Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jul 11 - 02:25 PM

Thank you, Kathy, for posting the videos you did of Tim and Kenny. Although I raced from the Cape Cod Maritime Festival, where I played a Barnacle performance, I saw Deidre, and vaulted the gate at the Seaport at 6 p.m., raced to the shed hoping to catch Marc, Tim, and Kenny, I missed them and only caught the final Leave Her Johnny.

Thanks to you, Kathy, I did get to see two performances by the boyz. Thanks.

Barnacle Babe (Mary of Barnacle)

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: Charley Noble
Date: 03 Jul 11 - 05:36 PM

The Johnson Girls will be performing in Maine next Saturday evening at the Winter Street Church in Bath, 7:30 pm, as a benefit for the Maine Maritime Museum Sea Music Concert Series established in honor of Bill and Gene Bonyun. Contact the Museum for more information or reservations. We should have great fun hosting this concert!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 Jul 11 - 09:44 AM

ChanteyLass-

Thanks for the ID.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Jul 11 - 12:19 AM

I wrote the above before viewing the photos. Now I've seen them. Great! Thanks for posting them!

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Jul 11 - 12:08 AM

Charley, the closing concert host was Laura Travis of WRIU (University of RI). She hosts The Celtic Realm" from 6-9 PM on Wednesday nights.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Jul 11 - 03:30 PM

Here's our final set of Mystic Sea Music Festival photos taken by Judy Barrows of the closing Sunday concert, arranged in chronological order: click here for PIX!

Enjoy!

Charley Noble and JudyB

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Jul 11 - 02:39 PM

I'm doing my final edits of the closing concert and I'm blanking on the name of the woman MC who is also a local radio announcer.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 04:59 PM

We had a nice concert last evening a the Maine Maritime Museum with Danny Spooner. Dany's now working on his world famous meatloaf in the kitchen. Tomorrow we send him and Gael off to the West's in Wells, Maine, and then it's on West to the Old Songs Festival.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 12:01 AM

Oh! Wish I could. I guess many others wish they could, too. Robbie O'Connell was at Saturday's Blackstone River Theatre Summer Solstice Festival in Cumberland, RI, on Saturday with his cousin Aoife Clancy. Also, Laura Travis, host of Mystic's closing concert, hosted the Traditions stage. Nice to see them again so soon.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 12:00 AM

Oh! Wish I could. I guess many others wish they could, too. Robbie O'Connell was at Saturday's Blackstone River Theatre Summer Solstice Festival in Cumberland, RI, on Saturday with his cousin Aoife Clancy. Also, Laura Travis, host of Mystic's closing concert, hosted the Traditions stage. Nice to see them again so soon.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: Charley Noble
Date: 19 Jun 11 - 11:39 AM

We're continuing the post-Mystic on the road show with Danny Spooner this evening (Sunday) at the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, Maine. Join us for another round!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: Charley Noble
Date: 18 Jun 11 - 12:04 PM

Yes, this is fun viewing the alternative world of the Mystic Sea Music Festival.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble, about to set sail with crew for the Press Room session this afternoon

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 18 Jun 11 - 12:07 AM

I enjoy reliving the festival through the photos and videos and appreciate being able to see what I missed.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: KathyW
Date: 17 Jun 11 - 08:03 PM

Two more uploaded last night:

Northern Neck Chantey Singers demonstrate net-hauling (this one's for you, Gibb)
http://youtu.be/d5_Ix_98vxU

Brian Peters rocking out on the button accordion:
http://youtu.be/fleJakq239s

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: Charley Noble
Date: 17 Jun 11 - 03:38 PM

Here's the next set of Mystic photos that JudyB took of Sunday afternoon workshops, June 12, primarily of Roll & Go, Mike Kennedy and Margaret McCandless at the C. Fox Smith Workshop: Click here for PIXS!

Judy's camera does a good job of reaching out and nabbing nice images in less than perfect lighting conditions, as long as someone doesn't move.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 16 Jun 11 - 10:52 PM

Kathy, I agree with Charley: good work. I'm curious about how you decide what to record knowing you can't capture everything.

