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Subject: RE: Folk Night From: RoyH (Burl) Date: 08 Jan 02 - 11:38 AM Hey Beer, I wish I'd been at your house when the family was singing. Wow! |
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Subject: RE: Folk Night From: Herga Kitty Date: 08 Jan 02 - 03:01 AM LTS As you well know you can perm any 3, though incest, infanticide and suicide tend to go together. I forgot to mention hangings ... Kitty |
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Subject: RE: Folk Night From: Beer Date: 07 Jan 02 - 08:51 PM Woooow!!!!! Looks like I opened a topic and sure do appreciate the feed back as I'm working on this project alone at this point ( except you folks out there.). I would first of all set up in your minds a picture of my area. I live in a small village (As I mentioned earlier)off the island of Montreal. In the early 70's I use to visit a folk club in Montreal called " The Yellow Door". This club still exists and still brings in folkies from that era and some more recent. Booze was not allowed and I do beleive that there was also no smoking. George from Chebucto, even though I am a smoker, there would be a no smoking policy inforced. I never smoke on stage and find it very annoying as other musicians when trying to sing. I also love your suggestion of song circle or music circle. Louie you asked a very difficult question. Can you answer it? I can't. As I'm trying to write this I'm aslo listening to a Bruce Springsteen special and have to agree with you when it comes to ballods there are still some great ones being sung. Springsteen's "The River" would be an example. I was born in Prince Edward Island and spent my teenage years in Nova Scotia. The song that were song in our home were some of these. Molly Bond, Frozen Charolet, Cape Briton Home, The Moose River Gold Mine,Spring Hill Mining Disaster,Peter Emberley etc., etc. So to be truthful I guess when I said folk and ballods, I was thinking Maritime folk music which a maritimer would consider in most cases as Maritime Ballods. But your right Louie, songs like The Letter Edged in Black, Clayton Delaney, Hobo's Lullaby, and lots of story telling songs by Marty Robins, Tom T. Hall and others I would consider as folk songs or ballods. But what I'm trying to do is to stear away from the pure country ( Now others will have something to say here.) like, Take This Job and Shove it, Your Cheating Heart, God Bless Texas, etc. Kitty, thanks for your comments. I want to stay away from pure country as this is presently well covered in this area, but I would also except potery reading which may prove interesting. Norton 1..... We play presently in a small school house with lots of fiddles ,guitars, accordians etc. But when you play a folk song, it is so loud that few hear what you are saying and I guess that is the point. Folk music is for listening what the musician is wanting to say. Guest.... I'll take your suggestion seriousely. Thanks. Uncle Dave...... If I decide to launch this project I will check back on your suggestions. Adrien |
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Subject: RE: Folk Night From: Bobert Date: 07 Jan 02 - 08:25 PM Man, that stuff ain't half bad... |
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Subject: RE: Folk Night From: Amos Date: 07 Jan 02 - 08:03 PM Must be Viagra -- he's been up three times in one minute!! A |
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Subject: RE: Folk Night From: Bobert Date: 07 Jan 02 - 08:01 PM Danged, ol' bobert beat Spawz to dis one. Howz about "Folkin' Nite". Kinda catchy and hey, it's a lot better than "Folk You, You Twangy Country and Western Creeps Nite", or "Stick your Banjo in Your Folkin Ear Nite". (This, Bobert, ain't like you at all. I think you took the wrong pill after dinner. I think you got one of Spawz pills.) Opps, I gotta go check on something... |
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Subject: RE: Folk Night From: Bobert Date: 07 Jan 02 - 08:00 PM Danged, ol' bobert beat Spawz to dis one. Howz about "Folkin' Nite". Kinda catchy and hey, it's a lot better than "Folk You, You Twangy Country and Western Creeps Nite", or "Stick your Banjo in Your Folkin Ear Nite". (This, Bobert, ain't like you at all. I think you took the wrong pill after dinner. I think you got one of Spawz pills.) Opps, I gotta go check on something... |
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Subject: RE: Folk Night From: Bobert Date: 07 Jan 02 - 08:00 PM Danged, ol' bobert beat Spawz to dis one. Howz about "Folkin' Nite". Kinda catchy and hey, it's a lot better than "Folk You, You Twangy Country and Western Creeps Nite", or "Stick your Banjo in Your Folkin Ear Nite". (This, Bobert, ain't like you at all. I think you took the wrong pill after dinner. I think you got one of Spawz pills.) Opps, I gotta go check on something... |
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Subject: RE: Folk Night From: Liz the Squeak Date: 07 Jan 02 - 07:22 PM the Appalachians in particular (death, sorcery, adultery, incest, fratricide, infanticide, battles, burnings etc) Kitty - is this all in the same song?? LTS |
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Subject: RE: Folk Night From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca Date: 07 Jan 02 - 07:16 PM We've got two sets of Folk Music going, one is in a Bagel shop, and is called No Smoke Folk, because one of the stipulations of the venue, is NO SMOKING! Blessed be Jim Spurway! The other is called the Ceilidh at the Dock, since it is held dockside at the local ferry terminal. Couple ideas of how we named our folk venue shows.
