Svetlana hits the stage!

Subject: Svetlana hits the stage! Sat May 03, 2008 7:49 pm

It's all about to happen, in just a few hours. I have to head out to Rockville to set up the stage.

It's gonna be a really big shoo: http://www.balalaika.org/home___the_washington_balalaika_society.htm

It's always fun to play for Svetlana

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Subject: Re: Svetlana hits the stage! Sat May 03, 2008 10:50 pm

Awesome!

Subject: Re: Svetlana hits the stage! Sun May 04, 2008 2:50 am

We should start a rumor on a jam band site that someone in the group is the nephew of a guy whose college room mate was once picked up hitchhiking by a guy whose sister knew the brother of the best friend of the next door neighbor of the cousin of Micky Hart's nephew. The good news: you'd sell out in 20 minutes. The bad news: all that twirling.

Subject: Re: Svetlana hits the stage! Sun May 04, 2008 5:43 am

There was a butt in every seat, and we sold a heap of CDs, too. Cause for major celebration. drunken

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Subject: Re: Svetlana hits the stage! Sun May 04, 2008 10:58 am

Excellent news. Congrats. afro

Subject: Re: Svetlana hits the stage! Sun May 04, 2008 2:10 pm

pinhedz wrote:

There was a butt in every seat, and we sold a heap of CDs, too. Cause for major celebration. drunken

Sounds great, Pinhedz! Congratulations on your successful gig!

Subject: Re: Svetlana hits the stage! Tue May 27, 2008 12:01 am

This is a much earlier gig with only about half of us. I don't know who made the videoclip, but I remember the ocassion.

The sound is really really bad--as if all the mics are turned off except one (sounds like Zhenya)--but I like the dancer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNsuKbeoGDQ&feature=related

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Subject: Re: Svetlana hits the stage! Fri Jun 13, 2008 3:24 am

Here’s the media account: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR2008061201024.html , but I’m here to give you the story behind the headlines.

Svetlana was rocking the house: cheers

While the generals and diplomats were getting plastered drunken

:

Then Mrs. Pinz came in, and the whole band knew her name; it was very embarrassing (I could tell the Ambassador was mortified Shocked

)

It’s the end of the Ambassador’s tour, he won’t see Svetlana again, so he got kind of choked up. Who wouldn’t? I love you

http://www.kingsparkband.org/WBS/z-Russian-Embassy.mov

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Subject: Re: Svetlana hits the stage! Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:29 pm

Zhenya looks a little bit sheepish now and then, because, you know how you can do it perfect in rehearsal, and then make mistakes in front of all the people? Embarassed

She's darn good, though, and pretty, too.

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Subject: Re: Svetlana hits the stage! Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:29 pm

That clip needed more shots of Svetlana.

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Subject: Re: Svetlana hits the stage! Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:08 pm

Quote:

That clip needed more shots of Svetlana.

I have to agree (and this really is a "visions of" thread, after all).

This one is on stage at the National Cherry Blossom Festival. The stage faces the Jefferson Memorial.
Seems like everybody likes Thomas Jefferson--neocons, ultra-mega-liberals,
even LongyJohnny likes Thomas Jefferson.

I don't know if I've admitted this before, but we don't play good every time out. But if we watch the conductor,
like we all know we're supposed to, we can tell when we're doing good.

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Subject: Re: Svetlana hits the stage! Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:02 pm

Here's one with me in it (whoopie ding); I'm sitting behind that handsome slavic red-shirted guy.

It's from some new thing somebody just set up called "facebook."
I guess its' supposed to make us famous or something. geek

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Washington-Balalaika-Society/9720529605

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Subject: Re: Svetlana hits the stage! Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:22 pm

Do you know any Russian birds named Oxi?

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Subject: Re: Svetlana hits the stage! Wed Aug 06, 2008 12:47 am

Oksana? I don't think we have one in the line-up at the moment.

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