Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007

Subject: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 28 May 07 - 11:54 AM

I've never been to this folk weekend but a lot of my folkie mates have been telling me what a good do it is.

Apparently it is on 8,9 and 10 June 2007.

I love Robin Hoods Bay so would like to hear more about this Folk Weekend.
If you have been before please let me know what the sessions are like in the pubs etc and if there is some form of schedule of organised events.

Also, is there any camping available nearby within walking distance of the folk venues?

All comments and suggestions (polite ones!) will be gratefully received.
Thanks.

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Pistachio
Date: 28 May 07 - 02:16 PM

From memory - of about five years ago.... there are musicians sessions in one room and singers in another in the three pubs I recall.
As you must be aware it's a hell of a hill down to RHB and I know I camped on the site to the north of town, up that steep hill!
There was some 'Morris dancing' and a bit of a procession. I believe I found the beer particularly refreshing .. hence the vague details.
Whatever, IT WAS FUN!
I'd love to get there again but not this year I fear.
Enjoy yourself.
H.

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Barry Finn
Date: 28 May 07 - 02:38 PM

Where's Robin Hod's Bay, please?

Thanks
Barry

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: nutty
Date: 28 May 07 - 03:17 PM

About 4 miles south of Whitby on the North East Coast

SEE HERE

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Barry Finn
Date: 28 May 07 - 03:30 PM

Thanks nutty
Barry

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Tyke
Date: 28 May 07 - 03:52 PM

Oh Great I might just get the chance to claim my free beer od Soldier boy.

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: GUEST,CB
Date: 28 May 07 - 08:33 PM

I would recommend this campsite, just up from the bank top car park. A few minutes walk and excellent facilities, showers toilets etc.

Enjoy it

Hooks House Farm Campsite   
Whitby Road
Robin Hoods Bay
North Yorkshire
YO22 4PE
Tel: [phone]
Fax:
Pitches:

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 28 May 07 - 09:38 PM

Thank you folks.

Tyke, you get everywhere. Are you stalking me?
If I go and you go Tyke I will certainly buy you a beer or two but you will have to earn it.
Can you do me a big favour (again) and do the blue-clickety magic to pull up the web sites for the Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend and Hooks House Farm Campsite. Please.
How far is this campsite from where it's all happening?
Probably a good stumble downhill into the hamlet but I would guess as,Pistachio says,that it is a balls-ache of a climb up out of the hamlet back to the campsite.
How far is the campsite beyond the usual car parking and bus pick-up point above Robin Hood's bay?
I have some grave doubts that the combined forces of inebriation and gravity in extremely fresh sea air will mean one step forward and two steps backward up heart-attack hill late at night!
Where are those dammed ski-lifts when you need them?
Guess I could take my sleeping bag and my bivouac bag just in case and be trampled by prams and kids with dripping ice-creams in the morning. Oh well!
Or you could bring a rope Tyke and haul me up the hill.
Heave away, haul away!!!

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Raggytash
Date: 29 May 07 - 03:01 AM

It can be a great weekend, Wombat and i have had some wonderful times there. It can get a bit crowded especially in the Dolphin which has a session in the big toom upstairs nd normally another in the main bar and sometimes one down below in the little bar. Possibly won't get there this year as I may be away.

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: GUEST,Chalkie
Date: 29 May 07 - 07:39 AM

We're camped at the Hooks Farm site but not stayed there before so it's nice to hear that the facilities are good. The site is approx half a mile outside RHB, but once up the main drag the rest, still up hill, should be a walk in the park in comparrison.

We've been to the festival for a number of years now and is very good and very popular which makes the three pubs very crowded but if you can get yourself ensconced within the crowd somewhere it takes some beating.

The large room upstairs in the Dolphin does get full and is always a formal singaround with an MC giving everyone a chance. Sometimes on the Saturday they have paid artsists who will give a session but I'm not sure if that is every year.

At The Bay - the pub right at the bottom overlooking the beach - the bottom room tends to get full of American/Cajun folkies whilst the room off the bar upstairs last year seemed to be a free for all singaround.

I've never even been inside the third pub - about a third of the way back up the hill - so I don't now what goes off in there but generally you can pick and choose what you want to get involved in or take a bit of each as you like.

There's a good fish and chip shop at the bottom as well, though each pub does good meals, and it's just a well because once at the bottom you don't readilly fancy walking back out to go back down again at night!

Enjoy

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Tyke
Date: 29 May 07 - 08:44 PM

Here you go Soldier Boy Hooks House Farm I can recommend it. However please remember it a nice quiet site not for Late Night Noise. I nearly got thrown off when I came back from the Pub with Mick Haywood and Captain Kipper was dressed as a Pirate. I can tell you that we were being quiet I think it was just the Pirate silhouetted three corner hat that was standing out in the Moonlight that caused the problem.

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Grimmy
Date: 30 May 07 - 06:35 AM

You might bump into a certain Mr Martin Carthy - he and Norma live in RHB.

