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Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007
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Subject: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 29 May 07 - 10:12 PM It's that time of year again. http://www.texasscottishfestival.com/ I'm really planning to make it this year. Honest. And it shouldn't be nearly so hot as other years (which is why I have a better chance of attending!) Jed Marum will be there--his photo is in the middle near the top of the music page. He's performing in the Glenfinnan Tent on Friday and Saturday and in the Glenuig Tent on Sunday. (Have you left yourself time to compete in the caber toss, Jed?) SRS |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Uncle Phil Date: 30 May 07 - 08:33 AM SRS - I'll be staffing the SW Celtic Music Association booth from 5 to 9 on Saturday. Stop by and say hello if you get a chance. - Phil |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 30 May 07 - 04:54 PM Okay! I'll look for it. |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 30 May 07 - 09:22 PM You out there, Jed? |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: JedMarum Date: 31 May 07 - 09:17 AM Yep I'm here! This is a great festival. Lots of on stage mingling of players. I have a set on Sat night with Ed Miller, John Taylor and Brian McNeill (at 7P). I haven't learned the caber toss yet but here's my schedule: FRI at 7PM Entrance Tent aka Glenfinnan Tent SAT at 9AM Entrance Tent SAT at 2PM Entrance Tent SAT at 7PM Entrance Tent with Brian, John and Ed SUN at 1PM Glenuig Tent SUN at 4PM Glenuig Tent |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 31 May 07 - 09:25 AM Better bring your raincoat or an umbrella. Looks like rain. (Lately, everything, every day, looks like rain!) |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: JedMarum Date: 31 May 07 - 09:46 AM I am doing a workshop too ... on the migration of Celtic music in the US. I haven't seen the times yet ... Also, I'll be joined in my shows by my son Jaime on manod and octave mando - and Jeff Moore for a few songs and Hugh Morrison also for a fe songs (Moore on guitar, Morrison on accordion). Rain may be better then the usual heat! |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Folk Form # 1 Date: 31 May 07 - 10:22 AM How do you define Celtic Music? Why not just Scottish music. Afterall, it is a Scottish festival. |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 31 May 07 - 11:33 AM There's no such thing as a pure play, Penguin Egg. There's lots of cross-pollination and lots of collegial support. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: JedMarum Date: 31 May 07 - 12:59 PM Celtic Music was the festival organizers term, not mine. For the purposes on my discussion, we'll look at music from Ireland and Scotland that became part of American folk music and lore. |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Folk Form # 1 Date: 31 May 07 - 05:44 PM Why not English folk music? That surely has had as much an influence as Scots and Irish folk music, espeically as it is all part of a common heritage. |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Wesley S Date: 31 May 07 - 05:56 PM "Why not English folk music?" Because it's a SCOTTISH Festival. |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Folk Form # 1 Date: 31 May 07 - 07:50 PM So why Irish? "For the purposes on my discussion, we'll look at music from Ireland and Scotland." JedMarum |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Big Mick Date: 31 May 07 - 08:58 PM Penguin Egg, so why be |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 31 May 07 - 09:11 PM The weather forecast for the three days isn't too bad. Friday, high 86, low 69. Isolated thunder storms. Saturday, high 86, low 69. Isolated thunder storms. Sunday, high 87, low 68. Thunder storms. Most of the years that I didn't go were because the high was going to be 100 or higher. This sounds positively balmy! (If Penguin shows up to Egg anyone on, we'll hand him a metal umbrella handle in a lightning storm. That'll teach him!) SRS |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Big Mick Date: 31 May 07 - 09:16 PM Thanks, Maggie. That should solve the problem. I've been in them Texas lightning storms. **chuckle** |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Folk Form # 1 Date: 01 Jun 07 - 05:10 AM Why has no-one answered my question? |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 01 Jun 07 - 11:04 AM Because it doesn't have anything to do with why this thread was started and what the rest of us want to talk about. Go find a germane thread or start your own if you want to argue with people about your question. We are