Acoustic Music Matters in Paris presented
Ellis
Paul
intended
in concert at l'Hôtel du Nord
in fact next door
in The Sound Gallery
Sunday 23 December 2001
Karel's eyes view
Let's face it. I like most of you reading this had never heard of Ellis
Paul. It was Hervé Oudet (largely responsible for setting up recent
concerts with David Olney, Eric Taylor and Jack Williams) who called me
up to say that Eliis and his partner would be in Paris over the christmas
holidays and I really ought to grasp the opportunity to present him in concert.
Sure Hervé. All I need on the eve of my departure for London is to
be involved in promoting a concert with an American singer songwriter I'd
no direct ties with. The I started to listen to his album "A Carnival
of Voices". It's hardly left my turntable since tuesday. I've played
it linear and random and it's been growing one me ever since like a pearl
in an oyster. So I went to see James next door in the Hotel du Nord and
said we have to do this concert, albeit at the last minute. Heck we moved
a crowd in 35 hours for Bob Neuwirth, imagine what we can do for Ellis in
10 days.