You can also call it "XXXX's Song Circle" or "XXXX's Music Circle", where you would substitute the XXXX with someone's name, perhaps whomever is hosting that night, if you have rotating hosts. Or use Session instead of Circle |
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Subject: RE: Folk Night From: Herga Kitty Date: 07 Jan 02 - 07:01 PM Beer - I'd avoid specifying song in the title if you want to encourage instrumental music as well as song. And you might want to consider whether you'd be prepared to tolerate some C&W mixed in with the folk music and old ballads. Louie Roy - "song that tells a story" is one definition of a ballad, but if you're in doubt about ballad as folk song I think you might need to investigate the big ballads handed down over centuries through the oral tradition and which crossed the Atlantic from Britain to the Appalachians in particular (death, sorcery, adultery, incest, fratricide, infanticide, battles, burnings etc) if you're not convinced that a ballad is a folk song. Johnny Collins has a nice story about going out for a drink one Saturday night in Glasgow, and finding that the local idea of entertainment was singing Child ballads round the room. In the days before Mike Harding's programme, or even before Folk on 2 there was a BBC Radio 2 programme called Country meets Folk. It was fairly eclectic (though prone to renditions of Red velvet steering wheel cover driver-for which see eponymous thread). Kitty |
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Subject: RE: Folk Night From: Steve in Idaho Date: 07 Jan 02 - 05:58 PM Beer - My group plays country, western, folk, bluegrass, gospel, and all in the same group and setting. So I wouldn't change a thing except to give everyone permission to play what they wanted and the rest can learn some new tunes! Steve |
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Subject: RE: Folk Night From: breezy Date: 07 Jan 02 - 04:03 PM Over ere Ballet is a form of dance, bit like Morris, and Ballods or to give the correct title, 'Odd-balls ', are different sizes of , and left-over BALLS. which sums up this contribution. ''Ballads ,Booze and Birds and other folk stuff.''Now that should grab their attention,Might even try it for my folk Club sales pitch. |
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Subject: RE: Folk Night From: Louie Roy Date: 06 Jan 02 - 11:01 PM Beer,I know this is a foolish question but what do you consider a folk song?Are Ballets considered folk songs? To me a ballet is a song that tells a story and up until 1940 many cowboy type songs told a story and the railroad songs told a story.Love songs tod a story.Marty Robbins recorded some of the finest ballets still being used by the DJ.today and he recorded them in the 1960s,1970s 1980s Louie Roy |
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Subject: RE: Folk Night From: GUEST,mgarvey@pacifier.com Date: 06 Jan 02 - 10:40 PM no ideas except think really hard about every 3 weeks...it will make it so hard for people to remember...if you had it once a month on a set day..the first Tuesday or Saturday or whatever it would be easier. mg |
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Subject: RE: Folk Night From: ddw Date: 06 Jan 02 - 10:35 PM Beer, How 'bout "The No-Twang Song Thang"? cheers david |
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Subject: RE: Folk Night From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 06 Jan 02 - 09:14 PM "This Week of Folk Song"???? "Folk Songs for the Week"???? "All the Folks' Songs"????? "Those Good Old Songs"???? "Everybody's Song Society"???? Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: Folk Night Name From: Beer Date: 06 Jan 02 - 08:54 PM I live in a small community that has a lot of musice, but it is mostly country and western. Now there is nothing wrong with this except that in asking around I found that there is a number of folks who would appreciare listening to folk and old ballods. I am about to launch a folk musice evening every third week but I'm stuck on a name for the event. How about some ideas. Thanks |
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