discussing getting together in a North Texas city for the weekend to enjoy each other's company and music. I'd like to go over to the activities tonight, but this has been a long week. Have a good evening, Jed and all, and stay dry! SRS |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 01 Jun 07 - 11:31 AM I should have been more polite and said "Park it or drive it." Accomplishes the same thing. |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Uncle Phil Date: 01 Jun 07 - 02:44 PM Hey, a couple hours before the festival starts and the weather is looking great. Now if I can just get the yardwork done in time Friday night activities... - Phil |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: JedMarum Date: 01 Jun 07 - 02:57 PM I'm sitting here sweating furiously after cutting the lawn etc ... it's warm and really WET outside, but still better then last year's 100 degree heat! I'll be heading over soon, to beat the rush hour traffic .... see y'all there! |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 01 Jun 07 - 05:13 PM I'm there now, on campus in the library, but I have to go home and mow the lawn tonight so I can go play tomorrow! It's awfully tempting to swing by to say hello, but I don't want to pay $15 just to visit for a couple of minutes. It'll take about 3 hours to do the entire yard (it's large, and it's slow when it is this tall and gooshy). See you tomorrow, and hope it is as pretty as it is right now. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Uncle Phil Date: 01 Jun 07 - 05:38 PM We may not know the difference between Scottish and Irish music, but damned if we don't have fine-looking yards. Congrats for beating rush hour traffic; looks like I'm going wind up in the middle of it. - Phil |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 01 Jun 07 - 07:47 PM ;-D |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: JedMarum Date: 02 Jun 07 - 12:15 AM We're off to a good start. Nice turn out tonight .... got to visit some good friends ... much more music to come! |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 02 Jun 07 - 12:44 AM Hey, Jed, glad to hear it. The front lawns on my end of the block look great, so I've earned the day off tomorrow. I'm attending a funeral for a coworker in the morning, so a healthy dose of good music in the afternoon will be just the pick-me-up I need. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: GUEST,Texas Guest Date: 02 Jun 07 - 01:05 AM Just a wee thought here - yes, there is a lot of talent at the Texas Scottish Festival but if you plan to go the weekend and don't include Smithfield Fair in your itinerary - just stay home and cut the lawn. Cheers,...and have a great time. |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 02 Jun 07 - 09:47 AM You should have spelled it out, Texas Guest, what that is. Also, are you in the area and are you going to be at either one? Had a heckuva gully-washer pour down last night. (Means I don't have to go sweep up the grass clippings!) I hope the tents stood through it. I'm headed out the door in a minute, and will presume that the weather gods got it out of their system for the next 48 hours. Headed out the door! I'll take a Mudcat shirt along with me. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: GUEST,Texas Guest Date: 02 Jun 07 - 01:00 PM SRS - I'm not sure I understand, "spell it out," in your comment; and, I guess I'm writing this after you've left to attend the festival, so... Smithfield Fair is a Scottish vocal/instrumental band and I hope you had an opportunity to hear them - they are wonderful. As for me, well, I am in the area but will not be able to make it out to the festival this year - the break in the weather will allow for necessary yard work to get done. I will, however, get to see/hear Smithfield Fair at a couple of festivals later this year. I hope you enjoy the weekend and the festival. Cheers. |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 02 Jun 07 - 08:40 PM Okay--I thought you were recommending an additional event to do in the area but perhaps assumed we all knew what/where it was. I didn't know the name of the group. I'm back home after a long day, a funeral in the morning, then the festival all afternoon. We left a little after 5 (sorry I missed you Uncle Phil. Will you be there tomorrow?) The temperatures may be cooler this year, but if anyone ever wanted a prime location to do any Irish bog reenactments, this would be the venue! The humidity is high and the smell of the rotting vegetation is pretty strong. You walk carefully through all of the muddy passages between tents, looking out for the standing water, and when you sit down you do it slowly, in case the chair decides to keep sinking backward. Jed was in a great location, the first tent, but unfortunately it's also at the lowest elevation and poor drainage. Five or six hours this afternoon was enough for today. I did get to hear Jed--he had a great routine going with a fiddler friend (Brian McNeil?) who he called up to stage several times to accompany "songs you don't know." Very talented, all of you! There's a possibility of getting over there for a while on Sunday afternoon. I see Jed is performing at 4 and Smithfield Fair performing at 5. My son has to be there at UTA at 6 to begin a week of a residential camp, so maybe we'll head out a little early. