Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Aug 09 - 08:42 PM

Same ones hanging up over the table last year?

WOW, Adrien! Lotsa photos. Thanks!

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Peace
Date: 09 Aug 09 - 07:49 PM

Before anyone asks: Navy Blue.

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Peace
Date: 09 Aug 09 - 07:49 PM

My best most broken-in comfortable FotLs have gone by-by. I loved that pair of shorts. The elastic finally gave in to old age and just quit elasticking. I was gonna have a ceremony wherein I commended their years of service keeping my arse warm, but alas, I can't find them. I think they're in my guitar case in the event I run outta rags to wipe the strings with. I know this is not something most people would get sentimental about, but those shorts gave me their support over the years and I thought at least a few words were needed to express my anguish and gratitude.

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: gnu
Date: 09 Aug 09 - 07:43 PM

Pretty soon? Jaysus... I gotta vacuum, pick up, fold the laundry... I need more notice!

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Peace
Date: 09 Aug 09 - 07:37 PM

Holographs, gnu. Pretty soon we'll all be standing in yer livingroom.

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: gnu
Date: 09 Aug 09 - 07:35 PM

Kinda said this on a similar thread...

Thank YOU. Even tho I couldn't get there... and I tried... fact is that I shared a great deal in it through this thread and the peeps that posted to it. This isn't just cyberspace. It's friends and feelings and community (Yeah, I know, the old cynic sniffles. Sod off!) and so much more. I am blessed to know youse all... in cyberspace, in person, in You Tube, in CD, in whatever they come up with next.

Thanks Beer.

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Beer
Date: 09 Aug 09 - 04:46 PM

Well folks, this is all the pictures I can provide unless someone else took some and will post later.
Thanks for the ride. It's been great.
Adrien



http://www.applehollowmusicfest.org/Slide_show/pictures.html

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: bankley
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 11:17 PM

so hangin' with them lady saints... sisters of mercy... you could do worse... you'll be in my best thoughts.... I mentioned your name during the Montreal Folk Workshop.... I did forget to mention Scott Lang..... and Penny was sitting right beside me.... but we did cover a lot of ground... and I look fwd to the DVD.... much luv... Ron

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Peace
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 07:48 PM

Bob, I just e-mailed your yahoo address. Get back to me, pdq, ok?

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Peace
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 07:32 PM

Bob, I'll be in Montreal the end of August. Will call then.

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: gnu
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 07:18 PM

Pointe Claire... I have relatives there. Langois.

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: gnu
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 06:06 PM

Bob... don't know you, but I have heard of your buddies. I hope they are taking care of you and yours.

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Beer
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 05:15 PM

Same here Bob R.
ad.

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: bobad
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 04:40 PM

Hang in Bob, if there's something I can help you with, email me.

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Beer
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 04:30 PM

I thought about you yesterday and wondered how come you hadn't shown. Thanks for connecting and your o.k. Needless to say you did miss a good one.
All the best,
Adrien

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 03 Aug 09 - 04:17 PM

Friends: Couldn`t get to Apple Hollow. Had to hang out with my friends
St. Jude, St. Rita de Cascia, Our Lady of the Roses, Silent Unity, and
Mr. Jesus. Life has been a bit, uh. challenging. Can`t get back on line on a regular basis, yet. This broadcast is coming to you from a Library in Valois, Pointe Claire. All Prayers welcomed...bob

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Beer
Date: 02 Aug 09 - 06:48 PM

Sending you possibly your first P.M.
Check at the top of the mudcat page and you'll see in Blue " You Have _ Messages".
Adrien

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: t.jack
Date: 02 Aug 09 - 05:49 PM

Yea,thanks for the reception..i`ll say i`ve been around nut houses a time or flew..On the 14 of Augest i`m on me way back home for a visit...I`m hitchiking to Nova Scotia selling my Canada made C.D aqlong the way to whoever picks me up??I`ll also keep a journel on the ones that pass me by,can`t by me cd at wallmart,canadian tire or starbuts and right now i have the most amount of cds so that makes me me best coustomer right bud??it don`t gets any better..

