
Judy < jht@spamarrest.com >
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"Songs That Speak To Me" - Judy Lunn
Sings A Tribute to
John Denver. Recorded in Nashville, TN with Chris
Nole,
Pete Huttlinger, Jim Horn and Tom Roady. (760) 250-7917
$20 http://www.judylunn.com * judysings@dc.rr.com
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Mary Ledford has some John Denver
cassette tapes for sales at
$5 each including s/h. The proceeds will go
toward the fund to
enable Bevan to come again from New Zealand to the
celebrations in 2007. Email her for a list of the cassettes
that are
available. < eagleshorses@yahoo.com >
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A dvd of the John Denver
Tribute Concert in Puigcerda is
available from http://www.johndenverclub.com
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Neil & Gill Sharman
have released a new cd called "Frost
Covered Memories" http://www.timberwolf-studios.com
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The group "Nickels
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http://www.nickels-and-dimes.com
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