Cobh Maritime Song Festival 2004

Subject: Cobh Maritime Song Festival 2004
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Jun 04 - 09:23 AM

The second Cobh Maritime Song Festival will take place June 11 - 13. Singers are: The Canniffe Family, John Connoly, Jimmy Crowley, Dan Milner & Bob Conroy, Mick Moloney, Johnny Moynihan and The Press Gang.

Full details at Cobh Maritime Song Festival.

Subject: RE: Cobh Maritime Song Festival 2004
From: MartinRyan
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 03:09 PM

Hadn't heard about this. Gonna try to get there...

Regards

Subject: RE: Cobh Maritime Song Festival 2004
From: JWB
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 03:43 PM

That's the same time as the Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival in Connecticut -- there should be a nice harmonic balance across The Pond.

BTW, how does one pronounce "Cobh"?

Jerry

Subject: RE: Cobh Maritime Song Festival 2004
From: MartinRyan
Date: 08 Jun 04 - 06:35 PM

Cove!

Regards

Subject: RE: Cobh Maritime Song Festival 2004
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 Jun 04 - 03:32 AM

Cobh....Where the Titanic finally left from on its fateful journey. Hope the festival "goes down well". Be Blessed.

Subject: RE: Cobh Maritime Song Festival 2004
From: sian, west wales
Date: 09 Jun 04 - 06:56 AM

And the Lusitania (or however that's spelt) too, I do believe.

sian

Subject: RE: Cobh Maritime Song Festival 2004
From: MartinRyan
Date: 14 Jun 04 - 08:28 AM

Festival went very well, indeed. Beautiful location, wonderful venue (best acoustic for singing I've heard in a long time), great sessions, lovely people... Not much sleep, mind you!

Liam's Brother, Mariner and I held up the Mudcat banner as best we could.

Many thanks to the anonymous GUEST who started this trhead - I'd have missed a great weekend but for that.

Regards
p.s. A particularly unexpected but welcome bonus was free beer! A local micro-brewery supplied some kegs of an excellent lager which was doled out at the interval during the gigs. Audience participation seemed to improve in the second half!

Subject: RE: Cobh Maritime Song Festival 2004
From: MARINER
Date: 14 Jun 04 - 04:09 PM

Aye, 'twas a good one all right. Not a lot of sleep but worth every minute of lost kip.The walk up to that pub "The Roaring Donkey" was a killer but it too, was well worth it, just to hear the fine songs and great chorus'ringing out at 2 a.m.at the "Top o' The Town" It was great to see and hear Johnny Moynihan, a much under appreciated musician and singer.( His parody on "Mother Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" knocked me out. Has anyone any idea of the words? ) Great too to hear and to meet Dan Milner and Bob Conroy, The Press Gang, John Connolly, Mick Maloney , The Caniffe Family and that fine singer from Girvan,Robbie Rob.And where would we be without Cork's finest the one and only Jimmy Crowley?. Sound man Jimmy, never let it be said your mother reared a jibber!
Personal thanks to the pilots of Cork Harbour for letting us moor the old Passion Wagon in their car park. Unfortunately on the way home I tore my A

Subject: RE: Cobh Maritime Song Festival 2004
From: MARINER
Date: 14 Jun 04 - 04:15 PM

Oops, that should be Achilles Tendon and not what I'm sure some of you thought.

Subject: RE: Cobh Maritime Song Festival 2004
From: JWB
Date: 14 Jun 04 - 04:21 PM

I learned over the weekend of a clever method for maximizing family participation in sea music festivals: divide and conquer. Bonnie Milner held down the US half of the bargain in Mystic while husband Dan Milner yeodeled there in Cork. Brilliant! Mystic had Tommy Makem, as well, to provide a touch o' green, though not truly representing Ireland; as he put it in an introduction to a song, "I'm from the autonomous nation of South Armagh."

Jerry