Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: momnopp
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 12:02 AM

Howdy, wonderful folk

Just checking in - I'm wearing my Getaway Registrar hat here.

I just wanted to say that I *won't* be checking in here for any information regarding the Getaway, so please don't PM me here hoping to get a response. One person lucked out that I had logged in to say I wouldn't be logging in...

I love and adore you all, but if I spend my time playing in the threads, I will NEVER get all the pertinent info into the FSGW database! My [direct] contact information is available on all the Getaway documentation, so please use that to reach me with any registration-specific questions.

I am so looking forward to seeing all the wonderful people who are coming this year. I have always loved this event and as far as I'm concerned it just gets better every year.

Peace, hugs and much more music,

JudyO/momnopp

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Claymore
Date: 05 Oct 05 - 04:15 PM

True that! But (a&b) don't tell the gubberment...

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Ferrara
Date: 05 Oct 05 - 11:34 AM

Yes, and John LaPrelle will come too, IF he can get a ride back to somewhere near Rural Retreat, VA on Sunday so's he can get to work on Monday. (Sandy is going on to Philly after the Getaway.) Any ideas for a ride for John?

For those of you who are new to the Getaway, Elizabeth is a marvelous singer of Appalachian ballads (well, so is Sandy LaPrelle for that matter, and she'll be at the Getaway).

Elizabeth has has a gig every single weekend since about the middle of August, she is starting at William & Mary as a freshman, and she has a really bad cold & sore throat right now. Getting to the Getaway was just not in the cards this year. We'll miss her!

Claymore, I am excited that (a) it looks as if you'll be at the Getaway and (b) you're a member now, so we can PM you instead of having to phone you at work. Good-oh!

Rita F

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Oct 05 - 05:29 PM

I hear that Elizabeth cannot get there this year...college stuff, etc...but her mom, Sandy is planning to be there!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Claymore
Date: 04 Oct 05 - 04:55 PM

Just a couple of notes for you old timers>

If you remember back a couple of years ago (2003) a young girl named Elizabeth LaPrelle sang and stunned the group with her rendition of Appalachian ballads sung with her mother (right as the movie Songcatcher came out). Also portion of the Soup Kitchen showed up at the Getaway to sing a few songs. Well both of them just finished a series of gigs at the Center of the Known Universe, Shepherdstown, WV for our annual Appalachian Folk festival and both put the crowds away. I had a little time with Elizabeth's father who told me she is in college (forget where) and has been singing up a storm with gigs through November. Well you heard her at the Getaway first.

See you there!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: beardedbruce
Date: 04 Oct 05 - 12:58 PM

calender:


Wed 12 Oct

"And to anybody in Maryland on Wednesday before the Getaway, there's a shanty sing in Baltimore from 8-10pm at the Wharf Rat in Fells Point(801 S. Anne St.) Let me know if a Cat contingent would like to meet up there."


Thurs 13 Oct

Fortunado

Friday 14 Oct- Sunday 16 Oct

Getaway
Ramblewood
2564 Silver Road
Darlington, MD 21034
1-800-466-CAMP
1-800-466-2267


Monday 17 Oct.

Hickerson "Monday October 17 2005 at 7:30 p.m. I will be presenting my special 70th Birthday Concert for the Institute of Musical Traditions, with a special appearance by Mary Cliff as interviewer. So plan to stay in the DC area over Monday night and come help me celebrate my 70th!

Place: St. Mark Presbyterian Church, 10701 Old Georgetown Road, Rockville, MD.

Time: 7:30 p.m. Monday October 17, 2005."


Wilmington Del. coffeehouse

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: jacqui.c
Date: 04 Oct 05 - 10:38 AM

HE he he he he

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: beardedbruce
Date: 04 Oct 05 - 10:36 AM

I figure enough ginger and a couple of banjos, and I might make it out alive...


Just give to the fund, and I will be repaid by it's activities.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Oct 05 - 10:00 AM

MMario refers to a fund which provides some assistance for those who can't afford the full price of attending. It is funded with donations and by the silent auction (bring stuff you'd like to add to the auction)

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: MMario
Date: 04 Oct 05 - 09:14 AM

Not if I get to it first! Bruce - donations towards ginger to the getaway scholarship fund? You don't want any reimbursment for yourself?

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: jacqui.c
Date: 03 Oct 05 - 06:35 PM

Bruce - you're amazing!

That amount will keep Giok and me happy for the weekend, I think.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: beardedbruce
Date: 03 Oct 05 - 10:53 AM

btw,

I have ordered 40 pounds of ginger. If I can't make it to the Getaway, I will see that it gets there. Feel free to take what you can use, and make whatever donation to the Getaway Fund you think appropriate.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 08:51 PM

That should be a Howl lot of fun !

