Linda's speaking engagement in West Chester PA on March 10th

[suzannes]

I have 2 tickets for the above speaking engagement that I am unable to use due to family events that came up since purchasing the tickets. In addition to that, a Toronto date was added after I purchased them as well for March 6th and since that is closer to where I live, I am hoping to go to that one instead. So, I am giving away the two tickets to anyone who is interested. I just don't want them to go to waste because, well, after all, it's Linda! I sure hope there is someone out there who can use them. Thank you.
Suzanne

[JasonKlose]

Feb 5, 2017 13:43:41 GMT -5 suzannes said:

I have 2 tickets for the above speaking engagement that I am unable to use due to family events that came up since purchasing the tickets. In addition to that, a Toronto date was added after I purchased them as well for March 6th and since that is closer to where I live, I am hoping to go to that one instead. So, I am giving away the two tickets to anyone who is interested. I just don't want them to go to waste because, well, after all, it's Linda! I sure hope there is someone out there who can use them. Thank you.
Suzanne

I would definitely be interested in the tickets! I was going to purchase two tickets for the event. West Chester is much closer to me, as I live in Central PA. Please let me know if they're still available. Thanks!

Jason

[70smusicfan]

Jason - if you are looking for someone for shotgun, I live near Stroudsburg.

[JasonKlose]

Feb 5, 2017 15:47:40 GMT -5 70smusicfan said:

Jason - if you are looking for someone for shotgun, I live near Stroudsburg.

That's a little out of the way for me, as I live in Central PA, about an hour's drive from State College (Penn State). I planned on taking my mom anyway. We went to see Linda in Wilmington, Delaware in 2015.

[eddiejinnj]

What is the word "shotgun" used here to represent? Inquiring minds want to know lol!!!!!! Term for transportation arrangement it seems contextually. I went to Wilmington too, CubScout. eddiejinfl

[moe]

Feb 6, 2017 8:39:16 GMT -5 eddiejinnj said:

What is the word "shotgun" used here to represent? Inquiring minds want to know lol!!!!!! Term for transportation arrangement it seems contextually. I went to Wilmington too, CubScout. eddiejinfl

I can't believe someone asked a question that I know the answer to, things are looking up. Anyway "shotgun" is a term, no doubt derived from the stagecoach era where someone rode next to the driver and manned the literal shotgun to defend the coach and it's strongbox full of supposed gold. In my part of the world, central Michigan, where I grew up it meant the person riding in the front seat. It was required, when several people were going on a ride, for the first one to yell "shotgun" got to ride in the front seat. By the way, even though the term was not in use during my (misspent) youth, I gather from watching "No Country For Old Men" that the back seat occoupant(s) was (were) consigned to riding "bitch" a rather unfortunate but descriptive term.

[eddiejinnj]

Wow, Moe, thanks so much. Your thorough explanation makes a lot of sense. Thanks again!!!! In my time, in referring to school bus lingo, the back seat occupants were cool and the front seat were called (by some) "front seat faggots" or "brownnose" in talking to the bus driver. Unfortunately, that is just plain sad. eddiejinfl

[Deleted]

Where I grew up (NYC) the term also involved the person in the front passenger seat whose 'responsibility' it was to greet attractive females they might see while driving (classy, I know)..

[70smusicfan]

I just got my ticket - venue is pretty full. Best I could get is balcony, row 3, dead center for a single ticket. Anyone want to get together for dinner first? Restaurant selection is pretty sparse. Only a Burrito Place is nearby, across the street. Fast Food after that.

www.google.com/maps/search/Restaurants/@39.9529171,-75.610951,14z/data=!4m8!2m7!3m6!1sRestaurants!2sEmilie+K.+Asplundh+Concert+Hall,+700+S+High+St,+West+Chester,+PA+19383!3s0x89c6f13fc28c6c47:0x15ed7cce0ff1d52d!4m2!1d-75.598379!2d39.9533856

Perhaps a bar would be better.

[markm]

Used to live in West Chester. There are plenty of restaurants in town. Sorry I'm not Back East to hear Linda speak.

