Quiet Bunker For Folk Festivals...Ideas?

Subject: RE: Quiet Bunker For Folk Festivals...Ideas?
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 24 Feb 03 - 06:19 AM

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Subject: RE: Quiet Bunker For Folk Festivals...Ideas?
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 24 Feb 03 - 06:16 AM

We have a session based folk weekend here bcfolkweekend.co.uk and call it the fringe without the main event! Play and sing your hearts out guys.

Sal

Subject: RE: Quiet Bunker For Folk Festivals...Ideas?
From: mg
Date: 23 Feb 03 - 09:43 PM

after the two recent fire/stampede incidents..I hope everyone who is organizing events is paying really close attention to fire safety, exits, etc...and consumers think twice about going into inherently overcrowded or unsafe situations. mg

Subject: RE: Quiet Bunker For Folk Festivals...Ideas?
From: JennyO
Date: 23 Feb 03 - 10:01 AM

Oh I see - you want the portable thing for the session people. Yeah, I suppose that might not be a bad idea, but not as much fun as sitting around the camp site.

Jamberoo has sessions in the Youth Hall, and the National has the singing room for singers and the big session bar for the tune players. To be honest, I haven't noticed the kind of problem you describe all that often, and I wonder if enough festivals would be interested in the portable session room to make it economically viable.

In the UK I heard of a company that makes inflatable buildings, including an inflatable church and an inflatable pub. They hire them out. Seriously! I seem to remember a blue clicky on the "trailer trash" thread which took you to the site. Wonder if they have anything like that here? :-)

Jenny

Subject: RE: Quiet Bunker For Folk Festivals...Ideas?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 23 Feb 03 - 07:51 AM

Perhaps we are luckier in the UK than some areas and though there are the festivals with multiple amplified stages there are also lots of
smaller fests with only a main concert stage and a dance area PA'd
up.and space allowed usually in a local hostelry for informal song and
instrumental sessions.And at the larger festivals there are usually places close to the main site where informal fringe activities happen.
Look at Sidmouth and the number of widely varied pub sessions that go on there.

Subject: RE: Quiet Bunker For Folk Festivals...Ideas?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Feb 03 - 04:59 AM

at strawberry some folks rent huge octagonal tents to have their space to jam in. sometimes it rains or snows during the twice annual festival and it is good to be able to have a heated space. and a place you can light up for all night jams...often elabortate candle chandeliers/candeabras are invented with test-tubes or other glass holders for candles to shed light on the subject...they rent these tent from somebody...one business which has these available is calle Life's Best In Tents....or some thing like that...we have alos tossed around the idea of each participant bringing a bale of hay to make an enclosure in which to sequester the drum circle folks...to insulate the rest of us fro their incessant pounding...sorry if you are a percussionist.....

Subject: RE: Quiet Bunker For Folk Festivals...Ideas?
From: JennyO
Date: 23 Feb 03 - 02:56 AM

Well that's coming at the problem from a different angle than I would have thought of.

At a festival such as Jamberoo, where a number of venues are huge marquees, you would need several of these things, and wouldn't that be prohibitively expensive, even if they were shared? And they would have to be enormous.

I think part of the charm of the festivals is being able to hang on the edge of a marquee with people spilling out of it, and have a listen before deciding whether to go in or find another one. I like wandering around the stalls and having a coffee etc with music wafting on the air.

I know the festival organisers have to give a lot of thought to the placement of the open venues, so that they don't interfere with each other.

As far as their proximity to camping areas is concerned, many festivals have addressed that by having two areas, one for the nightowls who don't mind being amongst the festival music, and a quieter area further away for those who want to do their own thing or sleep. I haven't been to Woodford, so I don't know the specific problems there. Is there nowhere you can camp to get away from it?

Personally I like to be close, and even on the very rare occasions when a concert is on and I am in my tent, I find the background music pleasant to go to sleep by. More often, though, you would find me up very late at a session somewhere long after the concerts are finished.

As for the morning, I rather like being woken up to the sound of the poets' breakfast, even if I do feel a little guilty because I'm s'posed to be there.

Jenny

Subject: Quiet Bunker For Folk Festivals...Ideas?
From: Keef Wivaneff
Date: 23 Feb 03 - 12:38 AM

Hello evrybodies, Lately I have been enjoying festivals alot less than in the "good old days".
Here in oz (girt by sea) the festivals all seem to wanna be like Woodford, Bigger Is Better.Most of the festivals now have multiple stages all amplified and even at the back of the camping area it is hard to have an acousic jam without falling into the groove of the rooly good band playing on the main stage. Some festivals have use of a scout hall, church or Rissole mostly off site and it usually is not quite happening a lot of the time.
My idea of an excellent venue wood be a transportable sound proof hall with all the right resonance and acoustics of the bestest hall in the whole wurld and you couldn't hear the doof next door.
Need ideas for an effective, safe, knock down design that could be shared between festivals.
Also this would solve all the problems of the wurld at the same time
Peace..........