Kate Power & Steve Einhorn: Guestbook
Fran - Monday, May 12th, 2008
Hi Kate and Steve,
My husband and I were fortunate enough to hear you in concert for the first time at Sharon Moore's hayloft on Friday night. I LOVED listening to you! I am glad Kate mentioned your web site "qualityfolk.com" at the end of the concert. I went to it as soon as we got home and checked out all your CD's. I think "Pearls" is my favorite one and I LOVE "Kitchen Waltz"! My husband and I often dance in the kitchen! LOL
Also "Annabelle" touched a cord with me. The verse
"Precious children grow so fast
And they leave us all alone
We’ve got to love them while we can
Before we’re dead and gone"
brought tears to me. We lost our son 11 years ago and when I heard that verse, the tears just flowed and flowed, as they do now.
My compliments to you on a well designed web site. And thanks so much for providing clips of ALL the songs on "Pearls". I will be buying that one! I have played it over and over. I also liked the fact that you provided the words to the songs, so we can sing along.
Thanks so much for a wonderful concert! I am so glad we were able to hear you! Please keep singing and recording!
Fran Friesen
Shara - Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Kate & Steve,
I was lucky enough to hear you (first time, definitely not the last) at the Alberta St. Public House. Thank you for sharing your music, and your beautiful selves. I don't imagine being a public person is an easy choice, whether it's in the making or the continuation of it. I just wanted you to know that it's very much appreciated, and listening to you lifted both my spirits and my own voice.
j d - Saturday, May 10th, 2008
at last i'll be hearing my ain mother
tongue....no huts here..a proper scot lives in a taigh ...have a grrreat
spring and summer
Miz Kitty - Monday, April 7th, 2008
Hey!
I was at the Aladdin Saturday night, and in line to
buy a beer...(shhhh don't tell anyone!)
Anyhoo, I stood behind two women who were just going
OFF about how they happened by the Alberta St. Pub on
a Monday and heard you two performing and just LOVED
you!
Really, the one went on for quite a few minutes about loving your songs and voices and how funny you are!
Lisa, the eyes and ears of Puddletown, reporting in!
xoxox
Lil' Mammy
_______
Sandra Jensen - Monday, March 31st, 2008
Steve and Kate,
Your wonderful music has accompanied me on many long hours as I commute from Eugene to Linfield College in McMinnville. I know all the words to all the songs and sing along when notes I can hit occur. Your voices are so passionate, clear, and true. I give you a mental hug every time that strong strumming of Travis John fills up the car. Rain or snow or clear blue day, you are with me.
Sandy Jensen
Kelly Fitzpatrick - Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Thank you for singing prayers for our Old Town yearly Memorial for the Homeless and Formerly Homeless!!
Alba Sanfeliu - Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Dear Kate Power & Steve Einhorn,
I am Alba Sanfeliu from Barcelona, Spain. I don’t know you, but I want to tell you a story that happened to me yesterday. I bought a cd of Tracy Grammer “Book of Sparrows”, and when I listened the song of Travis John, I felt something special. Mostly by the music, because when I listen a song in English, for the first time I never catch all the meanings...
Then I was looking for your name on internet, and I discovered your website. I printed all the information about the song, and while I was coming back home by train, I started to read it.
The lyrics of the song are very powerful, and also are special to me because it has a relation with the things that I work for. I have been working at the School for a Culture of Peace of Barcelona’s Autonomous University for the last four years (http://escolapau.org/english/programas/musica.htm), where I direct the program of Music, Arts and Peace. I do research on artistic initiatives which use artistic language for peace building initiatives, and your song to me is an example of that. A young soldier killed by a landmine, and a song to keep his memory alive!
As I kept on reading, I was even more surprised when I read that you recorded the song at Big Red Studio. It’s a long story, but I am a friend of Billy Oskay and I’ve been there 4 times in a row during the summers. I’ve been at the same studio that Travis helped to build…
It was a very special moment for me, and I thought that could be nice to share it with you. As you say “We are all connected in the fabric of life”.
