Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010

Subject: Sea Music Festival 2010
From: tigerlily
Date: 12 Dec 09 - 02:37 AM

June 11-13, 2010 - 31st Annual Sea Music Festival - Mystic Seaport Museum

We're working hard again to feature a remarkable group of fellows, "The Barrouallie Whalers" from the Eastern Caribbean, authentic longshore whalers who sing shanties like "Johnny Come Down with a Hilo" and "Blow the Man Down" and tell stories of whales, sharks, squalls, and many incidents of their lives. Some appearead at Mystic in 2002; having travelled to the Netherlands and France since their visit to Mystic, they're even better on stage now than in 2002.

See:
Photos of Paimpol


See and Hear (at 2:08 in the clip):
Paimpol 2009

To make this happen, we're going to need support; the Museum cannot foot the entire bill. Please consider ways to support the effort.
The Barrouallie Whalers Project, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation.

The fellows would really like to come and see us all at Mystic. Future opportunities are likely to be very scarce. Thanks!

Dan

Subject: RE: Sea Music Festival 2010
From: Charley Noble
Date: 12 Dec 09 - 11:59 AM

Dan-

It would certainly be great to hear "The Barrouallie Whalers" again at Mystic. Would you send me a PM with regard to how much money is needed to bring them aboard.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Sea Music Festival 2010
From: tigerlily
Date: 15 Dec 09 - 01:03 AM

O.K. Thanks, Charlie!

Subject: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13
From: Charley Noble
Date: 24 Mar 10 - 10:30 PM

If the stars are properly aligned the Mystic Sea Music Festival will take place this year from Thursday, June 10th, to Sunday, June 13th. Maybe it's time to share what we know about who is booked this year for the Festival.

I believe that Peter Kasin and Richard Adrianowicz from San Francisco will be there.

Anyone match my bid or raise it?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: KathyW
Date: 24 Mar 10 - 11:42 PM

Debra Cowan is performing, and the Johnson Girls.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 25 Mar 10 - 03:48 AM

That's right, Charley, Radriano (Richard) and I will be performing there. Can't wait to be back.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: sciencegeek
Date: 25 Mar 10 - 05:26 AM

and The Beans will be there.... Jim & Cindy & Steve Sulwold... yipee

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: Charley Noble
Date: 25 Mar 10 - 08:32 AM

Mustard's Retreat from Michigan is coming. They do fine music but it has absolutely nothing to do with the sea or even the Great Lakes.

I believe the Barouallie Whalers are coming again from the West Indies and they are fine traditional style singers.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: doc.tom
Date: 25 Mar 10 - 03:37 PM

Oh God - we'd just love to get there, and do the Short, Sharp Shanties presentation! Still, we should be launching the recordings by the end of the year - anybody want the Browns, Jeff Warner, Jim Mageean, Keith Kendrick, Roger Watson, Jackie Oates and Sam Lee?
TomB

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 25 Mar 10 - 03:53 PM

Can someone sell or talk up our tugboat CD there? It should be out by then and promises to be very fine indeed. mg

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: GUEST,Janet
Date: 25 Mar 10 - 06:29 PM

Sorry if this is bad form, because I don't know who'll be at the Sea Music Festival. Regardless, I'll be there as a spectator/sing-alonger. My reason for jumping into this thread is to write that when the info is available online at the Mystic Seaport website, I hope someone will post a blue clicky on this thread.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: Charley Noble
Date: 25 Mar 10 - 08:29 PM

Janet-

We'll certainly do that but I really wouldn't expect more than dribs and drabs of new information for a month or so.

What would be "bad form" would be announce a performer who is not confirmed by the Festival Director Geoff Kaufman. That would be embarrassing for everyone.

TomB-

With that in mind would you please clarify your post above? Are those confirmed performers or your best wishes?

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: doc.tom
Date: 26 Mar 10 - 05:13 AM

Charley,
That's a list of the people who are recording the John Short repertoire as part of the Short, Sharp Shanties project. 27 down, 30 to go!
TomB

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Mar 10 - 08:14 AM

David...from Mustard's Retreat here....
just wanted to say that while we are ...eclectic :-) ...we do have a handful of great lakes/sea music/river etc songs and stories we will be doing! Honored to be returning to Mystic!