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: bankley
Date: 01 Aug 09 - 08:56 AM

somewhere at the bottom of the Mighty MacKenzie.....   

the river, John, not you !.......

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Aug 09 - 07:11 AM

Is that Stormin'?
If so, the it's a Doucette family mafia takeover coming on.
We coiuld all be sleeping with the fishes, soon.

John

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Beer
Date: 31 Jul 09 - 09:23 PM

I'm in trouble now. Welcome to the second fruit cake box.
Ad.

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: topical tom
Date: 31 Jul 09 - 09:06 PM

Hi, Norm! Welcome to the folk nuthouse!Good sets at the festival! I enjoyed every song.

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: gnu
Date: 31 Jul 09 - 06:59 PM

A new 'Catter? Great. Welcome to the nuthouse Norm! Watch out for the crazy peeps. >;-)

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Jeri
Date: 31 Jul 09 - 06:43 PM

NORM! Welcome, dude. I didn't buy your CD either. I didn't buy anything except food and drinks and boy, am I sorry about that. I'm glad you made it here.

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: t.jack
Date: 31 Jul 09 - 06:31 PM

I`m on board ..norm here ...hello every one ..great stuff and stuffing...good time thanks to adrien ,joe bird and all the voulenteers''tamarack jack

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 31 Jul 09 - 12:40 PM

Adrien:

As I have already posted on other sites, it was worth every mile I drove - about 3500 by the time I arrived! I had a blast and the four friends who accompanied me enjoyed it totally. Especially dad(95), as you noted on the pic page. Now I am committed to taking him to every music event we can manage. If we make it to 95, may we be in as good humour and able to enjoy as much of life as he does. Last night, concert in the park at Baie d'Urfe, tonight the cafe in Ormstown. We have restrung his guitar, now if someone will tune it...

Apple Hollow enriched a lot of lives!! It has transformed mine.I'm sticking around Quebec indefinitely so expect to drive only 43 miles next year! But I am sure that will only add to my enjoyment - as if anything could. I really was high as a kite, wasn't I! I would not be in Montreal today had it not been for Apple Hollow. And I have loved Montreal and Quebec since the first day I arrived in August 1968.

So, perhaps I have more to say thank you for than some but that was one terrific time. I was in on the organization of the first Edmonton Festival in 1980, so I have a good idea of what goes into it. You did a monumental job and produced a fantastic party.

Thank you - and an offer to help in any way I can.
Dorothy

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Beer
Date: 30 Jul 09 - 11:36 PM

Marc.
You were great as well. sure glad you came. Also wish I had had more time to sit anmd talk.
ad.

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Mzee Simba
Date: 30 Jul 09 - 11:22 PM

I think it was pretty much the best festival I've ever been to from the point of view of spirit and friendship. This is not to diminish the music, which was absolutely top drawer -- great from start to finish! Keep it up!

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Beer
Date: 30 Jul 09 - 09:42 PM

Ken your to much. Thanks for the kind words and as far as next year is concerned it will be discussed on Aug.11th.
I am going to the Champlain Valley Folk Festival this weekend and will be crashing at April and Ben's place. I am already excited in the networking aspect of my visit. Be it hunting for new talent or talking to organizers of the event. Meeting new people has always been a passion of mine so I hope to make lots of new acquaintance's as well.

When I look back at our festival of two weeks ago I am very happy in the end results. I don't mean the financial aspect, but the overall friendliness that was very present. Patrons and musicians mixed as equals. Friends of old hugged after years of separation. Folks driving from Seattle,Nova Scotia, Michigan, Toronto, Ottawa, London Ontario, Saint Thomas Ontario,New Hampshire, Vermont, New York State, Montreal, the Eastern Townships and so on. Then there were folks like yourself and Pat who flew in from Florida. And a friend from England as well. A chap from Scotland, Hinton Alberta and British Columbia. And these last three were performers and did not do it for the money. I could never afford to have them flown.
Was it worth all the work and behind the scene struggles? In my opinion, every blessed minute.

