Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 14 May 07 - 05:39 PM

Oooh. Turned out nice again. hasn't it?

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 14 May 07 - 04:02 PM

Pictures from Chas added - Doug's pictures will follow (I hope) tomorrow.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 14 May 07 - 08:03 AM

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 12 May 07 - 07:59 PM

Don, weed out the 70 worst pictures first, please ... :-)

Ron, which songs did you have difficulties with? There are several in Plattdeutsch (Low German). If you PM me I'll translate them for you.

Looking forward to more pictures ... will save some for the Akkerboom records. Thanks, lads!

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 12 May 07 - 05:23 PM

I have some photographs of the dancers. Could you PM me your e-mail adress please Andy?

DC

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: GUEST,gerry
Date: 12 May 07 - 04:27 PM

Sounds like a great time was had in Kiel! I was'nt there but I was in Portaferry earlier in the year. I have a few songs including Arthur McBride and Mary And The Soldier which I sang there at www.soundclick.com/gerryburke if anyone cares to visit. See ya'll.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 12 May 07 - 04:06 PM

Chas, there once was a possibility to put them up here - but since a big server Crash about 2 years ago requests for photo uploads are unanswered.

But you could send them to me - I have enough space on my server for a few more photos.

I'll send you my email address by PM.

Andy/Andreas/MudGuard

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 12 May 07 - 01:59 PM

Have some photos of the orchard- How do I put them on here?

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 12 May 07 - 01:15 PM

Anyone got any photos of the dancers??

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Ron Davies
Date: 12 May 07 - 08:21 AM

Sounds like a delightful gathering. I'd considered trying to join you this year but the choral schedule vetoed it--we did our last big concert on the same weekend. I remember visiting Kiel a few eons ago--great fun. Also listened to some of the MP3's on one of the links you provided. Man, I am way out of practice--have no chance with anything but Hochdeutsch--and I'd need some of the songs translated--not into English, but Hochdeutsch.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Gulliver
Date: 12 May 07 - 07:11 AM

Hi folks,

arrived home a little later than anticipated. Thanks to Susanne and all for a great weekend. I'll get the photos (all 100 of them!) off ASAP, though in a bit of a rush as I'm tied up with gigs this weekend.

Take care, Don

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 12 May 07 - 05:38 AM

Well done Anders. Great pictures. What a ceilidh band !

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 11 May 07 - 06:11 PM

my pictures of the event

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 11 May 07 - 01:29 PM

Also, a thanks to the participants who collected 170 euros for Mudcat among them. They're on their way to Bill Sables via Grimsby in Doug's pocket.


A cheque for 115 pounds is in the post, on its way to Bill.


DC

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 10 May 07 - 07:32 AM

I'll try to find time tonight for the pictures ...

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 10 May 07 - 05:16 AM

Not that the coffee pot is in them (though the beer / cider mug is!), but I'm looking forward to the pictures.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 10 May 07 - 04:59 AM

Doug

The donation money we gave you was for Mudcat. Not a new coffee pot !

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 10 May 07 - 03:04 AM

Poor potless Doug - how will the third coffee pot be demolished? Make your own unbreakable pot scoutwise: take a piece of bamboo holding about a half pint, put on a leather sling,and it will serve for all drinkable matters hot or cold (except for beer which can be drank out of bottle or can in the field).
I still keep my bamboo pot I made as a young scout some 50 years ago.

Drink, sing, and enjoy
Wilfried

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 09 May 07 - 06:52 PM

The Mug arrived safely home, Chas, and already been out to good use, though for cider rather than beer.

However, if you remember my tale of disaster with my brand new coffee pot on the journey to Kiel, well my wife bought a replacement this evening and hadn't been in the house more than 10 minutes when the bag of shopping fell off the kitchen unit. I will now have to buy yet a third pot or else stick to drinking tea.

I'll give the HansDans website a coat of looking when I get a few spare moments.

DC

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 09 May 07 - 03:06 AM

And I'm back, too, and sitting at my office PC. Naturally I opened the Mudcat first, looking for the Eurogathering. Glad that you all enjoyed the jolly gathering, and so did I.

Thanks to all for coming, singing and playing. It reerected me again for a year - without music the soul withers.

My special thanks go to Susanne for the splendid organization, bed and breakfast.