Mark

[Dianna]

Feb 6, 2017 10:43:20 GMT -5 moe said:

Feb 6, 2017 8:39:16 GMT -5 eddiejinnj said:

What is the word "shotgun" used here to represent? Inquiring minds want to know lol!!!!!! Term for transportation arrangement it seems contextually. I went to Wilmington too, CubScout. eddiejinfl

I can't believe someone asked a question that I know the answer to, things are looking up. Anyway "shotgun" is a term, no doubt derived from the stagecoach era where someone rode next to the driver and manned the literal shotgun to defend the coach and it's strongbox full of supposed gold. In my part of the world, central Michigan, where I grew up it meant the person riding in the front seat. It was required, when several people were going on a ride, for the first one to yell "shotgun" got to ride in the front seat. By the way, even though the term was not in use during my (misspent) youth, I gather from watching "No Country For Old Men" that the back seat occoupant(s) was (were) consigned to riding "bitch" a rather unfortunate but descriptive term.

ha ha. I knew the term "shotgun," as we used it all the time.. I did not know it's origins. LOL Thanks Moe!!!

[Guest]

Perhaps an update to the home page of this Pennsylvania appearance would be nice. Glad to see her going to our neighbors in Canada as well - happy she is healthy enough. Does anyone know if she will be coming to TEXAS or Chicago??

[Michele]

Hi. I am going to assume your tickets have been spoken for by now. Can you confirm?
Thank you.

[suzannes]

Yes Michelle, someone claimed them shortly after I posted. Sorry about that. You should still go! Tics are cheap.

[Guest PA]

Pennsylvania is sold out! Looks like Toronto has a few stray tickets. Anyone here going?

[JasonKlose]

Here is my interview with Linda and article in the Williamsport Sun-Gazette. I'm seeing her tonight at West Chester University. I'm hoping to meet her this time. I want to give her a copy of my article and another article that I wrote for a local magazine about "Music In Our Schools". I know she likes to read, and I thought anything about music would be particularly special.

Linda Ronstadt still using her voice to entertain, encourage and inspire

[the Scribe]

Mar 10, 2017 12:38:27 GMT -5 JasonKlose said:

Here is my interview with Linda and article in the Williamsport Sun-Gazette. I'm seeing her tonight at West Chester University. I'm hoping to meet her this time. I want to give her a copy of my article and another article that I wrote for a local magazine about "Music In Our Schools". I know she likes to read, and I thought anything about music would be particularly special.

Linda Ronstadt still using her voice to entertain, encourage and inspire

Thanks!!! I am probably too late to see if you could settle the question by asking her if she was born Linda Maria or Maria Linda lol. You have a way with words and a nice writing style. Thanks for posting this.

[70smusicfan]

I posed "the" question in an e-mail over two weeks ago, and it was asked at West Chester. The question was paraphrased as:

“There is speculation that Ms. Ronstadt’s birth certificate name is actually ‘Maria Linda Ronstadt’ due to her Mexican Catholic heritage. I wonder if there was some possibility she Anglicized her name.”

The answer as I remember it was:

"The name on my birth certificate is 'Linda Ronstadt' but when I was little my father used to call me 'Maria Linda', which is the name on my baptismal record since there is no Saint Linda. So I didn't Anglicize my name."

[moe]

Mar 11, 2017 12:56:23 GMT -5 70smusicfan said:

I posed "the" question in an e-mail over two weeks ago, and it was asked at West Chester. The question was paraphrased as:

“There is speculation that Ms. Ronstadt’s birth certificate name is actually ‘Maria Linda Ronstadt’ due to her Mexican Catholic heritage. I wonder if there was some possibility she Anglicized her name.”

The answer as I remember it was:

"The name on my birth certificate is 'Linda Ronstadt' but when I was little my father used to call me 'Maria Linda', which is the name on my baptismal record since there is no Saint Linda. So I didn't Anglicize my name."

And that, as they say is that!  At least that's one mystery I won't have to take to my grave.  Thank you much for getting a definitive answer.

[ausfan2]

An article from The Inquirer, Philadelphia:

Linda Ronstadt makes rare appearance, speaking in West Chester
Updated: MARCH 8, 2016

Linda Ronstadt visits West Chester this weekend on a book tour for her memoir "Simple Dreams."
by A.D. Amorosi, For the Inquirer

In her autobiography, Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir, Linda Ronstadt talks about the love behind the music she made, be it Southern California pop, Tin Pan Alley, richly layered country, or traditional Mexican.

