Mudcat (THE WORLD)Let us know where you are.

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From: The Shambles
Date: 07 Nov 98 - 05:13 AM

Hello Carolyn

Nice to hear from you.... Bye the way, did you receive my message through the personal pages?

Subject: RE: Mudcat (THE WORLD)Let us know where you are.
From: DWDitty
Date: 07 Nov 98 - 06:27 AM

Barbara, Plankity, Alan S., as we are all in the New Haven vicinity (and I may have missed some others), perhaps a Mudcat string band is in the making. I may bring along a friend who plays musical saw with uncanny skill (forget about pedal steel, dobro, slide, etc.). Barbara, I have heard about the Fischer jams (and in fact know Bill from some 20 years ago, but haven't seen him since). I'd love to make it to one of the jams - can you tell me how to reach Bill or fill in the details of where and when? Thanks.

DW

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From: Bert
Date: 09 Nov 98 - 12:06 PM

DW,

Shouldn't that be a Mudcat THREAD Band??
Bert.

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From:
Date: 09 Nov 98 - 11:38 PM

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From: Bill Cameron
Date: 10 Nov 98 - 09:55 AM

Miltons Road, Long Sault Creek watershed, McDonalds Corners, Township of Lanark Highlands, County of Lanark, halfway between Ottawa and Kingston, Ontario, Canada, third rock from Sol.

I'm a momentarily unemployed carpenter, stringed instrument junkie, age 42, married 14 years, two kids aged 12 & 8 who are both home sick today. Emily my eldest is learning guitar and flute. My wife Molly fortunately for us has a real job in the health food industry.

I grew up in suburban Ottawa, have lived in one part or another of the Ottawa Valley almost all my life. Strong fiddling and stepdancing tradition here.

I play mostly Celtic-with-a-Scottish-emphasis, as well as Canadian folk music, on guitar, mandolin, mandola, fiddle, sometimes hammered dulcimer, whistle etc.

I'm a strong Canadian nationalist and an unrepentant socialist, and seem to spend most of my Net time trying to explain Canadian politics to Americans--I'm really not sure why, glutton for punishment I suppose. (I don't care about Clinton's sex life, but when he honored Ramblin' Jack and a bunch of other worthy artists last week and made a speech that said "The rest of the world looks to America for cultural leadership..."--I guess he didn't have _any_ idea how freakin offensive a remark that was.)

Sorry. Soapbox off. I just ran across the Mudcat a couple of weeks ago when I tried to look up a song on the DT, and have become a regular habitue...which is fun.

Bill "No Nickname" Cameron

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From: Maj Marvelous
Date: 10 Nov 98 - 10:05 AM

Snookums, The next trip to Sioux City should be on a Saturday and then you could stop at 3rd and Pierce for our Jam session which is every Sat. night from 7:00 to 10:30. Lunch break at nine. One dollar gets you in and then you sign up to sing or play or do your stuff. Somewhere between 80-130 generally show up. A lot of listeners and dancers. The place is called the Senior Citizens Center. We play mostly country, with some bluegrass and pop as well. Whatever fits is fine. We have one singer that had been on Lawrence Welk show. He tries to do country but does Pop better. Come see us..

Subject: RE: Mudcat (THE WORLD)Let us know where you are.
From: The Shambles
Date: 10 Nov 98 - 06:19 PM

Carolyn.

I received your persomal message, thanks.

I have resent mine, could you let me know here, if you do not receive it? There is only one Carolyn listed, if it is not you it could explain things.

Subject: RE: Mudcat (THE WORLD)Let us know where you are.
From: Boo Bear
Date: 10 Nov 98 - 06:52 PM

Well, I'm a librarian in the mountains of North Carolina who loves Celtic and appalachian mountain music, in addition to being crazy about medieval and renaissance music. My husband and I are weekend lap dulcimer players who perform here and about under the name Gingerthistle. (Yes, I've heard what that means in Ireland... we're sticking with it anyway. Took too much time to figure out a name for us, and besides, who in the US knows?) Also play other instruments: guitar, recorder, mandolin, plucked and bowed psalteries... varying degrees of proficiency.

This is the coolest place... I don't get to come much, since my computer is only my work computer on my office desk, and I mustn't stray too far from doing my work. Visit once in a while when I need some info. You guys are the greatest for providing that!

Blessin's on all yer little heads!

Boo

Subject: RE: Mudcat (THE WORLD)Let us know where you are.
From: Snookums
Date: 10 Nov 98 - 08:22 PM

Maj Marvelous,

I'll try to make it up soon. I was supposed to go again today and tomorrow, however, West didn't seem to be the direction to go.

