Alternative Title for Jam

Subject: Alternative Title for Jam
From: GUEST,Jeff Long
Date: 08 Nov 17 - 11:34 PM

Could anyone suggest some alternative titles for an Oldtime Jam? Something more Oldtimey? Jam sounds too jazzy and modern.

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 01:31 AM

A term often used in England instead of 'session' is 'tune-up'.

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: Mr Red
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 02:54 AM

specifically - when I list things on mister.red (mid west of UK) I use the terms that I see the organisers use. it might be: blue grass, old time, American old time, Americana - what it won't be is C&W because there is little cross-over and it is a stretch too far for me. As I have little interest - the task of keeping such data up to date means I am picky - basically if I would want to go to an event - I list.

Interestingly using Goggle Translate I got the Danish for jam as marmalade. Which apparently is the word they use for jam (conserve). The word they use for jam (session) is - er - um - jam.

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 05:24 AM

I've played in sessions in the UK for 35 years and I've never heard one called a ' tune up '

Dave H

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 05:33 AM

Hootenanny?

LFF

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 06:37 AM

In the southern Appalachians, where I met my Dear Husband, folks often gather for a "pickin' party" or a "pick".

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: Raggytash
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 07:15 AM

Free and Easy ?

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: Banjo-Flower
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 02:44 PM

I m same as Dave I've never heard tune up before is it a southern term?

Gerry

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 03:48 PM

Like that . . . a TUNE-UP🤓👌🏻

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 03:53 PM

Thanks Mr. Red. I like the term Marmalade . . . goes well with our Lodge Landlady . . . her name is Mary . . . Mary?s Marmalade. 🤓

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 03:57 PM

Hootenanny I have used before, but a lot of folks associate that with early rock-n-roll

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 04:00 PM

Pickin? Party, I have used before, but I do like the abbreviated ?Pick? . . . some possibilities there?👌🏻

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: Stanron
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 05:00 PM

Old Times Tunes Session.

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: GUEST,ripov
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 06:49 PM

If only three players turn up it could be a conserve-a-trois.

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 06:53 PM

I concur with Hoot and Nanny.

Pickin, Strumin, Jug blow-in, and just good ol' heel-stomping' good times.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

and who here would disparage the roots of "rock-a-billy. pass the jug please

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: Mr Red
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 07:02 PM

conserve-a-trois LOL

spread the word!

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Nov 17 - 07:46 PM

Monseur Reoux,
Une ?cole alternative du quartier Rosemont peut garder ses classes hors de l?ordinaire, regroupant des ?l?ves de trois niveaux, malgr? l?opposition ...
SINCERELY

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: Gutcher
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 01:27 AM

Scrolling down the list of current threads I came to a request for an

alternative name for jam--"Carluke Steak" was the one that sprang to mind.

This was the name given by Lanarkshire miners to jam produced by Scott
of Carluke

Am now awake.

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 01:34 AM

'Tune-Up'? WTF??
Never heard of such a thing. In Lincs., we call a Session a 'Session'. A 'Tune-Up' is what we do before we start playing.

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 01:40 AM

knees up

romp

bash

shindig

orgy

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 02:27 AM

ruckus

hullabaloo

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 02:31 AM

commotion

noisy disturbance


[see it helps having an old punk rocker on the team...] 😜

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 09:44 AM

Jelly

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: GUEST,DrWord
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 02:23 PM

Good one, wysiwyg! Not entirely sure why, but some posters (notices) have been using jamm. Well, it is alternative. The other phrase, which may be useful to the OP, is open mic.
keep on pickin
dennis

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 02:27 PM

Hence, Oldfime Open Mic. We also have, seasonally, Pickers Picnics.

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: michaelr
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 07:22 PM

Hoedown

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: GUEST,Lou Judson
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 08:02 PM

Hootenanny was ONLY used in the USA for folk events and concerts in the 1960s. NEVER rock. It was part of the great Folk Scare and we were far above all that chidlwren's music called rock.

Even Peter Paul and Mary joked about it in concert and on records. (You know, those flat back discs with the hole in the middle and grroves on each side?) Yeah, those things.

More here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hootenanny

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: GUEST,Dave Hunt
Date: 10 Nov 17 - 08:25 PM

All you people who have never heard the expression 'a tune up' obviously don't play in East Anglia...it's a common term there! 'Lets hev a little old tune up bo'

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: GUEST,Desi C
Date: 11 Nov 17 - 08:33 AM

In Ireland its mostly a 'session' but of course a public session .e n a pub can mean something much more formal how about a Plataround or a hooley again often used in Ireland

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: Banjo-Flower
Date: 11 Nov 17 - 12:48 PM

Thanks for that explanation Dave (Hunt)
its never too late to live and learn

Gerry

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: gillymor
Date: 11 Nov 17 - 01:12 PM

I'll second jelly, 'cause "jam don't shake like that".

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: gillymor
Date: 11 Nov 17 - 01:18 PM

When I played in a blues band in Texas back in the '70's we a called it "having a do". "Do" also was our slang for pot.

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 11 Nov 17 - 04:18 PM

New Hampshire (and I think New England) prefers session.

I run a trad session (vocal and instrumental), but there are also maritime session (or shanty sings), Irish sessions, old timey sessions, bluegrass sessions...

Linn

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: leeneia
Date: 11 Nov 17 - 07:58 PM

Thesaurus.com suggests "get-together". I like it. Old Time Get-together.

Subject: RE: Alternative Title for Jam
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Nov 17 - 11:13 AM

Pectin for Pickers