Whitby Folk Week 2007!/How'd it go?

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 14 Aug 07 - 03:52 PM

Tijuanatime

The festival doesn't officially start until Saturday, but I've found (or, more accurately, helped to start) singarounds in the formerly Tap and Spile now Station Inn and Endeavour on Friday nights in previous years.

I'll be in Whitby on Friday so will be singing in either the Station Inn or the Endeavour. Or possibly both (at different times, on account of not being Hermione Grainger).

Kitty

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: tijuanatime
Date: 14 Aug 07 - 03:43 PM

Where's the best place to head for on Friday night?

We'd be more interested in singarounds than sessions

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: Lynn W
Date: 13 Aug 07 - 07:51 PM

Hi Chris P, I'm hoping for a repeat of last year, will try the same place, I spent 3 whole days in the same room! The management has changed but we had a session there at the Moor and Coast in May.
Cheers
Lynn W

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: Tig
Date: 13 Aug 07 - 09:58 AM

We were offered a regular 'Mudmatters' space in the Wailer yesterday. All we have to do is submit stuff for it.

Not long now!

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: GUEST,Chris P.
Date: 13 Aug 07 - 09:20 AM

I shall be there again this year, along with Paul and Alison, wearing my feet out to start with, as usual, looking for a vacant pub and some tolerant friends, to have a good English Session. Anyone got any plans in this direction?

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: brid widder
Date: 13 Aug 07 - 08:44 AM

only 6 days to go... you lucky people still need a place to stay

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: GUEST,Brian Peters
Date: 12 Aug 07 - 01:56 PM

" ...if you want to learn a melodeon then George Garsides beginners course is good..."

And if you joined George's crash course in a previous year and want to know what to do next, I will be running a "next step" melodeon workshop on Monday at 10 am in the Middle Earth (at least that's what it says here - I advise checking when you get there). You don't *have* to have been to George's course, it's really for anyone who's just got off the ground but still considers themselves a comparative beginner.

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 11 Aug 07 - 05:22 PM

Not really possible to study the programme until you get there and buy one!

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: Mo the caller
Date: 11 Aug 07 - 04:32 PM

Guestjj, Have you bought a season ticket or are you looking for sings and sessions?
Study the programme before you go, there's no time once you are there! Work out the things you MUST NOT MISS, (and hope they're not all at 11.30!), allow yourself plenty of time to get there and get a seat - it can take 20mins from one venue to another, if late you may not get in. Then fill in the gaps with things you'd like to go to, fish & chip workshops etc.
And have a go at something new, I arrived in plenty of time for a session last year, and found myself with a set of pipes under my arm (I got dragged into a Morris set, the same way once). All part of the fun.
There are some good concerts too, and dances.

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: gnomad
Date: 11 Aug 07 - 03:01 PM

Mobile-wise things are much improved over a few years ago. All networks seem to get reasonable cover, though there are still a few blackspots, especially indoors. Used to be that Vodaphone was the only network with much of a service, but that is no longer the case.

If you were in Staithes, however [just a few mile up the coast] I am given to understand that the only network worth a damn is Orange, and even they have big gaps.

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: John Routledge
Date: 11 Aug 07 - 12:59 PM

Into the final run in and I need a new mobile. Do any mobile networks not work well in Whitby
Thanks

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: jojofolkagogo
Date: 11 Aug 07 - 06:12 AM

Refreshing !!!!

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: GUEST,The Station Inn Whitby
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 10:23 AM

To start off Folk Week in style, there will be a Folk Session from 7.30pm on Friday 17th in The Station Inn, hope to see you all there, Cheers

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: nutty
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 05:27 AM

Anyone still looking for accomodation - see this thread

Cottage for Whitby Week

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: GUEST,jj
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 04:24 AM

Thank you, I will try my best to get round them all and have a little drink!

