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Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010
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Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010 From: Martin Graebe Date: 07 Jun 10 - 03:29 PM Thank you, Chanteyranger (is it Peter?). Glad you enjoyed the workshop - we certainly enjoyed meeting all of you folk. And it was a nice surprise finding the shanty singing on the Balclutha - it's good for the soul! Best wishes. Martin |
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Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010 From: Peter Kasin Date: 07 Jun 10 - 12:20 PM Hello, Martin. That was a wonderful workshop on the Baring-Gould collection, in Berkeley a few weeks back. -Chanteyranger (who you met aboard Balclutha with the Holdstocks). |
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Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010 From: Martin Graebe Date: 07 Jun 10 - 08:22 AM Shan and I had a wonderful time at Mystic last year. Great place for a festival. Great festival for the place. We'll be thinking of you. Martin |
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Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 07 Jun 10 - 08:04 AM For those who have never attended this Sea Music Festival before, here's my short summary. The location is the Mystic SeaPort Museum which has many traditional wooden ships tied up at the wharfs, and a full range of associated museum displays in work buildings and galleries. In the shipyard, there's an on-going major rebuild of the whaling bark Charles W. Morgan. The Festival kicks off (sets sail?) with a Thursday evening concert, followed by a public shanty session at a dance hall across from the Museum. Friday during the day there are lectures and then an evening concert and another shanty session. Saturday there is a morning lecture and then a full slate of workshops and mini-concerts, major evening concert and another late night shanty session. Sunday there are more workshops and mini-concerts during the day, and then a wind-up final survivors concert in the late afternoon. There are generally smaller music sessions going on in the late evening, some of them only accessible to Museum staff, performers, Festival volunteers and Festival donors. Ask around and you may be able to participate in one of these as well. The public shanty sessions usually end around midnight but the other informal sessions have been said to continue until the sun rises again; I wouldn't know, given that I generally bail out at 2 am. Please feel free to add on or correct my ad hoc summary, or better still go to the Festival Website. Judy and I will be there all weekend, as will be Norris Dale, another member of Roll & Go. Ask us about our new CD titled Look Out! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010 From: sciencegeek Date: 07 Jun 10 - 03:02 AM and now begins the mad rush to pack for the long weekend... one set of summer duds, one set for cold and a third for wet... lol and let the singing begin... |
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Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010 From: mg Date: 05 Jun 10 - 01:12 PM It is probably too late for us to do anything, but we have our new tugboat CD out and it is really nice...it is just out and we raced to sell it at FOlklife and are just starting to market it elsewhere..so if anyone is in an official position or could mention it to the people who run the bookstore or the new tug exhibit that it is out and truly wonderful, that would be great. PM me for details. mg |
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Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 05 Jun 10 - 09:58 AM The Festival is coming up fast! Cheerily, Charley Noble, catching up on extra sleep |
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Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010 From: GUEST,Janet Date: 04 Jun 10 - 11:47 PM Thank you, KathyW, for that link. I will bookmark it. I'm a member of Mystic Seaport but couldn't get to the festival until I retired. June is not good for teachers. Since retirement I have gone annually. I live about an hour from the Seaport, but this year for the first time I have booked a room nearby. I realized I cannot do the late-night pub sings and the morning symposiums if I commute from home. I look forward to this presentation. |
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Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010 From: KathyW Date: 04 Jun 10 - 10:45 PM I'm happy to see that Stephen Winick will be giving a presentation on "The Leaving of Liverpool" Saturday morning. A reason not to stay up *too* late Friday night! A friend recently pointed out his very interesting article about that song in the Summer-Fall 2008 issue of Folklife Center News. If anyone is interested to read that article, you can find it online here: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/news/pdf/FCN_Vol30_3-4optimized.pdf (pops open new window) |
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Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 29 May 10 - 06:09 PM Marc- Looks interesting. Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010 From: Marc Bernier Date: 29 May 10 - 04:05 PM Refresh |
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Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010 From: GUEST,Marc Bernier Date: 21 May 10 - 08:01 AM For anyone who's interested. It has been requested that I post this... Symposium on Music of the Sea 31st Annual Sea Music Festival 11-12 June 2009 Co-sponsored by Mystic Seaport, the University of Connecticut at Avery Point, and the United States Coast Guard Academy. The first day of the symposium is FREE and will be held at the Avery Point campus of the University of Connecticut, 1084 Shennecossett Road, Groton, CT, in Room 103 of the Marine Sciences Building. For directions and a map of the campus: http://averypoint.uconn.edu/avery_point/about.php The second day of the symposium will be held in the Greenmanville Church, Mystic Seaport, 75 Greenmanville Ave., Mystic, CT. For directions, click on "Plan Your Visit" at http://www.mysticseaport.org. The cost of the symposium at Mystic Seaport is included in the cost of admission to the 31st Annual Sea Music Festival. Click on "Calendar of Events" OR "Buy Tickets Online." Tickets can be bought at the door. Friday, June 11, UConn Avery Point, Marine Science Building Room 103 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" 12:00 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" 4:00 Return to Mystic Seaport for a special demonstration in the whaleboat by the Barrouallie Whalemen 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 Please contact Mary K Bercaw Edwards |
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Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010 From: Heavenly Twin 2 Date: 18 May 10 - 02:23 PM Its a rainy Tuesday afternoon and I was just daydreaming about the Festival which is less than a month away. I am just happy that we have one but I was really thinking how nice it would be if it was one of those warm summery weekends where you lay in the grass and just relax and listen to the music. Whatever the weather, we will see you soon. Love- the twins |
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Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010 From: GUEST,Janet Date: 14 May 10 - 07:30 PM Mystic Seaport's January Chantey Blast (fundraiser for the Sea Music Festival) was a memorial for Barry Finn. Members of his family attended. Songs were sung; tears were shed. It was wonderful--and packed. I wondered if it exceeded fire capacity for the venue. |
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Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010 From: GUEST,Heavenly Twin II Date: 14 May 10 - 10:22 AM Charley....Liam Clancy also passed this year (since the last festival) See you in a few weeks |
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Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 13 May 10 - 08:24 PM refresh! |
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Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010 From: Charley Noble Date: 12 May 10 - 08:37 PM Dave- The Sea Symposium certainly looks interesting. I'll certainly be attending. I'm also wondering if there will be any kind of remembrance service for Johnny Collins and Barry Finn. There may have been other nautical main stays who have also passed over the bar in the past year but I can't think of them at the present time. I know we can (and will) do this one way or another but is it part of the official program? Charley Noble |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010 From: Gibb Sahib Date: 17 Apr 10 - 07:38 PM Grinders for lunch, everybody! |
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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) |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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... |
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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 |
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Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival June 10-13 2010 From: Gibb Sahib Date: 08 Apr 10 - 12:09 AM HOO-RAW! |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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? |
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