Who's Going to Northwest Folklife 2003

Subject: RE: Who's Going to Northwest Folklife 2003
From: Deckman
Date: 05 May 03 - 07:02 PM

Hello Guest. I well understand your anger and frustration. The Folklife Festival has grown from a small grass roots start into one of the biggest deals around. I think I performed in the first 17, or so, and then occasionally after that. I stopped going and performing on a reguliar basis some years ago, after I also saw signs of the festival becomming way to big for it's britches. It used to be FUN for the performers. The festival went out of it's way to make it so with various performers perks: free parking, hospitality room, slumber room, instrument checking available, etc. Then, with success came the changes: the City of Seattle decided to try to make money off it by charging admission. We stopped that dead in it's tracks. I for one, wrote them a letter and said that if they charge, I'll send them a bill for all my past performances. My letter was one of the kinder ones they received from the many hundreds of performers that have performed, FOR FREE, over the years.

Having said all that, I will add that indeed, Don Firth and I, as well as many others, WILL be performing this festival on Monday, May 26th, at 1pm, in the "Olympic Room." The title of the concert is "Coffee House Reunion." We are going to be there because we all sang in the Seattle coffee houses from the late fifties into the early sixties ... and we are STILL ALIVE.

I will post the complete list of the concert performers a little later.

Again, I understand and hear your frustrations. For some years now, I've felt that the festival is a victum of it's own success! CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: Who's Going to Northwest Folklife 2003
From: GUEST,pissed off
Date: 05 May 03 - 04:13 PM

several years ago northwest folk life started sending out the police to protect tower record monoply from being threatened by preformers selling their owm material. this was at a cheaper price and two out of six years i sold tower re3cords didn't ever pay me for the few tapes they sold.

i could sell fifty to a hundred tapes direct. i would sell about ten to fifteen through tower records so here's to the corporate heads who fucked the working muscian . i can't aford to tyravel that far unless i can make some money out busking. there's no longer any piece of the pie that corporationa aren't trying to suck up.

i recently heard tower records went bankrupt--horray hip hip. they are fascist assholes and folk life shouldn'e being doing deals that stop muscians from making enough money to go there.

i usually have to travel from the east coast to go. i will go on only a few gigs if there are3 prospects of makeing money on the fly, but now folklife is for the corporate heads and the nice middle class muscians who have real jobs, and can afford a hobby.

Subject: RE: Who's Going to Northwest Folklife 2003
From: artbrooks
Date: 05 May 03 - 03:56 PM

Jenn and I will be there, and the schedule is posted here.

Subject: RE: Who's Going to Northwest Folklife 2003
From: mg
Date: 05 May 03 - 03:42 PM

I'll be there for sure...there is a NW music panel on Saturday and Sunday and I'm on Saturday..is schedule out yet?

mg

Subject: RE: Who's Going to Northwest Folklife 2003
From: open mike
Date: 05 May 03 - 01:19 PM

you'll see/hear some of our very own 'Cats on stage
at the reunion concert of their group which has been
making music for over 40 years! Watch for the turkey
pluckers, i think that's what they will be called.

Subject: Who's Going to Northwest Folklife 2003
From: sharyn
Date: 05 May 03 - 12:40 PM

It seems like high time to get this thread started. I'll be there (although I don't know where I'm staying yet). Who else?