Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 30 Sep 05 - 11:28 AM

Refresh

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: 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: kendall
Date: 30 Sep 05 - 12:13 PM

Did he steal George Bush's car?

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 02:44 PM

OOOPPS !!!!

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: 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: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Oct 05 - 08:51 PM

That should be a Howl lot of fun !

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 - 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Ferrara
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 01:48 PM

This duplicates my post on the Getaway Program Information thread. It's important enuf that I want to make sure as many people see it as possible. Please reply on this thread

Okay, THE SCHEDULE (draft) IS ON LINE.

Saturday Grid

Sunday Grid

Workshop leaders, we want you to tell us if you are scheduled opposite a must-see workshop. We'll try to "fix it."

Everybody, tell us where your worst conficts are. We'll try to fix it if enough people holler ouch. (It's one of those things where sometimes the cure can be worse than the disease, so we're careful about making changes.)

Last year a few people suggested that the Getaway would be less hectic (and frustrating) if we had a bit fewer workshops and let them go on longer so more people could participate. We are trying that this year.

Workshop leaders are listed pretty much in the order in which they were signed up to lead the workshop. (Sometimes that's just a matter of who was home to answer the phone when we first called.)

Let us know what you think. (Oh, yes, this is the Mudcat.... Of course you will!)

Rita

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: skarpi
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 04:48 PM

Halló all , Joe follow your heart and listen to it , I would like to meet you but if you can´t come then so be it , I ´ll meet you next time
if god let us . Giok we´ll drink a " skál " of beer in leif Eiríkssons
terminal to all who will be at the Getaway and to the other who won´t be able to come..

See you all , after six days All the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 08:05 PM

I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!!!

Put my blues workshop up against Kendall??? Shoot, might as well put me up against a bus load of babes at a GI camp...

Now that's the blues, fir sure...

But the blues ain't nuthin but yer trials and yer tribulations so I guess it's fittin' to have this poor ol' hillbilly havin' to sit alone in the barn theater playin' 12 bar solitaire whilst the entire Getaway is svorin' Kendall's stories...

Makes me wanta go AWOL myself...

Woke up this mornin'
Absolutley nuthin' in my house
Yeah, woke up this mornin'
Lord, nuthin' in my house
'Cept a note that read
"Don't fret, Hey, I left yer mouse..."

Now that's the blues..

Ain't evenm got no cheeze fir the mouse...

Now he got the blues too..

Bobert

p.s. I demand a recount!!!!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 08:24 PM

I will be out of touch with my computer starting Sunday morn., when I go to get on the train in Austin. Arriving in D. C. on Tues.,11 Oct. and will be at Motel 6 on Georgia Ave. NW, until I leave for Getaway on Friday 14 Oct. If anyone needs to update me on arrangements: rides to/from Getaway, etc. Still planning to be at Fortunato's Thurs. night, ride up with Leadfingers.    Tw.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 08:32 PM

Ok! We know where to find you! *smile*...see you at the Getaway...

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Jeri
Date: 07 Oct 05 - 08:57 PM

Putting the Helen workshop on the same time as anything else is dangerous. I'd like to hear a George Papavgeris mini-concert. There's a good chunk of Sunday where I want to be everywhere. Where I end up may have more to do with inertia than anything else. And you have "The Three Eens" (CollEEN & NorEEN KEENe) on back to back, which is cool because they both do ballads. I'm glad Colleen Cleveland is going to be there!

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: jacqui.c
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 07:50 AM

I'd agree about the Helen workshop - that is one I definitely want to get to and that I think will be extremely popular.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: beardedbruce
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 01:42 PM

Bobert,

"Put my blues workshop up against Kendall??? Shoot, might as well put me up against a bus load of babes at a GI camp...

Now that's the blues, fir sure...

But the blues ain't nuthin but yer trials and yer tribulations so I guess it's fittin' to have this poor ol' hillbilly havin' to sit alone in the barn theater playin' 12 bar solitaire whilst the entire Getaway is svorin' Kendall's stories..."


Not to worry- I can return the favor of last year, and wander by to make fun of you before I go hear Kendall.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: kendall
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 02:56 PM

What a friend! (700)

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Amos
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 07:44 PM

Bobert...I'll come by and play witchoo but I ain't missing Kendall.

A

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 08:11 PM

Hey, bb, I weren't the one leadin' a workshop with a few folks sittin' 'round a table filled with candy??? Like what was that about anyway... I never got it...

Nevermind...

Come on by, do what you gonna do.... Jus' no stink bombs, thankee...

Yeah, Amos, come on by... I'll be the guy leadin' a blues workshop of, ahhh, one whilst the entire takes-a-villiage is off gogglin' at Kendall...

Hey, I know when I've been had but...

...HARK... seems that my portestations have found a sympathethic ear and so I've been offered a mini-concert which is scheduled fir a half an hour on the Tuesday afternoon after the Getaway at any place of my choice!!!

Sniff... An I thought the powers-at-be weren't sensitive...

But never mind my dribble...

If you play some blues 'er just want to hear some, split yer time between the Theater and Kendall and you'll get the real deal from both of us...

Fir sure...

Bobert

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Ferrara
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 08:23 PM

Well and we may even move you to another time spot, Bobert. Oh, hey, How about 7:30 Sunday morning? There's absolutely nothing scheduled then! Good idea huh? Oh.... maybe not?... Well, we could call it Blues Before Breakfast? Start a new Getaway tradition.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: GUEST,Bobert
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 09:01 PM

Shoot, Rita, why so late... Lets jus' make it 4:30 am an' get a jump on the day???

I'm jus kiddin'... 4:45 am will be jus fine...

Awww, Iz happy camper... Heck... The time slot is perfect... I am so happy that I'm gonna have a hard time diggin' down into that bag to find anything to inspire me to play the blues...

Heck, I might even lead off with "Puff the Magic Dragon"...

Ignore me, folks... I been on vacation and ain't my usual self... Heck, I played a gig today and had to come home and sleep it off fir an hour 'er two...

I ain't right... Heck, I oughtta be happy and honored to be facilitatin' the only blues workshop and here I'z complaionin' 'cause Iz gonna have to do it while Kendall is doin' his storytellin' workshop...

Sniff...

Bad 'nuff about havin' to do it then but worser to not be able to hear my buddy, Kendall...

Sniff...

Bobert

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 09:11 PM

Did Bearded Bruce say he is or isn't attending and why not?!? I don't think anyone should accept candy from a man who isn't even willing to be there when you eat it.
So bruce...in or out?
SINS

Countdown continues. Just got off the phone with Tinker who has filled MaryLou in on our "plans" for the Big Mick. She had some suggestions herself. HEH HEH

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Ferrara
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 09:32 PM

Well Sinsull, Bruce has a VERY difficult work schedule. (I think he tracks the space station or something, and has to be there to make corrections and check the data gathering. Something like that anyway.) To hear him tell it, it's pretty boring all-night work. But there aren't a whole lot of people who can do it and the schedule is absolutely inflexible, so he doesn't get to choose his hours.) So I think we should cut him some slack.

Subject: RE: Getaway 2005 (14-17 Oct )
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Oct 05 - 09:55 PM

By the way folks....as of now..(SAT, the 8th)the weather predictions for Getaway weekend are looking better all the time! It says mid 70s daytime, and mid 50s at night...and sunshine. Yeah, yeah.....we know it could change, but it does not look like VERY chilly nights!

This could be the year we luck out!