Still 296 days to go till retirement.

Sing and enjoy
Wilfried

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 08 May 07 - 06:50 PM

Glad you're all safely back where you belong (until next time). And a little proud Kiel Eurogathering went as well as it did. Just one amendment to Fidjit's praises: Erhard was the one leading the singing. It was Hinrich from Hamburg who called the German dances (as he does regularly for us). BTW, he has his own very similar venue at home, the Heidbarghof.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 08 May 07 - 01:23 PM

Hows the "Mug", Doug?

To jog your memory you can listen to some of them on the, Hansdans.de website. They have short versions of some of what they/we did.

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 08 May 07 - 08:46 AM

Arrived back safely, a couple of hours ago. A relaxing night crossing on the ferry was most welcome after a 600km drive through heavy rain and spray on the autobahn. I was glad I wasn't going the other way as a bad accident was causing a tail-back that seemed to go on forever.

I really enjoyed playing at the ceilidh. The German and Danish tunes were much easier to pick up than Irish tunes and I was able to join in most of them. Unfortunately, my poor memory and a long drive home means that I can't remember many of them now.

Susanne had organised perfect weather for the rest of the weekend and Sunday afternoon was spent by a select group singing and playing, under the shade of a tree, outside the thatched building of Hof Akerboom.

I was hoping you would forget about the collection, Susanne. I was just working out what musical bits and pieces I could get for 170 euros.

Thanks Susanne for organising such an enjoyable weekend. It was good to meet you, MudGuard, Wolfgand and Wilfried again and also to put faces to the names for Ernest, Fidjit and Gulliver.

DC

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 08 May 07 - 08:44 AM

and here are the other half. We three, "Gulliver" Don And Doug - the Mug - Chadwick, plus yours truly made up the last percentage. 110% this celidh band was !

We were rightly proud to be in such company.

Greg, we missed you and yet we didn't. Hope your ancle is getting better.

We'd sorted out a few tunes for some of the dances I was to teach in the back kitchen. Hoping we'd manage ok in no other musicians turned up. We needn't have worried. When you have bands like these behind you. Well instant success.

Erhard sorted out the German dances for the very eager crowd of dancers. They got up for everything. I even learnt two to take with me to the next meeting I have with the Swedish dancers I play with.

I really enjoyed my visit to Kiel and will surely be back. Hof Akkerboom is a great place.

I was a nice surprise to meet up with Rainer Schwarz again after 30 years. He even was encouraged me to sing "The German Clock Winder". To a crowd of Germans. Well ! Never thought I'd do that. Went down well though.

Susanne. You did us proud with your hospitality. All the sight seeing, Fjord trips and the eating places we visited were the best.

Don and Doug - "the Mug". Thanks for the sessions. Good one in the garden in the sunshine on Sunday. And to all the other mudcatters that were there. Hope we meet again.

Cheers - prost etc.

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 08 May 07 - 08:21 AM

Here is half of the great Ceilidh band

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 08 May 07 - 05:18 AM

I shouldn't forget to say Thank you to the people at Hof Akkerboom, who let us have the run of the house, and particularly Volker Schroeren, melodeon player and perfect barman on the Saturday night, who was virtually the only one to turn up again for the tiny Sunday session.

Also, a thanks to the participants who collected 170 euros for Mudcat among them. They're on their way to Bill Sables via Grimsby in Doug's pocket.

Now I'll go and pack for next weekend's festival.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 07 May 07 - 03:15 PM

Made it safely home.
Was a superb weekend.
Can't post more right now, there is a problem at work ...

More (hopefully) tomorrow.

Andy/MudGuard

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Wolfgang
Date: 07 May 07 - 11:13 AM

correction: "sich kandelen" is "to get drunk".

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 07 May 07 - 09:00 AM

Plus, Don found that he met Bernd Unstedt, one of our foremost Kiel players of Irish music, in Dublin way back in 1983. Fidjit also plays in a Swedish spelemanslag (?) with the well-known player of the Nyckelharpa , Alban Faust, who not only is a German living in Sweden but has done concerts at Hof Akkerboom twice (and we hope to have him back some time).

Wilfried and Andreas are on their way home, Fidjit is exploring the region's golf courses before he catches the boat back home tonight, and I'm left to clear up and get on with the rest of my life. (NOT catch up on sleep, because this gathering was very well-behaved, with bedtime usually round about midnight.)

