UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough

Subject: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: nickp
Date: 03 Jan 08 - 04:21 AM

Well once again here comes the Gainsborough (Lincolnshire) old time music and dance festival. This year it's a week earlier being the 8th to 10th February at Castle Hills School, The Avenue, Gainsborough.

Guests this year are Piney Woods, a band featuring Kate Lissauer, Dave and Tim Bing and Jim Martin. They will be admirably supported by fellow Americans Adam Hurt and Beth Hartness. Holding up the UK honours will be the Down Trodden String Band and the Kitty Hawks. Dancers will have the pleasure of Kerry Fletcher's tuition and Kerry will be supported by fiddler Tim Brooks.

And if all goes according to plan we expect to have Mudcat's very own Fortunato and Suzette with with parts of their Shiver Show.

All that and more (as we always say!).... almost continuous sessioning, a bar, hot food, indoor (and outdoor - brrr!) camping (and no, you can't pitch a tent in the gymnasium, just make up a pallet on the floor as the song goes.

DOwnload a flyer from our website Friends of American Old Time Music and Dance

Tickets are available on the door for those late deciders...

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 03 Jan 08 - 05:57 AM

We were just talking about the festival last night.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: nickp
Date: 03 Jan 08 - 06:24 AM

Hi Geoff... I wish I could only think of it once a year instead of most of the year. Never mind, someone else can volunteer as organiser after this one!

Happy New Year to you and the brood, Nick

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: oombanjo
Date: 03 Jan 08 - 07:21 AM

counting down the days

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: oombanjo
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 05:40 AM

not as many as yesterday!

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: nickp
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 06:43 AM

Mind you, the fewer there are for you, the more it ups the ante on me!!

Nick

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: BanjoRay
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 05:49 PM

If you're a five string banjo player, you'll really need to get to this festival. Two of the world's best clawhammer players will be there on stage and in workshops. Tim Bing learned his playing as a young man at the cabins of the legendary Hammons family of Pocahontas County, West Virginia, and Dwight Diller recommends him as being the best player of Hammons banjo music. He's not done much recording, but he's none the worse for that. I jammed with him at Glenville WV in 2006, and he knocked my socks off.
Adam Hurt is still in his early twenties, and started learning Old Time banjo in his home state of Minnesota as a very young schoolboy. Over the last ten years he has shone in the competitions held at US Old Time festivals, and earned a lot of respect from the Old Time world - the names of the people who wanted to be on his latest CD say it all. The following links will get you pictures and sounds of these guys.
Adam Hurt
Tim Bing Find "Red Rockin' Chair"
I can't wait.
Ray

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: GUEST,GUY WOLFFon lap top
Date: 04 Jan 08 - 06:56 PM

THanks for the link Ray. I got the Adam Hurt site to work but the other one dosent like MAcs . Adam sounded great at any rate.Have a great time and I hope to see you some year . Yours Guy

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: BanjoRay
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 03:26 AM

Nice one, Guy - you really must get over to try our OT scene some year.
Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: oombanjo
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 05:31 AM

Hi Guy Last time I saw you was at an old pub in Hull with Bill Sables. Hope you are all well, best for the new year. Oombanjo.

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: BusyBee Paul
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 07:51 AM

Hello Oombanjo,

This means you can do Gainsborough AND the KFFC Winter Warmer Weekend the following week!.


Deirdre

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: nickp
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 02:48 PM

And don't forget the Annual General Meeting of FOAOTMAD will take place on the Sunday morning - I'm sure you're all looking forward to that!

Nick

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: Fortunato
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 06:36 PM

Nick,

Yes, yes, indeed, Lord willin' and the creek don't rise, The Shivers will be there. Wouldn't miss it for the world. Can't wait to stike up some Shenandoah Valley tunes with you Gainsborough pickers.

We'll be proud to be there.
Chance

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: GUEST,Jed.
Date: 05 Jan 08 - 07:02 PM

Looks good.

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: oombanjo
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 05:02 AM

Hi Deirdre it,s a possibility I have put to the boss.I hope we will see you at Gainsborough, and with a bit of luck I may have my new Romero banjo by then, 36 days and counting down.

