Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!

Subject: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 May 99 - 01:36 AM

Well, okay, we've been inspired; remembered how fun it was to make music, and it's all your fault, Mudcateers!**Big Grin**!!!

So, we've taken the plunge and told the Wyoming Culture Fest, June 12, Casper, WY (I'm one of the organisers) that we and possibly our two sisters, will do a few songs that we already know. So, they asked what we were going to call ourselves, the Hudson Sisters!?LOL!!

We knew we could be a little more creative than that, so put our thinking caps on (uh-oh!). Then bet says, "Let's ask the Mudcatters for suggestions!" So....here we are, asking. We've no special agenda, look, or type, except we're natives of Colorado and had ranching grandparents etc. We do harmonize really well. Now...the floor is yours, please suggest away!

katlaughing, well, maybe there's something in that: katlaughing and better-bet?:-)

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Mudjack
Date: 05 May 99 - 01:52 AM

Coyote Moon Crooners Mudjack

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Tucker
Date: 05 May 99 - 03:36 AM

Katnip

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 May 99 - 04:13 AM

Those are great!

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Tucker
Date: 05 May 99 - 04:40 AM

thx kat

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: bet
Date: 05 May 99 - 08:53 AM

Mat 5th and it's SNOWING again! Anyway, in the sleepless night I was thinking of names, this one keeps coming back, how about the Folksters? Does anyone have a handle on that on. You know we are not youngsters and we are definetly folkie. What do yu thnk Kat? Must get to work, keep those ideas coming, we need HELP! brt

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Helen
Date: 05 May 99 - 09:01 AM

You know, kat & bet, I think it'd help if you gave us some quirky/idiosyncratic info about yourselves and your music. At the moment my mind is a complete blank but I would really enjoy tossing some ideas around if you just told us a little about the sort of tunes/songs you are doing, the instruments you play, some identifiable info which makes you different from other people - as far as music performing goes.

Helen (ready for the challenge, but unable to supply at this stage - unfortunately)

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Bert
Date: 05 May 99 - 09:05 AM

Mountain Mudcateers (OK it with Max though)

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 May 99 - 09:17 AM

Hey, bet, how about Mountain Mudders, at least you and I are mothers! I like Max's, Bert, thanks.

Helen, we will mostly sing. bet will have to tell you more about the songs. She'll probably play her baritone uke and/or fiddle. I might play my fiddle. There may two or four of us, all sisters. We are definitely not youngsters and definetly Phoaks, so maybe Phoaksters, no wait a minute, this just came to me, how about

The Phoak/Folk Sisters

???

Too plain? Can't think of idiosyncracies of the top of my head, but do feel we're all about half-crazy!:-)Present company excepted, bet!

Can't think of anything else right now. Thanks everyone.

kat

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Helen
Date: 05 May 99 - 09:29 AM

Do you know that the surnames Webster, Brewster, and Baxter are the female names for Webber (weaver), Brewer, and Baker, i.e. occupational names. They derive from Web-sister, Brew-sister, and Bake-sister. Spinster comes from Spin-sister, but then it took on the unmarried female meaning as well. Maybe you can build on that idea somehow.

Maybe Spin-sisters, (kind of similar to spin-doctors)?

Or how about Uke-an-fiddle (you can fiddle)?

Or Fiddle-Faddle? (Is this just an Oz term? It means nonsense, balderdash, etc)

The Ukelele Ladies - remember that old song?

Up the Creek Without a Fiddle?

Umm - I think I'd better go to bed...*grin*

Helen

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: MMario
Date: 05 May 99 - 09:31 AM

Phamily?

Variable Numbers?

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 05 May 99 - 09:37 AM

Golly Kat, it's hard to come up with names. First ya gotta decide "Am I goin' for "cute" or "witty"? (ie. Casper's Phrendly Phoaks) Then you start realising that half your audience won't get the joke. If you go for for sincere and descriptive (ie. "Windy Mt. Family Band") it sort of sounds like the Von Trapps with banjos. You could go with "Cool Hand Uke", or buy that darned instrument that's still hangin on the wall here in Toronto and be the "Tipling Sisters". Or how about a little contemporary "punk"? "Too Cool to Strum". or "Scruggs ate My Uke".

Better get outta here 'fore I do some real damage.

Rick (who wishes he had a folkier name)

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 May 99 - 09:52 AM

Well, Rick, how about "Fielding, as in Fiddlin', Folk"?