I’ll try to buy some of your cd on internet. I think that I will like your music.
Best regards,
Alba
joey emil - Sunday, February 10th, 2008
3000 miles away, I listened to Travis John for the first time tonight and heard the soothing voices of two old friends I haven't seen in a while. Your voices held me rapt and I remembered an old poem,written some years ago that never got sent.
Listening to Kate
During a gentle meander in the rain
through the foothills of the Coast Range
alone beneath new stands of young trees
renewing barren forests gone elsewhere
their restless spirits lingering
like whiskey vapor at a wake
the way long lived voices do
Through twenty-two miles of water, lichen, and inattention
listening to Kate singing the tune of a distant familiar ocean at dawn
listening to Kate singing the cry and bite of a steady following sea
calling home its children from generations of hopeful voyages
listening to Kate sing in harmony with growing saplings, soft rain, kind wind
Listening to Kate singing like whiskey vapor
at a wake
lingering the way long lived voices do
Helen Kilbane - Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Hi,
I heard "Travis John" last May when my son, Patrick, danced to Josie's choreography. We look forward to the Whitebird presentation that begins tonight. We will be there on Sat, Jan 26 for the performance. That song is powerful every time.
Yours,
Helen Kilbane
conniekrueger - Friday, January 4th, 2008
Happy New Year Steve and Kate, I was hoping you two were playing some time soon in Portland, I miss you both! thanks for your encoragement! I got a new Uke for Xmas it's a soprano, hand-made in eugene, solid cedar top, it has a very good sound! happy trails, connie
Rachel Sedacca - Monday, September 17th, 2007
Good, clean fun! Love the feel of Travis John, gets the mind to makin pictures. Love it! See you at FAR-West!
phil carrier - Sunday, August 26th, 2007
was lightly picking around with my appalachian dulcimer this morning..on some stuff i had not done anything with for some time. turned the page and there it was...
one of my favorites of all time..
These Are My Mountains..so I had to
get out my CD..and listened..3 times..what a lovely song..then worked for over an hour with my dulcimer and my vocal! Wonderful
music from Kate and Steve...it made my day.
Dick Wellman - Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
We really enjoyed you and Kate's skilled delivery of voice and strings. Your trumpet imitation was also a nice touch. Please let us know when you'll be on the east coast again.
James Hicks - Friday, July 27th, 2007
Try listening to Kate and Steve on the open road. Especially somewhere deep in southern Oregon, in the middle of the southern high desert, under a wide open blue sky, with the air full of the sweet scent of the juniper and pine trees. Make ready for a magic meld of music and countryside.
Jeri Baumgardner - Monday, June 18th, 2007
Aloha dear friends,
Music has once again brought me 'round to you, this time through a notice I received about the Portland UKE fest. I have been playing for 3 years now, and am finally 'getting' it. I think of you often! with warm aloha,
Jeri
Mike Moshofsky - Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Tonight my wife & I experienced you two on stage at a tiny venue in The Dalles, Oregon, where we live. Listening to you play I was struck by how similar your work is to a an artist's painting. The main difference seems to be that the emotional effect that you produce in sound & words happens in the moment, and has to be repeated over again for people to feel it again. A painting can be produced once and people can experience its effect by just viewing the piece. As I became aware of this idea I was struck with the notion that if I removed the distinction between the two arts, your media might be watercolor. It has a light touch and feels more pastel than bold. It has the ability to express deep emotions without going at it straight on. Like watercolor its best effect is when it borders on impressionism. It leaves a lot of room for the audience to interpret the message individually. People can go as deep into your message as they're moved to. It was a true joy to hear you perform. We look forward to experiencing your live performance again!
