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Thread #136685 Message #3170475
Posted By: Charley Noble
14-Jun-11 - 11:25 AM
Thread Name: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
Subject: RE: Mystic Sea Music Festival 2011 line-up
Thanks to Geoff Kaufman and all the other staff and volunteers who produced this magnificent sea music festival, and to the folks who attended.
Special thanks to the kitchen crew at the YTB who prepared our breakfasts, lunches and dinners.
This year Julie and her sales staff at the Boathouse did an outstanding job with the CDs. Everything was well displayed, inventoried, and ready for check-out when performers were leaving the Festival on Sunday.
Some of my favorite memories was just wandering around with Roll & Go on Friday when we had nothing official to do. First we serenaded the old Maine steamboat Sabino and then took a short harbor cruise aboard her. Then we crawled all over the Charles W. Morgan (which is being completely rebuilt) and led a few shanties on her deck. We also did an impromptu set at the performance stage by the Spouter Inn, and then scoped out the Greenmanville Church to see how best to deal with its very live acoustics when we were doing the C. Fox Smith workshop.
I have to say that the Dutch group Kapriol was one of my favorites, among performers who I am less familiar with. They have energy and talent on all levels, and one is irresistibly drawn in to sing with them with hardly a clue what one is singing! Tom Kastle obviously had great fun leading one of their traditional songs with them, "Hand Over Hand."
The Northern Neck Chantey Singers also did a great job of demonstrating how their traditional net-hauling songs were really done.
There's a whole lot more I could say but maybe some other survivors should post their remarks. I have a whole lot of photo editing to do, thanks to JudyB who only managed to come down Saturday and Sunday but still shot 700 photos; I only managed to shoot about a dozen photos, mostly while we were cruising aboard the steamboat Sabino.
Cheerily,
Charley Noble