Sciencegeek, a good time for a Saturday Mudcat picnic might be after the end of the afternoon concert but before the start of the evening concert. I think we are allowed to stay on the grounds although I usually leave to grab something to eat. There isn't enough time between the Saturday symposium and the start of the afternoon concerts. However, performers for the next concert might have to do sound checks. As you said, we have a lot of time to think about this.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: Charley Noble
Date: 16 Jun 11 - 09:03 PM

Kathy-

Good work!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: KathyW
Date: 16 Jun 11 - 08:54 PM

Oops, that last was me with a lost cookie...

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Jun 11 - 08:23 PM

I really didn't take any photos this year, just used the video camera. I will slowly be uploading some of them on YouTube to this channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/seachanteyfan

In addition to the two previously mentioned here, so far I've also uploaded:
Tom Kastle: http://youtu.be/ONmIANENqj8
Rick Spencer: http://youtu.be/ABILPHPnOYg
Rick Spencer again, with Marc Bernier and Geoff Kaufman: http://youtu.be/T0qJIfJYEuo
Caryl Weiss, with several friends: http://youtu.be/riwNYC3423M

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: Charley Noble
Date: 16 Jun 11 - 04:18 PM

Now I saw lots of folks snapping photos at the Festival. How about doing some editing and posting a link to where we can view them? I'd love to see what I've missed.

I've only got about 500 more to run through myself, mostly of the Saturday evening concert, the C. Fox Smith Workshop and the Grand Finale. The late night sessions over at the German dancehall are the most challenging to photograph; the lighting is very low and it's difficult to find one good location to shoot from.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: GUEST,paula daddio
Date: 16 Jun 11 - 02:50 PM

A great festival. well done everyone. made it to the sunday hymn sing for the first time this year. what a treat. see everyone next year. paula

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: sciencegeek
Date: 16 Jun 11 - 07:00 AM

Chanty Lass, that was me sans "cookies". A reminder once again that the kid is also a technoklutz. I was thinking that Sat. would be a good day, near the gazebo. We can give it more thought before next year. lol

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 15 Jun 11 - 11:33 PM

Kathy, good job with that video, too. I also watched the one with Tom Kastle and Kapriol'! singing Hand over Hand. Anonymous Guest, you have a good idea, but it might be hard to find a time to meet for a meal. It would have to be at time when everyone has arrived by whatever means of transportation, no one has departed, and there is no music going on!

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Jun 11 - 08:57 PM

Kathy-

Roll & Go is honored to have exhausted your battery. Does this mean that our group sucks up energy? We like to think we generate energy.

That's really the best video we've seen of us doing the work we love.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: KathyW
Date: 15 Jun 11 - 08:29 PM

At Charlie's request, another of my videos from Mystic, this one of Roll & Go from the "Fitting Out" concert Thursday night.

http://youtu.be/zpGX4aD44RE

Alas, I forgot to check that my camera battery was fully charged before I left home, and because our flight was delayed by the storm there was no time to charge it before the concert. I couldn't record as much as I wanted to and finished off the evening with about two minutes of battery life left!

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Jun 11 - 12:43 PM

Indeed, Marc. There have been times in the past when it felt like the food service folks were almost hostile to the crew, performers and volunteers. The return to a more relaxed, family like setting - even with the pressure of running around from site to site- promoted a good sense of positive morale.
Folks knew that their well being was an important concern and the kitchen crew did their best to ensure everyone was taken care of. Though it seems that a number of performers had no idea what the $10 food voucher was for. sigh... :)

Weather permitting, it would be nice to set up a picnic blanket on the village green and have a Mudcat Box Lunch for a meet & greet. I know there are still plenty of catters out there I have yet to put a face to.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: Marc Bernier
Date: 15 Jun 11 - 12:07 PM

Salsa; I was not around most of the weekend, but heard many very positive comments. It has been many years since that was possible, and many folk felt that your meals contributed strongly to the overall community feeling of this festival. Thank You.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Jun 11 - 11:03 AM

Salsa-

You and your crew were great, and even accommodated us when we came in at 2 PM (having been booked from 12 to 2).

