Lancaster (UK) Easter 2004

Subject: Lancaster (UK) Easter 2004
From: Blowzabella
Date: 16 Sep 03 - 07:39 PM

I'm reliably informed that next year's Lancaster Easter Maritime Festival is on and going ahead on 9th to 12th April 2004 - similar format to previous years - phone 0([phone] to go on the mailing list - no details of performers yet.

Subject: RE: Lancaster (UK) Easter 2004
From: Skipper Jack
Date: 17 Sep 03 - 04:52 AM

Brilliant!

Subject: RE: Lancaster (UK) Easter 2004
From: GUEST,Val
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 12:47 PM

Further to the above - pleased to advise that Sid Kipper (Sat & Sun), Roy Harris (Fri to Mon) and New Scorpion Band (Sun & Mon) are now definite - many, many more to come...

Subject: RE: Lancaster (UK) Easter 2004
From: GUEST,Val
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 11:38 AM

The final line-up for this year's Festival now looks like:

Cyril Tawney, Louis Killen, Hughie Jones, Sid Kipper, Dick Miles, Stormalong John, The New Scorpion Band, Geoff Higginbottom, Jim Eldon, Derek Gifford, Red Duster, The Shellback Chorus, John Conolly, Baggyrinkle, Roaring Forties, Forebitter, Trim Rig & A Doxy, The Shanty Crew, Mollyhawks, Paul Sirman, John Horsey, Johnny Collins, Debra Cowan, Four 'n' Aft, Steve Dawes & Helen Pitt, Three Sheets to the Wind, Keith Kendrick, LocTup Together, Roy Harris, Graeme Knights, Monkey's Fist, Sheafknot, Shanty Jack, Portsmouth Shantymen, Bitter End, Hautbois, The Keelers, Barrie & Ingrid Temple, Dave Webber & Anni Fentiman, Scold's Bridle, Harry Brown Shantymen, Danny & Joyce McLeod, Richard Grainger,Tim Laycock, Th'Antique Roadshow, The Endeavour Shantymen and Benny Graham & Chuck Fleming.

Other entertainments include talks by Roy Palmer and Alan Bell, guided walks, nautical dramas, knot-tying and ropework demos, a Georgian period 'Trafalgar Victory Fair' and, on Easter Sunday, the Twelfth National Sedan Chair Carrying Championships!

If you would like further information or to be placed on the mailing list, to receive a full programme, as soon as it is available, please telephone [phone] and leave your name and address. Alternatively, please email [e-mail]

Thanks

Val

Subject: RE: Lancaster (UK) Easter 2004
From: karen k
Date: 18 Feb 04 - 01:44 PM

I'll be there and I can't wait. WOW!!! What a great line-up. How will I ever take in everything! I recognize many performers and look forward to getting to hear some new people.

Thank you Val for this information.

karen

Subject: RE: Lancaster (UK) Easter 2004
From: GUEST,val
Date: 25 Feb 04 - 11:47 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Lancaster (UK) Easter 2004
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Feb 04 - 11:58 AM

Val, what are the predictions for the tides this year? Shanty singers don't like actual contact with the sea, you know!

Subject: RE: Lancaster (UK) Easter 2004
From: GUEST,Val
Date: 25 Feb 04 - 01:33 PM

All bodes well, guest - after a couple of scary years, when we had to have an FCP (Flood Contingency Plan!) there aren't any particularly high tides this Easter.

For the uninitiated - if tides are particularly high, combined with heavy rain in the previous days and wind from the right/wrong direction, several of the venues used for the Festival can, shall we say, join in with the mood of the weekend -i.e. get very wet!

Subject: RE: Lancaster (UK) Easter 2004
From: Blowzabella
Date: 04 Mar 04 - 06:38 PM

Roll up, roll up - step this way to the world's biggest gathering of sea-song and shanty singers....

Subject: RE: Lancaster (UK) Easter 2004
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 04 Mar 04 - 07:08 PM

...and room, room brave boys. Give us time to sport. For in this Lancaster Maritime Festival we wish to resort...

Sort of thing.

Cheers

Dave the Hectoring gnome
(who might be in the Lancaster Pace Egg Play)

Subject: RE: Lancaster (UK) Easter 2004
From: 8_Pints
Date: 04 Mar 04 - 10:49 PM

I shall be there in the Shellbacks!

Bob vG

Subject: RE: Lancaster (UK) Easter 2004
From: DebC
Date: 05 Mar 04 - 12:24 PM

and I shall be there...well...with me self, I suppose. :-)

Debra Cowan

Subject: RE: Lancaster (UK) Easter 2004
From: Blowzabella
Date: 02 Apr 04 - 04:54 PM

For those as 'aven't seen this yet....

Subject: RE: Lancaster (UK) Easter 2004
From: GUEST,Joanne Brannigan
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 02:16 PM

I've just moved into the Lancaster area and have heard of this - I like folk but don't know much about sea songs and shanties. Can anyone tell me what to expect? There are quite a few names on the guest list I recognise. Does it come recommended?

Subject: RE: Lancaster (UK) Easter 2004
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 07 Apr 04 - 09:05 AM

Highly recommended, Joanne. Just watch out for being kidnapped by the press gang or snogged by men with black faces... It's a bugger to wash off:-)

Cheers

DtG
(who will be one of those black faced men on Friday)

Subject: RE: Lancaster (UK) Easter 2004
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 07 Apr 04 - 12:58 PM

Pampers baby wipes get it off Dave - but not cheap imitation ones!

Subject: RE: Lancaster (UK) Easter 2004
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Apr 04 - 01:10 PM