Snookums

Subject: RE: Mudcat (THE WORLD)Let us know where you are.
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 10 Nov 98 - 09:18 PM

Hello,

I am finding this thread is getting incredibly (and wonderfully) long. It is over 225 KB and takes quite a while to load. That's OK when you first come on, but when you are just catching up on the last two postings it is a chore.

I propose to move to a new thread called "Mudcat (THE WORLD) Let us know Pt. II" I suggest all further postings be placed on that thread and let this be the end of this portion. You can reach the new thread by clicking here.

Thanking you in advance, I remain,

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Mudcat (THE WORLD)Let us know where you are.
From: Bonnie
Date: 04 May 99 - 02:57 PM

Hi I know this thread is a bit old but seems to me its a good one. I'm new to the net so here goes. I live in Bath, England and live partly alone and partly with my daughter who is twelve. I got into folk about seven years ago after a long gap not playinging anything after a muasic degree twently odd years ago. I play paino accordion, flute and recently the mandolin. I also play in a quasi jazz type band, a nine-piece outfit playing ordinal roots based dance music. I love playing in the band as the other players are mainly better than me and include some professionals, so its a real buzz.

I love Irish music and playing in the local pub sessions around this area, which seems to be full of great musicians. The main attraction of folk is its accessibility and the great friendliness of the people in the folk world, which seems to be reflected in Mudcat.

Any Mudcatters visiting the southwest of England get in touch

cheers

Subject: RE: Mudcat (THE WORLD)Let us know where you are.
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 04 May 99 - 07:58 PM

Hello,

I am finding this thread is getting incredibly (and wonderfully) long. It is over 225 KB and takes quite a while to load. That's OK when you first come on, but when you are just catching up on the last two postings it is a chore.

I propose to move to a new thread called "Mudcat (THE WORLD) Let us know Pt. II" I suggest all further postings be placed on that thread and let this be the end of this portion. You can reach the new thread by clicking here.

Thanking you in advance, I remain,

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Mudcat (THE WORLD)Let us know where you are.
From: mike Cahill
Date: 06 Jun 99 - 04:41 PM

Can't find my name in the list so must have missed this one. I live In Castleford in West Yorkshire, England

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From: Gracie
Date: 06 Jun 99 - 10:17 PM

I feel pretty inadequate as a musician compared to all of you. I taught myself basics of piano when younger but never play, not that I was ever good, even with long fingers. Mom can, though, and her dad was in vaudeville from Ohio to Iowa that I am aware of. Mom does geneology, and it would be nice to someday find stories of the music the ancestors made and what they played. We do have a few stories of ancestor Francis Cooke, from Mayflower, but no mention of music. I really do enjoy the Celtic instruments and wish I had learned to play flute. So I just sing my heart out in church. I am in Indiana, where ,if you don't like the weather, be patient, it will change quickly. I live in a sparsely populated county that gets tornadoes that the nearest doppler radar can't even find; not even a hospital in the county. I really think you must be the most interesting and sincere people on the web.

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From: GUEST,ThunderChild
Date: 29 Mar 00 - 04:52 AM

Hullo, geordie calling from the north o' blighty! I live in Washington. No, not the city... No not the State, but Washington the original one where it all began... Anyway I just thought I'd write as I have nothing to do, being a music student at college. I play guitar, bass and sing and I write my own songs too. Well thats all from me but I would just like to say that The Lambton Worm is a rocking song!!!

Thunder roars!!!

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From: Scabby Douglas
Date: 29 Mar 00 - 06:26 AM

I'll download and read all the other 'Catters resumés later..

I'm in Scotland... Glasgow to be specific.

I play guitar and mandolin (badly, but with enthusiasm), and like to sing anything from Crowded House and Travis to bothy ballads and Matt McGinn.

Sunday nights at the Kincaid House Hotel in Milton of Campsie nr Glasgow is my outing where I get to inflict myself on others.

Oh, BTW if anyone's around this Friday (31st March) we are hosting a Folk evening. Come along. Late Bar ( whatever that means!

I love the café. And I use the database all the time.

Cheers m'dears (and here's to yer big red nose)

StevenC

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From: GUEST,Julie
Date: 29 Mar 00 - 06:38 AM

Its cold and wet today in Sheffield (England). I'm a Scot who now lives in the foothills of the Penines. I plan to join the Mudcat properly when we sort our link out at home. My partner is of Irish descent and our daughter considers herself a Scot of Irish descent ( the emphasis changes whoever is winning at football or rugby). We are involved with various folk activities in the City ( Irish festival , South Yorkshire Folk Network Events, Traditional Fiddle Society ) I have recently taken up singing but I am having trouble over coming my terror of performing in public alone.

