Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Jayto
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 03:26 PM

songs about Cheez Whiz

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: artbrooks
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 03:24 PM

Songs about the military that aren't anti-war or anti-soldier.

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Charley Noble
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 03:02 PM

"Bush Ballads"

Lord knows who would show up and why!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Jayto
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 02:46 PM

That is great ABBA & Costello classic I'd be there lol

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: beardedbruce
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 02:43 PM

"ABBA & Costello workshop"

THAT might just work out....

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Severn
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 02:42 PM

Didn't Eliza Carthy and some friends threaten to do, if not actually do an ABBA set at Whitby last year?

Of course, we could expand it to include Elvis C. and program an ABBA & Costello workshop, if we could ever decide who to put on first.

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: beardedbruce
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 02:38 PM

Allowable criticsm of Obama?   Even shorter.

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Severn
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 01:43 PM

"Bodhran-y Barney For Bairnies"-a kids song and percussion workshop

"Hallelujah! Barney-gain!"-Dinosaur Gospel

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: beardedbruce
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 01:14 PM

Feeding the Muse: Seeking inspiration.


(from past experience)

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 01:10 PM

There are vast numbers of happy ballads--Child and otherwise--both long and short. And re "Child Abuse"--Bob Coltman did a lovely album called "Son of Child" consisting only of rewrites of Child Ballads.

The workshop that would keep me far away would be "Hip-hop versions of 1960 Classic Folk"

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Severn
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 01:02 PM

That'll be SURE to doom it!

(THERE! I've said it before anybody else does!)

Subject: RE: Getaway Worshops Doomed to Failure
From: Severn
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 12:57 PM

Actually, on second thought, the "Cruelty to Animals" theme might actually be workable, as well.

"On Our Turpentine Farm" (imagine if the Katzenjammer Kids had been born in the Carolina pineywoods)
"Poor Old Horse"
"The Darby Ram"
"De Ballit O' De Bo' Weevil" (failed attempted cruelty)


John Kirkpatrick's "George's Son" (Not our president, but a sheep dog running the herd of sheep over a cliff. Cruelty to animals BY animals. From Thomas Hardy, I believe)


....and even mercy killings like:

"Old Shep", "Bonnie Black Bess", or even "Barney" (No, not THAT one! We're talking Ian Tyson dealing with an aging beloved horse back eons ago in the late "& Sylvia" days. HELL, I'll personally HELP anybody make purple dinosaurs extinct!)

....Or T. Texas Tyler's classic country recitation, "Dad Gave My Dog Away"

....Or Geordie Charleton's dancing pig in "Byker Hill"


Hey, on second thought, I might even offer to LEAD this workshop!

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Peter T.
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 12:53 PM

Listening to me.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 12:52 PM

Folk does Abba

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 12:39 PM

Sure there are short ballads....like "The Twa Corbies" ...5 intense verses which tell a complete story.

But I have teased for years about a workshop *title* which would cause folks to stay away in droves, even though the topic is interesting... parodies/re-writes of Child ballads, titled "Child Abuse". (Yes, of course it would be terrible taste!)

Maybe "Songs about diet foods"

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 12:28 PM

Short/Brief Ballads! (Are there ANY?**bg**)

Navel-gazing gems in song (contemplate away!)

Humming off-key

Subject: RE: Getaway Workshops Doomed to Failure
From: voyager
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 12:28 PM

U. Utah Phillips

-voyager

Subject: RE: Getaway Worshops Doomed to Failure
From: MMario
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 12:25 PM

But so many Folk Songs *ARE* earworms....I'd think that would be an excellent workshop.

Subject: RE: Getaway Worshops Doomed to Failure
From: Severn
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 12:20 PM

Songs Of The New Christy Minstrels

Sunday "Hynms to Satan" Sing

The Electronic Keyboard Tradition in Folk Music

"What ISN'T Folk Music?"--Songs Beyond Debate

Subject: RE: Getaway Worshops Doomed to Failure
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 12:15 PM

Like The Maid On The Shore?

Subject: RE: Getaway Worshops Doomed to Failure
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 12:13 PM

Happy Ballads actually sounds like an interesting challenge, and would probably make a great workshop--I can think of several ballads or versions I know where things come out right in the end, with a body count of zero.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: Getaway Worshops Doomed to Failure
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 12:12 PM

Merv Griffin, The Man and His Music

Subject: RE: Getaway Worshops Doomed to Failure
From: Severn
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 12:11 PM

A two hour workshop on "Songs from the Phillipine Insurrection"

Gangsta Rap

Cruelty To Animals

Labor songs collected from Bosses

The Heritage of Bobby Vinton, Bobby Goldsboro and Paul Anka

Subject: RE: Getaway Worshops Doomed to Failure
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 12:11 PM

Songs I learned from Barney, the purple dinosaur.

Subject: RE: Getaway Worshops Doomed to Failure
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 12:10 PM

A Polka Workshop?

Subject: Getaway Worshops Doomed to Failure
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 12:02 PM

While waiting with breathless anticipation for the real getaway program schedule to come in, I started thinking of the worst possible Getaway workshops - topics doomed to abject failure.

I came up with:

Earworms

and

Happy Ballads.

What else would be doomed at the Getaway?

Dan