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Mar 10 - 08:39 AM

David-

Do work up your Great Lake songs repertoire. I am familiar with your music as a former Michigan resident and last time around at Mystic I thought your nautical songs were few and far between. Mystic should be a festival of sea songs, and other songs in the key of "C" don't exactly rise to the occasion.

I would normally post this comment as a PM but you are not yet a member of Mudcat; it's a free service and membership is relatively easy to achieve.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Mar 10 - 10:30 AM

Thanks Charlie! We've got a few more things of a nautical nature this time round!

Subject: RE: Sea Music Festival 2010
From: tigerlily
Date: 01 Apr 10 - 09:08 PM

It remains indefinite as to whether we'll manage to get the Whalers back to Mystic this June; we did not receive a CT Culture & Tourism grant, so we're short several $1,000s from what we need to make it happen. We'll make a decision soon.
Dan

Subject: RE: Sea Music Festival 2010 (Mystic)
From: KathyW
Date: 01 Apr 10 - 09:37 PM

Oh dear. But please forgive me, Dan, I'm not sure who the players are here. Is "we" Mystic Seaport Museum or The Barrouallie Whalers Project?

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: KathyW
Date: 01 Apr 10 - 09:45 PM

I see that at least some of the performers have been posted on the Mystic Seaport's website. (pops)

I'm excited! Here's the list, for those too lazy to click over:

3 Finger Poi
The Beans
Black Brook Singers
Bob Webb
David Coffin
Deb Cowen
Gabriel Donohue
Cliff Haslam & "The Jovial Crew"
Hughie Jones
The Johnson Girls
Peter Kasin and Richard Adrianowicz
Mustard's Retreat
Nordet
Stephen Sanfilippo

Subject: RE: Sea Music Festival 2010 (Mystic)
From: tigerlily
Date: 02 Apr 10 - 12:31 AM

Both; Mystic and The Project are partners in this. Mystic Seaport was the grant applicant, as they're based in CT.

Subject: RE: Sea Music Festival 2010 (Mystic)
From: GUEST,Geoff Kaufman, SMF Director
Date: 02 Apr 10 - 11:05 AM

Just to clarify our situation with the Barrouallie Whalers, we've been working on this since December. We applied for and have gotten visa clearance from the Department of Homeland Security. Funding is the issue. The SMF budget can support less than half of the cost to bring these men from St.Vincent. We applied fro and did not get a grant from the state of Connecticut and are now working on other options. I am committed to bringing these gentlemen if at all possible particularly because they are important representatives of a whaling tradition with links to the history of the Charles W. Morgan and the time she spent in the Caribbean in her latter days. The theme of this year's festival is the history of the Morgan and her ports of call so I'm bringing performers from New Bedford and San Francisco and including some Hawaiian music to honor her connections there (the SMF schedule and roster of performers [without the BW until I can confirm our ability to bring them} are now on line at:
www.mysticseaport.org/seamusicfestival) and I feel the Barrouallie Whalers can tell a significant part of the story. We will post further news here when we have answers, but in the mean time, if anyone out there wants to help, let me know.

Subject: RE: Sea Music Festival 2010 (Mystic)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 Apr 10 - 05:25 PM

Geoff-

Thanks for officially bringing us up to date with regard to the Barrouallie Whalers. I'm already tapped out for the year but I would encourage anyone else to dig deep if you are able. The Whalers are fun to listen to and they are the "real thing" when it comes to this kind of singing.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: Charley Noble
Date: 03 Apr 10 - 04:05 PM

KathyW-

It will be nice to see and hear Hughie Jones again this year.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: tigerlily
Date: 07 Apr 10 - 11:39 PM

Owing to fortuitous developments, much hard work, and generosity, it's now much more likely that the Barrouallie Whalers can participate in June. Funding remains critically short, so we still need additional support to make this work. If you can refer any funding opportunities to this effort, please do!

This is very exciting news for us, and especially for the Whalers, who enjoy the opportunity to take part in this event, which represents a reprise of first international excursion they made in 2001. These men have worked much of their lives simply as subsistence farmers and fishermen, and their annual incomes don't exceed a few thousand US dollars. Yet, the wealth of lore and personal experience they have to share with the World -- and particularly with maritime heritage enthusiasts -- is priceless.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 08 Apr 10 - 12:09 AM

HOO-RAW!

