Welcome to new member please

Subject: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:41 AM

Hello everybody I am joining you here because I am very interested in the folk music. I am from Portugal, the seaside town of Viana do Castelo.This is in north, just by the border with Galicia which is famous for its Celtic music. There is some old music here in Portugal too, the old fisherman sailed acroos the Atlantic into the sea by Canada and came back with a load of cod and then they would sing in the bars by the harbour. I do not like the old cod music so much, my parents did, but I think the Celtic is more fun for we younger ones. I go the pub called Dirty Gertie's, also it near the harbopur, where some German and Dutch people play the celtic music, and I like that, I am learning to play bodhran and bones and they let me join in. I have bought a whistle to play tunes but so far I am not playing well.
   If anybody has advice for me, or just has wish to say hello, that would be very good
Thank you
Balsto

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: s&r
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:44 AM

Hi Balsto and Welcome

Stu

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:45 AM

Now what's that an anagram of?

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From: s&r
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:50 AM

Oops!

Bugger!

Stu

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:53 AM

Hello, Balsto, and welcome. Being Greek myself, I have great interest in southern European music - though I have to say that I find fado sometimes too hard.

I see you are only 200km or so from Asturias across the border - my favourite group of the area have been Felpeyu, at least until the tragic death of Igor Medio and Carlos Redondo last summer. Do you know of them and their music? And do you perhaps know if the group intend to continue after their loss?

Anyway - good luck with learning whistle, bones and bodhran, and have fun with the music.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: folk1e
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 05:54 AM

Hi form sunny Manchester(UK)
We have our own port as well ... just no ships and the only cod is in the "chippy" but we DO have an ecleptic mix of folk!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:00 AM

Balsto,
are you into gardening at all?

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,Jenny Tayliah
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:09 AM

Hi Balsto
I also like folking in my country. We sometimes do folk with just two people but I prefer a good session with a large group, then you don't know the person whose instrument you are playing with, it's much exciting.
Our pub session allows folk in the front but it has another room around the back so we sometimes we take it up the rear. It's a tight fit but we manage to fit in.
I would be interested to hear of other country's folking traditions.
I'm waiting for you to get in touch on my folking website and you can see pictures of my instrument and the fingering system I use to bring pleasure to many.
Jenny

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:13 AM

Hi balsto welcome to the friendliest most helpful bunch of nutter you could wish for

before anyone gets into the Bodhran jokes let me start seriously.

Any percussion player from Timpani to shaky egg has to have a sense of timing and rythm. When you get into the feel of a tune you can somehow sense the change of tempo before it happens.
Don't try and jon in at the start of every tune. listen for a few bars and get the feel, click or tip at the first beat of a few bars then go for it!!
This has the advantages of letting you make sure the tune is not too fast to join in with cofortably and also shows the other musicians respect because you are listening and learning and not just showing off.

Oh and I hiope you have a set of good, real bone, bones they make all the difference.

Good luck,

Andy (Bones, Tea chest bass, Concertina, Voice, but mostly Fool)

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:23 AM

Jenny, I am surprised; I never knew you had such regular folking sessions, I always thought of you as a lone folker, what with the glasses and all.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:30 AM

Well George it did say Balsto Da Loteya a close relation of Jenny Tayliah I believe.
I do like a girl with one strong wrist don't you?
Giok

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,Oop Yu Tui
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:34 AM

I am a new visitor hear also, but I an mot extracting the urine like Bolloxto Da Lotaya.

And I want to be called Loretta.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:39 AM

Jenny Tayliah, I look for website and cannot find it. Perhaps you tell me what the address is, I would like to see pictures of you.Thank you other people for your good wishes.John "Giok" McKenzie I do not understand your letter. Have you perhaps made a humorous anagram of my name? Will you tell me what it is. I will try to make an anagram of your name, it is difficult one.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:41 AM

Thats not an anagram.

eric

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,Jenny Tayliah
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:53 AM

Hi George and Giok
I am not understanding the British humouring. Do you doubt my folking credentials? I have been playing the oboe (it's my own special pink one) for as long as I can memorise and have been told that my lip technique is unique.
I have held many positions for the National Folking Magazine and worked my way from the bottom to being on top of this great organ. I have my own large column which is used by anyone who feels the need.
I have always had it hard - when I have sometimes found myself on my knees I always rise to the occasion and work my way up any available passage.
These are my folking credentials what are yours?
Jenny

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Dame Pattie Smith EPNS
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 06:54 AM

CROESO Welcome from Wales. We have lots of music song and dance in Wales. If ever you want to visit you are very welcome - Hotel International that`s me. Visit www.folkwales.org.uk for lots of info. (still can`t do blue clicky things) By the way I play fiddle, concertina and SPOONS.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,Oop Yu Tui
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:00 AM

I went to Wales one Sunday, it was shut.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: gnu
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:02 AM

Jenny... you got a steady boyfriend?