Mia Ramig - Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Heard this at the OBT School Performance last week...Patrick Kilbane, who danced Josie Moseley's choreography to this piece, absolutely rocked. It was a stunning performance in many ways. I did not realize until I read the program notes later that it was for Travis, whom we knew of from school and church friends. Although I would not normally be a folk music connoisseur, the memory of that dance and that music stayed with me until I was forced to search it out on the internet. Thank you for being willing to bring that song to us, and to Josie and Patrick for putting feet to it. I think it's blessed a few of us.
Elizabeth Zimmerman - Monday, May 7th, 2007
I first heard this while watching a ballet at Oregon Ballet Theatre.The words and the music,combined with the dance...a very moving experience.Thank you for keeping the memory of Travis alive this way.
Bob Moore - Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Portlander now living in Montana
playing and producing music concerts, same as I did in Oregon.
Recent shows: Ian Tyson; Leon Russell. Coming up: Rosanne Cash;
Rodney Crowell; Darell Scott, J. D. Souther. John Cowan, Kris Kristofferson.
Good to hear you are out there making music for folks.
Bob
Kevin "Madras Slim" Wheeler - Sunday, February 11th, 2007
Saw that you would both be at Winter Fishtrap and groaned when I couldn't get the time off. Hopefully will see you both this summer.
I'm probably the worst guitar player I know, but am truly addicted. I blame and thank you both.
Slim
Phil Carrier - Saturday, February 10th, 2007
have never been to Enterprise, or Joseph, or Troy...Sounds like you are having a ball. I envy you.
Keep sending the news.
Mary Power-Hall - Friday, February 9th, 2007
May the lake keep groaning a base note and your new pipes never freeze!
Amy Present - Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Great pics and happy trails. love, Ame
steve morelli - Thursday, January 25th, 2007
No comment
Wait I take that back. Scope this out....
www.bureauofstandardsbigband.com
Mike Power - Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
You're the BEST!!!!
Joy Zerba - Saturday, January 20th, 2007
Just found your web site, and it sure is a good one! Haven't talked to you guys for many years. Glad to hear you're outon the road. Oh the adventures ahead of you, and the stories you'll be able to tell. Good luck - Joy
Lawrence Kirkpatrick - Saturday, January 20th, 2007
It has been a great pleasure just to have known the two of you. In many ways you have changed my life in music. It is a distinct honor to have your signatures on my banjo head. I wish you all the best but I know that will come true just knowing how you are.
Blessed Be,
Larry Kirkpatrick
Jack and Judy Bevilacqua - Friday, January 19th, 2007
Ciao Steve & Kate, God Bless you both in this new season of life! May it yield continued creative freedom and hopefully some deep refreshment after all your years of dedication, inspiration and faithful care to the wonderfully multi-generational music community that gathered at Artichoke. We look forward to watching for your "jet stream" in the sky!
Con affetto! J & J
Ann G - Friday, January 19th, 2007
I'm a little later discovering my music but you two made me feel that it's never too late. I really enjoyed the couple of times I spent with you both at Artichoke, ruminating about how to find the music. Thanks for your kind words, your passion and your music. Happy travelling.
Suzanne Chimenti - Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Hey Kate and Steve,
I love your new website and I look forward to frequently checking it so I can still find you.
Suzanne Chimenti
Ellen & Allen Zerkin - Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Your beautiful new website is a reflection of your beautiful music and your two beautiful souls. Please bring your music back east soon. Our love, our support, and our prayers are with you as you embark on this exciting new journey.
Ellen Zerkin - Thursday, January 18th, 2007
The website is beautiful! Your music is beautiful!!
Both are reflections of your two beautiful song-filled souls!!!
Please come make some music on the East Coast.
Kirsten Comandich - Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Hey, I think your new site is lovely!
Mary Power-Hall - Monday, January 15th, 2007
I love your new site! Just like the road going off into the Wilds in your header, I am drawn to your journey. Broad vistas, new perspectives. We will all expect many Web postcards along the way telling the tales of the people you meet, the secrets you learn, the stories you create, and the ones you glean from others. Keep us all close as you wander near and far!
Abigail Burns - Monday, January 15th, 2007
I think your music ROCKS! I love you guys! Keep on keepin time.
