ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!

Subject: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Acheiv. Award!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 12:49 AM

I have the great honour and privilege of letting all and sundry know that our very own FINE ART THIEME is to receive the...oh heck, I'll let him say it in his own words...

Say, I'm getting a LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD from the Woodstock, Illinois Folk Festival next Sunday----July 21. So we'll be getting hauled up there for the big bash. I guess there are a few folks who still remember this old folksinger.

CONGRATULATIONS, ART!! You are unforgettable and will always be in our hearts.

love to you and Carol, both,

Kat & Rog

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: GUEST,Alex
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 12:57 AM

Yeah, I have a vague recollection of the old (f)Art. Of course, they say that pot screws up your memory! Congratulations, Art.

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 01:06 AM

It's almost enough to make me regret moviong away from the town next to Woodstock! Aw gee Art! Congratulations!

~Susan

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Bert
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 01:08 AM

Wahay!!! Of course we knew all along just how good he is.

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Mudlark
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 01:09 AM

Whoa-HO! Way to go, ART! Congratulations!!

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Genie
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 01:26 AM

Well, Art, I've yet to hear you, but some folks I respect think you're pretty damned good, and this award reinforces that judgment. Congratulations!

Hope I get to hear some of your music soon.

Genie

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: GUEST,MichaelAnthony
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 01:49 AM

Congrats, Art!

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Mark Clark
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 02:42 AM

Congratulations, Art! Wish I could be there to see it. I'll let my daughter in Mt. Prospect know. She has many fond memories of your performances and would probably like to be there too.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Wolfgang
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 04:51 AM

Congratulations, I'm sure they did piack the right person.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 05:50 AM

So what took them so long, Art? I don't know many people who have given so much of themselves over a lifetime, and had such a good time doing it. Enjoy the recognition. You sure deserve it!

Love,

Jerry and Ruth

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 06:01 AM

And for anyone who doesn't know Art's music, there are some (short) audio samples on this page

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: kendall
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 06:47 AM

The truth will out! Good on you old friend!

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 06:57 AM

Congratulations to a wonderful musician and wonderful guy!

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 07:00 AM

Well done ! I guess that makes you the Thieme of the festival.

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 07:08 AM

Mazeltov!!!!

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: SharonA
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 08:13 AM

Art who?

Kidding!! Just kidding!!! Congratulations, Art. What an honor it is to have you 'round the Forum here!

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 08:22 AM

Congrats.
"Woodstock", that's just outside Oxford isn't it ?

Nigel

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: MMario
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 08:46 AM

*grin*

*BIG Grin*

*APPLAUSE!!!!!*

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 08:49 AM

CONGRATULATIONS!

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: JedMarum
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 09:17 AM

Good for you, Art. All the best

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: bbc
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 09:50 AM

Congratulations, Art! I am one of those folks who've made your acquaintance through the Mudcat, by Internet & email. We have 3 of your recordings & it's been my pleasure to catch of glimpse of a warm, caring man with a weakness for wordplay; that's my kind of guy!

best always,

bbc

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: MAG
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 09:54 AM

Congrats, Art, for this well-deserved honor. Your love and respect for the music are always in evidence, and your interpretations always honed and nuanced. -- Mary Ann

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 10:00 AM

Q: "Have you been a folksinger all your life?"
A: "Not yet...!"

Well, they must have decided to give it you early!

Well done mate,
Steve

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Big Mick
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 10:19 AM

Congrats, my friend! I am so very proud to know you. Your contributions to the music, and to the scholarship, have certainly affected and impacted my music. Not to mention the puns.............LOL. I am so happy for you, and like some of the others, I wonder what took them so long.

All the very best,

Mick

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 10:23 AM

(dang, I need to reset that thing...)

Congratulations Art! That's wonderful. :-)

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 10:48 AM

Jeezus Art be careful!

Awards are one step before you become LEGENDARY.......and you know what comes after that!!

Love

Rick

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 11:02 AM

Congratulations, Art!

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Naemanson
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 11:07 AM

And I can say I've been in the same web site with THE Art Thieme. WOW!

Congratulations!

By the way where are the honorary puns to celebrate this achievement? It seems that should be the theime of this thread. After all they will probably give him a plague for infesting folk music with his presents.