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Peter T.
Date: 05 May 99 - 11:19 AM

The Four Rancheras
Hold 'Em or Fold 'Em
Bet, Kat, and Allan Greenspan (to bring out the financiers)
Music Utility Vehicles (MUV)
Wy2K (unless this is the first of many)

Yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Alice
Date: 05 May 99 - 11:36 AM

Bet The Ranch

Wyo Why?

Let Her Buck Band

Y2 Yahoo

Just Plain Folk

The Folk Sisters (ala the Blues Brothers)

The Shy Annes (this is so obvious, it's probably already taken)

Stand and Deliver

Cottonwood Cool

The Kitchenettes (I think I'd better stop, now.)

alice

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Allan C.
Date: 05 May 99 - 11:51 AM

MudRanchers
Mountain Maids
Jolly Ranchers
Plains Janes
Wow! It just gets worse, doesn't it?!

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Tony Burns
Date: 05 May 99 - 12:08 PM

Mudders and Others (be careful how you wrap your tongue around it)

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Roger the zimmer
Date: 05 May 99 - 12:24 PM

How about the Belles Canto (or the Canto Belles)? I always fantasied about having a group called Mal Canto and the Malcontents!

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 05 May 99 - 12:32 PM

All I can think of are groaners:
The BetKateers
Rocky Mountain Mudders
In Harmony's Way
???
I'll keep ponering, but you've got some great ideas, here!
allison who just got back from taking the school kids to an opera workshop so I'm a bit cultured-out right now!

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: The Shambles
Date: 05 May 99 - 01:27 PM

Shame the Silly Sisters has been used, that always makes me smile.

I don't think you could do much better than Katlaughing, or how about the Katlaughers?

Or Katlarfers?

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: The Shambles
Date: 05 May 99 - 01:31 PM

The Sensible Sisters?

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From: karen k
Date: 05 May 99 - 02:51 PM

The Mudcat-ettes

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From: LEJ
Date: 05 May 99 - 03:14 PM

Harmony Inc.

Sweethearts of the Rodeo

Harmonic Convergence

The Ball-Busters (I couldn't help that one, Kat)

LEJ

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 May 99 - 03:26 PM

Leej: LMOAWROTF!!!! I'll try to be more tender, dearie 'o!

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Jerry
Date: 05 May 99 - 04:53 PM

I think my favorite so far is Bet the Ranch.

Bet the Kat

B and D, or Bea and Dee (a minor third and a sexual practice. You might have to change your initial, Kat. The Germans go up to H, but I don't know of any note called K.)

Hermony (that must have been done)

Nose to the Rhinestone (that was just free association, and it might have nothing to do with any of you)

Bet's Got Your Tongue, Bet's Nine Lives, Bet in the Hat--maybe there's a version of that that isn't as lame as the above, or that works if your other sisters participate.

Our Children's Aunts. Okay, it's a little weird.

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Les B
Date: 05 May 99 - 06:59 PM

High Plains Sisters Hell's Belles The Siblettes

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Les B
Date: 05 May 99 - 07:05 PM

Oops! Howabout the "run ons" Should be

High Plains Sisters -- Hell's Belles -- The Siblettes

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Banjer
Date: 05 May 99 - 07:06 PM

Given the type of music that you may be doing, old folk tunes, and given the ages of the quartet, how about "The Old Folks"...? Ok, I'll get serious....Sibling Songsters...I wish Catspaw were here, he'd know what to do!

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Night Owl
Date: 06 May 99 - 12:52 AM

I agree Banjer....this really sounds like a job for Catspaw et al. My favorite so far is "Mountain Mudders". Used to play in a group called "The AOSP Ensemble"= At Our Sexual Peak..(all women over forty, except the bass player. Feel free to use it if you want but I like Mountain Mudders A LOT!! Even if you're not all mothers!

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 06 May 99 - 01:36 PM

Not to overlook the obvious, but whats wrong with "Bet &Kat" (or perhaps "Bet 'n' Kat")?

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: MMario
Date: 06 May 99 - 01:49 PM

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 May 99 - 04:00 PM

Hey, Charlie! I like that, taken on to Bettin' Kat, but I also liek Mountain Mudders. I'll have a look through laster today and hopefully bet will be able to, too, and then we can decide. You all are great! Thanks everybody and by all means keep 'em coming! It ain't over til we actually get up and sing, right!?

katlaughing

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Susan A-R
Date: 06 May 99 - 09:59 PM

Phoaks Pass??

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From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 06 May 99 - 11:41 PM

Mudslide?

Uke-Aunt Do Better?

Mire on the Fountain?