Hi Kate and Steve,
My husband and I were fortunate enough to hear you in concert for the first time at Sharon Moore's hayloft on Friday night. I LOVED listening to you! I am glad Kate mentioned your web site "qualityfolk.com" at the end of the concert. I went to it as soon as we got home and checked out all your CD's. I think "Pearls" is my favorite one and I LOVE "Kitchen Waltz"! My husband and I often dance in the kitchen! LOL
Also "Annabelle" touched a cord with me. The verse
"Precious children grow so fast
And they leave us all alone
We’ve got to love them while we can
Before we’re dead and gone"
brought tears to me. We lost our son 11 years ago and when I heard that verse, the tears just flowed and flowed, as they do now.
My compliments to you on a well designed web site. And thanks so much for providing clips of ALL the songs on "Pearls". I will be buying that one! I have played it over and over. I also liked the fact that you provided the words to the songs, so we can sing along.
Thanks so much for a wonderful concert! I am so glad we were able to hear you! Please keep singing and recording!
Fran Friesen
Shara - Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Kate & Steve,
I was lucky enough to hear you (first time, definitely not the last) at the Alberta St. Public House. Thank you for sharing your music, and your beautiful selves. I don't imagine being a public person is an easy choice, whether it's in the making or the continuation of it. I just wanted you to know that it's very much appreciated, and listening to you lifted both my spirits and my own voice.
j d - Saturday, May 10th, 2008
at last i'll be hearing my ain mother
tongue....no huts here..a proper scot lives in a taigh ...have a grrreat
spring and summer
Miz Kitty - Monday, April 7th, 2008
Hey!
I was at the Aladdin Saturday night, and in line to
buy a beer...(shhhh don't tell anyone!)
Anyhoo, I stood behind two women who were just going
OFF about how they happened by the Alberta St. Pub on
a Monday and heard you two performing and just LOVED
you!
Really, the one went on for quite a few minutes about loving your songs and voices and how funny you are!
Lisa, the eyes and ears of Puddletown, reporting in!
xoxox
Lil' Mammy
_______
Sandra Jensen - Monday, March 31st, 2008
Steve and Kate,
Your wonderful music has accompanied me on many long hours as I commute from Eugene to Linfield College in McMinnville. I know all the words to all the songs and sing along when notes I can hit occur. Your voices are so passionate, clear, and true. I give you a mental hug every time that strong strumming of Travis John fills up the car. Rain or snow or clear blue day, you are with me.
Sandy Jensen
Kelly Fitzpatrick - Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Thank you for singing prayers for our Old Town yearly Memorial for the Homeless and Formerly Homeless!!
Alba Sanfeliu - Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Dear Kate Power & Steve Einhorn,
I am Alba Sanfeliu from Barcelona, Spain. I don’t know you, but I want to tell you a story that happened to me yesterday. I bought a cd of Tracy Grammer “Book of Sparrows”, and when I listened the song of Travis John, I felt something special. Mostly by the music, because when I listen a song in English, for the first time I never catch all the meanings...
Then I was looking for your name on internet, and I discovered your website. I printed all the information about the song, and while I was coming back home by train, I started to read it.
The lyrics of the song are very powerful, and also are special to me because it has a relation with the things that I work for. I have been working at the School for a Culture of Peace of Barcelona’s Autonomous University for the last four years (http://escolapau.org/english/programas/musica.htm), where I direct the program of Music, Arts and Peace. I do research on artistic initiatives which use artistic language for peace building initiatives, and your song to me is an example of that. A young soldier killed by a landmine, and a song to keep his memory alive!
As I kept on reading, I was even more surprised when I read that you recorded the song at Big Red Studio. It’s a long story, but I am a friend of Billy Oskay and I’ve been there 4 times in a row during the summers. I’ve been at the same studio that Travis helped to build…
It was a very special moment for me, and I thought that could be nice to share it with you. As you say “We are all connected in the fabric of life”.