There are the relationships with performers such as J.D. Souther and Emmylou Harris (“We could finish each other’s sentences”) that bound her to harmony. There are the musical parents who fostered her curiosities.

Ronstadt talks about being a quiet “baggy sweater- and beat-up jeans-wearing” folk singer who moved from coffee houses to stadium concerts to opera halls and Broadway stages (La Boheme, The Pirates of Penzance) without being mired in the muck of drugs or ego. She also speaks of losing her graceful, finely tuned voice -- at the height of its powers -- to Parkinson's disease. In 2011, she retired, unable to sing.

Ronstadt, who spoke with me from her home in San Francisco before heading to West Chester this weekend for a Simple Dreams reading, laughed heartily when asked how she's faring. “I’m pretty good," she said. "I’m getting better at asking people for help.”

She also laughed at having become radically chatty for her book tour. “An agent said I could get speaking engagements with my book, which I thought was ludicrous because when I sang I never said a word," she said. "Now I can’t shut up.”

As intuitive as she is talented, Ronstadt knew something was wrong -- in her gut, in her diaphragm -- when, in 2000, she felt a tug on her vocal cords. “It felt fundamental, like what could be Alzheimer’s. Turns out that it was singing Alzheimer’s -- I was losing the neurons that you need to make the muscles go.”

Rather than lament, she now concentrates on family -- she has two children in bands -- and on her role as mentor at Los Cenzontles, a Mexican arts center.

In her platinum-plated career, Ronstadt was as restlessly experimental as David Bowie or David Byrne, from her 1967 chamber-pop cover with the Stone Poneys of Mike Nesmith’s twangy “Different Drum” to the Cajun soul of her last album, 2006’s Adieu False Heart, with pop, swing, avant-jazz, new wave, and light opera in between. Were such transitions a part of her DNA, or was this something afforded her by success?

“It took me years of success in a regular format to be able to earn the right to have the muscle to flex, to say to the label that I am going to do all this,” she said.

She credits pop-star-turned-manager Peter Asher with giving her leeway to pursue albums with Sinatra arranger Nelson Riddle and others with the Mexican music of her heritage, even at the risk of dooming a pop career that had yielded smashes like “You’re No Good.”

“I was determined," she said. "The record company flipped and thought I’d lost my mind, but I had earned the right to try, and each time was successful.”

The only genre that got away was opera, which she loves. “I always thought I could copy anything, that I was really a chameleon, but not grand opera," she said. "You need to build those muscles for years.”

Ronstadt said she also treasures the deceptive simplicity of the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Leonard Cohen, Jimmy Webb, and Brian Wilson (“the true receiver of the Gershwin strain”) and the urgency of contemporary Mexican music (“the skankier the better”).

In Simple Dreams, Ronstadt mesmerizes the reader with her ability to write critically and passionately -- and sometimes coolly -- about music. She writes with journalistic directness to bring out the truth in the songs she feels closest to, such as Hoagy Carmichael’s yearning and restless “Skylark.”

Asked whether perhaps she’s developed her writing skills in the way that a person who's had one sense blunted comes to sharpen another, she laughs. “Well, I spent my whole life doing music, chasing traditional music, learning its history," she said. "I know something about it.”

Linda Ronstadt reads from "Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir" at 8 p.m. Friday in the Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall at West Chester University's Philips Memorial Building, 700 S. High St., West Chester. Sold out.

[Penreg]

I was at the west Chester show last night. It was really nice and she looked really really great. 4th row seats. I took some pics but can't seem to post them

[the Scribe]

Mar 11, 2017 12:56:23 GMT -5 70smusicfan said:

I posed "the" question in an e-mail over two weeks ago, and it was asked at West Chester. The question was paraphrased as:
“There is speculation that Ms. Ronstadt’s birth certificate name is actually ‘Maria Linda Ronstadt’ due to her Mexican Catholic heritage. I wonder if there was some possibility she Anglicized her name.”