You were great, boys, all of you! (Sorry to say I was the 'token sheila' on the Mudcat side, due to Letty's misfortune. I hope her father is a little better by now.)

Now - who is going to host the 2008 Eurogathering? :-)))))

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Ernest
Date: 07 May 07 - 07:29 AM

For those of you who were not there and therefore don`t fully understand Wolfgangs posting:

Among the german musicians where 3 (the Lorenzens and R. Schwarz, hope I didn`t overlook someone?) playing in a band named "hans dans" whose cd is named "folksdans & kandidel".

Here`s their website, where you can hear something:

http://www.hansdans.de/

BTW Rainer Schwarz had played with Fidjit yeeeeaaaaars ago, if I got that right.

Best
Ernest

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Wolfgang
Date: 07 May 07 - 06:48 AM

Saturday night was just great with a folk Bigband. Ich war so richtig kandidel, aber hoffentlich noch nicht überkandidelt. Some of the instruments looked really unique. Yes, and like Ernest I want to thank Susanne for the perfect organisation.

kandidel, norddt. (veralt.) fröhlich, heiter (in my five year old Duden)
kandidel, north German (obs.) merry

In my Brockhaus of 1935, they only have the spellings kanddel and kanditel but they have also the reflexive verb sich kandideln, sich betrinken (to get drunk).

I have found nothing yet about the etymology.

From a short web search it looks as if the word means "heiter" more in the sense of "angeheitert" that is merry in the sense of tipsy.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Ernest
Date: 06 May 07 - 10:11 AM

...back in Berlin...

hope you are all well and have a mighty session!

Thanks to all, but especially Susanne for organizing everything perfectly!

Best
Ernest

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: bfdk
Date: 06 May 07 - 06:05 AM

Sorry, but can't make it there by 2PM, I'm afraid. It's already midday here.. Pity I missed the ceilidh.

But have fun all of you :-)

Just as well it wasn't Andy who fell asleep on the boat, he'd have been one heck of a load to carry off there :o))

Best wishes,

Bente

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 06 May 07 - 05:19 AM

Bente, to save you looking in vain for "the mobile number I gave above" (but didn't), here it is: 0171 and 9836467. We're off to a tour of the town now, and to seeing off Wolfgang who unfortunately has to leave at lunchtime. (BTW, he fell asleep on the boat, so he was wide awake during the evening ceilidh!)

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 06 May 07 - 05:14 AM

Doug Chadwick here, form Susanne's computer.

Superb day yesterday - a ferry trip through the mist which gave way to glorious sunshine. An inpromtu session on the baoat was appreciated by some, but perhaps not by all of the other passengers.

Last night Chas, Don and I formed part of a 15 piece ceilidh band which included two hurdy-gurdies.

More later.

DC

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 06 May 07 - 05:05 AM

Bente, if you're here by 2 pm you'll catch the start of the session, and we expect it to go on for a couple of hours at least. Some people won't be leaving till tomorrow morning. Phone us on the mobile number I gave above if you think it's possible.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: bfdk
Date: 06 May 07 - 04:56 AM

Glad to hear you're having a good time :-) I just finished the 5th of the assignments that kept me from going, so I can now enjoy the rest of the weekend. But, I suppose it's too late to go by now..

Looking forward to the piccies!

Best wishes to everybody,

Bente

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 05 May 07 - 06:50 PM

Back from a great day out on the water and a great ceilidh night. Pictures will be up soon, Don and Andy have promised.

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 04 May 07 - 05:41 PM

Can confirm Friday went very well. The only thing lacking was music. Chas was the first to arrive at 9.30. Took him for a short tour of Kiel, plus a purchase of guitar strings, before we collected Andy and Wilfried from the station. Doug phoned at 5.30, from outside my front door, because he'd left home before I revealed my second name and thus didn't know which of the 64 doorbells to ring. Then Don rang to say he'd reached the station after a delay of plane and train. When I went out to collect him I ran into Wolfgang who'd taken the bus out to my house.

When they'd all been installed at the holiday flat they're staying at we went out to have the prolonged meal Wolfgang mentioned. Now it looks as though several Mudgatherers are ready for their beds. Watch this space!