I’ll try to buy some of your cd on internet. I think that I will like your music.
Best regards,
Alba
joey emil - Sunday, February 10th, 2008
3000 miles away, I listened to Travis John for the first time tonight and heard the soothing voices of two old friends I haven't seen in a while. Your voices held me rapt and I remembered an old poem,written some years ago that never got sent.
Listening to Kate
During a gentle meander in the rain
through the foothills of the Coast Range
alone beneath new stands of young trees
renewing barren forests gone elsewhere
their restless spirits lingering
like whiskey vapor at a wake
the way long lived voices do
Through twenty-two miles of water, lichen, and inattention
listening to Kate singing the tune of a distant familiar ocean at dawn
listening to Kate singing the cry and bite of a steady following sea
calling home its children from generations of hopeful voyages
listening to Kate sing in harmony with growing saplings, soft rain, kind wind
Listening to Kate singing like whiskey vapor
at a wake
lingering the way long lived voices do
Helen Kilbane - Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Hi,
I heard "Travis John" last May when my son, Patrick, danced to Josie's choreography. We look forward to the Whitebird presentation that begins tonight. We will be there on Sat, Jan 26 for the performance. That song is powerful every time.
Yours,
Helen Kilbane
conniekrueger - Friday, January 4th, 2008
Happy New Year Steve and Kate, I was hoping you two were playing some time soon in Portland, I miss you both! thanks for your encoragement! I got a new Uke for Xmas it's a soprano, hand-made in eugene, solid cedar top, it has a very good sound! happy trails, connie
Rachel Sedacca - Monday, September 17th, 2007
Good, clean fun! Love the feel of Travis John, gets the mind to makin pictures. Love it! See you at FAR-West!
phil carrier - Sunday, August 26th, 2007
was lightly picking around with my appalachian dulcimer this morning..on some stuff i had not done anything with for some time. turned the page and there it was...
one of my favorites of all time..
These Are My Mountains..so I had to
get out my CD..and listened..3 times..what a lovely song..then worked for over an hour with my dulcimer and my vocal! Wonderful
music from Kate and Steve...it made my day.
Dick Wellman - Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
We really enjoyed you and Kate's skilled delivery of voice and strings. Your trumpet imitation was also a nice touch. Please let us know when you'll be on the east coast again.
James Hicks - Friday, July 27th, 2007
Try listening to Kate and Steve on the open road. Especially somewhere deep in southern Oregon, in the middle of the southern high desert, under a wide open blue sky, with the air full of the sweet scent of the juniper and pine trees. Make ready for a magic meld of music and countryside.
Jeri Baumgardner - Monday, June 18th, 2007
Aloha dear friends,
Music has once again brought me 'round to you, this time through a notice I received about the Portland UKE fest. I have been playing for 3 years now, and am finally 'getting' it. I think of you often! with warm aloha,
Jeri
Mike Moshofsky - Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Tonight my wife & I experienced you two on stage at a tiny venue in The Dalles, Oregon, where we live. Listening to you play I was struck by how similar your work is to a an artist's painting. The main difference seems to be that the emotional effect that you produce in sound & words happens in the moment, and has to be repeated over again for people to feel it again. A painting can be produced once and people can experience its effect by just viewing the piece. As I became aware of this idea I was struck with the notion that if I removed the distinction between the two arts, your media might be watercolor. It has a light touch and feels more pastel than bold. It has the ability to express deep emotions without going at it straight on. Like watercolor its best effect is when it borders on impressionism. It leaves a lot of room for the audience to interpret the message individually. People can go as deep into your message as they're moved to. It was a true joy to hear you perform. We look forward to experiencing your live performance again!
Mia Ramig - Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Heard this at the OBT School Performance last week...Patrick Kilbane, who danced Josie Moseley's choreography to this piece, absolutely rocked. It was a stunning performance in many ways. I did not realize until I read the program notes later that it was for Travis, whom we knew of from school and church friends. Although I would not normally be a folk music connoisseur, the memory of that dance and that music stayed with me until I was forced to search it out on the internet. Thank you for being willing to bring that song to us, and to Josie and Patrick for putting feet to it. I think it's blessed a few of us.
