The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #127477   Message #2845800
Posted By: Bat Goddess
21-Feb-10 - 10:47 AM
Thread Name: Feb. Shanty Session @ Press Room-NH
Subject: RE: Feb. Shanty Session @ Press Room-NH
That's --
Charlie Ipcar and JudyB from Maine
Tom and Linn
Mark Ryer
Paul Schurr (from Albany area)
Emery Hutchins
Jeri
Dave Coffin, daughter Linnea, and Kent Allyn
Scott Bogle (who's been AWOL for awhile -- good to have him back!)
Marty Stock
Tim Radford
Bruce MacIntyre
Jeff Warner
Barbara Benn

Lovely session! Good new songs -- good old ones -- good new versions. Nice to see Scott back -- he's been using marriage and starting a family as an excuse for way too long. Really nice to have such great singers from a distance make it to the same session.

I made a list of what was sung, but I can't remember what Mark's first song was (right after Tom started the session with "Fisherman's Hornpipe").

I was going to try out ("brucing" it, as it's sort of memorized but iffy at this point) "Sixteen Tons of Herring Roe" (thanks to Rika), but I was intimidated by the company -- didn't want to "practice" in front of such talent.

But I DID sing "Sandgate Girl's Lament", "Ten Stone" (along with Jeri), "Astoria's Bar", "Race of Long Ago" and started "Nine Times a Night", but then my voice gave out and I decided not to push it -- I have to talk for two for the next couple days.

Linn