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: LesB
Date: 06 Aug 07 - 04:23 PM

Most people at some time go in the Tap & Spile, sorry! The Station Inn as it's now called. The Elsinor is popular with the Liverpool & Southport crowd & lots of others, especially Wednesday Lunchtime when 'The Lunchtime Legends' (Nev Grundy, Clive Pownceby, Alison Younger, Chris Harvey) play 2hrs of Rock n' Roll. The Ship is good for Irish Sessions, The Endevour is popular for singing & lots of others, except Sam Smiths pubs, you will find no music or singing in them. I'm not too sure about food as my favorite resturaunt (Garriga's) has changed into an Italian & The Granby had changed hands last year & wasn't as good. In fact the best meal I had last year was in the Metropole, but I had to wait an hour to get it! & of course there is always fish & chips.
As for workshops it depends on what you are interested in,most of the ritual dances are represented by cumulitive workshops, if you want to learn a melodeon then George Garsides beginners course is good, as are most, if not all of the beginners instuments workshops.
If you have a degree of expertise in a given subject, then that is more variable, it depends on what you know & if it's at the right level for you. There are just so many.
Have a good time.
Cheers
Les

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: GUEST,jj
Date: 06 Aug 07 - 03:54 PM

Sounds good - thank you I will say hello. Anywhere else worth drinking? I have had a look online and there seems to be so many places to choose from!

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: Mitch the Bass
Date: 06 Aug 07 - 03:32 PM

I depends on what you're interested in.
Dance, music, song?

For me, I enjoy the Village Music workshops, English music sessions, concertina and melodeon events.

I frequent Middle Earth for music, food and drink and luckily this year I have accommodation just a little further out on the same road.

Say hello, I'm the bass player with Stradivarious.

Mitch

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: GUEST,jj
Date: 06 Aug 07 - 11:46 AM

Which workshops would be most fun and interesting for a first timer? And the same question for which pubs and places to eat etc?

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: Saro
Date: 04 Aug 07 - 10:06 AM

Oh Mo - does that mean we won't see you at the harmony workshops - could you develop schizophrenia just for a week?
saro

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: Mo the caller
Date: 04 Aug 07 - 03:28 AM

Got ours yesterday.
The Irish set dance / American dance / Harmony singing all clash again GRRRRRR!!!!
But I like the way they've displayed the workshop information.

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: GUEST,Northern Eye
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 11:23 AM

Wey Hey our programme arrived today.

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: LesB
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 10:55 AM

George is doing his beginners workshops Mon -Thurs at 10am at the Stakesby Arms, (next to the camp site), and Slow n' Steady sessions in the graveyard spot (5pm) at the Middle Earth Sunday & Wednesday. Also an intermediate w/shop on Fri at the Stakesby Arms, "bellows control & dynamics explored using well known tunes".
Cheers
Les

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: GUEST,Ruston Hornsby
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 07:40 AM

George Garside will definitely be at Whitby - it may be worth checking melodeon.net as he usually posts there and it may give some indication of what he's doing as far as workshops are concerned.

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: Raggytash
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 07:32 AM

Bought mine this morning, they were actually delivered to shops in Whitby yesterday

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: LesB
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 07:24 AM

My programs arrived!
Cheers
Les

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: treewind
Date: 02 Aug 07 - 02:54 PM

Dan Quinn all stars ceilidh first, then Shagpile doing their thing

Have not received any instructions to be Abba!
I think the Abba thing mus be on a different night

Anahata

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: Surreysinger
Date: 02 Aug 07 - 02:33 PM

Still not got my programme down here - sent off for it nearly two weeks ago... no doubt it'll arrive while I'm at Sidmouth.

Anahata - I'm confused ... are the Dan Quinn all-stars doing the Abba ceilidh ... or being Shagpile ... or .... ???

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: LesB
Date: 02 Aug 07 - 11:19 AM

Cheers, So now it's down to the postal strike.
Les

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: GUEST,The Station Inn Whitby
Date: 02 Aug 07 - 11:18 AM

We now have Folk Week programmes available to but at the bar.