Balsto.... glad you came.

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From: Jim Lad
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:03 AM

Dirty Gertie's?

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From: Rockhen
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:08 AM

It's after 12 noon! da da!

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From: the one
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:21 AM

welcome' love & recards. pip & merry!!!

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From: Mr Happy
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:25 AM

Balsto da Loteya is really 'Easy Ballad' Otto!!

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From: Cats
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:29 AM

Welcome from Cornwall.. land of wonderful people and fabulous scenery and, of course, celtic music.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:37 AM

People who speak the various Romance languages do not have trouble with articles like 'a', 'an' or 'the'.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: skarpi
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:46 AM

Balsto , Welcome enjoy it here I am also in folk music .
Balsto the fisher went also to my Country witch is Iceland ,
they came by here on their way back , just like the fishermen
from France .

All the best Skarpi Iceland.

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From: bobad
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 08:00 AM

And balls to you too.

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 08:17 AM

Jenny if the pink oboe you play has several holes in it, somebody has a nasty problem!
Giok

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From: Hawker
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 08:25 AM

Stop, my ribs hurt!!!!!
Cheers, L

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 08:29 AM

Oboe, Jenny? What oboe? When you were playing "Dildo, Bendigo..." I thought it was a pink concertina, honest - it looked like one, anyway.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 08:47 AM

I second bobad's comment.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: kerryguy7
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 08:54 AM

Hello Balsto!
Nice to welcome another new member to this site!
Like you, I am a new member as well!
The folks here seem to be very welcoming as well as very willing to help new members like you and I to find their way around here!
Best wishes to you!!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 09:02 AM

April 1 is starting all over the place, ain't it.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: artbrooks
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 09:34 AM

Yeah, Peace...and it's sometimes hard to tell fact from fantasy.

Anyway, Balsto, welcome to the Mudcat from Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. If you are really real, be aware that April 1st is the day for practical jokes in the British/Irish/American tradition, so many of the posts above refer to that. If you aren't real...welcome anyway. Lots of Mudcat people are a bit unreal.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 09:39 AM

I sign up as new member today because here in Portugal we start new steps to the good life on this date, and I hope this will be my time in Mudcat. I see other people have spoken of the date being April 1, is this a similar custom in your country?

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 09:40 AM

Some of us live off planet. But that aside, hows the weather there? You know, in Portugal.

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From: Mr Happy
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 09:50 AM

Portugal= Polar Gut!

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 09:56 AM

But I see you are from Viana do Castelo. Beautiful city, great beaches, AND somewhat of a surprise to me a center for Celtic Music.
Wow.

Dirty Gertie's. That would be located near Vila Praia de Ancora, wouldn't it? (I loved the ferry ride to get there.) You are a lucky dude.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 10:02 AM

Howdy! Welcome!

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Balsto da Loteya
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 10:03 AM

My friend Peace, I thank you for your greeting. It is good to hear from someone who knows our fine town. Some of the letters here I think are perhaps the English sense of humour, or people are American, I don't know. But you seem to be a friendly person.
The weather is lovely today, it is very warm and not windy, and I walked down by the harbour this morning, had a box of smoked salty cod pieces from the woman with a little fire in her fishy box, and then went into Dirty Gertie's to hear the Celtic music. (I sit here now with my little laptop)

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 10:23 AM

No doubt.

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From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 10:42 AM

So many men blessed with little laptops. Welcome Balsto da Loteya

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From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 10:43 AM

April 1st is always a good day to join anything.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Jim Lad
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 10:54 AM

So, I knew this one was a fake but I completely forgot, it was April fools day. That makes me pretty smart!
Almost.
Come on out Stu. We know you're in there.

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Charley Noble
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 10:56 AM

Balsto-

Welcome!

I for one would love to hear one of your smoked salty cod piece songs, either in the original or in translation. It is my understanding that the tunes are traditionally rendered in the diabolic scale, depending on the size of the catch.

I'm less interested in the Celtics, given their abysmal record this year even in their home games in Boston.

Cheerily,
Your friend for life Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: s&r
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 10:56 AM

Ok Ok Ok... holds hands up and hangs head in shame...

Stu

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: GUEST,Avril Betts
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 11:01 AM

You had me going there for a minute...

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From: Jim Lad
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 11:14 AM

Ahah!

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 11:16 AM

Bacalhau Recipe to use up your salty codpiece(s)

Giok

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From: Herga Kitty
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 11:22 AM

I'm raising a glass to the much-missed Avril Betts, and to Dave Bryant, who I think would have enjoyed this thread!

Kitty

Subject: RE: Welcome to new member please
From: Leadfingers
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 11:26 AM

When I started doing Medieval Shows I was asked if I had a cod piece - I said "No , but I DO have a nice bit of Halibut!"