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 04 May 07 - 05:26 PM

Now, the first evening is well underway. We had dinner at the side of the Baltic sea. Fidjit and I had boys' willies with our porc meat. Boys willies they are called in (Suebian) German not for what they taste like (I couldn't tell BTW) but how they look like. They have just the size and the form of boys' willies and are made half of noodle and half of potato dough. The German (Suebian) name is Buabespitzle which I have translated above, but in high German they are know as Schupfnudeln which has no interesting translation.

Wolfgang (using Susanne's Mudcat access)

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Wolfgang
Date: 04 May 07 - 06:09 AM

Letty, sad to hear about your father, best wishes for a complete recovery.

I'll be in Kiel close to 6 pm today. Looking forward to see you all.

Giok, who do I give now the money from me and Jim McLean for the European Friends of Mudcat, when you are not coming?

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 04 May 07 - 06:01 AM

Letty, all the best to your father from all Mudcatters gathered here (at the moment these are Chas and myself). We hope to see you and your parents at some later date. For the moment, all we can do is send our best wishes!

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Gulliver
Date: 03 May 07 - 02:56 PM

Same here...

Don

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: MudGuard
Date: 03 May 07 - 02:35 PM

Letty, that's very sad!

All the best for your father (and your mother and yourself).

You will be missed in Kiel!


To the rest: looking forward to meet you tomorrow!

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Letty
Date: 03 May 07 - 11:47 AM

Hi all,
This morning, my father had a heart attack. He had angioplasty this afternoon and is doing reasonably well, but it means we had to call off the Ferienwohnung and won't be coming.
So sorry to miss it: it would have been our first holiday in months.
Have fun, people.

Best,
Letty

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 03 May 07 - 03:01 AM

Chas, I've sent you directions which lead you roughly the same way. Trouble with your directions is, you're not allowed to turn right at the top of Hafenstrasse or Fabrikstrasse.

Turn left from the ferry terminal, drive along Kaistrasse for roughly 200 m, turn right at the lights into Stresemannplatz, drive straight on along Ziegelteich. From there, your directions are ok.

However, I'd think it more sensible to collect at my place as the rooms I've reserved are round the corner from there. So it is:
up Ziegelteich as above, then turn left at the next major lights, towards the motorway.
Another mile or so, and turn right at the lights just before you actually enter the motorway.
Turn left at the next lights, drive straight on across TWO level crossings.
After the second, turn left at the lights, which will take you to a bridge across the motorway.
Turn right into the next street. The huge block of flats at the bottom is Kolonnenweg no 1. Ring bell at Kalweit. If no one opens, please wait. I may be out collecting more Mudcatters.

BTW, I learned last night we'll have to find something else to do on Friday night: Dick Gaughan has cancelled his German tour at short notice, for reasons as yet unknown. Very disappointing, of course, but I'm sure Mudcatters will rise above that. Looking forward to you all!

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 03 May 07 - 02:51 AM

I'm packed up and ready to go. I have to spend the day in work first but then it's straight to the ferry.

See you all tomorrow.

DC

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fidjit
Date: 02 May 07 - 03:45 PM

Ah think I've cracked it. With the help of Maparama.com and a hard study of the street names on the map.

17 minutes from the ferry terminal (at 18km p.h. !!)

Hafenstrasse for 70m
Swing right in Fabrikstrasse 210m
Swing left into Andreas-Gayk-Strasse 150m
Swing right into Ziegeltiech for 3km (Strange names they have here)
Then Kronshagener Weg for 130m
Continue into Skandinaviendamm for 3km.
Swing right into Stockholmstrasse 310m.

Roughly 6km.

Chas

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 02 May 07 - 03:43 PM

I tried making a direct link to the relevant bit of Multi-Map but when I tested it, it resulted in somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.

If you click on this link Multi-Map and enter Stockholmstrasse 159 as the road and Kiel-Mettenhof as the town, that sould show you whereabouts Hof Akerboom is.

DC

Subject: RE: Details: 2007 Eurogathering, Kiel
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 02 May 07 - 03:23 PM

Hello all, I hope you have a wonderful time. Thought I'd pop in to tell Andy et al that Feckin' Irish Whiskey are sponsoring us to drive to Mongolia this July:
http://feckinirishrovers.googlepages.com/

(Finally, I get to spam my trip in the music section!!)