Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: bubblyrat Date: 08 Jun 10 - 08:00 AM Thankyou too, Sal !! The best lemonade I ever tasted,and can't wait for more ! Although I'd sooner have a tot of "bubbly"----it is 40 years next month since the Royal Navy rum ration was stopped (July 1970) and I STILL get twitchy every day around lunchtime !! |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Wild Flying Dove Date: 08 Jun 10 - 06:56 AM Kitty, I did a little bit of videoing (via my camera) of Hanging Johnny as well, and there are more photos than I put in the Chippenham album. I'd be happy to pass them all on to someone! Karen |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Herga Kitty Date: 07 Jun 10 - 07:18 PM WFD - thanks for the pics. I think Hanging Johnny might want some of them for their photo section ! Kitty |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: the lemonade lady Date: 07 Jun 10 - 03:53 PM You're very welcome, Bubblyrat Sal 80) |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: henryclem Date: 07 Jun 10 - 03:29 PM A highlight for me too was the Sunday Folk Club - a real joy to be part of it, and to hear such beautiful choruses to enhance even more the quality of performance which was sustained throughout the evening. Big thank you to Sylvia Watts for hosting the Club so splendidly! Henry |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: bubblyrat Date: 07 Jun 10 - 06:03 AM Highlights for me were getting a free lemonade from Sal, playing outside the Rose & Crown & drinking "Black Rat" ( very strong !) and playing with James Fagan on monday afternoon,drinking single malt with greenfly in it ! |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Wild Flying Dove Date: 07 Jun 10 - 03:24 AM Somehow I didn't manage the blue clicky! |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Wild Flying Dove Date: 07 Jun 10 - 03:21 AM Some more Chippenham photos, many of Herbaceous Border and the some from the Monday procession. |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Vic Smith Date: 05 Jun 10 - 10:17 AM There's a bunch of photos taken at the Chippenham Festival at:- http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=23357&id=100000192240957&l=3473f1208c |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: skipy Date: 04 Jun 10 - 06:17 PM Brilliant weekend as always, well done to the whole team. Skipy |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Valmai Goodyear Date: 04 Jun 10 - 02:31 PM The Folk Club on Sunday night was particularly good: a very high standard from all the floor singers, an excellent MC - Sylvia Watts - and fine guest spots from The Claque and Lynne Heraud and Pat Turner. High spots were a very rare ballad from Sean O'Shea and Lynne & Pat's Hoover Dustette song, both of which brought tears to the eyes for different reasons. The sound system in the Olympiad concerts was the best I've heard there yet; concerts in The Cause benefit from some of the best acoustics in the country. Valmai |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Mr Red Date: 04 Jun 10 - 01:11 PM Baz - you weren't at the Boka Halat dance. I had to point-out that I couldn't hear the caller clearly. Too loud and indistinct. He changed it and I accepted it, but it led to some marginal moments. The problem is that with Roger Watson's style of rolling call, if you don't get to hear the move you can't ask him to stop and explain. He carries on and if it was indistinct the first time the chances are...... Rolling calls mean that the caller doesn't do a walkthrough as such, he starts calling and the music starts and the whole shebang keeps rolling. Fine for experienced ceilidhnauts but still requires a good sound from the caller. |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Valmai Goodyear Date: 04 Jun 10 - 08:00 AM Pete Coe did a particularly fine job running the English tunes session in the Rose & Crown barn on Monday. When you've got about 60 people in a two-hour session and a set takes about four minutes it's obvious that not everyone is going to get a turn leading. Pete made sure that the more diffident got a chance and that the same people didn't keep jumping in and mowing them down. Valmai |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: GUEST,baz parkes Date: 02 Jun 10 - 06:37 AM And the sound crew at the ceilidhs...excellent job Baz ABU |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Herga Kitty Date: 02 Jun 10 - 02:29 AM Thanks to Bob, Gill and all the committee for your hard work! Kitty |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Valmai Goodyear