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Jeri Date: 02 Jun 07 - 09:04 PM Brian McNeill's web page. If only Star Trek transporters existed... |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 02 Jun 07 - 10:49 PM Yup, that's him. Great musician, and a good sport. And he played so well in our sauna-like conditions! |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Uncle Phil Date: 03 Jun 07 - 09:21 AM 8:15 at the hotel. I'm glad I wore my boots yesterday, but the music was great. It looks like we've got a line of thunderstorms moving through this morning. I'll probably go back out to the festival if they pass through quickly, just have to wait and see. SRS - I PMed you contact information in case you make it back out after the storms. - Phil |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 03 Jun 07 - 12:40 PM Yes, thank you. And I did see you yesterday. Anyone who tries to spend time in that soggy lowland area today will be found several centuries in the future to be perfectly preserved in the bog that was created by this year's rain. The maggots will have died and dropped off before they do substantial damage to the carcasses and all of the plaids and any brass ornaments will be bright in the future sunshine over the excavation. The gasses generated by the composting biomass today will hasten both death and the sublimation into the soil. If they'd let me in free with my teenage son for the last couple of hours, I might think about it. I'm not sure who to ask, and I don't want to drive over to have them say no. But I'll think about it. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 04 Jun 07 - 09:16 AM Didn't make it over in time to try to wheedle my way in at the end. (We were lucky that I had time to wash and mostly dry my son's jeans between picking him up after his weekend Anime convention and dropping him off for that residential camp at 6pm.) I hope all went well and that there were no mud-related casualties. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: JedMarum Date: 04 Jun 07 - 05:35 PM Maggie - so nice to meet me, again at TSF. I am sorry to have to dash. I always feel like I'm being rude when I do that, but it seems I'm always moving on or off stage, or rushing off to the next one. It's fun working these festivals, but there is a cost to "social time!" The early morning Sunday storms dropped a ton of rain, and made some mud and raised havoc with a few vendor operations, but everything was back in order and drying by the time the gates opened up! It was a grand day, and we had moderate, but pretty good crowds on Sunday. Friday and Saturday crowds were very good. I love this festival because of the playing time. I spent hours on stage with my friends, at my sets and at theirs. What a treat that is! My voice is shot today, but it was worth it. |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: JedMarum Date: 04 Jun 07 - 05:40 PM Oh - a few folks asked over the weekend; Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas have become regulars at this event, but did not make it this year. Alasdair had a special event with his son and could not make it. I expect he'll be back next year. Another highlight this weekend, to my mind was Clandestine. They have reformed and begun life in a new lineup. They sounded great and put on some fine shows. |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Uncle Phil Date: 04 Jun 07 - 11:27 PM Texas Scottish Festival Snapshots Here are some snapshots from the soggy festival. Note Jed Marum's immaculately clean shoes and white socks in a photo on the bottom row. I can think of no rational explanation for this, and have to assume that supernatural powers are involved. It was a great weekend, but, man, was it tough rolling out of bed to go to work this morning. - Phil I got home without a program, so any help putting names with the faces in the photos would be appreciated. Some I know, some I don't. |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: JedMarum Date: 05 Jun 07 - 09:07 AM John Taylor L to R: Brian McNeill, Ed Miller, John Taylor Brian McNeill with his Monster Mandocello, by Stefan Sobel