If we missed a meal it was because we were totally distracted, or physically dragged to some local watering hole. A barrel of grog was probably beyond the budget, not to mention beyond the pale (pail?)!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: GUEST,Salsa
Date: 15 Jun 11 - 10:18 AM

So Charley,
As to your comment earlier "Real food prepared by real people, or at least by very convincing "people." Were we convincing enough? Did you have enough? Was it good enough? Any suggestions?

Salsa
aka the Kitchen Queen

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Jun 11 - 09:12 AM

ChantyLass-

Thanks for posting the rest of the story of The Wreck of the Glenneslin. It's a sad story for a splendid looking ship but at least the crew survived and the officers were reprimanded.

That was Nor and Eli Dale who led "How Can I Keep from Singing" at the Greenmanville Church at the Sunday morning hymn sing.

I'm beginning to edit Judy's vast inventory of photos from Saturday and Sunday, most of which will not be keepers but I've got to run through them all. Judy arrived at the Festival site Saturday morning with about one hour of sleep; fortunately she was driven by Jeff's wife so she got some additional sleep on the way.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: Martin Graebe
Date: 15 Jun 11 - 09:08 AM

We had a great time at Mystic - thank you to all who made us feel so welcome. And some wonderful songs. Dan Milner's ballad 'Johnny Doyle' is going to haunt me for some time yet.

Martin and Shan Graebe

[Shivering on Cape Cod]

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: GUEST,HT1
Date: 15 Jun 11 - 07:28 AM

Kathy, Thank you so much for posting the video of Tim and Ken I will watch it a million times (or more)! It is the essence of the joy of the festival!

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 15 Jun 11 - 07:20 AM

Great photo, mg. It sent me looking for info. I was glad to learn all crew members survived. The story is here. http://www.riparia.org/Old_marine_photos/glenesslin.html

Brilliant, Kathy W. You've probably seen Tim perform with Barnacle. They've been at Stone Soup, so I know my Facebook Friends will want to see this video. And I love that Alison Kelley's poodle appears in the audience!

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: KathyW
Date: 15 Jun 11 - 12:00 AM

Because it was requested, I figured I'd post this now:
http://youtu.be/3ILsFuxng54

Ken Wolin and Tim Reilly bones jam during the pub sing Saturday night.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: mg
Date: 14 Jun 11 - 11:53 PM

if you like ship (unfortunately shipwreck) photos check this one out..it is mesmerizing to me..

http://historicphotoarchive.com/caps/00068.html

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Jun 11 - 11:09 PM

Great photos, Charley! I don't know how you got them up so fast! I'm still catching up on sleep! This year I didn't take any photos except two with my phone at the closing concert.

In spite of my having posted a message from Mystic saying there would be no food vendors at the evening concerts, they were there on Friday but not Thursday or Saturday because of rain. They were also there during the Sunday closing concert. Because their presence was inconsistent, it was a good thing I had made other arrangements. I did buy some beverages to supplement the water I'd brought. Charley, I'm glad the performers had a reliable source for meals.

Please tell your bandmates that I was glad they sang How Can I Keep from Singing at the church sing. I was hoping someone would do it, and they did it well.

I saw Jon Campbell at the closing concert on Sunday. That was the only time I saw him there.

I hope to get back to the seaport for their Independence Day celebration. It is the day after New Bedford's Summerfest. I plan to go to both days of that but will commute from home and won't make it to Mystic if I am too tired.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: Charley Noble
Date: 14 Jun 11 - 09:23 PM

David Diamond has also posted a nice set of photos on his Facebook album for Mystic but you have to be a "friend" of his to view them.

