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Thread #118718   Message #2568711
Posted By: Barry Finn
16-Feb-09 - 08:16 PM
Thread Name: Ken Schatz & Barry Finn to tour UK July/Aug 2009
Subject: Ken Schatz & Barry Finn tour UK 24/7-
Ken Schatz & Barry Finn to tour UK 24/7-?/? as Finn & Laddie
(Could a mudelf or Joe Offer complete the title, please, thanks)

Finn & Haddie (www.FinnAndHaddie.com) & (www.MySpace.com/FinnAndHaddie) has been invited to perform at the Scarborough Seafest (http://www.seafest.org.uk/) on July 24 -26. Since our invite my singing partner Neil has had some family medical issues come up he can't make this. Ken Schatz, who I've enjoyed singing with in the past (http://www.kenschatz.com), a mudcatter and New York shanty singer extraordinaire and I will be performing together instead as Finn & Laddie & likely we (Neil & I) will be having Ken by our sides much more often in the future. We'll hopefully be staying longer than just the weekend of the festival but we need some help getting some paying spots so that we can tour & eat.
Our concentration musically will be the singing mostly of sea music (leaning towards songs influenced by sailors of color) & prison worksongs but as anyone who knows us will say that our repertoire is wide, vast & rare. Hopefully we can get down to Swansea to visit & sing with more than a few friends there, we'll see.
What we were hoping for is that UK mudcatters could help us get spots singing at various venues so we can extend & afford our stay. We're poor, so we sing for supper, board, rides & especially money. I'm hoping that US mudcatters & others in the UK that know us & what we do will pipe up/in with some words of recommendation so those in the UK who don't know us will get an idea of who & what we are & what we do (thanks all you friends, checks will be forwarded). We are both strong & passionate singers & engagingly rousing presenters with a rare repertoire that is assured to please & tickle the fancy of most & encourage even the shyest of singers to bellow.
Our planned dates are somewhere just prior to the Seafest anywhere between July 21st (Tuesday) to the 23rd (Thursday) and depending if we get any spots we'll stay till around either the very end of July or very early August.   


Thanks for any & all help
Barry Finn