FSGW Minifest, Silver Spring MD

Subject: RE: FSGW Minifest, Silver Spring MD
From: Wincing Devil
Date: 21 Jan 00 - 03:50 PM

AARRGGHH!!!

After pushing the MiniFest for so long, it turns out I may not be able to go!

We're packing up for a move (we'll still be in the area) but I'll be out of town 1/24-28th and the weekend of the 29th will be CRUNCH time.

Anyone who goes, please fill me in. If you see the Pyrates Royale, Tell Mr Skivee I said hi!

Wincing_Devil
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Subject: RE: FSGW Minifest, Silver Spring MD
From: Wincing Devil
Date: 13 Jan 00 - 09:58 AM

The 's Minifest page has been updated. Click on over to http://www.fsgw.org/minifest.htm for more details.

Wincing Devil
There is no such thing as an ugly cat ( http://www.ILoveMySphynx.com)

Subject: RE: FSGW Minifest, Silver Spring MD
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 10 Jan 00 - 07:24 PM

Wincing,

Limp Biskit is a popular (with some) American punk-rock type of band.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: FSGW Minifest, Silver Spring MD
From: Wincing Devil
Date: 10 Jan 00 - 02:40 PM

I'm deathly afraid to ask, but I will...
What the jegoskas is a Limp Bizkit?

Subject: RE: FSGW Minifest, Silver Spring MD
From: Ferrara
Date: 10 Jan 00 - 12:43 AM

I'll be leading a ballads song swap from noon to 1 o'clock. Also, last time I heard, the Pyrates Royale were scheduled for a half-hour concert at 12:30. There will also be a sea shanty song swap sometime during the day.

The format of the MiniFest is singing, workshops, dance, crafts and food from noon to 5 or 6, then a dinner break (they try to have meals available but they sell out fast, however there are plenty of places to eat in the general neighborhood). Then both a dance and a concert in the evening, (at opposite ends of the building....) starting around 7:30. (Don't take that time as gospel, though.)

You can come for the afternoon, the evening or both. There will be lots of mudcatters on the program, including many of the same cast of characters who were at the FSGW Getaway. There's plenty of participatory stuff, not just at the song swaps, other sessions have lots of chorus songs etc and of course there's the dance workshops. House of Musical Traditions always has a booth which gets lots of business: sheet music, tapes, cassettes, instruments and accessories etc.

jeffp, I also have a lot to thank the Pyrates for: my 17 year old son and his friends love their music, heard them at the RenFest, and now go to the Royal Mile Pub and love it. It's a nice change from Smashing Pumpkins, Metallica and Limp Bizkit!!!

Subject: RE: FSGW Minifest, Silver Spring MD
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 09 Jan 00 - 09:57 PM

I just got the word. I will be performing from 1:30 - 2:00.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: FSGW Minifest, Silver Spring MD
From: JedMarum
Date: 09 Jan 00 - 10:20 AM

Thanks for the tips. I'll look into accommodations.

Subject: RE: FSGW Minifest, Silver Spring MD
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 09 Jan 00 - 01:58 AM

Liam--The nearest motel/hotel accommodations to the Eastern Middle School (FSGW minifest) are those in downtown Silver Spring, about 1-1/2 to 2 miles from the festival: there's a Holiday Inn on Georgia Avenue, a Day's Inn (on 13th Street), the Town Center Hotel (formerly a Quality Inn, on Colesville Road), and the Ramada Inn (on Georgia Avenue, which was an EconoLodge until a few weeks ago). Or you might wangle an invitation to come stay with someone in the Folk Shtetl of Silver Spring, between downtown and the site of the MiniFest. There are more than a half-dozen Mudcatters in that immediate neighborhood.

The schedule was being worked on this past week, but I'm leading a workshop entitled "The Soul of Song," looking at how one chooses and performs songs that are ment to move people rather than merely amuse them. Lisa Null, Joe Hickerson, Ed Trickett and myself, scheduled (tentatively) for Saturday afternoon from 4 to 5 p.m. [Ed Trickett is also one of the evening performers.]

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: FSGW Minifest, Silver Spring MD
From: Bruce O.
Date: 09 Jan 00 - 12:56 AM

There's little that's modest priced near Washington, D.C. and no motels within about 2 miles of where the festival will be. Maybe someone will suggest better, but if you're coming from the north come south on U.S. 29 (Colesville Road) and look for something 4-2 miles before University Boulevard (which is the street where the festival site will be, about 3 blocks east of US 29).

Subject: RE: FSGW Minifest, Silver Spring MD
From: JedMarum
Date: 08 Jan 00 - 10:43 PM

I will be performing on Saturday, haven't seen a schedule yet. Where should I stay? Are there good modest priced hotels in the area?

Subject: RE: FSGW Minifest, Silver Spring MD
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Jan 00 - 10:21 PM

yep..just call the # listed...went to sing last night and the chairwoman, Gail, was still asking for help...

Subject: RE: FSGW Minifest, Silver Spring MD
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 08 Jan 00 - 10:11 PM

I'd like to volunteer. Is there an e-mail contact, or do we just call the number on the page.

Thanks.

JAB

Subject: RE: FSGW Minifest, Silver Spring MD
From: Wincing Devil
Date: 08 Jan 00 - 06:41 PM

The shedule is at http://www.fsgw.org/minifest.htm Keep an eye on it, and I'll post any updates here.

Mayhaps we should all where something MudCattish?

Subject: RE: FSGW Minifest, Silver Spring MD
From: GutBucketeer
Date: 08 Jan 00 - 12:48 PM

Hey Everyone:

I will definitely be at the Mini-fest. Has the schedule been released? They usually have a workshops during the day and then a concert and dance at night.

JAB

Subject: RE: FSGW Minifest, Silver Spring MD
From: jeffp
Date: 07 Jan 00 - 02:19 PM

I discovered the Pyrates at the Maryland RenFest and their web site led me to the Mudcat. Obviously, I have a lot to thank them for!

Subject: RE: FSGW Minifest, Silver Spring MD
From: MMario
Date: 07 Jan 00 - 02:11 PM

I found IronWeed by sitting on my bum for hours waiting for the Pyrates.....(wallbutt hurts!)

Subject: RE: FSGW Minifest, Silver Spring MD
From: Wincing Devil
Date: 07 Jan 00 - 02:04 PM

Please don't get me wrong!

I am a Pyrates Fan as well. Skivee was my karate instructor lo those MANY years ago... (from Hi Ya! to Arrgghh!)

I found the Pyrates by calling HMT and asking about Ironweed.

Subject: RE: FSGW Minifest, Silver Spring MD
From: MMario
Date: 07 Jan 00 - 01:51 PM

hey! no rumbling of the Pyrates! Applauding, whistling, cheering, buying of drinks for, but no rumbling......

MMario/pyrate fan

Subject: RE: FSGW Minifest, Silver Spring MD
From: jeffp
Date: 07 Jan 00 - 01:44 PM

Sounds like fun! I think I can talk the wife into it, especially if the Pyrates are going to be there. Haven't been to the Royal Mile in ages.

Subject: FSGW Minifest, Silver Spring MD
From: Wincing Devil
Date: 07 Jan 00 - 01:05 PM

Folklore Society of Greater Washington

Mini Fest at Eastern Middle School, Silver Spring, MD

Any DC area Mudcatters interested in getting together at the FSGW Minifest on 1/29?
(Saturday, 29 January 2000, 12 noon to 6 pm and 7:30 to 10:30 pm)
We could gang up and rumble the Pyrates Royale!
Afterwards we could get together at The Royal Mile Pub (site of the monthly Sea Chanty sing)