Most memorable event 2012 for you

Subject: Most memorable event 2012 for you
From: GUEST,FloraG
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 07:17 AM

OK - so make it music or dance related - and ideally folk. What now stands out in your mind?
FloraG

Subject: RE: Most memorable event 2012 for you
From: Midchuck
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 07:23 AM

Well, probably my triple bypass. Although I don't actually remember it at all. Remember the rehab process pretty well, though.

P.

Subject: RE: Most memorable event 2012 for you
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 07:32 AM

Hm! As a matter of fact, I've been enjoying knowing that the year of my lifechanging surgery was the same year the NHL suspended games... making it easier to place both in time accurately when I look back and wonder when certain things happened. Plus-- while I was laid up NONE of the facilities had hockey on cable, so I didn't have to stew over missing the games! :~)

~S~

Subject: RE: Most memorable event 2012 for you
From: kendall
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 07:40 AM

Music and dance related?

Subject: RE: Most memorable event 2012 for you
From: SteveMansfield
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 07:50 AM

Saturday 16th June, spent in the Unitarian schoolroom at Stannington outside Sheffield at an all-day concertina workshop with the great Robert Harbron.

Six months later I'm still trying to put into practice stuff I learnt that day, and I think it was one of the most useful music workshops I've ever been to.

Subject: RE: Most memorable event 2012 for you
From: GUEST,Erich
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 08:55 AM

Nic Jones back on stage! (saw him at Warwick FF)

Subject: RE: Most memorable event 2012 for you
From: SteveMansfield
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 09:00 AM

Ah, if only Mudcat had an edit button ... And I've just remembered that my other highlight was the Alistair Anderson and Dan Walsh duo concert at The Midway club in Stockport. Duelling concertina & banjo, prodigious stuff!

Subject: RE: Most memorable event 2012 for you
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 09:41 AM

2012 was most memorable for me as the year that I retired from work.

I went to the Gainsborough Old Time Festival, the Yorkshire Gathering, Robin Hood's Bay folk weekend and Whitby Folk Week and thoroughly enjoyed them all. As the last 3 were after my retirement, I was able to arrive early to set up camp on the day the events started and stay over until the day after everything had finished so that I could pack up at my leisure.

DC

Subject: RE: Most memorable event 2012 for you
From: Elmore
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 09:56 AM

Personally, had a stent installed. Musically saw Wagner's Ring cycle twice; once in opera class, once on PBS. Damned boring year.

Subject: RE: Most memorable event 2012 for you
From: Anne Lister
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 03:30 PM

Personal list - had to help put parents into residential nursing care and pack up their home. Sold our house, moved into rented accommodation. Acquired fantastic kitten. Lost fantastic kitten to a road accident. Had two great holidays. Reached a memorable age and gained a bus pass.
Music? Was there any?

Subject: RE: Most memorable event 2012 for you
From: selby
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 03:39 PM

RETIRING
really enjoyed DERT around Soho in London, learning the english concertina when not playing golf
Keith

Subject: RE: Most memorable event 2012 for you
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 04:00 PM

For me, the Mystic Sea Music Festival, of course!

Subject: RE: Most memorable event 2012 for you
From: kendall
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 04:20 PM

I got a publisher for my new book

Subject: RE: Most memorable event 2012 for you
From: fat B****rd
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 04:28 PM

Musical ? Janis Ian at Carnegie Hall. Personal; retiring and giving up my paper round.

Subject: RE: Most memorable event 2012 for you
From: Deckman
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 04:47 PM

Completing my five year project of archiving 50 years of folk music private recordings. Google "Bob Nelson Folk Music Collection". bob(deckman)nelson

Subject: RE: Most memorable event 2012 for you
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 05:38 PM

HA! After the FSGW Getaway, Deckman's project may have been MY most memorable, as it let me hear once again a singer I hadn't heard in 50 years.

Subject: RE: Most memorable event 2012 for you
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 12 Jan 13 - 07:46 PM

Being involved in a show at the National Folk Festival. I wasn't on stage, I was manager!!! We almost have a video of that show to share with the world.

It was in the run-up to Australia's oldest folk club turning 60 in 2014 This year we are running a Family dance where members (40s to late 70s) & their children (5 years to early 20s) provide the music for children & their families.

Next year ... I'm still building that empire. I'm hoping for another 90 min. extravaganza like last year's (oral history, reminiscences, singing, music & dancing) as well as workshops of tunes & songs & dances our members have collected or written over 60 years.

sandra

Subject: RE: Most memorable event 2012 for you
From: GUEST,FloraG
Date: 13 Jan 13 - 04:37 AM

I can't decide between

hearing the voice squad live for the first time - thanks lads

the queens jubilee - being invited to watch the lighting of the beacons in a small village in Glocestershire- and it being rather cold - what better reason than doing a bit of country dancing
FloraG

Subject: RE: Most memorable event 2012 for you
From: BobKnight
Date: 13 Jan 13 - 04:45 AM

My visit to Whitby Folk Week and the gigs I played there. Met loads of great people and had a good time. :)