Roll & Go doesn't have any photos of our set at the Thursday "Fitting Out" evening. If anyone took any photos of us, please send me a PM.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: Charley Noble
Date: 14 Jun 11 - 05:01 PM

Here's a set of photos I took while documenting our encounter at Mystic with the old Maine-built steamboat Sabino: click here for PIXS

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: Charley Noble
Date: 14 Jun 11 - 04:46 PM

Here's a public Facebook link to my first set of photos of general scenes in and around Mystic: click here for PIXS

You shouldn't need to be a Facebook member to view these photos.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: sciencegeek
Date: 14 Jun 11 - 03:59 PM

many thanks for the help... be glad to replace them when next we meet. I did look for you, but we didn't seem to be in the same place at the same time... lol. I stayed dry in the YTB Sat. :)

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Jun 11 - 03:23 PM

If you are Facebook Friends (Fans?) of Mystic Seaport, you may have already seen this article with photos of and quotes from performers. If you are not on Facebook, I think this link will let you see the article. http://stonington.patch.com/articles/mystic-seaports-sea-music-festival-is-a-celebration-for-all

I agree that Kapriol'! was wonderful. A friend met me on Saturday and I told her to make sure to hear them, which she did. Another friend who is a deejay on WRIU (same station Laura Travis, closing concert host, is on) was supposed to meet me on Sunday, but she brings her dog and if the rain continued she would have been limited to the Boat Shed, so she backed out. She asked me to buy a Kapriol'! CD for her, but they had already sold out.

I thought the song Ken Sweeney sang about Guzzling Gus and his brothers was wonderful. I liked the way he performed it at the pub blast even better than the way he did it at the closing concert.

Sciencegeek, I was glad I could supply the batteries you needed. I'd appreciate it if you'd replace them for me next year!

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: GUEST,HT2
Date: 14 Jun 11 - 11:33 AM

To all at the Seaport, thank you for the outstanding experience of our 24th festival...such sweet memories to savor for another year. The music still fills my head, and it is hard to concentrate on my classes here, but next week will be final exams then summer vacation, and we can come to Mystic more frequently....ChanteyLass, Yes, Geoff's "Last Leviathan" (name of song) was sad and stirring and soul wrenching, and we first heard it 24 years ago at our first festival, but I have not heard it done for a long time. It was lovely to meet you so we are now festival family members. To all our other festival family members,farewell and safe voyage until next time.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: sciencegeek
Date: 14 Jun 11 - 11:32 AM

well... a little more awake today. So glad I took off an extra day from work.

another fine festival and a good time was had by all, though more than one person got drenched in the rain LOL

thank you to everyone who made a point of complimenting Mike on his C Fox Smith song, Raithlin Island he's been writing fine songs for close to thirty years, but then gets shy about presenting them. go figure

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: Charley Noble
Date: 14 Jun 11 - 11:25 AM

Thanks to Geoff Kaufman and all the other staff and volunteers who produced this magnificent sea music festival, and to the folks who attended.

Special thanks to the kitchen crew at the YTB who prepared our breakfasts, lunches and dinners.

This year Julie and her sales staff at the Boathouse did an outstanding job with the CDs. Everything was well displayed, inventoried, and ready for check-out when performers were leaving the Festival on Sunday.

Some of my favorite memories was just wandering around with Roll & Go on Friday when we had nothing official to do. First we serenaded the old Maine steamboat Sabino and then took a short harbor cruise aboard her. Then we crawled all over the Charles W. Morgan (which is being completely rebuilt) and led a few shanties on her deck. We also did an impromptu set at the performance stage by the Spouter Inn, and then scoped out the Greenmanville Church to see how best to deal with its very live acoustics when we were doing the C. Fox Smith workshop.

I have to say that the Dutch group Kapriol was one of my favorites, among performers who I am less familiar with. They have energy and talent on all levels, and one is irresistibly drawn in to sing with them with hardly a clue what one is singing! Tom Kastle obviously had great fun leading one of their traditional songs with them, "Hand Over Hand."

The Northern Neck Chantey Singers also did a great job of demonstrating how their traditional net-hauling songs were really done.

