Gainsborough OT Festival

Subject: Gainsborough OT Festival
From: BanjoRay
Date: 12 Jan 01 - 02:23 PM

This is the one you've all been waiting for (at least I have!). If you've never seen these people, you owe it to yourselves to go. This is the information I got from FOAOTMAD (I'm a member, but that's the only connection I have with this festival)

The Seventh Annual
Friends of American Old Time Music And Dance
Dedicated
Old Time
Music & Dance
Festival

The Weekend of February 16, 17 & 18th
Trinity Arts Centre
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England

From The USA:
The Gandydancer String Band
(Dave Bing, Jim Martin, Gerry Milnes, Ron Mullenex, Mark Payne)

Jim Costa & Jim Lloyd

Chris Ginn

From Ireland:
The Rough Deal String Band
(Bill Whelan, Tim Rogers, Ben Keogh)

From The UK:
Brian Golbey, Dave Arthur, Kate Lissauer

Workshops, Concerts, Sessions, Showcases, Bar, Food, Indoor Camping, Concessions
For Details phone [phone] or 01427 613643 (Keith Johnson)

Here's a Website

Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: Gainsborough OT Festival
From: GUEST,JB the Folkie Sailor
Date: 13 Jan 01 - 03:28 AM

I live in sunny Gainsborough and can assure you all that the O/T Festival is superb. Lots of music by the booked artistes and plenty of opportunity for the amateurs to show their talents in a great venue (an old church converted into a great auditorium with bar and other rooms for sessions etc.)

Gainsborough's a small town that badly needs this kind of event to be a success - come on all you O/T freaks, lay your money down and get along to the Main Event in the UK this year.

Subject: RE: Gainsborough OT Festival
From: BanjoRay
Date: 13 Jan 01 - 09:22 AM

Refresh me - give me some OLD TIME.
Jim Costa who's on at the festival does an unbelievably good Uncle Dave Macon impression, complete with foot stomping, twirling the banjo, shouts of HOT DOG etc. I watched him in a session on the porch at Cliffop festival last summer for three hours, playing with Mark Campbell on fiddle. It was beautiful - I can't wait to see him at Gainsborough.
Two other great guys to see are Dave Bing and Ron Mullenex from the Gandydancer band - Dave's a fine West Virginia fiddler who used to hang out with the Hammons Family, and does workshops with Dwight Diller. Ron is a great clawhammer banjo player also from WV
I think this year's Gainsborough is going to be a classic.
Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: Gainsborough OT Festival
From: BanjoRay
Date: 14 Jan 01 - 07:59 AM

The Rough Deal String Band came last year, and were the big surprise of the festival - they're from Dublin. Someone asked them what the Old Time scene was like in Ireland and they said they were it! They impressed everyone with how tight and clean they sounded. Bill Whelan is a lovely banjo player who really knows how to fit into a good band - he's as good as anyone from these islands.

Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: Gainsborough OT Festival
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 14 Jan 01 - 03:25 PM

Looking forward to it. I am new to old time but it is Geoff's thing and I am sure I am going to have a great time,

Subject: RE: Gainsborough OT Festival
From: BanjoRay
Date: 21 Jan 01 - 08:02 PM

I shall refresh this once a week until the festival.

Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: Gainsborough OT Festival
From: BanjoRay
Date: 01 Feb 01 - 07:51 PM

Refresh

Subject: RE: Gainsborough OT Festival
From: BanjoRay
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 06:00 PM

The FOAOTMAD Gainsborough UK Old Time festival is back on the weekend of 15-17 Feb 2002.

This year the stars are Tom, Brad and Alice from the States- that is Tom Sauber on banjo, Brad Leftwich on Fiddle and Alice Gerard on guitar.

The other bands will be The New Deal String Band (Ben Paley, Joe Locker and the legendary Tom Paley), Ireland's superb Rough Deal String Band with Bill Whelan immaculately playing his Kevin Enoch 12in banjo and a UK band Old Faded Glory, with Barry Murphy, John O'Connell and Tony Wetjen.

Chris Ginn from the US, a favorite from last year, will be doing and teaching his high octane flatfooting and buckdancing, while Roughshod from Gloucestershire will also be dancing and teaching.

After the festival, there will be a three day workshop run by Tom, Brad and Alice on their respective band instruments.

Anything else?
A bar and loads of classrooms to hold jams and workshops - many members bring their instruments

Where is it? -
Castle Hills Community Arts College,
The Avenue,
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.
This is a new venue.

Accommodation? -
Indoor camping in the college (or outside if you bring a tent)

Cost? -
Festival weekend ticket (indoor camping included)35 pounds (non-members of FOAOTMAD) 30 pounds (members)
Post-festival Workshops(indoor camping & food included) - 120 pounds (non-members), 110 pounds (members)

Where from? -
Keith Johnson [phone]
15 Walkerith Road
Morton
Gainsborough
Lincs
DN21 3DA
[e-mail]

What is FOAOTMAD?
HREF="http://www.pillard.demon.co.uk/foaotmad/">Friends Of American Old Time Music And Dance, a UK national society

Cheers
Ray (a member who'll be going, but not an organizer)

Subject: RE: Gainsborough OT Festival
From: BanjoRay
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 06:03 PM

I'll try that link again

Friends Of American Old Time Music And Dance

Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: Gainsborough OT Festival
From: BanjoRay
Date: 14 Jan 02 - 06:08 PM

AAAAAGH! it's FOAOTMAD

gulp!

Ray

Subject: RE: Gainsborough OT Festival
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 15 Jan 02 - 06:09 AM

Ray - I think that using last years thread might confuse people. I propose that this would be a good time to start a new thread entitled something like Gainsborough Old-time 2002.
By the way, we have already got a flyer through the post and intend to get there if time and tide allow!
Quack
GtD.