Elizabeth Zimmerman - Monday, May 7th, 2007
I first heard this while watching a ballet at Oregon Ballet Theatre.The words and the music,combined with the dance...a very moving experience.Thank you for keeping the memory of Travis alive this way.
Bob Moore - Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Portlander now living in Montana
playing and producing music concerts, same as I did in Oregon.
Recent shows: Ian Tyson; Leon Russell. Coming up: Rosanne Cash;
Rodney Crowell; Darell Scott, J. D. Souther. John Cowan, Kris Kristofferson.
Good to hear you are out there making music for folks.
Bob
Kevin "Madras Slim" Wheeler - Sunday, February 11th, 2007
Saw that you would both be at Winter Fishtrap and groaned when I couldn't get the time off. Hopefully will see you both this summer.
I'm probably the worst guitar player I know, but am truly addicted. I blame and thank you both.
Slim
Phil Carrier - Saturday, February 10th, 2007
have never been to Enterprise, or Joseph, or Troy...Sounds like you are having a ball. I envy you.
Keep sending the news.
Mary Power-Hall - Friday, February 9th, 2007
May the lake keep groaning a base note and your new pipes never freeze!
Amy Present - Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Great pics and happy trails. love, Ame
steve morelli - Thursday, January 25th, 2007
No comment
Wait I take that back. Scope this out....
www.bureauofstandardsbigband.com
Mike Power - Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
You're the BEST!!!!
Joy Zerba - Saturday, January 20th, 2007
Just found your web site, and it sure is a good one! Haven't talked to you guys for many years. Glad to hear you're outon the road. Oh the adventures ahead of you, and the stories you'll be able to tell. Good luck - Joy
Lawrence Kirkpatrick - Saturday, January 20th, 2007
It has been a great pleasure just to have known the two of you. In many ways you have changed my life in music. It is a distinct honor to have your signatures on my banjo head. I wish you all the best but I know that will come true just knowing how you are.
Blessed Be,
Larry Kirkpatrick
Jack and Judy Bevilacqua - Friday, January 19th, 2007
Ciao Steve & Kate, God Bless you both in this new season of life! May it yield continued creative freedom and hopefully some deep refreshment after all your years of dedication, inspiration and faithful care to the wonderfully multi-generational music community that gathered at Artichoke. We look forward to watching for your "jet stream" in the sky!
Con affetto! J & J
Ann G - Friday, January 19th, 2007
I'm a little later discovering my music but you two made me feel that it's never too late. I really enjoyed the couple of times I spent with you both at Artichoke, ruminating about how to find the music. Thanks for your kind words, your passion and your music. Happy travelling.
Suzanne Chimenti - Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Hey Kate and Steve,
I love your new website and I look forward to frequently checking it so I can still find you.
Suzanne Chimenti
Ellen & Allen Zerkin - Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Your beautiful new website is a reflection of your beautiful music and your two beautiful souls. Please bring your music back east soon. Our love, our support, and our prayers are with you as you embark on this exciting new journey.
Ellen Zerkin - Thursday, January 18th, 2007
The website is beautiful! Your music is beautiful!!
Both are reflections of your two beautiful song-filled souls!!!
Please come make some music on the East Coast.
Kirsten Comandich - Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Hey, I think your new site is lovely!
Mary Power-Hall - Monday, January 15th, 2007
I love your new site! Just like the road going off into the Wilds in your header, I am drawn to your journey. Broad vistas, new perspectives. We will all expect many Web postcards along the way telling the tales of the people you meet, the secrets you learn, the stories you create, and the ones you glean from others. Keep us all close as you wander near and far!
Abigail Burns - Monday, January 15th, 2007
I think your music ROCKS! I love you guys! Keep on keepin time.