Date: 02 Jun 10 - 02:12 AM Excellent weekend! |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: the lemonade lady Date: 01 Jun 10 - 05:54 PM I was there. |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Herga Kitty Date: 26 May 10 - 06:04 PM Sal - not cold, I don't think, around 17-19.... Kitty |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: bubblyrat Date: 26 May 10 - 05:33 PM Don't talk about Morris Dancers like that ! |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: the lemonade lady Date: 26 May 10 - 05:02 PM Not a lot of point in me being there if it's cold and raining. I'll be damned if i'm sitting there watching the drips. sal |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Herga Kitty Date: 26 May 10 - 02:35 PM BBC 5-day forecast currently has sunny on Friday, light rain on Saturday and sunny intervals on Sunday (though the Chippenham forecast is the Salisbury one!!). Kitty |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: bubblyrat Date: 26 May 10 - 05:12 AM According to today's WX forecast....rain, or at least showers,on Saturday !! No lemonade,thanks all the same....a glass o' double rum,more like ! |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: the lemonade lady Date: 26 May 10 - 03:35 AM So is it going to be lemonade weather? What's your order? Sal |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Vic Smith Date: 23 May 10 - 06:30 AM Oops! Not logged in for the previous post. It was posted by.... well, you can work that out now. |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: GUEST Date: 23 May 10 - 06:25 AM Well, the working programme is on line as of yesterday at http://www.chippfolk.co.uk/ChippFolk_2010_Programme.pdf. At last we have got an idea of what we are doing..... quite a lot actually. |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Valmai Goodyear Date: 23 May 10 - 06:01 AM The working programme is now up on the Festival website. |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: the lemonade lady Date: 22 May 10 - 06:17 PM Kitty, I don't want to go in the auditorium, I want to sing in the folk club. The stewards won't let me in. Sal |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: GUEST,Bloke from Poole Date: 22 May 10 - 04:37 PM or at least, I thought I was |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: GUEST Date: 22 May 10 - 04:36 PM Cookie reset - I'm me again Malcolm |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: GUEST Date: 22 May 10 - 04:33 PM Watcher, if you're still here I spoke to the stewards organiser and there was a possible mishap with my application. There are contact details on the website - you should get in touch. Also programme is now on web site. Malcolm |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Herga Kitty Date: 21 May 10 - 02:23 PM Sal - in previous years it has been possible to pay on the door to get into the Cause auditorium. Is this year different? Kitty |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: the lemonade lady Date: 21 May 10 - 01:02 PM "...you can pay the steward on the door of the R&C Barn for the practice sessions..." so wouldn't it be a good idea to do the same if I want to sing at the folk club at the Cause? sal |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Bloke from Poole Date: 21 May 10 - 07:48 AM Watcher, re stewarding: I've had an unofficial email confirming, but still awaiting paperwork. Prob won't get duties until you turn up. Malcolm |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Herga Kitty Date: 20 May 10 - 03:10 PM Manitas - the Rose & Crown had the same owners as the Black Horse last year, which is why Tony & Pearl's sing went to the Black Horse.... Kitty |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: GUEST,N_ster Date: 20 May 10 - 09:35 AM Thanks Valmai! I'm all excited now! Naomi |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Manitas_at_home Date: 20 May 10 - 09:33 AM Who has the Rose & Crown now? |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Valmai Goodyear Date: 20 May 10 - 09:30 AM Naomi, you can pay the steward on the door of the R&C Barn for the practice sessions on Saturday, Sunday and Monday; I think the main tunes sessions from noon - 2.00 pm are free with a collection, but I couldn't swear to it. Lynne & Pat, your new CD is great fun and superb quality. I hope to catch up with you there. The Brian Peters/Claque/Roger Watson song event at noon on Monday exerts a strong enough attraction to drag me out of the main tunes session, something which could normally only be done with powerful industrial machinery. Valmai |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: GUEST,N_ster Date: 20 May 10 - 09:20 AM Do you need a ticket to get into the sessions in the Rose & Crown Barn? What day is this on? Thanks! Naomi |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Leraud Date: 20 May 10 - 07:36 AM Pat Turner and I are there, but have had no details of what we're doing yet. Lynne |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Valmai Goodyear Date: 20 May 10 - 07:27 AM Replying a bit more fully to Mo above - thanks to Bryan (TheSnail) Creer, the tunes Spare Parts will be doing at the English tunes practice sessions are now on the band website here.These are one-hour sessions from 11.00 - noon preceding the main English tunes sessions in the Rose & Crown Barn. We'll bring the dots and play the tunes lots of times slowly to help get them into the memory. They are all current session favourites. The tunes are Saturday: News of the Victory, Radstock Jig, Mr. Rew's Waltz, Lancashire Hornpipe Sunday: Quare Fellow shot-ese, Four Seasons, Rusty Gully, Harry Gidley's Waltz Monday: Fiery Clockface, Bodmin Riding, Dusty Miller, Whinham's Reel (The Quare Fellow shot-ese comes from the smashing Australian fiddler Charlie Bachelor.) |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: julian morbihan Date: 20 May 10 - 03:44 AM Good one skipy. However, we can beat you - The first Lacock Festival was our first full folk festival ever. We missed years two and three (which were just folk days really) and have been to every one since! I think Dick Stanger is one of the few that can beat that record but is there any one else? Considering the cold, wet weather of that first Lacock and it was the first time Enid had ever camped makes the achievement even more remarkable! Here's to this year's. As the hot weather approaches for this weekend (22nd) has it peaked too soon or will it stay hot and sunny for the duration? See you all next week. A bientot Julian |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: skipy Date: 19 May 10 - 04:08 PM We are, 26 years without missing one! I also did the Lacocks before it! Skipy |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: the lemonade lady Date: 19 May 10 - 04:02 PM Firstly Mr Red where's your caravan? Secondly I shall be there as usual. Thirdly; I would like to sing at the cause folk club but can't, cos I don't get a ticket 80( Sal |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Hovering Bob Date: 19 May 10 - 03:25 PM We'll be there from friday afternoon. No plans and no idea what we'll be doing - last year we didn't get out of the Cause, except for Joyce's Sunday Sing. BobH |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: GUEST,watcher Date: 19 May 10 - 02:59 PM Has anybody recieved details about stewarding? Its getting a bit close to the festival start and I still haven't got any paperwork to get on the campsite, let alone know duty times and be able to plan ahead. |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Steve Hunt Date: 16 May 10 - 09:46 AM I shall be there, stewarding |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Valmai Goodyear Date: 16 May 10 - 09:11 AM Mo, we'll be putting the tunes for the English practice sessions on the Spare Parts website soon, so you'll be able to get hold of those anyway. We're discussing them this afternoon. I'm holding out for the Lancashire Hotpot/Rusty Gusset/Dusty Miller set and also the Radstock Jig and Bodmin Riding, but there will need to be proper negotiations and a full and frank exchange of views before we reach a consensus. Valmai |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: Mo the caller Date: 16 May 10 - 08:05 AM Please, please, please will someone move Chippenham 200 miles further north. I hate to miss such a marvellous festival, but this year we are being sensible and going to Chester, which happens in Kelsall walking distance from us (can be heard from our garden if the wind is right). They've got some good stuff on too. Have fun all of you, working out how to fit 30 days-worth of goodies into a weekend. |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: julian morbihan Date: 16 May 10 - 03:59 AM refresh |
Subject: RE: Chippenham Folk Fest - who's going From: bubblyrat Date: 13 May 10 - 01:00 PM Karen & I will be playing for / dancing with Herbaceous Border at various times throughout the festival,and we're really looking forward to it !! The "Hosepipe Banned" promises to be impressively large this year ,and may well include both an alto sax and a cajon ! |
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