Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: Joy Bennett
Date: 18 Mar 08 - 10:04 AM

sleep when you're dead! (or so the saying goes)

It's going to be a great festival ---

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: Charley Noble
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 07:24 PM

The contracts have been sent out from Mystic Sea Music Festival HQ and I was gratified to receive one.

I'll be sharing a C. Fox Smith Workshop with Danny and Joyce McLeod and with Bob Zentz. We've all poured a lot of energy into reviving interest in Smith's nautical poetry, making the poems accessible on-line to the public, adapting them for singing, and performing the songs. In addition Danny has played a key role in researching this poet's life. The draft anthology of her poems that Jim Saville and I have assembled (and referenced) now contains more than 550 poems, and may be accessed at the Oldpoetry website under her name: click here for website!

I'm certainly looking forward to this workshop, as well as everything else I can get involved in at the Festival. No sleep for me!

I didn't see any mention of any Thursday evening activity this year in the materials I received. Has Thursday been dropped from the schedule?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: Anglo
Date: 10 Mar 08 - 05:43 PM

Sorry Marge, my apologies for getting it wrong. I'll apologize in person at Old Songs, where I look forward to seeing both you and your brother.

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Mar 08 - 02:35 PM

Pamela-

The Festival happens on the second weekend of June, which this year means June 12-June 15 (despite the fact that June 15 is the 3rd Sunday).

See and hear you there.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: GUEST,Pamela from Ithaca
Date: 10 Mar 08 - 11:28 AM

Hi all-
Got dates?
Which weekend is the Mystic fest this year?

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: GUEST,Marge Bruchac
Date: 09 Mar 08 - 10:38 PM

Hi, all

Just a clarifying note regarding a post that reads as follows:

"Marge Bruchac is the daughter of Joe Bruchac, an exceptionally fine Native American singer, instrumentalist (flute and drum as far as I'm aware), storyteller, and author, from the southern Adirondacks. Google him. His daughter carries on the tradition with her husband, Justin. They have been performers at the Old Songs Festival in Altamont, NY, and will be there again this year. Highly recommended, at least by me."

My father's name was indeed Joseph Bruchac, but he was a taxidermist and author who passed away years ago. The famous storyteller Joe Bruchac is my BROTHER. My brother IS a bit older than I am, but I guess this means I must look young for my age! So, thanks for the flattery!

Wli nanawalmezi, be well,
Marge Bruchac

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: Charley Noble
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 08:07 PM

Linda-

We'd love to have you join us on this side of the Great Pond. The Mystic Sea Music Festival at its best is the best, and I hope that this year it is the best of best!

But than there's Yorkshire, and all the wonderful things we hear about that are going on there for music.

Whatever is one to do?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 04:38 PM

We stayed with Danny & Joyce McLeod last week and they were extremely excited about Mystic, and Pistachio and I in our turn were extremely jealous.

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: Anglo
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 01:25 AM

Find out about Calico Jack
HERE.

Your guess is as good as mine. You can listen to clips of their album HERE.

Perhaps you could offer an opinion?

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: Anglo
Date: 07 Mar 08 - 01:10 AM

Marge Bruchac is the daughter of Joe Bruchac, an exceptionally fine Native American singer, instrumentalist (flute and drum as far as I'm aware), storyteller, and author, from the southern Adirondacks. Google him. His daughter carries on the tradition with her husband, Justin. They have been performers at the Old Songs Festival in Altamont, NY, and will be there again this year. Highly recommended, at least by me.

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: Charley Noble
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 09:45 PM

According to my most recent Mystic Seaport mailing, inviting me to support "Friends of the Sea Music Festiva,l" the acknowledged performers include the Inuit Cultural performers, a trio from Canada, performing traditional throat singing; Calico Jack, a dynamic duo from the Chesapeake Bay; Hand in Hand, featuring Marge Bruchac, an Abenaki Indian and her husband Justin Kennick; and the Johnson Girls (whom I've actually heard of).

I'll probably renew my support.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: GUEST,jon campbell-jcampbellwampum
Date: 01 Mar 08 - 11:44 AM

Just did "Valpariso" last week with "Shanghaid on the Willamette"out in Astoria, any song about fooling the customs guys is a good one.