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: GUEST,arnie
Date: 06 Jan 08 - 11:24 AM

You lucky folks. Adam is one of the finest, cleanest, and most tasteful clawhammer banjo players I have ever seen or heard!!!! Don't miss him! He's a killer fiddler as well and super nice guy. With all the other great talent - you are bound to have a super festival.
Arnie Naiman

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: BanjoRay
Date: 07 Jan 08 - 11:30 AM

If you're an Old Time (or any other sort of) fiddler, then Adam Hurt, Kate Lissauer and Dave Bing, Tim Bing's brother will really get to you.
Dave's the best of the old style West Virginia fiddlers, while Kate's superb sound conveys all that's best about Old Time music. Adam's progress in the last 10 years is astounding.
Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: oombanjo
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 10:25 AM

Good news and bad news. The good is that my new, under construction Romero Banjo is coming along fine.The bad news is that it will only arrive after the fest. But my old Windsor Prem still chucks.Only 22 days to go nick.Cheers. John Y.

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: nickp
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 02:32 PM

Ah but John, which is the likely to be the quietest?

FOAOTMAD members should have received the latest copy of OTN by now (I hope) with all the festival stuff in it.

Non-memebers can look at our previuously mentioned website.

Happy days.

Nick

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: Sooz
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 02:35 PM

I suppose we'd better order the hay in ready for the mules.....

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: BanjoRay
Date: 09 Jan 08 - 07:30 PM

Sooz - Just make sure the still's in place, and keep an eye out fer the revenooers.
Ray

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: oombanjo
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 11:59 AM

aint got no Hog to kill, so I went out and built me a little bitty still. and its 20 days to go.

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10
From: nickp
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 01:40 PM

Darn it, those mules again...

We've booked the First Aid folks, maybe we should get in a vet too!

Nick

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: oombanjo
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 11:14 AM

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Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: Fortunato
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 12:22 PM

Dear Nick, how are you by now, fine I hope. I reckon it's somewhat different over there in the UK, but up home in Honeyville VA the alien abductions of cattle and other livestock have died down considerably now that the aliens have discovered moonshine. We understand from the regulars down at the Rebel Yell Diner that the demand has exceeded the supply and has pushed the price of 'shine up, as well as encouraged the reactivation of some stills up in Doval Holler that had been shut down these many years.
    So, ahem, if you want to keep your jackasses in pasture away from your festival and avoid the necessity of hiring a veterinary doctor to be on site, make more moonshine and sell it to your aliens.

yours,
Chance

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: nickp
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 04:16 PM

Dang!!! I only have part of a bottle of Georgia Moon left ... but then that isn't like the real moonshine I've had when been a-wandering abroad!

Not quite got the required 30 days left in which to brew the 'real' stuff. And I'm not trying to get the attention of those revenuers! Just have to make do with the legal brews then!

Nick

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: oombanjo
Date: 14 Jan 08 - 02:07 PM

Hope you're all greasing up your strings 24 days to go.

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: BanjoRay
Date: 14 Jan 08 - 02:55 PM

I'm trying to get the grease off mine, John!
Off to see Jez Lowe tonight - I wonder if he plays any Old Time?
Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: oombanjo
Date: 14 Jan 08 - 03:23 PM

Hi Ray. Does the Greasy string come from stopping the gut drying out?

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: Fortunato
Date: 14 Jan 08 - 06:44 PM

oombanjo

I reckon you know that Tommy Jarrell sang the words below to The Greasy String, and it seems to suggest a slippery string that required the fiddler to 'mash down harder'.

"Run little feet, stop and sing,
Mash down harder on the greasy string

Jay bird whistles and the cat bird sings
Mash down harder on the greasy string.

My old lady is mad at me
'Cause I won't drink ginger tea;

She is good, she is bad,
She gives me the devil when she gets mad."
regards, chance

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: nickp
Date: 15 Jan 08 - 07:45 AM

You shouldn't use hog grease....

