Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH

Subject: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: curmudgeon
Date: 11 Sep 11 - 03:52 PM

The monthly shanty, forebitter and ballad session will be next Saturday, 17 September from 3:30 to 7:30 PM at the Press Room in Portsmouth.

This will be an ideal opportunity to warm up for   the 12th Annual Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival whish will be taking place on the following weekend.

Hope to see lots of you at both events - Tom

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: Chatteris
Date: 12 Sep 11 - 11:37 AM

Hi Tom,
I remember enjoying an evening at the press rooms a couple of years ago when I was over in the States!!! I was with Jacqui Morse and Mary. I was just starting to play guitar and sing,I'd like to think I have come a long way since then. If I ever get over there again I would try and get to a session, It was very enjoyable.

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: NbptErnie
Date: 12 Sep 11 - 08:32 PM

See you there, Tom. I'm looking forward to both the shanty sing this coming Saturday and the PMFF the next weekend. I don't like to see the summer go, but I sure do like to see the PMFF roll around!

Ernie

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: Charley Noble
Date: 12 Sep 11 - 09:19 PM

Tom-

Judy and I are planning to attend.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Sep 11 - 12:10 PM

Refreshing for Severn who may be in the area. I do not expect to be there Saturday but will be down for the festival.
M

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: Severn
Date: 14 Sep 11 - 01:56 PM

I'll come out for the Shanty Session if I have a place to stay afterwards. Can someone be of help to a slightly crispy wanderer?

"Can I sleep in your barn tonight, mister....."

Thanks,
Severn Savage
(currently in Vermont)

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: Severn
Date: 15 Sep 11 - 09:43 AM

Refuge or not, I'll still be there on Saturday and deal with it as I can.

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Sep 11 - 09:48 AM

Severn-

I'm sure someone will find you some space.

And Sunday evening, 8 pm, there's a Roll & Go concert in Ogunquit at the Barn Gallery. Everyone is encouraged to attend.

Nor and I are joining Chris this evening in Worcester for a live radio broadcast to help boost the Portland Maritime Folk Festival.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: Severn
Date: 15 Sep 11 - 11:56 AM

Thanks! I'll hope to have some good songs to share in exchange for those you share with me. Of course, some of the things thar are unfamilliar to the DC-Baltimore-Annapolis access may be common at your sing, but I'll try to share some of my favorites.

Some of you I've sung for or with previously, Some are Getaway or Mudcat friends and come will be total strangers at first, but I hope not for long. I've wanted to come up to this one for years since reading the Mudcat threads.

I'll leave early, as I already experienced some hurricane induced road delays on the way up, and I know that some of you who normally get your excercise pumping iron are now getting it pumping Irene (Oh the Irene-y of ir all!). Those of you that been told that after they created you, they threw away the mold......well guess what? It all seems to have grown back. I will join you at the Press Room at the appropriate time, or as near it as I can, bad roads and the occaisional tag sale permitting.

I'm looking forward to it in the same spirit in which I'm sure I'll be looking back at it in.

'til then is now,
Severn

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 17 Sep 11 - 11:27 AM

Looking forward to seeing (and hearing!) you again, Severn!

Don't let the yard sales delay you too long -- singing starts whenever a quorum is reached around 3:30. (Hoping we don't have to hover too long after the jazz people pack up, finish their lunch, and generally get their kit cleaned up and the tables vacated so we can set up.)

At least we figured out at last night's session what key I sing one of Tom's old songs in -- and Tom discovered he can do more concertina-wise in that key as well.

Linn

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: Bupkes
Date: 17 Sep 11 - 01:20 PM

I look forward to being at today's session too, if only to find out who "Severn" is.

No, it's also my favorite singing session in the area too.

Beautiful early fall day!

Marty Stock

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: Charley Noble
Date: 17 Sep 11 - 09:56 PM

Judy and I just got in after a splendid singing session. It wasn't one of the largest turnouts but there was easily 12 or so good strong singers. Linn and Judy were taking good notes on who sang what.

I was very impressed with someone who I don't think I've heard perform at the Press Room before. I think his name is Brian, an ex-submariner, with a strong voice, excellent 12-string guitar player, and seems to have a good understanding of traditional as well as contemporary sea songs.

Severn from Baltimore was also there, as were the more familiar faces of Tom and Linn, Earnie, Judy, Chris, Marty, Rose, Jeri, Emery, and Mark. And Bill and his wife were up from Cambridge. Who have I missed?

Anyway, we should be seeing most of these folks again next weekend for the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: Jeri
Date: 17 Sep 11 - 10:06 PM

Brian used to come a lot, but he said he's been working or had some other dumb excuse.

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: Severn
Date: 18 Sep 11 - 08:38 AM

After many Mud-years of reading about and being urged by friends to come to the Port Smith shanty sing, I finally was fulfilled and filled full by a wonderful night of music and friendship, new and old.

I heard lots of old favorites, and enough good unfamiliar ones to have filled up a loose-leaf notebook had I asked for them all. The singing was excellant and I hope I was able to throw some good songs into the mix sung well enough to have given back somewhere near as good as I recieved.

Thanks again to all who were there and I hope to get back up there and see you down at one of the four DC-Baltimore-Annapolis sings someday. I reccomend a visit by all passing anywhere near this sing.

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 08:33 AM

Hmm...my post of yesterday evening with the tally of singers seems to have gotten lost. Glad I didn't post anything else!

Here goes...again...

