From Toronto to N.O. need folk-fun!

Subject: From Toronto to N.O. need folk-fun!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 09:03 PM

My student (and friend) Tucker is taking one of those marvelous unhurried vacations with her significant other in a couple of weeks. Destination: New Orleans. They've asked if I'd post this in order to get some information on folky things to see and do along the way. I gather that their route down South will be guided by whatever attractions may be suggested here. So any help will be appreciated.

Right off the bat, I'm going to suggest Bristol (is that in Virginia or Tenn.?) The site of the first country recordings of the Carter Family and Jimmie Rogers...not to mention Rev. Alfred Karnes (Sandy's and my fave)

The Carter Family compound is near there and to the best of my knowledge their Saturday night square dances run all year.

Tucker and Travis are the founders of one of the hottest new Cowboy/Cowgal bands in Canada right now, The Jayne Waynes, and they need ADVENTURES!

Thanks

Rick

Subject: RE: From Toronto to N.O. need folk-fun!
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 09:39 PM

Rick, don't forget that museum down by Spaw with the zillions of instruments, etc. He raves about it and the pix looked great.

Subject: RE: From Toronto to N.O. need folk-fun!
From: Amergin
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 09:43 PM

you mean the Appalachian Museum?

Subject: RE: From Toronto to N.O. need folk-fun!
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 10:07 PM

Well if they go down through the Bristol area, then I'd come back up through Mississippi to Memphis...tons of things in Memphis and Mississippi has several blues things obviously. Go to Nashville from Memphis ....lots there too! Then across to Knoxville and up 75 a few miles to the Museum of Appalachia in Norris. Up 75 and stop at Berea, could be a number of things going on there. 71 north out of Cincy to 70 east in Columbus...I'll meet them or they can stop by...then take 77 North out of Cambridge and stop at Warther's in Dover...he was a carver and if you have any doubts about why EVERYONE should see this place, ask Hollowfox. On to Cleveland for whatever (R&R Hall??) and on home. If any of that intersets you let me know and I'll detail a few things.

Spaw

Subject: RE: From Toronto to N.O. need folk-fun!
From: Sorcha
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 10:46 PM

And they can come through Wyoming on their way home and meet kat and I...........(hee hee hee)

Subject: RE: From Toronto to N.O. need folk-fun!
From: Big Mick
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 11:36 PM

And, of course, since they will be in Wyoming anyway, they might as well come home through Michigan and stop off at Gun Lake for some Big Mick hospitality.....LOL.

Mick

Subject: RE: From Toronto to N.O. need folk-fun!
From: Sorcha
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 11:56 PM

Of course, Mick. Why not? They could take a short detour and visit JenEllen, to, no?

Subject: RE: From Toronto to N.O. need folk-fun!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 09:22 AM

If they pass this way we'd be glad to jam, or maybe they are interested in our Saturday Night Service. We are in north central PA near routes 6 & 15.

~S~

Subject: RE: From Toronto to N.O. need folk-fun!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 12:07 PM

Yeah, Nashville. Gotta stop there. I think a trip to the Opry would be nice, but a trip to The Ryman Auditorium is a MUST. Also Tootsie's Orchid Lounge next door, where all the singers in the forties and fifties used to congregate before and after their Opry appearances.

Rick

Subject: RE: From Toronto to N.O. need folk-fun!
From: Hollowfox
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 06:35 PM

Rick, if they like, I'm available as a stopping place for dinner, free sleeping accomodations, visiting, and/or emergencies. If you don't have it, PM me for my phone number, at least; it's always good to have for emergencies. Yeah, the Warther Museum in Dover, Ohio is well worth seeing, and it's not so huge that you have to lose a day's driving time to see it. My route for my annual trip to the Bristol Area (it's actually in both states. Really) is to go down I-77 through West Virginia. Beautiful scenery. If you go, the "Tamarak" Art Center has nice, but hugely expensive art, folk and otherwise. It does have the saving grace of looking like Cleopatra, the African Strangler plant on the Addams Family TV series from the 1960's. This will drop you onto I-81 in western Virginia. I'd recommend stopping for a bit at Dixie Pottery in Abingdon, Virginia; a truly strange amalgam of neat stuff and kitsch from good ronware for your kitchen and good stick candy to those ceramic plant stands shaped like an elephant that my elderly relatives used to like. Bristol is close to Johnson City, Tenn., home of the Pickin' Parlor, just Tucker's type of place. The Fox Motel is inexpensive, run by a nice Indian couple. And then there's Jonesborough, Tenn., home of the National Storytelling Association (or whatever they're calling it this week *g*), and several nifty shops. Steve in the glass shop and Gary in Jonesborough Pottery are musicians. Tell them I said "hi", if you stop by. Safe journey to them, Mary Hermance

Subject: RE: From Toronto to N.O. need folk-fun!
From: Amos
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 08:30 PM

And down to Jamestown there's the Colonial reconstruction which might be fun; they can chat with pre-Revolutionary re-enactors and sit in on an early trial-by-jury. I enjoyed the hell out of watching the old craftsmen and cabinet makers and smiths.

A

Subject: RE: From Toronto to N.O. need folk-fun!
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 08:42 PM

Thanks 'Fox for a validation on Warther's! Rick, if YOU are ever here it is a MUST see....won't be able to drag your rump out.

I agree with the I-77 route too, very beautiful and Mary points out the places along the way and in Bristol....nice area.

One way or another, they have to go through Knoxville. Norris is a sort 25 miles north and the "Museum of Appalachia" is one of those places that simply is filled with more folklore of all types and the artifacts that go with it......You have to see the place.

Spaw

Subject: RE: From Toronto to N.O. need folk-fun!
From: GUEST,Hutzul
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 11:49 PM

This may be too commercial for some of you, but we had great Cajun music and food at Mulate's in N.O.