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 08 Apr 10 - 03:05 AM

Great, tigerlily, Hope that works out with the Barroullie Whalers.Thank you and all Mystic staff who are working on this. Funding/grants, and all the details in getting them to make it to the fest are painstakingly detailed and labor intensive, and whether or not they can be there, your efforts are much appreciated.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: sciencegeek
Date: 08 Apr 10 - 07:31 AM

I plan to pitch support for the festival to anyone who shows up to the shanty sings at NEFFA.... I haven't checked to see if flyers are up on the Mystic site...

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Apr 10 - 09:08 AM

Good news, and fundraising is always hard work.

Odd that there's not a shanty to help that effort. Maybe something such as "working for the Yankee dollar."

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: Heavenly Twin 2
Date: 08 Apr 10 - 04:50 PM

Our yearly check is on the way. As Rick Spencer now calls us, Pam and Sue Heavenly

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: GUEST,jcampbellwampum
Date: 14 Apr 10 - 08:11 AM

We had a chance to spend some time with Joe Leavitt and his wife in New Bedford last Fall. He, as a Native subsistence whaler in Barrow Alaska, expressed the importance of this activity
for the healthy maintenance of his culture in that part of the world, and felt that if they were forced to discontinue it would lead quickly to the destruction of whatever cultural continuity they have been able to maintain.
They were participants in New Bedford's Working Waterfront Festival, which is quickly becoming the most important and relevant of all the Maritime related events.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: Charley Noble
Date: 14 Apr 10 - 08:01 PM

Jon-

When does New Bedford's Working Waterfront Festival happen?

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: sciencegeek
Date: 15 Apr 10 - 06:37 AM

I noticed that the Friday symposium session is at a new locaation - Avery Point campus of UCONN, But don't see a starting time or equall important... just which building it's to be held in.

Would be nice to konw where to park and all that... lol

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: GUEST,Janet
Date: 15 Apr 10 - 09:37 AM

Charley, the 2010 New Bedford Working Waterfront Festival will be Saturday, September 25, and Sunday, September 26. Last year the Saturday program was from 11 AM to 7 PM; Sunday's was 11-5.There are 3 music stages plus discussions and other activities like rowing a whaleboat, boarding a tugboat, and preparing seafood. And of course there are seafood vendors. http://www.workingwaterfrontfestival.org/.I tried to do a blue clicky, but I don't think it was going to work. The 2010 schedule is not on the website yet. You might want to do web searches for Working Waterfront Festival 2009 and Working Waterfront Festival 2010. The 2009 website will give you the lay of the land.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Apr 10 - 12:32 PM

Janet-

Thanks for the info.

Consulting my calendar, I see that The Portsmouth Maritime Festival (NH) will be taking place the same weekend. Sigh!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: GUEST,David from Mystic Seaport
Date: 16 Apr 10 - 11:55 AM

The Friday June 11 sea music festival symposium will start at 9:30 AM in the Marine Sciences Building, Room 103, on the Avery Point campus of the University of Connecticut, 1084 Shennecossett Road, Groton, CT 06340.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: sciencegeek
Date: 16 Apr 10 - 05:23 PM

thanks, David for the update. I'll include that with the festival flyer for Neffa.

all I'll need for Friday is my recorders & lots of coffee... LOL

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: KathyW
Date: 17 Apr 10 - 04:58 PM

Here's a map of the U of Connecticut campus showing the Marine Sciences building:
http://averypoint.uconn.edu/avery_point/campus_map.pdf (pops)

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 17 Apr 10 - 07:38 PM

Grinders for lunch, everybody!

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: KathyW
Date: 23 Apr 10 - 11:19 PM

Hooray! It looks like the fund-raising efforts must have paid off.

When I visited the Mystic website today I noticed that the Barrouallie Whalers are now on the list of scheduled festival performers.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: tigerlily
Date: 24 Apr 10 - 12:20 AM

Fund-raising continues; we're not yet out of the woods, but much more optimistic.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: GUEST,Barnacle Babe
Date: 25 Apr 10 - 07:08 PM

Hi all,

Yesterday's tribute to Barry Finn at NEFFA was well attended and it was wonderful hearing that wall of musician's voices joining in with Barry, Justine, Charlie Ipcar, and everyone from Gloucester. John Roberts made a guest appearance singing Roll On prior to his own workshop, and it was a wonderful, beautiful gathering. Great precursor to the festival and a loving tribute to Barry.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: sciencegeek
Date: 28 Apr 10 - 09:15 AM

There was good attendance for the various sea music/shanty sings and the Mystic flyers got snatched up quickly... here's hoping the folks can make it out & bring their friends.