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: GUEST,Tinker
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 08:38 PM

Hey Micca have you noticed that the Monday post Getaway is a Full Moon??


Tinker

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 05:59 PM

I have a headache on Saturday night.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 02:44 PM

OOOPPS !!!!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 01:34 PM

Getting 'sticky' already isn't it Terry?
G ¦¬]

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: KT
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 01:19 PM

Jacqui, sounds like leniency in the works here........

Just a thought, Terry.....you could offer to transport Jacqui's "instruments." If the guitar cases are locked and you cannot be held responsible for their contents, you could avoid traitor status and achieve leniency as well.....just a thought.....

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Micca
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 09:49 AM

Terri, I would STRONGLY recommend that you agree to their wishes, Immediately!!!! these are Ladies you do NOT want to be on the wrong side of!! and when the Full Cov Sisterhood get together at the Getaway?!!!!and they make YOU the "Target for Tonight" Full armour might(!!!!) save you,( it Might not!!) ethier way Face it like a Man and say " Yes Dear"

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: jacqui.c
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 08:35 AM

Terry - Sins and I will have a little chat with you about transporting stuff when you come to see us next week.


He he he he....

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 04:49 AM

Do what you like Terry, just remember which side your toast is buttered on. Anyway you appear to have enough enough female admirers to be going on with!
Giok

From: Leadfingers - PM
Date: 30 Sep 05 - 01:50 PM

Its OK TW - if I am giving you a lift from Chateau Shriver , you can hero worship me instead . "bg"

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 04:20 AM

So do I offer to transport Jacquis extra stuff ? O r is that just going to get me in trouble with the lads ? Or maybe it will STOP me getting in trouble with the ladies ?

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Sep 05 - 09:01 PM

Nah, Kendall. It is my understanding that the shrub will be in the car but it still qualifies as empty.

sorry...

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: kendall
Date: 30 Sep 05 - 12:13 PM

Did he steal George Bush's car?

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: MMario
Date: 30 Sep 05 - 11:42 AM

I can't believe I'm saying this...

LEadfingers just mentioned he's running an empty car down from Boston.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: jacqui.c
Date: 30 Sep 05 - 11:39 AM

OK ladies - if you're in on the Saturday night production number can you please let me know and tell me if you have your costume sorted out.

SINS - I've found a load more stuff for the Getaway. Are we going to have enough car space to get it all there? I'd hate not to take all of it.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Leadfingers
Date: 30 Sep 05 - 11:28 AM

Refresh

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Fortunato
Date: 20 Sep 05 - 02:59 PM

Thanks, Leadfingers, I've passed on your offer.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Leadfingers
Date: 20 Sep 05 - 02:18 PM

Fortunato - I intend to hire a car and will be with you on Thursday so I will have space for two or three depending on luggage !! And if Joe isnt there it will NOT be right will it ??

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Charley Noble
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 12:47 PM

Good lord, I should have reviewed this thread BEFORE mailing my check in.

I was envisioning a mellow weekend of swapping songs and tunes, sipping an ale or two, with a few folks I've been corresponding with but have never actually met, and some other folks that I've had the pleasure to meet while wandering this earth.

Looks like Barry Finn and his wife Justine will be traveling with me to this gathering.

Good thing we'll have the van so we can bring extra foul weather gear, and extra banjos for those who need them for protection.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Amos
Date: 17 Sep 05 - 02:52 AM

If they can get to BWi at about 4:15 Fri Iplan to be paging for candidates.

A

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Fortunato
Date: 16 Sep 05 - 09:16 PM

Rides to the Getaway from the DC area? Two folks have approached me about rides to the Getaway, but we are full up with Micca and Catsphiddle.

Can anyone give a ride to a mudcatter or two from DC to the Getaway?

chance

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: KT
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 02:25 PM

LOL!! Well I WAS sipping my coffee when I read that!!! Thanks alot Giok! Now look at this mess!!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Amos
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 12:29 PM

Ach, Jock, yer lucky I wasna sipping me caff jus' then, or it's a new monitor you'd be after buyin!!! LOL!!!


A

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 12:26 PM

Objects viewed in the mirror may be Father Offer than they appear.
G..

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Amos
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 12:21 PM

Oh, we can do better than that:

Dear Management:

Mister Offer will be unable to conduct his scheduled class on Monday; he has answered a higher calling to attend to the needs of his flock, an international conclave of aspiring souls who rely on his spiritual guidance to save their souls and indeed, in this hour of need, their very lives.

We regret any inconvenience this may cause, but we felt you would understand that where mortal peril is concerned, scheduling convenience must give way in favor of immediate intercession.

