Groovy Impromptu Happening-Teens!

Subject: Groovy Impromptu Happening-Teens!
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Feb 03 - 11:15 PM

I have just sat down here at the 'puter after a 2 hr impromptu session of singing in my living room by TEENAGERS!!! Wow! So, it wasn't all "folk/blues" but some of it was. Had a young man actually playing my piano, 6 others singing pop/rock/Beatles/Hits etc. for 2 HOURS! What fun! Maybe I am winning after all. Daughter Kate did her House of the Rising Sun. Brought the House down, and the session just died. Nobody would try to top it, but it was GREAT!!!

Thank you all for being here so I could share this with somebody!

Subject: RE: Groovy Impromptu Happening-Teens!
From: Alice
Date: 12 Feb 03 - 11:17 PM

very cool, Sorcha.

Subject: RE: Groovy Impromptu Happening-Teens!
From: Amos
Date: 12 Feb 03 - 11:40 PM

YES! YES! YES!!


Way ta go, Sorch!


A

Subject: RE: Groovy Impromptu Happening-Teens!
From: Sorcha
Date: 13 Feb 03 - 12:11 AM

They were moving so fast I couldn't count, but I think there were 8 of them. I complain about the food bill, but I will miss them when they are not here...............

Subject: RE: Groovy Impromptu Happening-Teens!
From: jeffp
Date: 13 Feb 03 - 09:13 AM

Sounds like a grand time! There is hope for the future!

Subject: RE: Groovy Impromptu Happening-Teens!
From: Sam L
Date: 13 Feb 03 - 09:18 AM

That's a good deal. I worry if I push I'll ruin music for my kids. But I had to learn an Avril Lavigne song for my daughter, and the first tabbing I've ever tried to post was the Paul Simon tune from Wild Thornberries she wanted me to learn. A sleepover tomorrow night--who knows, maybe some singing?

An ethical dilemma though is whether I actually have to learn an Nsync song for my boy, in fairness. Or can I try to steer him?

Subject: RE: Groovy Impromptu Happening-Teens!
From: Alice
Date: 13 Feb 03 - 09:25 AM

Fred, you're the parent, you steer.

Subject: RE: Groovy Impromptu Happening-Teens!
From: Noreen
Date: 13 Feb 03 - 09:51 AM

Brill, Sorch! Thanks for sharing your excitement.

Subject: RE: Groovy Impromptu Happening-Teens!
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Feb 03 - 06:11 AM

Catch 'em young and corrupt 'em, Sorcha!

:-)

Subject: RE: Groovy Impromptu Happening-Teens!
From: Tinker
Date: 14 Feb 03 - 06:39 AM

ONe of my daughter's sixteen year old friends told me the other day that it would be sooo cool if I wen t to her guitar camp with her...My daughter laughed said that somedays she wished she had "normal" parents...What ever those are...

Subject: RE: Groovy Impromptu Happening-Teens!
From: GUEST,me
Date: 23 Oct 03 - 02:56 PM

go avril

Subject: RE: Groovy Impromptu Happening-Teens!
From: Dave Masterson
Date: 24 Oct 03 - 08:31 AM

Great stuff, Sorcha. All is not lost, after all! We had a similar experience at Tenterden Festival earlier this month. At the final singaround on Sunday evening a couple of young lads in their teens turned up with guitar and asked if they could sing. "It's not really folk" they said. "Don't worry – sing" said Kathy Drage. They did, and they were great. Self-penned songs, sung in a modern idiom, and they were a pleasure to listen to. Kathy summed it up afterwards, saying "I thought you said it wasn't really folk?" Amen!!
The other side of the coin was seen on Saturday in the High Street. A large crowd were watching the Appalachian dancers, when along came a teenager with regulation white baseball cap and earpiece. As he passed by he didn't even give a sideways glance. If he'd looked round and sneered it would have been something, but no – nothing. I thought that was so sad – he seemed so preoccupied with himself.
Still, as long as there are some like the lads at the Sunday singaround the baseball caps will not prevail.

Subject: RE: Groovy Impromptu Happening-Teens!
From: open mike
Date: 24 Oct 03 - 12:44 PM

a heart warming story from last night concert:
Holly Near, Cris Willimson and John Bucchino
played, enthralled, inspired, and educated us!
The opening act was a young woman who sang the

song Holly Near wrote "The Great Peace March"
I had been on a peace march (against nuclear
testing) years ago when she was a small tyke.

She had p[erformed the song a couple of weeks
ago at a coffee house with Darrel Purpose, who
walked across the country for peace. This young
gal was so inspiring and it must have been great
for her to sing the song for Holly!

If the song is not in the D.T. I will add it!