The answer as I remember it was:

"The name on my birth certificate is 'Linda Ronstadt' but when I was little my father used to call me 'Maria Linda', which is the name on my baptismal record since there is no Saint Linda. So I didn't Anglicize my name."

I wonder if she meant to say the name on her birth certificate was Linda Maria Ronstadt?

[the Scribe]

Mar 11, 2017 20:08:17 GMT -5 Penreg said:

I was at the west Chester show last night. It was really nice and she looked really really great. 4th row seats. I took some pics but can't seem to post them

Hi Penreg! It is so nice to see you here again. I hope all is well.

[Penreg]

Yes I'm doing great and after a long break I'm out there singing again. All female trio with killer harmony. The other two girls play acoustic guitars and we do a great High Sierra of the Trio❤ Hope you are doing well too

[penreg]

Pics from west chester

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[eddiejinnj]

az, I was thinking the same thing that she answered that Maria is not her true first name but didn't mention if it is her middle name on her bc. eddiejinfl

[the Scribe]

Mar 11, 2017 20:41:38 GMT -5 Penreg said:

Yes I'm doing great and after a long break I'm out there singing again. All female trio with killer harmony. The other two girls play acoustic guitars and we do a great High Sierra of the Trio❤ Hope you are doing well too

Have you posted any videos of the group on youtube?

Thank you for the photos. Linda does look great and it is always nice to see John Boylan, her faithful friend and manager.

Did Linda mention any more upcoming performances? Any new compilations that are being worked on? Duets 2? Any mention of how her health is holding up?

[the Scribe]

Mar 12, 2017 6:30:00 GMT -5 eddiejinnj said:

az, I was thinking the same thing that she answered that Maria is not her true first name but didn't mention if it is her middle name on her bc. eddiejinfl

Well, at least we now know for sure that her first name is Linda and her last name is Ronstadt! Maybe someone can ask her at her next appearance what her middle name is lol.

[Dianna]

Mar 11, 2017 17:01:33 GMT -5 moe said:

Mar 11, 2017 12:56:23 GMT -5 70smusicfan said:

I posed "the" question in an e-mail over two weeks ago, and it was asked at West Chester. The question was paraphrased as:

“There is speculation that Ms. Ronstadt’s birth certificate name is actually ‘Maria Linda Ronstadt’ due to her Mexican Catholic heritage. I wonder if there was some possibility she Anglicized her name.”

The answer as I remember it was:

"The name on my birth certificate is 'Linda Ronstadt' but when I was little my father used to call me 'Maria Linda', which is the name on my baptismal record since there is no Saint Linda. So I didn't Anglicize my name."

And that, as they say is that!  At least that's one mystery I won't have to take to my grave.  Thank you much for getting a definitive answer.

Interesting Thank you. Even is she did Anglicize her name from Maria to Linda.. Linda is also a fairly common name in latin America.

[sliderocker]

Mar 11, 2017 20:10:15 GMT -5 the Scribe said:

Mar 11, 2017 12:56:23 GMT -5 70smusicfan said:

I posed "the" question in an e-mail over two weeks ago, and it was asked at West Chester. The question was paraphrased as:
“There is speculation that Ms. Ronstadt’s birth certificate name is actually ‘Maria Linda Ronstadt’ due to her Mexican Catholic heritage. I wonder if there was some possibility she Anglicized her name.”

The answer as I remember it was:

"The name on my birth certificate is 'Linda Ronstadt' but when I was little my father used to call me 'Maria Linda', which is the name on my baptismal record since there is no Saint Linda. So I didn't Anglicize my name."

I wonder if she meant to say the name on her birth certificate was Linda Maria Ronstadt?

That makes sense. Birth certificate and baptismal record are not the same thing, and I guess it's a question of which one would think carry the greatest weight? In this case, I would think it would have to be the name on the birth certificate since how one's name is given on a birth certificate is what one has to use on any legal documents. I don't know if a baptismal record would have any standing to be used for legal documents. Since Linda never "Anglicized" her name - and I'm taking her to mean that by that she didn't switch her name around on her birth certificate to reflect her baptismal record, her name for legal purposes is Linda Maria (or Marie) Ronstadt. She may prefer to be known as Maria Linda but that's a personal preference and what's reflected on her baptismal record, but not her birth certificate.