Things planned for Sidmouth 50

Subject: RE: Things planned for Sidmouth 50
From: The Barden of England
Date: 24 Jul 04 - 03:18 AM

I'll be in the Bedford from friday as usual. Lots of different sessions in there. You'll see and hear all sorts that's for sure. I'll try and remember to wear my mudcat t-shirt.

Dave Bryant - My badge has been washed - so any chance of another for a pint? Hope you come to the Bedford too.

Subject: RE: Things planned for Sidmouth 50
From: Leadfingers
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 09:24 PM

Squeezy - I dont think I will be anywhere Sunday except the Newt , but
drop in for a few tunes and I will buy you a beer later on in the week . You can bring Mister Boden as well = Please ?

Subject: RE: Things planned for Sidmouth 50
From: GUEST,squeezy
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 07:40 PM

If you can bear to miss the sessions, Danu and Steeleye on sunday night at 9 - you could wander up the hill to the Dance tent for BellowHead. We'd love to see you! And we've got a feeling it could be a very long night!!!

Subject: RE: Things planned for Sidmouth 50
From: Morticia
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 07:17 PM

Pixie and I will be mostly in the Middle Bar, I 'spect.......although with Leadfingers offering to buy us a pint, a tour of the Newt is also highly likely......see you all there.

Subject: RE: Things planned for Sidmouth 50
From: 8_Pints
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 06:30 PM

Which of the venues offer the least cigarette smoke to inhale?

My 'better half', alternatively known as 'de Management', finds it adversely affects her voice.

Our preferences are for the unaccompanied songs, either chorus or ballads and the more traditional sounding, the better.

I just love the unpredictability of what can be performed in a sing-around. Quite challenging if there has to be some connection with the previous song, no matter how tenuous!

We shall set off on Wednesday from sunny Manchester and hope to arrive later the same day.

Hope to meet you all rsn.

Bob vG

Subject: RE: Things planned for Sidmouth 50
From: GUEST,Anne Croucher
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 04:26 PM

I have been looking for my Sidmouth 25 teeshirt for weeks only to find that I used to be a medium - the psychic abilities are as strong as ever but 24 years of carbohydrate aquisition have caused expansion beyond even the limits of teeshirt sag. Oh well no showing off there then.

I will try to go into the Middle Bar next week - but the atmosphere is not one I find easy to breathe in, and it comes out in a squeek. Even todays lower percentage of smokers affects my voice. I do like a good chorus to join in with, can be a bit shy in front of a crowd, so I don't mind being in an audience, in some circumstances.

I will pack my sun screen, wear my Tilley hat and have the insect repellent on standby - that should ensure a fine light drizzle with occassional downpours for the whole week. (only joking)

Anne

Subject: RE: Things planned for Sidmouth 50
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 02:54 PM

Glad to know I'm a friend, Kevin...

Tony Day has also produced a (much cheaper) book on the history of the Middle Bar Singers, which I purchased at the winter reunion last February.   There's a distinction between the start of singing and music in the Anchor (which started in 1975 or 76 when the anti-folk management left, and a sign suddenly appeared saying that folkies were welcome)and the later establishment of the Middle Bar Singers as an unaccompanied singing event with twig rules etc.   I distinctly remember Mike Price (who had been on the wagon) putting a tenner over the bar to buy a round, and singing for the rest of the week in what was then the Lower Bar, with Fred Rook and various Herga people....

The Ashby-de-la-Zouch folk club will be having its reunion singaround in the garden of the Volunteer on Friday 30 July.

Kitty

Subject: RE: Things planned for Sidmouth 50
From: Kevin Sheils
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 12:51 PM

The Volunteer Sunday Evening looks a good event as you suggested Anne, although probably not geared towards many drop in singers from my reading of the programme, but I'm MCing the Ham then so will miss it anyway.

I usually pop into the Theatre Bar at least once, maybe twice in the week but if my lunchtimes are free I tend to go to the Volunteer for the "in the tradition" sessions 12.00 to 2.00. I think my schedule this year means I'll only miss one of them.

The lunchtime Volunteer, Theatre Bar and Middle Bar all have their own distinctive flavour and appeal to different tastes. Mine veer toward the Volunteer but I also enjoy the Theatre Bar; well it's run by friends, what can I say.

Dave B: The Sidmouth history book mentions, in the section for 1980 that the Middle Bar singers sang all week, which ties in with the 25 year anniversary, but also states that you ran sessions there in 1978 and 1979. I guess that yours were not the whole week hence the "formal" 1980 start referred to, although it's not clear. You are credited with starting session there though. There's a photo of the Punk Ceilidh in 1977 but it's not easy to see who's who, probably a good thing!

Subject: RE: Things planned for Sidmouth 50
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 11:43 AM

I'll be the first time that I've been at the Middle Bar session for 24 years.

It's a pity that there won't be one of Taffy Thomas' Thursday night themed ceilidh's - I can remember the 60's one, the Punk one, and the Ceilidh at the end of the Universe.

I can also remember the year that they put Bill Rutter on trial.

Subject: RE: Things planned for Sidmouth 50
From: Phot
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 11:08 AM

Should be in The Middle Bar from Thursday Evening onwards, and looking foward to seeing everyone again.

Don't forget that Tuesday is SEA SONG AND SHANTY NIGHT! Mike and I will be driving, so bring your voices and pennies, lets try to break the £500 barrier for the Sidmouth Inshore Rescue Service this year!

Wassail!!

Chris

Subject: RE: Things planned for Sidmouth 50
From: Leadfingers
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 08:18 AM

I expect to be in The New Tavern most days after Saturday - We are working Saturday so I cant leave for Sidders till Sunday Morning .
See you all there !

Subject: RE: Things planned for Sidmouth 50
From: GUEST,Steve in Sidmouth
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 07:53 AM

What's happening? It's a beautiful day, clear blue sky, 23 C in the shade, the festival construction crews have arrived and the natives are getting restless. The locals they do say "it be given fine for the weekend too". Better pack your sun hats. For details of B&B and minor camping sites search for other 'sidmouth' threads on mudcat.

Subject: RE: Things planned for Sidmouth 50
From: GUEST,Rich A
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 07:00 AM

You can come to hekety's CD launch at the Anchor on Monday lunchtime!

Subject: Things planned for Sidmouth 50
From: GUEST,Anne Croucher
Date: 23 Jul 04 - 06:40 AM

The Sidmouth thread is getting too much even for my quite quick computer to handle - so I thought if anyone wanted to discus what is actually happening this year rather than what might not happen next a new thread might be more accessable.

So far I have noted the Theatre Bar 10 30 to 14 00 and The Volunteer Sunday 20 30 as places to look in on as a singer, I usually go down onto the promenade afternoons.

Anyone know if Black Bess Morris will be dancing?

Anne