We will take every care to ensure Father Offer is returned to you unharmed to resume his normal teaching duties (although no guarantees can be offered, due to circumstances which may well be beyond our control).

Thank you for your understanding.

Board of Directors
Father Offer Society

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: MMario
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 12:13 PM

we'd be willing to send excuse notes to the church for you. (Can you imagine the reaction?)


Dear ________;

      We regret to inform you Mr. Joe Offer will be unable to teach on Monday October the 17th 2005 becaue his presence is required at FSGW Getaway 2005 by a horde of semi-rabid admiring Mudcat ladies.

Sincerly yours;

etc....

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: gnu
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 12:10 PM

Mudwenches? I fear, Amos, that your calumnious denigration, albeit conspicuously meant in frolicsome jest, may invoke countervailing repercussions from whom you seek to gain favour.

Yer screwed.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: karen k
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 11:56 AM

Joe, I hope you can see how much you would be missed. The thought of you not being there brings tears to my eyes. We started coming in the same year and it just won't be the same. You just have to figure out a way. This is only once a year and we need you. PLEASE!!!!!

love ya,
karen

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Janie
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 11:39 AM

Joe,

Try this: "Please Note. There will be no class on Monday, October 17."

If this is something like an 8 session course, simply have the last class on the 9th Monday. Two months advance notice is plenty to offer on a schedule or on a schedule change.

Now you have no excuse! :>)

Janie

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Amos
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 11:22 AM

The two classes I teach at church Monday

Joe I don't believe in all your years working for the Codwallop-gifted Federal Gummint you never heard of calling in with a Coad. And you just cram the curriculum up a bit or give them home assignments.

Hell, you can hire a TA from Manpower to watch the wee angels if it is a babysitting problem!!!


A

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: MMario
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 10:42 AM

Now, don't be unreasonable people. How can we expect Joe to take an extended weekend away from excercising his personal judgement and expressing his opinon in harrassing the Shambles by needlessly indulging himself in changing thread titles and editing posts so that they don't refresh threads?

After all - joe doesn't have internet connection from the Getaway and we all know he is such a megalomaniac that the thought of three days without editing a thread without concern for his fellow posters would probably send him over the edge.


naaaw- he's afraid of Sinsull.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: KT
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 12:40 AM

No problem, Joe. Monday is a HOLIDAY!!!   It's ALASKA DAY!! Tell your students you're celebrating the holiday with two ALASKANS and you can't get out of it, but that you'll teach 'em extra stuff the following week!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Aug 05 - 12:18 AM

Well, if the truth must be told, maybe it was my fear of SINSULL that drove me away. but I'd better not say that. Now I'm up to eight excuses, two each on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. The two classes I teach at church Monday are the ones that are hard to squirrel out of. I'm thinking hard on this one, but I haven't figured a way out. I won't have an opportunity to train replacement teachers until later this year, because the programs don't start until mid-September.
My wife Christina asked me who this Sinsull was, and I said she looks kind of like a prim-and-proper schoolmarm who went astray. I showed Christina Sinsull's picture, and she said that yes, she could see how Sinsull was the type of person who would give me a hard time. Of course, Christina thinks I deserve a hard time. But looking at those pictures of last year's Getaway, I thought how sad I'll be to miss seeing all those nice people this year.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: KT
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 11:46 PM

Ebbie, now that we know Amos is coming, let's remember to pack a dictionary!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Amos
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 10:37 PM

LEe's do this: let Mick and associates off the hook and divert ALL the ammunition toward hunting down and punishing Joe!! Whadya say, gals? Sound good? You BET it does. You gonna stand for this pusillanimous disrespect from ole Joe? No way, Jose!! Go get 'em, you Mudwenches!!! :D

A

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 10:34 PM

Think of it, Joe: skarpi!!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: jacqui.c
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 10:33 PM

Too right we will!

We've got all these plans lined up - SINS will be heartbroken, she's worked so hard on your bit Joe.

I wonder if this concert isn't just an excuse. Is it that the ladies plans have got you worried?

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 10:32 PM

It is my fear that Mr. Offer has so good an imagination that he has elected to stay away entirely rather than risk the mayhem that has been promised various members of a certain gender. If this is so, would someone please disabuse him of reason for his alarm?

Joe, I'm counting on seeing you there. It's going to be a GREAT year.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Tinker
Date: 15 Aug 05 - 10:27 PM

But, but, but.... now Joe I .... okay I'm having rouble putting words around this one and that doesn't happen very often. Now I remember Max saying this was THE year. And I seem to remember your nodding along in agreement. Damn you'd be REALLY missed.

tinker


PS What'll SINS and Jacqui do with your part of the GREAT PLAN????? They might just have to hunt you down....