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 11:10 AM

Well done, Nice Mason!!!

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Áine
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 01:10 PM

Congratulations, Art!! Can't think of another person who deserves it more. And as for becoming legendary -- you're already legendary around here, don't ya know. ;-)

All the best, Áine

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Dharmabum
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 01:28 PM

Good on ya Art!

Well deserved!

Your CD's rarely make it back to the rack as there's always one in or near my cd player.

Ron.

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Amos
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 01:56 PM

Yaaaayyyyy, ART!!! A lifetime of Art for Art's sake!! :>) Well-deserved and congrats!

A

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 02:29 PM

A Lifetime achievement award? Don't they know you're still just a kid?

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 04:07 PM

They've got High Hopes for him, LeeJ, just like the song says!

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 06:05 PM

Some good news do come around if you wait long enough ... Congratulations, Art, and enjoy the trip! You certainly deserve it.

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 06:45 PM

Art, it's so good to be travelin the world with you, using the same bit of space, breathin the same air (coff, coff). But I'm sure you know you've had unofficial Awards from all of us, over the years...Love, Jean

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 06:46 PM

Thanks folks--This is a small 1-day festival. Not a huge deal. Very nice o' them to do this. I'll get to see some old friends--Ann Hills, Peter & Lu Berryman (and Berrywoman) Best of all we will hear some grand music. Again, thanks.

Art

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: artbrooks
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 06:51 PM

Congratulations, Mr. Thieme

Art

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Abby Sale
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 06:57 PM

No, I object to this award altogether. I mean, it's a fine thing to give one of folkdom's very finest an award but for me this is the wrong one. I said the same thing when Vermont gave one of these to Margaret Macarthur last month. Nope. Wrong award. Maybe money - (lots of it) - would be ok but not Lifetime Achievement. I expect Art to achieve a good deal more yet! Why should he have to stop now?

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 07:05 PM

Wow and double wow. Congrats from here as well. When I grow up, I wanna be Art!

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 08:02 PM

Congratulations, Art. Well deserved and long overdue.

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: JenEllen
Date: 16 Jul 02 - 11:19 PM

Such good news! Congratulations! I still can't thank you enough for the CD and note. I especially liked the "Doing Strange Things In The Name of Art" logo. I have it hanging above my desk and giggle every day. It's become a mantra, really. Where I use to be just an aimless weirdo, you have given me direction, and I thank you for that. *g* Have fun at the festival, and be sure to let us know how it went, okay?
~yerJen

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Jul 02 - 03:52 PM

Way to go, Art! Funny thing about towns named "Woodstock", they seem to attract music for some reason.

Rick - What does come after legendary???

- LH

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Jul 02 - 05:38 PM

after 'legendary' is 'apocryphal'...*grin*...

"yep, my daddy used to go to bars where folks claimed they actually heard Art Thieme sing songs and tell outrageous puns...but I expect it was kinda like Paul Bunyan and Dacy Crockett--just made up.."

but, with ALL of those puns in Mudcats archives(some 3 0r 4 times..*grin*) Art will not need to to move to 'apocryphal'....

have a great time at the festival, Art!

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: CarolC
Date: 17 Jul 02 - 06:03 PM

Great news! Congratulations!

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: raredance
Date: 17 Jul 02 - 11:33 PM

Whoopi-ty-yi-yo, way to go old folkie
It's our good fortune ol' Art to have known.
Whoopi-ty-yi-yo, get along old folkie
You know that your words will make every one groan.

rich r

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: GUEST,Roger the Skiffler at the public library
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 06:29 AM

Well-deserved, hearty congats, mate.
(I'm still waiting for my lifetime non-achievement award!)
RtS

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Fortunato
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 09:23 AM

Congratulations, Art. I was telling my cousin Kyle about you and your music last night, your years on the riverboat. It's truly gratifying to have the opportunity to congratulate you and to "know" you in this setting. All the best, Chance Shiver

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: Art Thieme
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 12:37 PM

Chance,

I've been aware of you through Jerry &Ruth. The Feeling is mutual.

Art

Subject: RE: ART THIEME gets LIFETIME Achievement Award!!
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Jul 02 - 09:30 PM

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