Is anyone going to Fylde?

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: GUEST,aeola
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 01:13 PM

sailor Ron songs/poems??? It must be the way you tell 'em!

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Alio
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 04:54 AM

I'm MCing in the Steamer all Sunday afternoon for my sins Rapunzel, so I'll probably see you there.

Only 2 days now to when I set off - case packed already! Wish I'd booked the whole week really!!

Ali

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Folkie
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 08:37 AM

Just had a look at the programme on the festival website and I see there are lots of sessions. Do any of them specialise in English music?

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 08:53 AM

Have great fun!

Wish I could be there.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: John J
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 08:55 AM

'fraid not.

JJ

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 08:55 AM

Dont specialise in English music but do plenty of it

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: LesB
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 09:02 AM

There isn't usually much English sessions at Fylde, but there is a chance that things could be a little more mixed this year with Cross o the Hands & the Askew Sisters being there.
Cheers
Les

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 09:15 AM

I'm English. i do music.

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Santa
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 11:30 AM

Fylde is usually pretty thin on specifically Scottish music, although isn't the Emily Smith band here this year (hurray)? Being just across the water, there is always a fairly strong Irish influence on the locals, and always some attempt to get visitors from the other side of the Pond. But the purer forms of English folk song and music: no, I don't recall any emphasis on such, at least beyond a fairly strong Lancashire component. Unless what Ron sings is in English.

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 11:38 AM

Well it IS in Lancashire. And Lancashire is in England. What exactly do you think is missing?

John Tams, Bernard Wrigley, Alan Bell,Hughie Jones - its not exactly roots 'n' reggae, is it?

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Santa
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 11:49 AM

Indeed, and if the Threlfalls are there this year we'll have the finest singers in the English tradition. However, as far as sessions devoted purely to English songs and music, no, and that was what was asked about.

If concerts had been the question, then Strawhead are about as purely English as any, but I didn't think that was the point.

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 01:18 PM

Okay - here's us...

Rachel (Rapunzel) & I (Sedayne) are playing in The Bernard Wrigley concert tomorrow night at The Euston...

On Saturday we're part of the Wyre Light Orchestra for the Wrecks & Rescues show at The Mount, before opening The Big Sing, also in The Mount. And on Saturday night (for my sins) you might catch me in the Deep End comparing at The Steamer...

On Sunday Morning, assuming I've survived, we'll be back at The Steamer where we'll be opening In the Tradition with a suitably subdued set of Supernatural Balladry & Songs of Ceremony.

Also, I'll be storytelling in The Marine Hall Gardens on Saturday (1pm) & Sunday (1 & 3.30pm) - weather permitting - but there's lots of cover so it shouldn't be too much of problem.

Hope to see you around & please do say hello, and anyone who already knows me, please remember the difficulty I have recognising faces!

We've put up a Myspace page at Venereum Arvum, which is the name we generally perform under, but at Fylde it's Sedayne & Rachel McCarron - page 33 of your souvenir programme. We were onto around 500 hits yesterday, but it was only 22 the last time I looked! Where have they all one??

Bright Moments!

Sedayne, OIB (Order of the Insane Beard)

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Rapunzel
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 03:48 AM

Lots to do tonight (Thurs).

Bernard Wrigley concert at the Euston with support from Spitting on a Roast, Joe Boe and myself & Sedayne.

or:

SailorRon's singaround at the Steamer.

I'm going to aim to be in two places at once - Ron's singarounds are the best.

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: s&r
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 06:21 AM

Just to catch anyone who is going to "Songs and Stories of the sea" and "Appalachian Mountain Music" at Fylde. The venue for these events will be at the Mount Hotel Restaurant Friday Lunchtime.

Stu

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: GUEST, Sminky
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 08:47 AM

Weather's not looking too bad:

Thursday evening: Overcast, gusty.
Friday: Overcast start, brightening up by lunchtime, warm.
Saturday: Best day, bright and warm all day, 20c.
Sunday: Worst day, warm but wet.

Bring it on!

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 09:03 AM

Sunny right now!

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 09:12 AM

Still sunny ten minutes later which is rare for Fleetwood...

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: bodgewick
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 09:34 AM

Great night at the steamer last night Sean and rachel were in fine voice along with Paul,Ivan,Geoff,Joe and Anna, and everyone else.
Cliff and Shirley I believe are well prepared for the onslaught this weekend(I suppose someone has to work)but am sure they will love it.
See you at the Euston tonight

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 09:35 AM

Should be great for the dancers - if that prediction is right.

see ya tomorrow folks!

Fat man in black rugby shirt/ mudcatter badge.