--seed

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: ddw in windsor
Date: 07 May 99 - 12:24 AM

Hi Kat,

Since you're from CO and (as gleaned from other threads) love its mountains, how bout The Kat O'Mounts? Of course it would work better if Bet and whichever other sisters are in this gig are cat people too.

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 May 99 - 12:36 AM

ddwinw: clever, veddy, veddy clever! You all just keep making me laugh, you're all so creative. Thank yoou, thank you!

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 07 May 99 - 02:10 AM

How about "Kat's Pride"?or "Johnny Kat"? or maybe something a litter more serious...

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Banjer
Date: 07 May 99 - 05:06 AM

Since you live in Colorado, site of the recent tragedy, and since the name Columbine denotes "a branching herb of the crowfoot family having handsome, colorful flowers", the name The Colorado Columbines, or just The Columbines, in honor of the victims comes to mind. Let something good sprout from something bad....

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 07 May 99 - 10:17 AM

How about 'The Stumbling High-Heels' Seems to have a folkie-mountainie feel to it. Depends on what sort of stuff you play. Of course it could just fall flat.....

Kris

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 May 99 - 10:54 AM

Or...Stumblin' Weeds, then we could sing one of bet's favs, "Tumblin' weeds" hehehe

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Peter T.
Date: 07 May 99 - 11:05 AM

If you're going to be that Western, how about Ghost Folkies in the Sky...

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 07 May 99 - 08:47 PM

Taking off from King's suggestion, how about "High Heels and Stretch Pants"? Every old rancher for 200 miles around would be there. :}

LEJ

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 May 99 - 08:55 PM

In their dreams! Leeej! Do you know how long it's been since I stuffed MY toes in any gd, Madison Avenue, twisted and tortuous, patriarchal idea of footwear? And, stretch pants??? All they stretch is the imagination; imagining the flesh which gets let loose at the end of the day, unfettered and free to hang about or not whereever gravity takes it! Aaarrgggghhhhhhh!!! Death to all fascist/fashion designers!!! *****BIG, BIG GRIN!!!!!*****

katlaughingMAO!!

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: bet
Date: 07 May 99 - 09:17 PM

Hey! you phoaks have come up with some really great names and some not so great **smile** I hope we can agree on a name and not have a family fude. Hummmm, fude, doesn't look right. fuod, fuud , fuddd,phude, phuod, oh will I hope you can fingure out what I mean, It is Friddaya evening you know FAC. fast ball, strike one, have to goo game is starting. bet

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 May 99 - 11:31 PM

bet, when you can tear yourself away from those Rockies, here's a thought: how 'bout Few Phoaks, Pheudal Phoaks, Phoaks Few, Phoak-all Point, well....keep going...

katlaughing

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Mark Roffe
Date: 07 May 99 - 11:58 PM

Nothing to add except to say that Tucker's suggestion of "Katnip" is my favorite of what's been mentioned so far.

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 08 May 99 - 12:34 AM

Kat and Bet. Now what's it gonna be? You've got a heck of a lot of choices here, and "enquiring minds want to know". My vote goes to "Mudders with Udders". (can't remember who suggested it)

Whatever you choose I've found a great theme song for you. It's called "Mystic Cowgirls of the Prarie". It's funny as all get out. It's about a posse of vegetarian cowgirls who ride the rage liberating steers. It's written by my friend Joe Hall who in my opinion is the finest songwriter on the planet. Don't worry, you've never heard of him..Canadian artists don't get much distribution in the U.S.

I was kidding about "Mudders with...."

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 May 99 - 12:42 AM

RICK!!! I WANT THAT SONG!!!

Up until this darn diet thng, which is working, I could have BEEN that mystic cowgirl!!! Still could, cause I still don't "do" beef!!!! Heck, if your friend doesn't mind, let's throw that name into the ring, too!!!

I promise I will tear bet away from the Rockies and we'll try to agree on one or another. I like Mudders alot, with or without the udders! Hehehehe

I was kinds hoping Karespaw might get a suggestion from old 'Spaw, but didn't want to burden him with it when i tlaked with him today. what a great call!

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 08 May 99 - 12:54 AM

Actually you're right M.CG.of the P. would be a good name. I'll get the song to you.

Rick

Subject: RE: Bet & Kat need a name for performing! Help!
From: Penny
Date: 08 May 99 - 03:42 AM

I've been keeping out of this, 'cos I can't visualise you, only audiolise, but have been visited by two thoughts. One - due to the choir outside my window this morning - is Katsong. (It doesn't include Bet, though). The other lurks back in the place name thread, from the Burford old people's home. Ramping, or Rampant Kats.