Julie

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From: Teasle
Date: 29 Mar 00 - 04:29 PM

I'm living down south in Southampton, Hampshire,am originally from Alderney in the Channel Islands and have spent most of my adult life living in various parts of Australia!!!

Lucky for me there are folk contacts in all the far flung parts of the globe - and in the main they have proved to be generous hearted folk who make the bestest friends.

I think I have an addictive nature - I look forward to my daily dose of Mudcat! A-mazing.

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From: phil h
Date: 29 Mar 00 - 05:03 PM

Hi I live in Peterborough, UK. I dance with The Witchmen, a border morris side. I play Bodhran & my wife Ruth plays an English concertina & sings. The sessions we go to can be found at Pete Shaw's Home Page Hope this works it's the first time i've tried html
We're spoilt here by the number of good English, Irish, (and American & French) sessions. We run out of stamina cash and babysitters before we run out of sessions.
Phil

Subject: RE: Mudcat (THE WORLD)Let us know where you are.
From: The Shambles
Date: 29 Mar 00 - 06:29 PM

As this thread is a little large for some 'Older' PCs to load quickly, Could you place any new posts to this second thread (THE WORLD II) and just leave this one for reading? Thanks.

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From: GUEST,Mrrzy-at-work
Date: 30 Mar 00 - 12:05 PM

Hi, I am an American by passport, and have lived in central Virginia, where the weather is great by my standards, for about 15 years with a summer researching in Spain thrown in. Before that, 6 years in the Boston area (froze my fanny shut!) for college and soon after. Before that, roughly 15 years in Africa, in mostly in Ivory Coast but 1 in Tunisia. Born in St. Louis but we moved to Abidjan when I was 5 so I don't really remember it. I like the weather in tropical Africa best - although I *love love love* snow. If it snowed in the 50's and never got below 40 I'd really be happy. I especially like the DC-area summers in the high 90's all the time, with everyone else wilting by the roadsides... they should try an African rainy season! I don't play any instruments although have always sung. Used to be tone-deaf then got into a very musical crowd at Tufts and now am no longer. The funny thing is that when attempting any songs I learned while tone-deaf and haven't sung since, I still sing those off-key! I have to hear them sung right to be able to myself. I love the Mudcat because I know many-but-not-all lyrics to tons of songs, mostly folk (my parents liked the Weavers and the Clancy Brothers, for instance), and I now have a place where I can look up the one verse I never quite got... And I also wonder where to submit lyrics when I have a good song to share with all of you? I have a repertoire in English, French and Hungarian, with some in many other languages thrown in. I even know some in Gaelic but wouldn't want to try writing them down... and anyway, how do you pronounce bodhran? I have twin sons about to start kindergarten, conceived while on honeymoon in Ireland without spending one night anywhere that wasn't in a Clancy Brothers song. I consider them Made In Ireland. X2B is no longer in the picture. Mom is a survivor of the Holocaust, of Hungarian Jewish parentage but from the Serbian part of Yugoslavia. Really tone-deaf, cannot tell which of two consecutive notes is higher, I do not exaggerate. My dad was a Quaker, killed by terrorists in the 80's along with intermittent bunches of other Americans. He played the guitar in his youth, though, and he sang a lot too. His mom was Russian. I have a Tasmanian brother-in-law, a Puerto Rican aunt, and relatives who espouse anything from judaism through Islam, Mormonism, Catholicism, and atheism. My sisters and I are the only people we know who were raised without any religious upbringing at all. Just in case we want to bring anything besides the weather into this thread, or into its new incarnation if we get one per prior suggestion...

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From: Felisi 52'
Date: 31 Mar 00 - 02:42 AM

I'm from San Diego California - born and raised. I love living in San Diego I am amazingly close to so many different climates: I live only a half hour from the coast, and only have to drive a little over an hour to see snow in the mountains or to bake in the desert heat. I live in a portion of San Diego that lies between a mountain and a lake, so we get plenty of animals around our house and the college I attend is only 3 away. I am an adult member of the Sea Scouts (boys and girls between 14 and 20) ((I'm only 21)) So I get to go sailing every other week, as well as take many camping trips with a great group of people.

