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Thread #155693 Message #3665168
Posted By: CupOfTea
01-Oct-14 - 05:53 PM
Thread Name: Getaway 2014: memories and stories after the event
Subject: RE: Getaway 2014: memories and stories after the event
Got home and realized I got my camera out for only 4 pictures, so the memorable images are all in my mind's eye - but there they have a sound track. Without my notes:
- The peculiar German pre WWII string-box thing and the story that went with it in Bob Zentz' instrument session. Same session, Bob on Hurdy-Gurdy and Jeanne sublime on recorder (she was rather splendid even without recorder).
- Meeting people who are known names and voices face to face for the first time, like Bob Zentz & Anne Mayo Muir. Also putting faces and voices to Mudcat names.
- Faces and voices of friends seldom seen, Caroline Paton, Carly Gwirtz... and the voices and humor of those long adored but seldom seen like Ed Trickett, Gordon Bok, and the wondrous Heather Wood (I've a vivid memory of the time when she was sitting in the Nature Center in such a way that the antlers from the beastie skull behind her looked like they came right out of her head!) Lots of time to talk and sing with Caroline - to the wee hours.
- Folks heard and met for the first time - the lovely YOUNG lass who sang at the Irish session and Sunday night - oh, my, I look forward to what she'll do in the future (gotta look up her name in my notes)
- Big Mick having us shaking with laughter as he told Irish festival musician stories.
- Quiet time to talk with several people, both known and new, about music, faith, social justice, poverty & making do (from a personal point of view), the Great lakes in general and Cleveland in particular.
- the astonishingly loud ruckus that the large flock of geese made at sundown.
- the incredible bliss of being in a group of singers who would sing full-tilt on songs I'm used to singing alone at home, particularly when they'd join in on the chorus.
I've so much gratitude for all the folks who got me to the Getaway, all the folks who so generously shared their beloved songs and stories. The solo drive home took 2 hours longer than the drive there - stops for naps seemed prudent for getting me home safely. The beauty of the travel through changing colors and the weekend's summer weather gave an extra depth to the bittersweet feeling of transience that such fleeting, intense events as the Getaway evoke for me. Summer is past, the Getaway is past, and I'm hoping the richness of memories of the experience can warm me through a winter threatening to be severe.
Joanne back in Cleveland