Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: gnu
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 06:32 AM

A's for the axes that youse all own....

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 08:30 AM

I first have to meet with my contact and see what she has in mind. This will be a museum event and not the Morse-Sullivan Road Show. LOL
Thank you for all the enthusiasm - I thought some of you might yet be on speaking terms with me after the last outing. I love you all.
Mary

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 08:50 AM

Spoke with the coordinator. Everything is on hold for the moment. Nothing is definite but I will let you know if and when they decide to hold an event.
Mary

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: curmudgeon
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 11:09 AM

I would strongly advise against planning anything for this calendar year. I'm going to be busy with the Portsmouth Festival until the first of October. Then comes the Getaway, follwed too quickly ny Halloween. Then comes snow season.

However, May 2 is a Saturday, and the day after the internationl holiday of the working class might be appropriate.

Y'rs in solidarity - Tom

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: jacqui.c
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 11:25 AM

I would strongly advise against planning anything for this calendar year. I'm going to be busy with the Portsmouth Festival until the first of October. Then comes the Getaway, followed too quickly by Halloween. Then comes snow season.

My thoughts exactly Tom - anyway, two months is nowhere near long enough to get something like that off the ground and do it justice.

I'm sure that Mary and the museum will be able to work out a good date - I like your idea about May 2nd though.

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: maeve
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 11:25 AM

Bat Goddess said,

"...when my face is "at rest" I look grouchy. I'm not a grouchy person!!!"


Dear lady, your welcome smile and introduction was the first thing to greet me the first time I ventured into one of Sinsull's lovely concert/songcircle gatherings. Your smile is in everything you do.

maeve, who collects joyful smiles

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 11:28 AM

I am cranky most of the time. What's the problem?

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: Tinker
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 11:35 AM

Ah SINSULL the most lovig and motherly of cranks --- there could never be a problem.

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: ranger1
Date: 06 Aug 08 - 02:46 PM

Sinsull and Jacqui, I am most amazed at the rabbit you two pulled out of the hat. Thank you for shanghai-ing me into helping, I had a lot of fun. I will get pics up sooner or later, but probably not until next week.

Ranger1, gofer extraordinaire

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: adventure
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 10:01 AM

Well , it was a week yesterday since things went off in Portland.
What a treat. Mary and Jacqui....you both deserve grand kudos for putting this event together. And for your hospitality over the weekend thankyou so very much....although a couple of us signed off in the wee morning hours....a great time was had by all. Hope that this can be done again next year...assistance will come quicker as people got a chance to see what went on, where it was and who attended. I got very hungry on the way home and even the rubber fish started to look good to me. No ketchup so I passed. We stopped by to sing at two other events on the way home and made it in by 10 pm on Sunday evening. This was the definite start of something good that will and can happen next year and for many years to follow. Congratulations and thanks for the invite. Lots of really good things happened to lots of good people last weekend....and thanks from "Fivebitter" too.
Doryman

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: jacqui.c
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 12:28 PM

we're both still pinching ourselves at how well it all went last weekend.

By rights we should have had at least one "oh shit!" moment but we didn't.

We have learned a lot from last week and are now starting to think about what will happen next year. We will choose people to help who have expertise in specific areas - we already have a few people who we know are good at publicity and whose experience will be drawn upon. We know that we can trust those people to do the job and that will be one less task for us.

First thing is sponsorship. We already have a couple of sponsors and will be looking around the area to see who we can persuade to come on board as well.

Many thanks, once again to all those who made it such a memorable day for all of us.

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 10:17 PM

Jacqui -- you know you have a sponsor in the TruBrit Realty team -- I think we can do better next year than this year......

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 10 Aug 08 - 10:27 PM

Not that the show could be better but that I could give a better sponsorship........

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: jacqui.c
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 08:29 AM

Deb - you were one of our best sponsors (and the first). You really are a stellar lady.

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: My guru always said
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 08:36 AM

So glad this thread came back up!!

Just wanted to say how impressed I was with the way that you guys have managed to pull this all together. I read through the thread after the event or I'd have been sending you positive thoughts for success and good weather, but it looks like you had plenty of help and encouragement. It sounds like you've all had a lot of hard work, but also a great deal of fun & this has given you a firm footing into Next Year. Well done to all the organisers, performers & supporters!

Lovely photos, by the way, but I could only recognise the Gnome and Jacqui & Kendall. Any chance of any captions?

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 08:40 AM

Deborah - you fell down on the job! Gordon Bok was accosted by an adoring fan, older than dirt, who would not go away (no, not Jacqui). Where were you????
LOL I knew you weren't up to the job. Next year we put Tami on watch with Joey and Bandit at her side.
Deborah, you were our first sponsor and I used your name to get our next two. Thank you for your generosity. But thank you most of all for your friendship. You and Tom always come through and always with grace and humor. I love you both dearly.
Mary

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: Leadfingers
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 08:42 AM

If its going to be an adjacent weekend to The Getaway , can SilverSmith be considered for next year ?

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: jacqui.c
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 09:16 AM

Highly unlikely to be close to the Getaway, Terry. The Portsmouth (NH) festival takes that spot and has done so for many years. Curmudgeon can tell you more about that. We're still thinking about a regular date for the future.

Carole - the photos are labelled if you click in and scroll through - just look above each enlarged photo for the 'cast'.

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: Barry Finn
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 09:32 AM

Maybe you can make a date for that festival instead Leadfingers, last weekend in September.

Portsmouth Maritime Music Festival

Barry

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 09:36 AM

Leadfingers,
The Portsmouth festival is much larger and established. Contact Tom Hall (curmudgeon) about available spots. Carole and Andrew are appearing this year. I hope Hissyfit will appear next. We are a few months away from setting a date for Portland but it will not be anytime near the Getaway.
Mary

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: Leadfingers
Date: 11 Aug 08 - 08:42 PM

Thanks for the input All ! Duly noted .

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: EBarnacle
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 10:15 AM

Lady Hillary and I had a ball and then proceeded to visit friends around the great state of Maine until Friday AM. Who called for all that rain? It didn't stop raining until we hit Rhode Island to go sailing.

Subject: RE: Update: Portland (Maine) Maritime Festival
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 12:14 PM

Did you find your kazoo? So far it hasn't tuned up here.