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 30 May 07 - 09:31 AM

Thank you very much everyone. This is looking good.
And thanks Tyke for the link to Hooks House Farm campsite.
It's not haunted by 'Captain Hook'is it? Oh errr!!

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Tyke
Date: 30 May 07 - 01:36 PM

Get on with booking Soldier boy that site is nearly full if not already full.

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Raggytash
Date: 30 May 07 - 02:08 PM

There's also Middlewood Camping & Caravan site at Fylingthorpe, a little further out by road but shorter I think if walking, there is a path down to the bay through woods, however it can get a little dangerous if the weather has been poor.

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Raggytash
Date: 30 May 07 - 02:12 PM

Just checked the map it's probably longer on foot as well, however it is an alternative and I seem to recall the showers were spot on, having said that it's a long time since I camped there.

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 30 May 07 - 09:27 PM

Tyke you panick me and many others needlessly.
I phoned Hooks House Farm campsite today and was informed that they do not take pre-bookings for short stays (i.e 2 or 3 nights).
The lady I spoke to said just to turn up on the day (preferably about Friday teatime) before the rush to guarantee a pitch, but it is a big campsite and she did not really anticipate any problems accomodating all campers over the weekend based on previous RHB folk weekends. The cost is £5.50 per night per person and includes all showers,washrooms,toilets and sinks and even use of an electric kettle. The panoramic sea and country views are apparently stunning.
So unless you know something I don't know there should'nt be a problem.
She did however quite correctly point out that when returning to the campsite late at night/early morning/dawn you must be very quiet and not disturb the other residents.
Could this be some reference to the racket you made last year Tyke?
Only joking but I have to admit I've never seen you in 'quiet mode'!! Sorry!

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: GUEST,Chalkie
Date: 31 May 07 - 07:10 AM

Unless you are actually camping, ie, not caravanning, then I think you will find that the Middlewood site is already full. This is where we usually stay and the facilities are very good. The walk down over the fields and through the woods is very pleasant in good weather but at night, watch out for those cow pats, which is difficult with no lighting! Take your torch, especicially if your crawling back into a tent when you get back.

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Tyke
Date: 31 May 07 - 06:22 PM

Well that good news Soldier Boy if you have not been to Hooks House Farm before if you pitch down at the bottom of the Campsite you will be the furthest away from the Showers but nearer Robin Hoods Bay using the Short Cut through the fields and a few back streets. So take a torch for the short cut. It's not as bad as Middlewood but it can be tricky in the daylight never mind the dark. Oh and don't try to be cleaver and walk into Whitby along the beach the tides can cut you off quite easy there is a disused railway line.

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 01 Jun 07 - 10:52 PM

How do you get a disused railway line on the beach Tyke?
Is this due to coastal erosion or are we both rambling incoherently?
Or do you mean that rather than walk on the beach you can walk on a disused railway line into RHB? But isn't it rather steep into RHB! How did the trains manage to stop before they fell into the sea and where did they turn around to get back to Whitby and how did they get back up that steep hill with only steam power and no vernicular (or whatever they call it?)
Oh I don't know, you've gone and got me utterly confused again Tyke!!

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Tyke
Date: 02 Jun 07 - 07:56 AM

http://www.northseatrail.co.uk/walksmap.html
Then open Linear Walks

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 02 Jun 07 - 09:34 PM

Thanks Tyke. Now I know what you mean (I think)

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 10:47 AM

Start packing your instruments and your voices, only 4 days to go.

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: GUEST,Rob Henderson
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 08:47 AM

I'm taking my girlfriend, mum and a campervan down for the weekend :) probably a guitar and the likes too :)

I remember last year when we were in the back of one of the pubs and it was getting very late, suddenly 2 gordies burst through a door armed with a washboard and a mouth organ and the place erupted into another sing song with people grabbing ornaments from the shelves just so they could hit something to make a noise and join in. One of the best sessions i've ever been to :)

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 10:15 AM

Did it include spoons and bones??

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Gedpipes
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 10:37 AM

What is a gordie?

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Tyke
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 08:39 PM

I think he is referring to a George person from the Newcastle area in the North of England Gedpipes.

George persons are well known for their interior design abilities after drink several pint of Beer. They spontaneously burst into song whilst rearranging your furniture and using the ancient Geordie art of Hewy a skill that the Chinese now call Swen Hewy.

It is supposed help to take away all the spirits from the room and transport them via, yet another Geordie tradition, the carry oot back to their beds. :-)

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 09:29 PM

My favourite carry oot is an indian!!

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Soldier boy
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 07:22 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Betsy
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 07:32 AM

Hiya Tyke , Gedpipes being form the North East of England ( but not a Gordie, Geordie or Jawdee) is pulling your plonker in his good natured way. I would be very surprised if Gedpipes didn't pay a visit this weekend and if so , touch base with him - he's a most agreeable person.
Might even drift down there mesel'
Cheers

Subject: RE: Robin Hood's Bay Folk Weekend 2007
From: Tyke
Date: 10 Jun 07 - 04:45 PM

Well I guess I shall have to quote the Geordie Vowels Eee Eye Owe You! Betsey