Towersey Folk Festival - some YouTubes

Subject: Towersey Folk Festival - some YouTubes
From: Hamish
Date: 04 Sep 07 - 03:02 PM

Hi, y'all,

I've posted a few videos from this fine, fine festival:

Mike & Ali Vass part 1
Mike & Ali Vass part 2
Parallelogram
Demon Barber Roadshow
David Holt - Shady Grove
David Holt - Tom Dooley
Last Orders and kids in the sunshine
Wynndebagge

...enjoy!

And, yes, I do have the artists' permissions (except Last Orders and Demon Barbers - still pending)

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Hamish

Subject: RE: Towersey Folk Festival - some YouTubes
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 04 Sep 07 - 03:58 PM

Hmm. No folk song then.

Subject: RE: Towersey Folk Festival - some YouTubes
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Sep 07 - 04:01 PM

Thanks for those! Grand stuff. I now know more of why everyone raves about this Fest!

Subject: RE: Towersey Folk Festival - some YouTubes
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 04 Sep 07 - 04:31 PM

Thanks Hamish, I enjoyed all the clips, though think (on the basis of that particular clip) that Parallelogram are more jazz than folk - what with not getting back from Whitby till the Saturday I didn't get to Towersey until Sunday, and then only to the Three Horseshoes barn. So I missed the acts in the arena, but did get to the singing.

Richard - you're not being quite fair, because David Holt was singing folk songs, albeit from the other side of the Atlantic. In the Village Hall, by the look of it.

I think I'm getting too old to want to pay large sums of money to sit in concerts on folding chairs, though. A far cry from the days when we determinedly struggled to find a space on the floor.....

Kitty

Subject: RE: Towersey Folk Festival - some YouTubes
From: Beer
Date: 04 Sep 07 - 08:30 PM

Thanks Hamish. I'm very impressed.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: Towersey Folk Festival - some YouTubes
From: nickp
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 04:14 AM

Argh! You can see my bald patch in Tom Dooley (Dula for pedants!)
Nice one. Nick

Subject: RE: Towersey Folk Festival - some YouTubes
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 04:27 AM

David Holt also played the main stage, and was wonderful. He was entertaining and educational, but not remotely patronising. The audience was spellbound.

Richard, those are a few clips out of dozens of concerts and events. There was plenty of folk song at the festival.

Subject: RE: Towersey Folk Festival - some YouTubes
From: Hamish
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 07:36 AM

Yes, Ruth - the clips I posted are not meant to be representative. It's just what I chose on a whim to record., proximity to the stage being a key factor. It's only a "stills" camera, I wasn't really planning on taking any videos at all, so I didn't have any plan of approach, and I certainly didn't have any strategy to make it comprehensive.

The Parallelogram gig wasn't anywhere near as jazzy as the clip makes out - that was probably the most extremely jazzy passage in the whole set. It was completely random that I chose those two minutes. I wished I'd kept it running at the end: as you can get a hint, Martin Green was about to head off into a quite folksie and lyrical passage.

And I wish I hadn't left the camera in the car for the Van Eyken gig, which was awesome: probably my personal highlight of the weekend.

Incredibly, before I'd posted this trailer, and in under 24 hours, one of the Mike & Ali clips had notched up 279 views!!

Anyway, thank you all for your kind comments.

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Hamish