Sydney at New year

Subject: Sydney at New year
From: Banjo-Flower
Date: 25 Oct 04 - 03:40 PM

We shall be in Sydney(Australia)over the New Year en route to New Zealand and would be greatful for information on any events happening.I will be travelling without the infamous flowery banjo unfortunately (or fortunately deppending on your point of view)


Gerry

Subject: RE: Sydney at New year
From: alison
Date: 25 Oct 04 - 11:44 PM

Hi Banjo-Flower,

many of the sydney folkies won't be in town - there are quite a few festivals on at that time.

Woodford - Queensland (really big) - hot and humid
Gulgong - about 4 hours West of Sydney - nice smallish festival but really hot
Nariel Creek - foothills of the Snowy Mountains about 9 hours drive from south Sydney - really quiet, sessions beside a river

so you may be a bit short of folkies to meet - all the clubs are on holiday too

but the fireworks at sydney Harbour are worth seeing.

send me a PM if you need more info

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Sydney at New year
From: JennyO
Date: 26 Oct 04 - 08:04 AM

I am seriously considering not going to any Xmas-New Year festivals this year, so may well be in town.

Also, my folk club, North By Northwest, while not meeting in January in the normal sense, always has a BBQ/session on at my place some time in the first week or so of the year - probably Thursday 6th or Saturday 8th this time, I should think. I may also have a bit of a summer solstice gathering/BBQ/session a few days before Xmas.

What dates will you actually be in Sydney, Banjo-Flower?

Jenny

Subject: RE: Sydney at New year
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 26 Oct 04 - 10:36 AM

I never go to Christmas/New Year Festivals as I hate tropical hot weather & dry outback hot weather. Not that Sydney is cold, it's hot & humid, but it's a lot more tolerable to be inside behind drawn curtins with fans going!!

sandra

Subject: RE: Sydney at New year
From: Banjo-Flower
Date: 26 Oct 04 - 10:41 AM

We land from Hong Kong on the 28th Dec and hope to see the fireworks New Years Eve and have also pre-booked a feet won't touch the ground day in the Blue Mountains on the 2nd january before flying on to Queenstown N.Z on the 3rd

thanks

Gerry

Subject: RE: Sydney at New year
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 26 Oct 04 - 11:58 AM

Looks like we will have to do something between 28th & 3rd.

Some years back I took a one-day bus tour of the Blue Mountains. I had a wonderful time watching the tourists.

I spent so long in the Nocturnal House at Featherdale Animal Park that animals came to the glass & looked at me, a sight missed by a pair of tourists who rushed in one door & out the other. (ps. the Mountains are great, too & well worth looking at)

sandra

Subject: RE: Sydney at New year
From: moocowpoo
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 10:53 AM

Are you a one for sessions?, I wont be in Syd for new-reay, I'm not sure if these sessions will be going I think, "yes, prob" (I always abbreviate in my thinking)
Harp hotel, tempe, every sunday
Thurles cafe, chippendale, every fourth sat (dont know which one)
Gaelic club, surrey hills, some other alternate sat
They're all listed in the foam book, you can give them a try

Subject: RE: Sydney at New year
From: Banjo-Flower
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 12:51 PM

Thanks everyone may try to get to one of the sessions,that's more my scene rather than organised clubs,Sandra please don't organise anything just for me thats not for me either

Best regards

Gerry

Subject: RE: Sydney at New year
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 28 Oct 04 - 12:15 AM

G'day Banjo-Flower,

Hmmm ... (pace Sandra), but it looks like your best dates are only Tuesday 28 December - Friday 31 (daytime) ... so moocowpoo's sessions (all Saturday or Sunday) won't work ... unless The Harp (Irish Hotel - 920 Princes Hwy, Tempe - southern suburb, about 8 kilometres south of Sydney) is running on New Year's Day ... and you make sure you leave the session early enough to front up for your "... feet won't touch the ground day in the Blue Mountains on the 2nd january ...".

They do have a web site ... but I can't see the URL. "Harp Irish Hotel" & Sydney should pull it up on Google anyway.

Don't melt in our mid-summer heat!

Regards,

Bob (probably sweltering in Gulgong at the time ... but I would prefer to be sitting on top of a cool mountain!)

Subject: RE: Sydney at New year
From: Banjo-Flower
Date: 28 Oct 04 - 05:00 AM

Thanks Everyone I guess I,ll just have to enjoy Sydney without the music(maybe next time)

Gerry

Subject: RE: Sydney at New year
From: alison
Date: 28 Oct 04 - 09:11 PM

other sessions
Mean Fiddler (Rouse Hill) Wed 7.30-10.30pm, sun 5-8pm

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Sydney at New year
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 01:19 AM

G'day Banjo Flower,

Rouse Hill is about 40 kilometres from Sydney ... but graced by the inestimable presence of our alison.

It could be practicable on your first day in ... if you get in from HK early enough ... but it's a long haul back to Sydney ... along with a few million others heading for the fireworks &c ... on the New Year Sunday.

Greater Sydney is a big sprawling lump of landscape.

Regards,

Bob