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From: GUEST,faswilli2
Date: 01 Apr 00 - 02:23 AM

Subject: RE: Mudcat (THE WORLD)Let us know where you are.
From: GUEST,faswilli2
Date: 01 Apr 00 - 02:46 AM

Love this thread. Aways wanted to know where you guys were from. I hail from San Antonio, Texas, via New Mexico, Maryland, Pa., and Missouri. Right now its about 70 degrees and humid as usual here in South Texas, have been watching the threads for a year now but never had anything to say that wasn't already said. Play a Gibson j45 and havent sang in public in many years but gittin' back to it now. I belonged to several folk groups back in the 60's but after spending 2 years in Vietnam hung it up because I couldn't straddle the political music fence.Now that I'm apolitical, I realize that I enjoy folk music for its historical value and I'm also doing some writing. I grew up on theWeavers, esp. Pete Seeger, Dylan, Paxton, Judy Collins, PP&M, Kingston trio, Chad Mitchell , Doc Watson, etc. We are getting ready for the Kerrville Folk festival which is 2 months away and will be camping out again this year. Once you go there you will return every year for the rest of your live, guaranteed! Kerrville has become more of a showcase for new songwriters and you find more emphasis on that than traddies, but after the big shows at night, you can find whatever you're looking for at about 100 campfires. (blues, western, celtic, traddie, country, ballads, bluegrass, ==anything! Come on down Y'all.

Subject: RE: Mudcat (THE WORLD)Let us know where you are.
From: fox4zero
Date: 01 Apr 00 - 02:50 AM

I was born and raised in New York City in the first year of the Great Depression (although I still haven't figured out what was so Great about it). I am a retired physician and love not having to go to work...being basically a non-physical person. I play old-time music, frailing on the 5-string banjo. If I had to do this for a living I would be on welfare now. My wife and I live in Millbrook, Dutchess County, NY. When I see towns of all of my neighboring CT Mudcatters.. I've reached a point in life where I visit physicians in ALL those towns...Branford, Hamden, New Haven etc I live on a lovely place...28 acres of ponds, streams and wetlands (an occasional dry spot also). Winter was kind and Spring is very early this years. The peepers (tree frogs) started their serenade about 10-14 days earlier than last year. Fortunately for all, I am falling asleep at the keyboard and will quit now. Luv from Larry Parish

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From: DeeAnn
Date: 01 Apr 00 - 03:46 AM

Hello folks! I always read but seldom post. I was born in Oklahoma and spent my earlier years in Arizona, which I call home. Most of my family members still reside there, but I am now stuck in the central part of New Jersey (about 30 minutes northeast of Philadelphia, PA.)in the historical town of Willingboro. My town has become infamous for being the home of the long jump olympian, Carl Lewis. I play piano, mountain dulcimer, penny whistle, bodhran and sing. I've been playing and singing for the "Tapestry Dulcimer Troupe" for quite a few years and play all kinds of music, though not expertly. My favorite type of music is Irish, Scottish and British Isle tunes, waltzes, old time fiddle tunes, civil war tunes and English country dances. My nationality is a combination of Irish, Shoshone Indian, French and Welsh. Thoroughly enjoyed this thread!

DeeAnn Between the cities and the seashore.

Subject: RE: Mudcat (THE WORLD)Let us know where you are.
From: The Shambles
Date: 01 Apr 00 - 05:05 AM

APRIL FOOL. Well I am for trawling through this one again. For the very last time.

COULD YOU PLEASE NOT POST TO THIS THREAD AS IT A LIITLE TOO LARGE TO LOAD NOW.

IF YOU CLICK HERE, YOU WILL FIND PART TWO OF THIS THREAD. IT WOULD BE NICE AND YOU WOULD BE VERY WELCOME TO PLACE YOUR CONTRIBUTION THERE.

A DONATION TO THE MUDCAT OF ONE DOLLAR PER WORD, WILL BE REQUIRED FROM ANY FUTURE POSTER TO THIS THREAD. (SMILES).

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From: Art Thieme
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 03:02 AM

refresh

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From: terrier
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 06:46 AM

That's ONE DOLLAR to pay, Mr Thieme ;~)

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From: skarpi
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 07:10 AM

AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!       just got to old the old threads .



you can find me among the elfs and the trolls,
in an Island where there is a mystery .

Subject: RE: Mudcat (THE WORLD)Let us know where you are.
From: GUEST,guest Ian
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 07:29 PM

Im sure glad to see this thread.I live in Western Oregon USA A small town called Oakland I play Folk , Comedy , Bgrass Oldtime country on guitar ,5 string banjo ,Roundneck Dobro .Any Pickers in this area ?

Subject: RE: Mudcat (THE WORLD)Let us know where you are.
From: oldhippie
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 08:01 PM

I'm in Connecticut New England USA Planet Earth. I first discovered folk music when a friend loaned me a Carolyn Hester LP, and then went and found music by Molly Scott, Bonnie Dobson and Oscar Brand. More folk music followed - Dylan, Ochs, Baez, Paxton, etc. I bascially like all types of music. I own and occasionally pick up a hammered dulcimer, dobro, and mandolin banjo. Mostly, my hobby is being a college radio deejay, so I get to program my own show.