Mark Ryer, Charlie Ipcar (Charley Noble) and Judy Barrows; Jeri; Brian Marston (who tends to show up around PMFF time); Emery Hutchins; Rose Sheehan (representing Gloucester); Ernie Pigeon (NbptErnie); Tom Hall (Curmudgeon) and Linn Schulz (Bat Goddess) -- late to show up for, I think, the first time ever; Severn Savage (who gets points for being from the furthest away AND coming through storm-damaged Vermont); Bill Lehrman and his wife, Carol, from Boston; Marty Stock (Bupkes); Chris Maden; and local song writer, Chris Vaughn.

Ernie kept track of the first two songs until Tom and I finally got there.

1. Rolling Home - Mark Ryer
2. Outward Bound - Charlie Ipcar
3. Harp Without the Crown - Emery Hutchins
4. Pilot Boat, Can Do - Ernie Pigeon
5. A Roving Guy's Heart - Brian Marston
6. Nine Times A Night - Linn Schulz
7. John Dead - Jeri
8. Goodbye, My Lover, Goodbye - Severn Savage
9. Make Or Break Harbor - Mark Ryer
10. Spectral Fishing Fleet - Charlie
11. Old Zeb - Hutch
12. Wasn't That a Mighty Storm - Ernie
13. Bay of Biscay - Linn with Jeri singing harmony
14. For the Love of Willie - Judy Barrows
15. limerick about a submarine tender - Brian
16. ditty with submarine antecedents - Severn
17. (recitation) The Adventures of the Rear Admiral and His Maid - Linn
18. The Life of a Drunken Sailor - Brian
19. Strike the Bell - Chris Maden
20. Sailor's Prayer - Linn
21. Cuts and Guts - Severn
22. Singapore sailortown song - Charlie
23. Jolly Roving Tar - Chris Maden
24. Haul Awa' - Rose Sheehan
25. Rum In the Hold (Nellie J. Banks) - Ernie

More when I'm home from work...

Linn

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: Charley Noble
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 05:39 PM

Linn-

The Singapore Sailortown song is titled "Drink to the Men Who've Gone Ashore" with chorus and first verse by marine engineer William McFee and other verses by Charlie Ipcar; maybe this song should be retitled "Singapore Sling."

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 07:51 PM

Thanks, Charlie!

More...

26. Salonika - Hutch
27. The Dutchman - Mark
28. Mobile Bay (Roll the Cotton Down) - Charlie
29. The Dreadnaught - Brian
30. Once More a-Lumbering Go - Marty Stock
31. Lifeboat Horses - Severn
32. Out On the Ocean (whistle tune) - Brian
33. Bold Reilly - Rose
34. Back Home In Derry - Brian
35. Boney Was a Warrior - Ernie
36. Down Below - Linn
37. Yakker, Yakker, Yakker - Charlie
38. Rakish Young Fellow - Severn
39. Oggie Man - Mark
40. Haul 'Er Away (more verses than "Little Sally Racket") - Ernie
41. Shanty In Old Shanty Town (Jerry Bryant) - Linn
42. French song he did last time. I can't immediately find the title; sigh. - Chris Maden
43. Back and the Sides - Linn

Sorry, more tomorrow. I've got a phone call to make.

Linn

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: Charley Noble
Date: 19 Sep 11 - 08:46 PM

Linn-

"Yakker, Yakker, Yakker" is titled "Laying on the Screw" by Australian poet Edwin J. Brady, musically adapted by Charlie Ipcar. Brady worked on the Sydney docks in the early 1900s and composed several tributes to the stevedores. He also rescued Henry Lawson from acute alcoholism, once or twice.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 20 Sep 11 - 10:48 AM

Continuing...

44. Hanging Johnny - Severn + one last verse about Severn by Jeri
45. Old Figurehead Carver - Brian
46. Seafarin' Carpenter - Severn
47. Martin Said To His Men - Marty (more verses by Brian, Charlie & Rose; Linn restrained herself)
48. This Time of Year (Dillon Bustin) - Mark
49. Outside Track - Charlie
50. whistle tune - Brian
51. Sittin' By The River On the Levee - Chris Maden
52. Here Is My Home (Si Kahn) - Rose
53. When First I Came to Caledonia - Marty
54. Nelson's Prayer - Mark

There!

Linn

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Sep 11 - 11:58 AM

Linn-

Excellent work, and the singing was fun too!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 20 Sep 11 - 12:50 PM

It was a lovely session -- really glad Severn was finally able to drop in. One of the best things about having a visitor at the session is the great influx of songs we sometimes have never heard before.

Severn, if you got a bunch of new material from us, well, we sure got a bunch from you!

Linn

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Sep 11 - 01:31 PM

Where did Sev finally rest his head?

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Sep 11 - 05:40 PM

Sinsull-

Not sure. He wasn't willing to cross the border into deepest darkest Maine.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 20 Sep 11 - 06:49 PM

He ended up heading back to Vermont to visit family. I had warned him earlier that not only was access to the guest room at Chez Perdurabo very iffy, I haven't actually seen the bed since sometime before Christmas. It's all Micca's fault -- if Micca had planned to be here after the Getaway, I would have started shovelling out months ago. And if I'd moved stuff off the couch, there wouldn't be any room on the floor to get to it.

I've been working on decluttering for years, but I never seem to see any results...

Linn

Subject: RE: Sept. Shanty Session @The Press Room (NH
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Sep 11 - 08:56 PM

Linn-

Things are generally little better at chez Ipbar. But we do have a vacant apartment now. I'm keeping this news from JudyB, so it doesn't become filled with "stuff."

Cheerily,
Charley Noble