Elisabeth von Trapp in concert in Nashville!!!!

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I am SO excited!!!! On March 18, 2007, Elisabeth von Trapp will be doing a concert here in Nashville, Tennessee, where I live!!!! The date's actually been on the tour schedule on her website since August, and I emailed her immediately when I noticed it. But now that we're less than a month away from the date, I am starting to really get excited!

The concert is going to be at St. George's Episcopal Church at 4715 Harding Road in Nashville at 4:00 PM on Sunday, March 18, 2007. Tickets are $15 each, and when I called the church for information, I was given an address to send a check to for tickets. That address is Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee, 50 Vantage Way, Suite 107, Nashville, TN 37228. Send a check to pay for however many tickets you want, a self-addressed stamped envelope, and include a note that you're ordering tickets for Elisabeth von Trapp's concert. I didn't think to ask if tickets would be available at the door, but I would think so. Debra Waters, the woman at St. George's that I talked with last week, told me their facility seats over 800 people. Seating is general admission, no assigned seats. The church phone number is 615-385-2150 and the website is www.stgeorgenash.org. This concert is a benefit for some kind of mission in Uganda, but I don't remember the details. Last time I looked, the church's website didn't have any information on the concert, but that might have changed by now.

If any of you on here are within an easy driving distance of Nashville, PLEASE try to come!!!!! I think it would be WONDERFUL if a huge bunch of Sound of Music fans showed up for this! Wouldn't that surprise Elisabeth? She and her husband Ed Hall were absolutely wonderful to my mom and me when we went to Vermont in 2004, and I can't wait to see them here next month! Is anybody on here close enough to come, too?

Paula

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Elisabeth's concert this evening was WONDERFUL!!!!! Accompanied by Erich Kory on cello, and backed up with St. George's Episcopal Church choirs (both adults and kids) on a few songs, she did a LOT from her various CD's. There's no way I can possibly remember each and every song, but I'll list what I can. From the Wishful Thinking CD: Let It Shine, Immigrant Eyes, and My Favorite Things (with the audience invited to sing along!). From One Heart One Mind: Early Rose And Gray and Childhood Home. From Christmas Song: Because All Men Are Brothers, Edelweiss (with the audience invited to sing along!), and Dona Nobis Pacem (also with the audience AND the choirs!). From Poetic License: The Road Not Taken and Fragile. From Love Never Ends: Love Never Ends, O Frondens Virga, In The Morning (my absolute FAVORITE on that CD!), Rivers Of Babylon, and Peace, Perfect Peace. There were others, too, I'm sure, that I'm forgetting.

We saw her husband Ed Hall at the CD table when we went in, spoke to him and chatted with him for a minute, and he said he'd tell Elisabeth we were there.

After the concert, the church held a reception, and Elisabeth signed copies of her CD's there. We waited till about the end of the line so we could talk for a bit, and by then it was late. We learned before the show (and more detail from them after) that Elisabeth, Ed, and Erich had had quite an adventure getting here last night! Because of the snowstorm up north, their flight got re-routed to Raleigh-Durham, NC, arriving there around 2 a.m. They got about four hours of sleep and had to be at the airport at 7:30 this morning to catch an 8:30 flight from there to Nashville, and then had to wait for their instruments and equipment to arrive later! They'd had a crazy and tiring day, so we didn't want to add to it, but Elisabeth wanted to chat with me for awhile, once all the autographing was done and she could actually sit down and eat the plate of food somebody had brought her! We didn't talk long - my mother and a friend who'd gone with us were waiting in the car - but we chatted for a bit and I got her to fill in the details of their adventure last night and today. They're going to be in town till Tuesday, so maybe we'll get to meet up with them again while they're here. I think they're going to play tourist here in Nashville tomorrow and do some sightseeing. All of us were tired after it was all over, but what a night it was, and did I forget to mention that Elisabeth, Erich, and the choirs sounded FANTASTIC!!!! The acoustics in that sanctuary are amazing! We were sitting over halfway back from the front and the sound was just as clear and strong as if we'd been sitting up front.

A few interesting/amusing little tidbits we learned..... I had on a sweater with cats on it and learned that Ed and Elisabeth are fellow cat lovers! They used to have a 20-pound FAT cat. Ed told me a funny story about the vet telling him straight out that their cat was fat. Also, Elisabeth and my mother share a birthday - May 12 - thirty years apart! (Notice I didn't give the age of either one of them! LOL!)

Sorry if this sounds scatter-brained; I'm tired and am about to go to bed, but didn't want to go to sleep without telling everybody about seeing Elisabeth here in Nashville!

Paula