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: Barry Finn
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 01:10 AM

Sounds like the "cat's out of the bag" guest.

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Feb 08 - 02:11 PM

Rick Spencer, former chanteyman and Forebitter member is the new director of the 2008 Sea Music Festival at Mystic Seaport. The performer roster is set and will be announced soon.

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: GUEST,Guest PJF
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 08:13 PM

Great a new thread for 2008 . I just found it tonight. Jon and Rika you are getting to be a special part of our festival and it is wonderful to hear that you will be here this spring. Only four months now. Cant wait! Other Twin

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: Barry Finn
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 04:57 PM

Sol, sorry that you won't be making it, at some point in time I'd be honored to meet up with you.

Barry

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 03:47 PM

Sorry but do to a quirk in the Jewish (lunar) calendar I will not be able to make it this year. This is a leap year and the Sunday that I usually go is the eve of the Shavuos holiday. Given the volume of traffic on I-95 I would never be able to make it home by one hour before sundown when the holiday begins. I am no longer permitted to drive or ride as a passenger in a vehicle once the holiday begins.

                                                    SOL

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: GUEST,Guest SJW
Date: 15 Feb 08 - 03:38 PM

Wow...so many people coming for the first time...are you ever in for a treat. It's always great to meet new people, and I guarantee you this will not be your last time. Can't wait!!! Twin

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: GUEST,iancarterb
Date: 02 Feb 08 - 05:22 PM

I've sung Valparaiso in a Rowboat with Mathew Moeller, another Seattle singer. Since he went more or less literally overboard and bought a 1930s wooden boat, the original hole in the water to put money and time into, to live on, I have only seen him twice. I wonder why...

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: Barry Finn
Date: 01 Feb 08 - 09:43 PM

Can't wait to hear you & Rika, Jon, but I'm afraid that I might keep you up past your bedtime, Heh, Heh. I've got a recent one for you hear too, "Venezuela To Trinidad" by Roger Hussey, a crew member on the Norwegian MST* Borjholt, he's one of the Gloucester crowd. He's written a dandy. We'll swap shit instead of spit. This one's been getting so much play between Gloucester & Portsmouth that it's getting killed by requests.

"Whispering Don" Sineti, that's a very cute name forhim, wonder if he'll allow it to stick?

Haven't heard "Valparaiso in a Rowboat" but I'll be looking for it from now until then.


See you all there

Barry

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: Jon Bartlett
Date: 01 Feb 08 - 08:41 PM

Thanks, JS - it's a cracker of a song and I'm glad it's getting known. See you at Mystic.

Jon Bartlett

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: Greg B
Date: 01 Feb 08 - 07:51 PM

Wow. "Great" "ukelele" and "mandolin" used in the same sentence.

There's a first.

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: GUEST,Guest, JS
Date: 01 Feb 08 - 07:36 PM

I brought out 'Valparaiso in a Rowboat' at a DC area shanty sing, and no one seemed to know it, though it went over well. I picked it up from Dan Roberts in Seattle, who does a great ukelele style mandolin accompaniment, so my experience of it is as a west coast song.

Hope to make it to Mystic this year for the first time.

JS

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Feb 08 - 09:26 AM

So let's reprise who has acknowledged being invited so far as performers:

Johnson Girls
Bob Zentz
Danny and Joyce McLeod

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: PeadarOfPortsmouth
Date: 01 Feb 08 - 08:38 AM

Planning to make it this year. It will be a first for me, but I've go to make it...I think Curmudgeon will ban me from the shanty sessions in Portsmouth if I miss this year. ;-)

Looking forward to meeting my fellow 'catters.

Peter

Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: Marc Bernier
Date: 01 Feb 08 - 07:29 AM

Jon! I look forward to seeing the both of you. We will Have to have a song and a drink together.

Marc Bernier

Subject: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2008
From: Jon Bartlett
Date: 01 Feb 08 - 03:52 AM

A new thread for 2008's Festival. Me & Rika are planning on coming again, and looking forward to singing with Mr Finn and "Whispering Don" Sineti. By the by, do east coasters know Zeke Hoskin's "Valparaiso in a Rowboat"?

Jon Bartlett