There's a whole lot more I could say but maybe some other survivors should post their remarks. I have a whole lot of photo editing to do, thanks to JudyB who only managed to come down Saturday and Sunday but still shot 700 photos; I only managed to shoot about a dozen photos, mostly while we were cruising aboard the steamboat Sabino.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Jun 11 - 02:48 AM

Mel, no, that wasn't me. I ate lunch alone in the Galley and dinner close to home in RI. However, next time I see you I will introduce myself now that I know your name or even if I forget it. (I'm pretty shy and a lot older.) Do you plan to go to Chantey Blast? I do but almost didn't last year because of bad weather. And I'll be back at Mystic before then. I don't know how often you go there, but maybe we will cross paths. I was pretty sure your partner was named Nicole but didn't know her last name.

KathyW and Charley Noble, I look forward to seeing anything you put online.

Pam and Sue, how about Geoff Kauffman singing about the last Great Whale at the Whales and Whaling workshop? I saw you there. That and people putting arms around each other and swaying to Geoff Kauffman leading the closing song Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her brought tears to my eyes. During that last song I was standing next to one of Mystic's craft demonstrators. Coincidentally, he had sat next to me at January's Chantey Blast. His voice is almost as deep as Don Sineti's, and since some vocal cord damage I often sing in a deep voice, too. I can't carry a tune, but standing next to him probably helped! Also, you might want to check out Chris and Meredith Thompson, singer/songwriter identical twins who grew up in Providence and started performing as teenagers at open mics at Stone Soup, so I've watched them grow up and have always been able to tell the apart by their facial bone structure. In fact, I did not think they were identical until they said so! They also said that their parents would never tell them who was born first, but eventually they got their birth certificates. On that, my guess was wrong. Most of their songs are not about the sea, but I think they are wonderful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qPkvoY7MJA Both are parents of young children, making performance dates hard, but here's their website. http://www.cmthompson.com/There are more videos of them on YouTube as well as videos of them with Pete and Maura Kennedy in a quartet called The Strangelings.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: KathyW
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 11:59 PM

@ Charlie Baum: The Thursday night concert is also archived on the WPKN archive, but it starts about 20 minutes into the 7 pm show.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: GUEST,Heavenly twin two
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 02:48 PM

This is being written on coming down day as we always refer to it. the festival was such a delight. We made some new friends and identified others as sometimes we know people but not their names. The music was excellent with the saturday night pub one of our favorites ever. The music, the dancing, the hugs and kisses were top notch We especially enjoyed the Souzas, Peters Juliana and JoAnns Keep on Fishing were great. The North Neck Chanteymen were a joy to behold but the real dark horse was Jack Dalton. He brought fun and energy in a new form.Ill never forget the Yupik pick up line "We are not related" Laughed until we cried. One more great festival in the books. Looking forward to the next which will be our twenty fifth. Enjoy the year ahead may it be kind to you all and we hope to see yo in January. The Twins

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 02:26 PM

I couldn't make it--busy all weekend on the other side of Connecticut, but I did discover that the evening concerts on Friday and Saturday were broadcast on radio, and will be available archivally for a couple of weeks only. Go to http://archives.wpkn.org/ and scroll to either Friday, June 10 or Saturday, June 11. Listen to the shows scheduled for 7:00 p.m. to 10 or 11:00 p.m.--ignore the names of the shows, which just indicate the DJs who were pre-empted by the special broadcast. It's not the whole festival, but at least it's a taste for those of us who couldn't make it.

--Charlie Baum, who couldn't get to sleep on Saturday night, but listened to some of the singers in a delayed archival broadcast via the internet

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: Jeri
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 02:15 PM

...and if you're the Mel I met earlier this year, you've got a wonderful voice... and nice pants. Come to Portsmouth for the shanty session next Saturday, or maybe I'll run into a pack of NYC peeps at Old Songs.

One of these years, I'll make it. I'm actually a bit afraid, as I think that once I go, I won't want to ever miss it.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
From: GUEST,Mel
Date: 13 Jun 11 - 12:52 PM

This was my first time at Mystic and certainly not my last! I had a wonderful time, but next time I have to plan ahead for sleep deprivation. The whole community was really welcoming and showed me a great time. ChanteyLass, I think we finally introduced ourselves to each other as I was leaving dinner on Sunday. Hopefully I will be less bashful next year and actualy get up and lead! Thanks for a great weekend, all.

Mel, the other half of the dancing couple