Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping

Subject: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: GUEST,Ray padgett (at home)
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 07:02 AM

Barnsley folk club hosts as usual its annual Singaround based at the Shaw Inn Jct 37 m1 0ne mile

Musicians session led by Roy Hardacre and Tony Callaghan and friends

Upstairs Fridaypm ~ Sat all day, Sunday 1pm Special with Mark Dowding and Chris Harvey [Harry Boardman]

Food available thro day, ajacent to Barnsley a small market town, just 14 miles from Holmfirth

Visitors expected and pub take over Saturday during day until 7pm
Survivors session Sunday (upstairs room)
Indoor Camping at YMCA 5 mins walk from the Shaw Inn
01226 284927

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: GUEST,Yorkie
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 08:50 AM

Here I am travelling from South Yorkshire to Hampshire at Easter for the Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival.

Now I find there's an Easter Singaround just 10 miles from my home.

Hope it all goes well Ray.

The website for the Gosport & Fareham Festival is www.gosportfestival.co.uk - have you a website Ray for the Barnsley Singaround?

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: Micca
Date: 06 Feb 05 - 09:08 AM

Did this one a coupla Years ago, it was Great fun and well worth the effort, didnt try the indoor camping but the Saturday evening session was a cracker.

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: GUEST,padgett
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 03:26 AM

No Web site, just turn up drunk of sober and have a great time singing/playing and enjoying the craic a lot of interest

Past Sunday guests have included John Conolly & Pete Sumner
T'Antiques, Doc Rowe, Benny Graham, Cockersdale, Scolds Bridle

This year Mark Dowding and Chris Harvey (see above)

Folk club every Monday at 8.30pm musicians and singers welcome

Ray Padgett

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 04:08 AM

Will be theere Saturday tha knaws Page me auld mate. By the way what do they call a pork pie in a pub after 7.30p.m. 'Summatt to ate'

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: padgett
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 04:53 AM

Cheers Jimmy!

Makings of a good 'en then

new landlord and landlady (Irish) Booker knows 'em

got landlady involved this year and gave breifing at last meeting!

Food etc

Ray Padgett festival Director (still!!)

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 07 Feb 05 - 02:24 PM

Won't make it this year as we are heading for Miskin but its always a good sing so well worth going to.

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: padgett
Date: 08 Feb 05 - 07:52 AM

Ok Jane all the best to you and Geoff and the Ducklings!
Ray Padgett

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: GUEST,padgett (at home)
Date: 09 Feb 05 - 03:15 AM

Indoor camping £5 for full weekend

An experience you'll not forget, meet characters frrom all over Britain (if they come)

rumoured Mummers are coming on the Saturday!

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: GUEST,Les B.
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 12:58 AM

So, for those of us on the other side of the pond - what is "indoor camping" ? Inquiring minds want to know.

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: padgett
Date: 10 Feb 05 - 05:59 AM

Hy Les indoor camping is when in the cold climate of Britain at Easter it is far too cold to take your tent to a venue

The indoor camping makes use of community halls, scout huts, church hall, youth centre venues and similar and permits singers and musicians to bting their matresses airbeds sleeping bags etc and sleep together communially (yep great fun) often singing cinbtinues well intop the night and breakfast may be late!!

Barnsley is just such an event using YMCA Community hall next to the town centre and all amenities including late night pubs/clubs and fast food outlets if you wish

A great experience on a smaller scale to the big outdoor festivals and adopted by many UKL festivals
Ray Padgett

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: GUEST,padgett (at home)
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 11:22 AM

Just to refresh you:
Barnsley Folk Club meets every Monday at 8.45pm for singing, has a music session from about 8pm

next guest Feb 28th Donal O'Connor
March 25th to 27th is Easter see above
April 11th Robin Garside
May 23rd Mary Humphries and Anahata

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: GUEST,Mark Dowding
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 11:27 AM

