The A-Z gAZette


The latest on Ann Zimmerman's musical exploits
November issue, 2000

UPCOMING APPEARANCES
  • NOV. 2 (Thu. 7:30pm) WaKeeney, KS-Christmas Kickoff concert with Plaid Family, Western Kansas Saloon & Grill
  • NOV. 3 (Fri.lunch) Manhattan, KS-InterHab Conf.
  • NOV. 10 (Fri.7:30pm) Little Rock, AR-Acoustic Sounds Cafe, 2nd Presby. Church, opening act for David Roth
  • NOV. 12 (Sun. 1-3pm) Wichita, KS-Borders Books & Music cafe, 1715 Rock Rd. & 13th
  • DEC. 2 (Sat. 2-4pm) Salina, KS-Smoky Hill Museum open house
  • DEC. 7 (Thu. 7pm) Abilene, KS-Dickinson County Rural Life meeting
  • DEC. 10 (Sun. 2-4pm) Manhattan, KS-Konza Prairie holiday open house
  • DEC. 11 (Mon. eve.) Buhler, KS-Sunshine Meadows care hom staff Christmas party
  • DEC. 16 (tent.) (Sat. 1-3pm) Salina, KS-Capers Cafe & Bakery holiday music
  • JAN. 19 (Fri. 7:00pm) Whitewater, KS-Bluegrass Cafe, 212 South Main (dinner served beginning at 6pm)
  • FEB. 7 (Wed. eve.) Manhattan, KS-Family Nutrition Program conference, Holidome

  • CONCERT IDEAS?
    Want Ann to sing for your town, coffee shop, concert hall, school or organization or to lead a songwriting workshop? Contact her by mail, phone, e-mail or web site. Regular mail:
    A-Z Music,
    3904 N. Ohio St.
    Salina, KS 67401-9259
    Phone: 785-825-7135
    E-mail: azmusic@tri.net
    Web site: www.annzimmerman.com
    HUNDREDS TO RECEIVE THEIR A-Z gAZette BY E-MAIL
    More than 350 people will be receiving this A-Z gAZette without paper or stamp. In the past year, those people have each sent Ann their email address enabling her to save time and resources through electronic delivery. If you've recently made the leap into cyberspace, we can add you to this list.
    NEW VENUE: LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS
    On November 10, Ann makes her first ever Arkansas appearance at the Acoustic Sounds Cafe, a respected name in folk music concert halls around the country. Housed in the Second Presbyterian Church, 600 Pleasant Valley Rd., Little Rock, it draws the top names in American contemporary folk music, including acts whose songs Ann has recorded: Greg Brown ("Canned Goods," "Home in the Sky"), John Gorka ("Houses in the Fields"), and Cheryl Wheeler ("Quarter Moon"). Ann sings as the opening act for David Roth, a national songwriter with five albums and the endorsement of the author of Chicken Soup for the Soul. Ann's songs around the campfires of the Kerrville (TX) Folk Festival caught the ear of ASC's manager, Joe Henry, who invited her to bring her music to Little Rock. See the whole ASC schedule and other information at www.acousticsoundscafe.org.
    ANN'S SONGS FEATURED IN "EXPLORATION PLACE" EXHIBIT
    Picture a tiny town the size of a room, and imagine being able to watch the life of the town progress through the seasons and through the years. This is reality at Wichita's new "Exploration Place" which opened to rave reviews this year at 300 N. McLean Blvd. The town is called "Kansas in Miniature," and its designers selected songs from Ann's album "Canned Goods" to accompany the changing seasons in the exhibit-including "Sea of Grass," "Canned Goods," and "Prayin' for Rain." If "Exploration Place" is not in your neighborhood, you can find it at www.exploration.org.
    ANN PLAYS WICHITA
    On November 12, Ann gives a rare public performance in Wichita, Kansas. Despite innumerable connections to Kansas's largest city, Ann has performed there for conferences and groups but only rarely in venues open to the public. With a Borders cafe concert that Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m., a new trend begins-the public is invited! She'll be on her way home from Little Rock, Arkansas.

    MORE MUSIC THAN EVER
    By the end of December, Ann will have given more than 85 musical performances this year, a personal record. At the same time, her career as a mediator of legal disputes is mushrooming, and she and her cowboy husband seem to need full time to take care of their new home, the E BAR Z Stables north of Salina (see photos at www.ebarz.com). But there is always room for more music, and Ann is hoping to continue the musical increase in 2001. Where has she been since this letter last reached you in May? To sixteen towns around Kansas at least once (and sometimes 3 or 4 times) as well as burgs in Nebraska and South Dakota, from the Missouri River to the High Plains; singing for arts and music festivals, for a steam engine show, for organizations that serve the disabled, the homeless, the medically underserved, for inductees to the National Teachers Hall of Fame, for visitors to the Homestead National Monument, for churches and conferences, coffee shops and a campaign rally. Music belongs everywhere!
    WHERE TO BUY "CANNED GOODS" AND "LOVE & WEATHER"
    • Mail order: at the A-Z Music address below.
    • On the Net: go to www.annzimmerman.com, click on "Recordings;" both albums may be ordered by printing out the order form, filling it out by hand and mailing it to A-Z Music.
    • "Canned Goods" can be ordered with a credit card through www.theorchard.com. Click on that link from Ann's website under the "Canned Goods" album cover
    • ·Iowa City, Iowa: Northside Book Market.
    • ·Lindsborg, Kansas: Brunswick Bed & Breakfast Inn gift shop.
    • ·Manhattan, Kansas: People's Grocery (recently restocked for new location: 17th & Yuma) or Streetside Records (or in other cities with Streetside or Penny Lane record stores).
    • ·Orange City, Iowa: CD Store, basement of De Koffee Boon.
    • ·Overland Park, Kansas: Borders Books & Music, 91st & Metcalf.
    • ·Salina, Kansas: Smoky Hill Museum store or House of Sight & Sound.
    • ·Strong City, Kansas: Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve bookstore.
      MAILING LIST STREAMLINED
      Recent A-Z gAZettes have requested readers to contact A-Z Music if they wanted to continue receiving this newsletter either by mail or internet. We were happy to receive hundreds of cards and emails. If you know anyone who would like to continue receiving Ann's news but has not received this issue, please have them contact A-Z Music.
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      ORDERING INFORMATION: For "Canned Goods" or "Love & Weather," make your check payable to "Ann Zimmerman" and mail it to A-Z Music, 3904 N. Ohio, Salina, KS 67401-9259. Compact discs are $15, cassette tapes are $10. Add 6.59% sales tax (Kansas residents only) and $1.75 (per order) shipping charge.

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    Ann Zimmerman
    A-Z Music
    3904 N. Ohio St.
    Salina, KS 67401-9259
    (785) 825-7135
    e-mail: azmusic@tri.net
    website: www.annzimmerman.com