The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #52688   Message #809794
Posted By: Gorgeous Gary
23-Oct-02 - 11:07 PM
Thread Name: How was the 2002 Get-Away?
Subject: RE: How was the 2002 Get-Away?
Chiming in on my own lazy schedule...another fun year, managed to survive the unexpectedly colder Saturday. Assorted highlights:

-- The Pub Sing workshop (definitely should be a keeper for next year!). Lots of raucous, rollicking fun!
-- The Jewish Songs workshop. OK, I'm biased since I lead it, but I thought we got a nice mix of songs; some Hebrew, some English, even a bit of Yiddish.
-- Ken Schatz's concert (actually, the only one I managed to catch...)
-- Having Dwayne and Sheila Thorpe back again this year!
-- The Kipling workshop. I've been wanting to work some of filk writer/performer Leslie Fish's Kipling settings into my Open Sing/Getaway reportoire. Sheryl and I did her "Pict Song" and "Danegeld" settings, which seemed to go over well.
-- Jan's (Ron Davies' wife) song in the Sea Songs session, which has been earworming for the past two days (that's the "and he played his ukelele as the ship went down" song with all the hand motions).

And of course seeing all the Mudcat folks and the FSGW folks and the other folks I only see at the Getaway. 'Twas great singing with y'all again and meeting Morticia and WillieO and the other new folks!

(And I promise I'll try and make more than two or three posts between now and next Getaway!!)

-- Gary