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: BanjoRay
Date: 15 Jan 08 - 10:06 AM

Chance, did you ever get to meet Uncle Tommy? When I tracked him down in Mount Airy he'd unfortunately been dead for 15 years. I'd love to have had a few tunes with him before he passed on.
Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: Fortunato
Date: 15 Jan 08 - 01:13 PM

Ray,
    Nope, I just have a couple of the 'Legacy' cds, and some loose fraternization with fiddlers (ahem) like my old pal Craig Johnson, and I've been to Mt. Airy enough to catch the general atmosphere.

I listen to Tommy Jarrell on the I81 going south to Asheville and Galax and Fiddlers Grove, and I remembered his lyric about the "Greasy String". I also listen to Rafe Stefani's Glory on the Big String which I bought from him at Mt. Airy, and Alan Jabbour and Ken Perlman's Southern Summits. Festival preparation songs for the drive, you see.

Are you going to be in Gainsborough?
regards,
chance

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: BanjoRay
Date: 15 Jan 08 - 07:01 PM

Yes, Chance, I'll definitely be in Gainsborough. I'll be one of the 50 guys with a banjo, a beard and a baseball cap (except mine has a Barr's Fiddle Shop logo). I should get to meet you at some stage.
I think you're going to love it...
Cheers
Ray Banks

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: nickp
Date: 16 Jan 08 - 06:13 AM

... and I'll be one of those with a beard and NO banjo (it'll be a mandolin if I can escape from organising for long enough). No idea whether I'll have a cap on.....

Nick

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: Fortunato
Date: 16 Jan 08 - 09:42 AM

Well, Ray you should be easy to pick out then.

Nick, I'll be wearing the Black Fedora and holding the guitar, but the lovely and yet talented Susette will be wearing a lady's chapeau and holding the banjo (or the autoharp).

I heard that dress was optional, so I'll be wearing suit instead...

Chance

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: oombanjo
Date: 16 Jan 08 - 02:16 PM

So Nick It's you is it, the one with the beard and short arms. And it's 24 to go. "Question. Can anyone suggest a cap for nick". I thought about one from Holland!

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Jan 08 - 03:51 PM

Short.... my arms.... I'll have you know they reach from finger to finger!!!

I'll refrain from rising to the other comment!!

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: oombanjo
Date: 16 Jan 08 - 04:36 PM

well done nick the pints on me

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: GUEST,nickp cookieless
Date: 16 Jan 08 - 05:23 PM

I may hold you to that John

Now to login again...

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: nickp
Date: 18 Jan 08 - 08:44 AM

Darn it... the thread dropped off the end... refresh!!!

(Oh and by which I don't mean using thread to darn things)

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: BanjoRay
Date: 18 Jan 08 - 09:22 AM

I'm still trying to work out how to darn a banjo, after being told to do so for years.
Ray

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: nickp
Date: 18 Jan 08 - 09:47 AM

Hi Ray

First you put some holes in the skin.... a craft knife usually suffices....

Nick

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: Fortunato
Date: 18 Jan 08 - 12:05 PM

Careful with that knife, Nick, one slip and you've a gelded banjo.
Of course, there are those who'd welcome a reduction in banjo breeding and propigation.

Banjo's breeding, there's a visual for you.

Bruce Hutton always said he played a little banjo, now perhaps I know where he got them.

cheers
chance

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: oombanjo
Date: 18 Jan 08 - 03:49 PM

Yeh! the wife always said."I wondered what you meant, when you said, you were going up stairs to play with your banjo?".and it's 21 to go

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: ThreeSheds
Date: 18 Jan 08 - 04:13 PM

Not a baseball cap in sight!!

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: ThreeSheds
Date: 18 Jan 08 - 04:25 PM

Even more banjoists bar t'at

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: BanjoRay
Date: 18 Jan 08 - 05:13 PM

The session with FDR (Three Sheds' first link)was great - anyone know who the musicians were?
Ray

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: oombanjo
Date: 19 Jan 08 - 05:00 AM

NoRay, But on the second one.I wonder which one is Andy.

Subject: RE: UK Old Time Music festival - Feb 8-10 Gainsborough
From: oombanjo
Date: 19 Jan 08 - 06:28 AM

That should have said Andy/Three sheds? Hows it Andy.