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: s&r
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 09:36 AM

Don't forget the penny dreadful team welcome contributions - prose poetry or pictures...


Stu

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: bodgewick
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 09:40 AM

Sailor Ron Where are you walking to approx. this year,would like to come and join you if I get the chance

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Alio
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 01:39 PM

See you tomorrow everyone - keep the weather warm and dry for me please!

Ali

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 07:46 PM

Sailor Ron-

Is there a workshop of Merchant Seamen Songs?

There certainly should be.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 07:51 PM

sorry I've packed my programme away. are you thinking of making the trip over Charley - it would be great to see you.

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: s&r
Date: 29 Aug 08 - 03:41 AM

Arthur Marsden of the Shellbacks is explaining shanties with illustrations from the Chorus on Saturday Lunchtime

Stu

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Alio
Date: 29 Aug 08 - 03:59 AM

What time's that Stu, and where?

Ali

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Rapunzel
Date: 29 Aug 08 - 05:57 AM

Great to see so many people both at the Euston and at the Steamer last night.

The Festival has officially started once you've been greeted by Elizabeth Baxter selling programmes from the comfy sofa in the Euston foyer.

Ron's singaround was packed and there was some fantastic singing and great songs - I was particularly moved by Essiquibo River and When All Men Sing (so don't know the names of the chaps who sang each)- the choruses really raised the roof!

It's going to be a great festival - and weather's looking okay today.

Looking forward to Hughie Jones and then Debby Mclatchy today - REMEMBER venue change to the MOUNT. (Apparently the museum didn't get a music licence for the Friday.)

See you all round and about.

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: s&r
Date: 29 Aug 08 - 06:08 AM

Alio

1.00 - 2.00pm Sunday at Fleetwood Museum (sorry, not Sat as I first said) There's free entry for wristband holders, so have a look round the museum at the same time.

Stu

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: s&r
Date: 29 Aug 08 - 06:10 AM

Debbie's doing a banjo workshop: if you've not got banjo with you the Music Room have loaned us several banjoes for the workshop.

Stu

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Aug 08 - 08:58 AM

Weelittledrummer-

Will I be there?

No, not this year but I've been corresponding with Ron about his collection of Merchant Sailor songs and reviewing his CD Blood on the Ice, and my co-editor with the C. Fox Smith Anthology project will also be there with the Shellback Chorus; he'll probably recite a poem or two by our favorite nautical poet.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 29 Aug 08 - 09:08 PM

Day One - tip-top fun all round; weather hot, humid, airless; Strawhead in fine form; Greg Butler as formidable as ever; excellent singarounds (a special mention of lovely Mudcatter My Guru Always Says, who sings like an angel) & an atmospheric session with The A69 Band. Lots more - Debby McLatchy, etc. etc. 2pm - just back from the Festival Cabaret hosted by Dave Jones where Rapunzel & I had the indignity of following 4Square, featuring the not inconsiderable talents of Jim Molyneaux (percussion finalist in the 2008 Young Musician of the Year). My instrument of choice? Dumbek!

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 29 Aug 08 - 09:14 PM

2am, BST

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Tig
Date: 30 Aug 08 - 08:41 AM

Wish I was going but pennies don't permit - especially with Firecat going to college.

Ask Stanley Accrington to sing the Song for Colin Kemp on Sunday - the first anniversary of his death.

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Alio
Date: 31 Aug 08 - 03:41 PM

Back home - and still on a high!

Nice to meet you Wee Little Drummer, and lovely to see you again Small Piper.

I didn't want it to end! Loads of fantastic artists, and lots of great company.
Ali

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 01 Sep 08 - 05:18 AM

Survivor's Singaround - Tonight (Monday) in The Steamer!

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: bodgewick
Date: 01 Sep 08 - 08:07 AM

What a weekend,the wife thought it was a stranger coming in when I eventually arrived home.Survisors night tonight and if its anything at all like last year well worth a visit.I thought Cliff and Shirley did a fine job along with the staff at the steamer

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 01 Sep 08 - 08:46 AM

Just Back home.

Amazing. I won a trophy for singing/writing a song in Lancashire dialect, which seems a bit weird.

I think the weekend confirmed my belief that Richard Bridge is right when he says what I do isn't folkmusic. I am perhaps better leaving this field of endeavour to people who are committed to the tradition. There are few enough opportunities for these folk to play and sing.

Also Denise and I met a load of friendly and pleasant people. and I thank them for their friendship.

The highspots of the weekend for me were giving the workshops on guitar accompaniment and songwriting. I felt on safer ground here. I knew what I was talking about, and I felt really able to help people with practical advice. Also I met a guy who was friends with the late Fred Jordan - someone whose singing I have always greatly admired - even though its nowt like what i do. It was good to hear anecdotes of the great man.

