Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Astro De Verb
Date: 03 Jun 04 - 10:18 AM

Hey. This festival sounds really good. Of course I've never heard of it myself, and I've never even been to Middlewich in my life. Honest.
How do the organisers do it? I mean, to organise such a feast of entertainment at such reasonable cost makes them, in my view, almost akin to gods. Do they have supernatural powers?
Of course, you understand, I'm not biased as I've never heard of the festival before and I've never been to Middlewich. Honest

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,IanN
Date: 03 Jun 04 - 08:58 AM

Hi

Not had chance to sort out putting the "very good value" event guide on sale via the web yet. Opinions on whether it will be worthwhile welome!

Ian.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: Josher
Date: 02 Jun 04 - 10:27 AM

Sorry mean't good, although it could be God not sure now, anyway the event guide is worth the price.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 30 May 04 - 06:25 AM

very godd value I think.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: Josher
Date: 27 May 04 - 11:53 AM

Yes all the workshops are free, but you will need to purchase an event guide £1.50 which will give you all the times, locations etc of not just the workshops but everything else that is happening including the fringe. Godd value or what?

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST
Date: 27 May 04 - 07:03 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 22 May 04 - 12:31 PM

Are these workshops free? Do you have to book in advance?

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,IanN
Date: 21 May 04 - 07:42 AM

Guest asked about workshops. We have...

2 each on fiddle and guitar with Seth Lakeman & Benji Kirkpatrick.

Mandolin with Simon Mayor.

Bodhran workshop with North West Folk Music.

Blues harmonica with Craig Moores.

There are numerous sessions in pubs - Boar's Head, Kings Lock, Kinderon Arms and Big Lock.

Plus Open Mike session with the Salt Town Poets.

There's so much goping on the only way to really find out is to buy a programme! On sale now in Middlewich (£1.50) and soon via the website (£1.50 with a pre paid envelope).

Ian.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST, Hamish
Date: 21 May 04 - 04:45 AM

I'm rather hoping that some 'catters will "meet the artist(s)" on Saturday evening: otherwise I could be awful lonely... :-(

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Kate
Date: 21 May 04 - 03:43 AM

Yes there will be various workshops over the weekend. I will post further info later, when I have it to hand.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 20 May 04 - 06:11 PM

Do you have any workshops? ( for music )

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 20 May 04 - 06:08 PM

I presume the Boars head is a pub? What sessions are on?

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 19 May 04 - 06:10 AM

Its the Boars Head for me. Might even pop up to the Cheshire Singers concert upstairs instead of sitting in the session all day and night.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,IanN
Date: 18 May 04 - 08:42 AM

Now now! All are welcome at Middlewich.

Ian.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST
Date: 17 May 04 - 08:55 AM

Guest, PTH is Punch the Horse which is a band followed by an annoying bunch of people from some poxy eastern county who seem to take over Mudcat from time to time with their illiterate ramblings. They have their own special thread so that can't annoy the rest of us. I'd keep well clear if I were you.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Kate
Date: 15 May 04 - 02:48 PM

Hi guest - more info about the horse boat...

Horseboating required great skill and knowledge. Working with and caring for horses was central to canal life, and we cannot understand that society without a much better awareness of the part played by horses. At its best, horse-power was a very efficient means of transport. At a steady walk, a horse could pull fifty times as much cargo in a boat as it could on the roads. Achieving this needed close working relationships between crews and horses, and between crew members themselves.

Re-introducing horseboating today is not easy. Some parts of the canals have been altered to make it hard for horses to work, and there are many issues of access and safety. Finding suitable horses with the training necessary for this work is difficult. Most of all, few people now have the necessary skills, and even fewer the detailed memory of how horseboating was actually done in its commercial heyday.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 15 May 04 - 02:42 PM

who or what is PTH?

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,IanN
Date: 14 May 04 - 07:49 AM

Er...

Not officially, so no. Unless they can say otherwise.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: Willa
Date: 14 May 04 - 06:53 AM

Is PTH taking part?

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,IanN
Date: 14 May 04 - 06:44 AM

It's a boat drawn by a horse.

Clever things horses although I don't know how they manage to hold pencils...

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 11 May 04 - 03:40 PM

this horse drawn boat - whats that all about?

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Kate
Date: 08 May 04 - 09:20 AM

I haven't seen him before, but have heard good reviews and reports...

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Andy Mac
Date: 06 May 04 - 06:00 AM

Thanks Kate

Very interesting but what I want though is someone to tell me what he's like!

As he & Atilla "clash" with Show of Hands I need to decide who to go & see!

Anyone ever seen him before?

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Kate
Date: 05 May 04 - 06:33 PM

Hi Andy,

You can check out more on David Rovics on http://www.davidrovics.com/

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Andy Mac
Date: 05 May 04 - 08:50 AM

I see they've got Atilla the Stockbroker who I like. Anyone know anything about David Rovics whose playing with him?