Cheers,

Col

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: LesB
Date: 01 Aug 07 - 07:10 PM

That's a good job, i'll probably be at the Sword Dancers get together at Beck Hole on Wed night.
Cheers
Les

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: Mary Humphreys
Date: 01 Aug 07 - 07:03 PM

Or she can play piano and I can play concertina!
M

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: treewind
Date: 01 Aug 07 - 06:02 PM

ABBA thing not before Shagpile on Wed night - that's going to be the Dan Quinn All Stars ceilidh band, with Pete Cooper, Paul Burgess, Matt Quinn and Jon Boden on fiddle, Dan Quinn on melodeon, Simon Ritchie on drums, me on cello and Mary Humphreys on piano.

Perhaps we can recruit Eliza too and have FIVE fiddles!

Anahata

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: LesB
Date: 01 Aug 07 - 03:52 PM

I couldn't find it, but it isn't the printed prog.
Cheers
Les

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: vectis
Date: 01 Aug 07 - 03:05 PM

WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO GEORGE GARSIDE SLOW & EASY SESSION?????
I'm gutted!!!!!!!!
350 miles and no George...........
What on Earth is Whitby FW coming to?

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: LesB
Date: 01 Aug 07 - 02:24 PM

Still no program arrived! The website declares that programs are now available. There is a downloadable prog on the website, which I havn't printed off (66 pages). First look & my initial reaction is 'Wot no George Garsides slow & easy sessions' and 'hells teeth! the N/W, Longsword, clog & Irish set dance workshops are all on at the same time'.
It doesn't say where the events are either. Anyway i'm sure that the printed prog will arrive soon. (i hope)
Cheers
Les

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: GUEST,Northern Eye
Date: 31 Jul 07 - 04:47 PM

Easy ring solicitor and put off till 29th --be there.

Where's our programmes ?, when Malc was running ship they would be here now.

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: alanww
Date: 31 Jul 07 - 12:57 PM

Well, that's completely c*ck*d it up then!
My solicitor has just told me that my house move, which had been planned for Wed 15 Aug and which might have meant that I could get to Whitby for at least a few days, has now been put back to Wed 22 Aug - right in the middle of Whitby Week.
Oh b*gg*r!
Please spare a thought for poor little old me doing my last minute packing, moving to my new abode and then unpacking everything while you are all having a great time! But don't spend too long at it, enjoy yourselves!
I'll see you all in 2008! And that's a promise!
"I thought I heard the old man say!"
Alan

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: CannieShieldsLaddie
Date: 31 Jul 07 - 07:47 AM

Saw numerous posters about on Sunday and agree Raggy there not too
colourful.

Anyone had a programme through their letterbox yet ?

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: GUEST,jj
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 06:02 AM

Thanks!

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: Grampus
Date: 27 Jul 07 - 01:07 PM

As of today, 27 July, the WFF website is offerring programmes at £4 plus an S.A.E.

Whitby FF Programme

G

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: Raggytash
Date: 27 Jul 07 - 03:25 AM

Hi Gnomad, there are numerous posters about but the colouring doesn't particularly make them stand out and there doesn't seem to be as many as previous years.

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: gnomad
Date: 26 Jul 07 - 05:35 PM

Re programmes: I went into a couple of Whitby shops today, which have previously sold the programmes; no sign of them and one shopkeeper said that they haven't yet been delivered.

As a side-issue, the posters are not out in large numbers. Despite looking for them I have spotted only two.

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: r.padgett
Date: 26 Jul 07 - 10:41 AM

Good to hear from you Terry, sorry you can't make it this year

I have a nice photo of you in the Tap and Spile ~ good singing!

Ray Padgett

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: peregrina
Date: 26 Jul 07 - 09:24 AM

Has anyone received their programme yet?

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 02:50 PM

As we used to say in Brooklyn, "Wait 'til next year."

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: CannieShieldsLaddie
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 05:37 AM

Any more news on Programme, got a weeks planning to do,

only 3.5 weeks, not long now.

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: Terry Free
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 08:35 PM

So sad at not being able to make it this year but a death in the family has upset all my plans. Will make it next year for sure. Meantime to all the wonderful Whitby singers I have met ... have a great time and see you again.

Terry

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: Severn
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 03:02 AM

Will be there from Tuesday on.

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 2007!
From: Raggytash
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 02:04 AM

Please see thread regarding the Glaisdale train - Whitby FW Glaisdale train