L to R: Brian McNeill, Ed Miller L to R: Mary Hanover, Mark D Clavey and Rachel Gaither of Tullamore L to R: Micheal Price and Marj Troyer of the Trinity River Whalers Lassies Galore (women from various TSF performer groups) L to R: Brian McNeill, Jed Marum, John Taylor Gregory McQueen of Clandestine EJ Jones of Clandestine L to R: John Taylor and Jed Marum Brian McNeill L to R: Brian McNeill, Ed Miller, John Taylor, Deanna Smith and Jed Marum Brian McNeill and Emily Dugas dancing, Ed Miller and Jon Taylor Brian McNeill and John Taylor L to R: Hugh Morrison, Jed Marum and Jaime Marum L to R: David Shaw and Jed Marum Jarrod Fay of Seamus Stout |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: JedMarum Date: 05 Jun 07 - 09:11 AM Correction; THIS is the link to: Lassies Galore (women from various TSF performer groups) |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Uncle Phil Date: 05 Jun 07 - 09:24 AM Gracias, Jed. I was afraid I was going to have to label photos with things like "Hugh the squeezebox guy from Houston" and "...and the sound guy on bass." The picture of Jerrod is with the North Texas Caledonian Pipe Band. He was fronting their performances in addition to performing with Seamus Stout. - Phil |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: JedMarum Date: 05 Jun 07 - 09:43 AM Yeah - I know Jarrod plays with North Texas Caledonian, I just figured if you got that close with the camera he was playing with Seamus Stout. Great Pics. Thanks! |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 05 Jun 07 - 12:36 PM Thanks for labeling those. I have a couple of shots from when Jed was performing. I'll Photoshop them to web size and park them somewhere. Phil, you notice he didn't reveal his secret for staying clean while everyone else slithered around trying to avoid leaving ignominious splotts in the mud. A new Monty Python flick may be in the works: The Life of Jed will reveal how he transcends the goo mere mortals struggle against. Will the answer be an intertextual towel, the number 42, a dead parrot, or coconut shells? Tune in to find out . . . SRS |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: JedMarum Date: 06 Jun 07 - 01:08 PM I guess I stayed reasonably mud free because I never strayed too far from stages. They were higher and drier. I left a soaking wet quilt behind, though! I had used it beneath my CD and Tee shirt display and forgot it overnight ... next day someone had draped it over the fence for me, and I forgot it second time! I hope it finds a good home! |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 06 Jun 07 - 01:41 PM You want me to check for a lost and found? They may still have it there. What size? (She asks, assuming more than one quilt was turned in . . .) SRS |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: JedMarum Date: 06 Jun 07 - 02:23 PM Size? I guess just a full size quilt. I doubt there was more then one. It was a store bought, machine sewn quilt. Pattern on one side, white on the other. If they have it, it may be dirty from getting dropped in the mud, but was clean before that ... probably isn't too bad. If it's already found a good home, so be it - but it's waiting inthe lost and found, I'd be glad to come get it. So - yes, please ask for me, and thanks! |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 06 Jun 07 - 05:14 PM I put in a call, left a message. We'll see what turns up. With the price of gas, it might be easier to mail it to you. Nice day today! Clear, a breeze, it hasn't rained in three days or so--this is the weather we wished for last weekend! Pardon me, I have to go mow my lawn--it's going to be growing fast for a while even after all of the rain stops. |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 06 Jun 07 - 05:24 PM P.S.--I got some of that Zemer's root beer from Tyler, Texas this year! It was the same guy I met on the train last year, and it was a pleasure to sample it. It's homemade and they grow the sassafras. |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: SouthernCelt Date: 06 Jun 07 - 07:28 PM Boy, y'all are making this sound like the event of the year for Scots and people who love the music. Wish it was closer to me but as mentioned above, the price of gas keeps me from traveling very far even for a good time event. Oh, well, maybe another time... SC |
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Subject: RE: Texas Scottish Festival June 1-3, 2007 From: Stilly River Sage Date: 06 Jun 07 - 09:14 PM If you're in the region, take the train and arrange to stay with someone. And there are modestly priced hotels in the area (including a few "no tell motels" up on the old highway through town). :) SRS |
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