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 01 Sep 08 - 09:16 AM

I thought Cliff and Shirley did a fine job along with the staff at the steamer

I'm with you there! The Marine Hall might be the brains of the Fylde Festival, but the heart & soul is The Steamer - and thanks to Cliff & Shirley for keeping this going in their first year as incumbents!

My lasting impression of The Fylde Festival 2008 will be Thistle playing into the wee hours to a dozen provocatively clad young ladies (on hen night) dancing wildly to their finely honed renderings of many the old emerald chestnut. Virtuoso stuff, lads! I know was I meant to be comparing, but Rachel & I were playing at 10.30 the following morning, but you didn't seem to be complaining so we sloped off around midnight, wandering off along the Fleetwood docks to the strains of Dirty Old Town echoing through the night.

Another humbling percussion experience on the Sunday morning when Niahm Boadle got her bodhran out; with playing as accomplished, precise and spirited as that in the world we should not fear for the musical future.

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: bodgewick
Date: 01 Sep 08 - 10:37 AM

I loved the song by Alan Bell in the Euston-I am homeward bound returning,and thought we might try it sometime with the Roast but cant seem to find the words anywhere.Anybody any ideas where to look?

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: le cheffie
Date: 01 Sep 08 - 10:53 AM

bodgewick I think the song you are looking for might be the Jacinta The chorous starts
She is homeward bound returning.
Will try and look out the rest of the words once I've finished unpacking

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: s&r
Date: 01 Sep 08 - 10:54 AM

WITH ALAN'S PERMISSION I'LL POST THEM LATER

STU

Sorry about the caps

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: le cheffie
Date: 01 Sep 08 - 10:57 AM

And now an apology,
To all the people in the Meet Flossie session yesterday morning. My somewhat tired four year old wanted to play quietly somewhere at the back of the room which obviously wasn't practical. All methods of placation were used before I removed him screaming from the room. He did want to come back and listen but I thought it best not too.

So once again sorry for the disturbance.

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: bodgewick
Date: 01 Sep 08 - 11:45 AM

Many thanks le cheffie and s&r for that

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: folk1e
Date: 01 Sep 08 - 02:07 PM

So ....... Who's going next year?

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: MoorleyMan
Date: 01 Sep 08 - 03:21 PM

Next year? - well I'd love to (if I get invited) - I'm suffering from Fylde withdrawal symptoms already!

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 01 Sep 08 - 03:31 PM

yeh its a great place to go to. I just love the sea front there. And the local people are just terrific. there was this gang of local ladies from kirkham - at the evening concert at the New Boston. they were just so full of fun and laughter, and really whooping it up!

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: le cheffie
Date: 01 Sep 08 - 05:40 PM

A thoroughly excellent weekend well done Alan and the team

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: s&r
Date: 01 Sep 08 - 06:36 PM

The song is the Jacinta. It's in Alan's songbook 'In My Homeland' The books are available from Alan Bell 55 the Strand Fleetwood complete with music. Anyway here are the lyrics:

Now her keel was laid one morning in the year of '72
In a famous yard in Wallsend where the men were skilled and true
They riveted and welded good steel sheets upon her frame
'til at last she was completed and Jacinta is her name

Cho.
She is homeward bound returning
she is homeward bound returning
she is homeward bound returning
from the sea
the Arctic Sea
The Norway sea
the Irish Sea

She was one of seven sisters in the bold Marr family
Bill Taylor was her Skipper on her maiden trip to sea
For to fish the coast of Greenland and the distant Norway shore
For cod and hake and haddock all to fill the fishroom store

Cho
Young Mick Southwell was the bosun, old george Thompson engineer
Brian Baxter was a deckhand and he helped stow away the gear
As she fished across the oceans she sailed so wild and free
She was a great stern trawler; soon a legend of the sea

Cho
In the darkness of the winter in the terrible ice andstorms
Her crew worked hard to free her and to keep themselves from harm
As she fished across deep waters she did serve her owners well
Catching fish worth millions in the heavy rolling swell

Cho
Now Jacinta went on fishing 'til her engine let her down
We've towed her home to Fleetwood for to rest in her home town
We will paint her and we'll moor her all along her own quayside
She'll show new generations how we fished the seas with pride

Cho

Stu

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Sep 08 - 08:37 PM

Stu-

"Jacinta"

Nice song!

I like the songs that pay tribute to real boats, their builders, and their crews.

Someday if I'm good I'd get to hear you sing it, and buy you a round.

Any feedback on what Sailor Ron was up to?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Is anyone going to Fylde?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Sep 08 - 08:54 PM

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