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 05 May 04 - 08:49 AM

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Kate
Date: 02 May 04 - 12:10 PM

Just to let you know that the Daystar theatre group will also be performing and on the Sunday we have a horse drawn boat display.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: Tracey Dragonsfriend
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 07:50 AM

And there'll probably be a stall run by my friends Jeff & Lesley Wyatt, with knotwork & pyrography. They're nice people, and do some lovely work - give them a look!

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Andy Mac
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 07:40 AM

Knowing nothing about boats I wanted to make sure that it wasn't a boat festival with a couple of concerts thrown in. I've since looked at the Artists line-up and can see that that is far from the case!

Reading the messages in this thread it looks like the camping facilities are pretty good and that there would be plenty of opportunities to have a go myself - I'll bring the guitar!

Cheers all, Andy.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 30 Apr 04 - 07:02 AM

The MFAB has one of the best fringe festivals around. Great friendly bunch of nutters the boaties and the folkies are not bad either.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: Josher
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 02:46 PM

Hi Andy
It's both lots of boats and lots of folk including singarounds and sessions, there is also a very active fringe with lots of venues, all free I might add, in the pubs. There iare also a lot of dance sides in the town over the weekend as well
There is lots going on and the town is taken over Friday, saturday and Sunday by Folkies and Boaties
so If I was you i would come on down and see what all the fuss is about

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Andy Mac
Date: 29 Apr 04 - 06:26 AM

As people seem to be using this thread to ask questions about Middlewich...

Never been to Middlewich Festival. Is it mostly folk or mostly boats? Also what is the festival like for sessions & singarounds?

Andy (Gloucester)

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,IanN
Date: 21 Apr 04 - 06:58 AM

Hamish - it was - is your day job being a detective!

Rob - not a problem - it's true! Taggart & Wright would be very welome guests at the Salt Town Poets Open Mike during the festival. I should imagine there will be a few more people there than there was at the Winter Warner one!

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,rob
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 06:59 AM

Thanks for the compliment Ian.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST, Hamish (again)
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 07:10 AM

that you again, Ian?

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 05:58 AM

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,IanN
Date: 13 Apr 04 - 04:55 AM

Taggart & Wright were welcome guests at Middlewich's Winter Warmer Festival last November. I can certainly vouch for how good they were. I'm not just saying that to get this thread back up the board either!

Ian.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,rob
Date: 07 Apr 04 - 10:25 AM

thats what they pay me for!

Seeing is believing!

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Apr 04 - 10:15 AM

How could we. You remind us how good they are on nearly every thread!

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,rob
Date: 07 Apr 04 - 10:06 AM

Hey dont forget the fantastic TAGGART AND WRIGHT they will be there somewhere somehow sometime.!

www.sky-web.net/taggartandwright/

for more info

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 07 Apr 04 - 09:05 AM

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Sarah
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 09:05 AM

Many thanks Ian, that sounds good.

Cheers
Sarah

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,IanN
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 07:01 AM

Sarah asked about the camping.

We have a very large campsite. Its about 1/2 hour walk from the festival sites but there is a free shuttle bus. The campsite is right on the edge of the town with farmland on two sides and decent housing on the others so I would say it was child friendly. There are indoor toilet facilities that have been upgraded since last year. There will be breakfasts provided by the scouts and they will also be doing evening grub if you order it in advance. Ready for when you get back from the gig! The grub will be nice - my Mum is the cook!

Ian.

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: Phot
Date: 06 Apr 04 - 05:39 AM

How can you lose a roof tent on a bright red 110?

Wassail

Chris

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: fiddler
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 03:45 PM

I'll wait and see Phot - I need to have a tent there B4 I climb up - unless there are lions about!

Andy

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Sarah
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 03:24 PM

Hmmmm. If that coincides with the hubby's school chess weekend it could be one for me and the kids (they don't run around in concerts though)!

Cheers
Sarah (the other fiddler)

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: Phot
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 12:57 PM

F*** me now thats a line up! I'll try and get there this year. Ican't think of a better way of combining two of my favorite hobbies!

And if I can get my Landy back on the road, watch out Fiddler, you may wake up on the wrong roof! :~)

Wassail Chris

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Sarah
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 06:48 AM

Many thanks - it did that time!

Cheers
Sarah

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST, Hamish
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 06:29 AM

It should have worked. Try this: festival web site

Subject: RE: Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival 2004
From: GUEST,Sarah
Date: 05 Apr 04 - 05:56 AM

This sounds like a good weekend away! What's the camping situation like and is it child (8 and 14) friendly?

That URL didn't work by the way!

Cheers
Sarah