Just to clarify what Chris Harvey and myself are doing - Both have us have been admirers of Harry Boardman's work over the years - Chris from the sixties and myself in the seventies and eighties. I was a resident at Harry's club for a few years in the early 80's. Harry died at the age of 57 in 1987 and the pair of us felt that the songs of the industrial North West that he brought to the attention of the country with LPs like "Deep Lancashire" and "Owdham Edge" were no longer being heard apart from one or two people such as myself and Sid Calderbank keeping them going. Chris and I decided that the time was right to have a revival of these songs and we set about recording a number of the songs that Harry sang on a CD - "A Mon Like Harry". I was doing the singing in a style similar to that of Harry and indeed the banjo I play is one of Harry's that I bought off him. The recording was done by Chris in a style similar to what you'd hear on the old Topic LPs. Last summer we performed a show/workshop similar to the one we've been asked to do at Easter at various festivals including Four Fools, Saddleworth and Fylde. The response we got was fantastic from either people who remembered the songs and Harry in his heyday or from people who had never heard them before but appreciated the historical aspect of them as opposed to the more comedic/music hall style of the Lancashire dialect songs that were being sung by various people and groups.
Chris and I are both looking forward to this Easter Sunday and we hope to see you there.
More details of Harry's work HERE

Cheers
Mark

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: GUEST,padgett
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 06:23 AM

March 27th 2006 Judy Cook at Barnsley Folk Club, starts at 8pm with a music session, club kick off at 8.30pm on guest nights

Easter weekend singaround at the Shaw, indoor camping at the YMCA as last year

Special guests on Easter Sunday this year Danny and Joyce McLeod will be presenting their Cicely Fox Smith workshop of poems /songs for 1pm until 4pm ish folowed by survivors session!!

All welcome on the Friday (Good Friday) from 7.30pm Upstairs singaround Fri evening, Saturday upstairs and downstairs in the pub from Noon until about 5.30pm Evening session for 7.30pm on Sat Upstairs only, so get there early!



Upstairs room is no smoking, pub is smoking downstairs

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 06:58 AM

Sorry Padgett i am off to Miskin too as its only 10 minutes away from me.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 07:18 AM

Oh Raymond ....!

Barnsley ..... Co Mayo ........... Co Mayo ....... Barnsley ......

No, looks like Barnsley loses out again

Have a great time, well I'm sure you will with a good influx of Lancastrians to show you how to have a smashing time !!

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: GUEST,padgett
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 07:38 AM

Lots of best wishes to those who aren't coming!

plenty of camping room available at the YM but parking at a premium for full weekend (no probs Sat for on Street after 6pm and Easter Sunday)

Is Lancaster on?

Ray

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: nutty
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 09:49 AM

Yes Ray, Lancaster is on and for the full easter Weekend (4 days). I'm spoilt for choice again.

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: Mr Happy
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 11:05 AM

any room for tent camping?

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: r.padgett
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 06:22 PM

Hello Mr Happy!

We have a few traffic Islands with grassed areas for tight wads!

Barnsley has to be the cheapest going apart from staying at home

Ray

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: Mr Happy
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 06:23 PM

serialously, is there a camping area for tents?

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: Mr Happy
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 06:25 PM

because may have 2 blind fiends with me & they'll need a proper camp sight!

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: r.padgett
Date: 21 Mar 06 - 01:20 PM

Sadly no not really

Blind friends or fiends most welcome, tho

The Community Hall area is quite user friendly with toilets and showers and few steps

better to have them with us I feel

Ray

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: My guru always said
Date: 22 Mar 06 - 09:04 AM

Looks like you're having a good time up there Ray, and tempting though it is, I'll be at Miskin. Have a good one!

Subject: RE: Easter Singaround with Indoor Camping
From: GUEST,padgett
Date: 23 Mar 06 - 08:28 AM

Do you know I have never been to Miskin or Lancaster!

They wont let me out at Easter

Hope everyone has agood one

Ray