What old acts are around festivals?

Subject: What old acts are around festivals?
From: GUEST,spb-cooperator
Date: 05 Jun 08 - 03:08 PM

On a similar theme to the question about new acts, are there any old acts who have been remembered since forgotten by time, or persuaded to come out of retirement?

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: banjoman
Date: 06 Jun 08 - 06:49 AM

About to celbrate our 20th consecitive year at Broadstairs Folkweek with Old Trout Band - does that qualify

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: GUEST,Nicholas Waller
Date: 06 Jun 08 - 07:00 AM

Bryony reformed after 17 years and are appearing at various clubs and festivals.

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: greg stephens
Date: 06 Jun 08 - 07:07 AM

The Boat Band are really old, twenty years old this summer. That's just the band, by the way, the musicians are generally a year or two older.

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: Rasener
Date: 06 Jun 08 - 07:27 AM

Only a year or two :-)

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: Goldengob
Date: 06 Jun 08 - 07:29 AM

Bill Whaley & Dave Fletcher have always been old!
Dave F

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 06 Jun 08 - 07:30 AM

Buzzcocks at Beverley!!!

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: GUEST,burl
Date: 06 Jun 08 - 04:37 PM

I wouldn't mind doing a festival or two if someone remembered/invited me. I'm 75 in a few days time, had over 40 years on the scene, so I think I qualify as an 'old act'. Burl.

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: Marc Bernier
Date: 06 Jun 08 - 04:46 PM

Don Sineti will be at the Mystic Sea Music festival next week. He's not yet ancient, but he has stopped being young.

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: Rasener
Date: 06 Jun 08 - 04:47 PM

Do Old Men sing love songs Goldengob?

If so, you better get along to Faldingworth Live on Saturday September 13th 2008 where we have some really old buggers on :-)
Click on here and scroll down to see some really old buggers/a>

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: Def Shepard
Date: 06 Jun 08 - 04:51 PM

Those 'old farts' Fairport Convention run their own festival, of course! :-D

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: Rasener
Date: 06 Jun 08 - 04:58 PM

Saw them in Cleethorpes (FC) recently on the pier. It was a very good night

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: GUEST,spb-cooperator
Date: 06 Jun 08 - 05:00 PM

The question I raised originally was about who is appearing after being out of circulation for some time... or should be appearing.....

S.

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: Rasener
Date: 06 Jun 08 - 05:03 PM

Steve Turner stopped for a while and has got himself back on the scene.

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: Def Shepard
Date: 06 Jun 08 - 05:09 PM

I see them (FC) every year at the Symphony Hall in Brum, as well as at Cropredy.

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: Abby Sale
Date: 06 Jun 08 - 07:00 PM

The lead act at Mystic this year are Finest Kind. I think they've been singing together 30 years or more but the actual act is 17 years.

There'll also be lots of other old people there. Me too, although I'm not an act.

Charlie's old.

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: cptsnapper
Date: 07 Jun 08 - 03:21 AM

Magna Carta should be: they're coming off the road next year 40 years after they started.

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: r.padgett
Date: 07 Jun 08 - 09:32 AM

Dave Burland

Check him out

Ray

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: the button
Date: 07 Jun 08 - 10:30 AM

I don't think "genius" is too strong a word for Dave Burland. I haven't heard him for over 20 years, but I only need to think about his performance of Lizzie Wan, and it sends shivers down my spine.

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: The Sandman
Date: 07 Jun 08 - 05:12 PM

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: GUEST,burl - PM
Date: 06 Jun 08 - 04:37 PM

I wouldn't mind doing a festival or two if someone remembered/invited me. I'm 75 in a few days time, had over 40 years on the scene, so I think I qualify as an 'old act'. Burl.
not only an old one but a good one ,Roy is one of the best communicators on the English folkscene.Dick Miles

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: GUEST,burl
Date: 08 Jun 08 - 10:14 AM

Thanks Capt Dick. I appreciate that. Best wishes to you. ROY

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: Harmonium Hero
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 12:10 PM

I'm doing Gainsborough. I qualify for this thread on the grounds of age (61 and looking around for an 'Old Git' T-shirt), and the fact that I dropped out of the folk clubs from 1983-'90, and then spent a few years performing on a very limited scale, and have only been back in proper circulation for about three years. I'm trying to get on more festivals, but haven't found out how. It's something that has been puzzling a lot of us for decades. Any ideas? John Kelly.

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: r.padgett
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 12:58 PM

It seems to me that a lot of "old folkies" are returning now that they are in their 60s and kids have moved on [ok i haven't any I know of]

This could be a good thing too as lots of good songs have been lost for a time!

I think that clubs need people at the helm who know what they are doing and have the time to organise

Minus side ~ appropriate rooms and venues held regularly

Audience who are knowledgeable and appreciative who want to come and listen and join in

Ray

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: Acorn4
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 01:20 PM

At Southwell this weekend the original line-up of Fieldwork, with Tim Garland played together for the first time in yonks.

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: Stringsinger
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 01:28 PM

So now folk music are now "acts". The festival circuit perpetuates the show-biz myth of identifying "folksinger".

The term "act" defines some of the specious performance art that some call "folk".

"Acts" are fine as long as we don't confuse them with folk music.


Dog and Folkie Acts are a kind of acoustic vaudeville (though they require sound systems and DI boxes). Some are entertaining.

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 01:50 PM

What old acts are around festivals?

dope smoking, fornication, chorus singing, excess drinking, loud carousing, the telling of tall tales......

and other ancient sins.

Dog and Folkie Acts are a kind of acoustic vaudeville ....

whatever turns you on......although I suspectyou are confusing folk festivals with Scandinavian nightclubs.

Subject: RE: What old acts are around festivals?
From: GUEST,Willy Nilly
Date: 09 Jun 08 - 02:06 PM

"although I suspect you are confusing folk festivals with Scandinavian nightclubs."
Or certain establishments along The Reeperbahn in Hamburg, about which I have absolutely no knowledge, I heard about these places from a neighbour who heard about them from Paul McCartney, who should probably know better ;-)