I put the campus map & symposium info on the back side of the flyers to see if that helps folks find the place easier.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: GUEST,Barnacle Babe
Date: 28 Apr 10 - 03:44 PM

Yeah, I saw that there were flyers. We had left quite a few but were surprised to see them already out on tables at NEFFA. I probably saw you there, and I don't always put mudcat people and faces together.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: sciencegeek
Date: 29 Apr 10 - 09:22 AM

I know a few folks and their mudcat "handles".... I also recognized a fair number of folks from Mystic, but am clueless as to their names. Mike & have have been sound crew volunteers at Mystic for 20+ years.

I was helping out a bit at the CAMSCO table and did some presenting in Mike's workshops... Ewan MacColl & the open shanty sing.

Chris Setari

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: GUEST,Barnacle Babe
Date: 29 Apr 10 - 06:48 PM

3/5 of Barnacle attended on Saturday attending various workshops, including part of the round workshop, drums, waltz jams, and the Beatles singalong which quickly became a dance off. The rest of the time we pestered the Steve Brown, Jon Danforth, and the rhythm bones folks and drooled over Mance Grady's bodhrans. Jon Cannon 1/5 attended both Saturday and Sunday performing with one of the klezmer groups.


Again, it was truly wonderful with that wall of sound-- rich harmonies-- from the Barry Finn Shanty sing-- that music you get when you attend the workshops in the Greenmanville Church. Can't wait for the shanty sings. Nice teaser for Mystic.

Mary Audette

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: KathyW
Date: 10 May 10 - 11:59 PM

I'm curious whether anyone knows if the list of papers to be presented and the schedule of presentation for the symposium will be announced in advance so folks can plan? On the one hand, there is at least one lecture I'd particularly like to see, the only one I know about so far-- a paper that Jerry Bryant will be presenting according to this thread: http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=102326&messages=65#2897774 (pops).

But on the other hand, one *might* hope to work in a small amount of sightseeing that doesn't involve Mystic Seaport while out in Connecticut.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: sciencegeek
Date: 11 May 10 - 06:18 AM

We'll have to hope that David Littlefield visits this thread & gives us the scoop. The symposium schedule is always a well kept mystery until we get there & see the festival booklet.

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: RTim
Date: 11 May 10 - 02:02 PM

Hi All,
I also know that I am presenting a paper at the Symposium, as below:

Maritime Songs and Singers Collected in Hampshire, England by
Dr. George Gardiner, 1905-1909

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: Charley Noble
Date: 11 May 10 - 08:58 PM

Thanks, Tim.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
From: GUEST,David from Mystic
Date: 12 May 10 - 03:20 PM

Music of the Sea Symposium   -
Presented by Mystic Seaport, The University of Connecticut and the United States Coast Guard Academy

Schedule of Events - June 11 – 12, 2010



Friday, June 11, UCONN, Avery Point, Marine Science Building

9:00 Coffee and Danish

9:20 Welcome, Morning Moderator, Glenn S. Gordinier

9:30 Jerry Bryant, "Long We've Toiled on the Rolling Wave: One Sea Song's Journey from the Gun Deck to Hollywood"

10:15 April Grant, "TERRIBLE POLLY: The Battle of the Sexes in Gale Huntington's "Songs the Whalemen Sang"

11:00 – Coffee and Danish

11:15 Tim Radford, "Maritime Songs and Singers Collected in Hampshire, England by Dr. George Gardiner, 1905-1909"

Lunch

1:30 Reconvene, Afternoon Moderator, Mary K Bercaw Edwards

Tim Prchal "The Currents of the Soul': The Atlantic Reflected in 19th-century American Immigration Songs"

2:15 Bob Walser "Dreg Songs: A Scots Oyster Fishing Tradition: Oyster Dredging Songs of the Firth of Forth"



Saturday, June 12, Mystic Seaport, Greenmanville Church

9:30 Welcome, Moderator, Glenn S. Gordinier

Stephen D. Winick, "Richard Doerflinger, Patrick Tayluer and the Other Leaving of Liverpool"

10:45 Stuart M. Frank, Ballads and Songs of the American Sailor