I missed most of it as usual, but what I did see and hear,it was all very positive. One thing that does stand out is the enjoyment that our Mudcatter "Dorothy" was getting out of the day's activities. That was a long drive for you Dorothy, but I think that you were happy that you came.
ad.

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: KenM
Date: 30 Jul 09 - 06:46 PM

Adrien:

I'm looking back on this thread and note that you started it on August 28, 2008 with an optimistic comment that now the work (fun) begins (for the 2009 festival. I dearly hope that we will see the same kind of optimistic posting later in August this year for the 2010 festival. 614 postings later, what can be said? The festival was incredible.......the artists magnificant, and the day was dialed up by God, whoever She is.

I know you have many challenges.....money chief among them, but managing all the interpersonal dynamics of putting this festival on, that requires you to have the skill sets of a therapist, a mediator,a salesman, a grant writer, a politician, and (at times) an authoritarian dictator can really stretch you.

In the past, I have run a number of marathons that took months and months of preparation and training and when I crossed that finish line on race day, I swore I would never do it again. But, once the pain receded and the memory of all those prepatory 20 mile training runs faded into memory, I found myself searching the marathon racing calendar to see where the next challenge might be. Keep the faith, partner.........

Ken

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: bankley
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 09:54 PM

an apple in the garden and the snake went...

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: frogprince
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 11:11 AM

Unfortunately the documentary title "Wasn't That A Time" has already been taken...

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: KenM
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 10:12 PM

Amos.........it was a time!! You should have been there!

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 10:03 PM

I probably said I was leaving Sunday because there wasn't anything going on on Sunday. Either that, or I was thinking it at you. It's fine, Adrien. I couldn't have handled playing with my toes until 1PM anyway. Not after the immersion of the previous couple of days. And I could have asked.

And MAN, do you ever have a big family!

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Beer
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 09:51 PM

If I recall Jeri, you told me you were leaving Sunday for Toronto.
No?

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 09:33 PM

You didn't ask me either, but you asked somebody at the table where I was sitting and I could have asked point-blank if I was invited too.
But then I would have had to find something to do by myself until 1PM and ask the B&B (marvelous, by the way) if they'd let me stay another night and pay. I surprised my friend by showing up in Toronto 'early'--lst year, I was a couple days late.

Sounds like everybody had a great time even if I wasn't there! (joke) I miss having been there even more after seeing how much fun everyone had. (sniff -(not really))

As for getting back into the thread, at 600+ posts, maybe it's just too big? I can't think of any other reason that would prevent you from loading this. (I'll PM that.)

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Beer
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 09:30 PM

Anything and everything is possible Dean. Anything.
Ad.
Wow!....I got into the thread.

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 09:06 PM

First I knew about the Sunday goings-on. We had to be on our way toward home, anyhow.
Could you consider a new location for next year? There are some apple orchards here in Michigan that we could look into.
                                  Dean

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Beer
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 08:26 PM

I just don't understand computers I guess. This is the first time I am able to access this thread since I posted the pictures at 1:57    Other threads no problem, but this one I could not. Must be something I said. Or maybe what "Gnu" said.
What I wanted to say and forgot after I sent that last message, was that the gathering that took place on Sunday started with a celebration for my sister's 70th birthday at 10 in the morning and ended up at our house at one p.m. The day before I would invite folks to drop over at 1 but I know this was not well planned on my part and I missed some folks like frogprince, clipper, topicaltom my good friend Satch and his wife and others. This was not meant on purpose as most of you know I was a little busy on Saturday and the Sunday gathering would only pop in my head once in a while. So I apologize if I hurt your feelings as it was not my intent.
If anyone can help me on why I can't get on this thread please help. Otherwise maybe I'll be back on in a few days.
Adrien

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Amos
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 05:25 PM

Wal, them's mighty fine pictures and make me wish I had been there, coherent or otherwise...


A

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 05:22 PM

Looks like fun. I got invited to the Sunday festivities last year.
As I recall, it was indoors because of wetness and fewer people.

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 05:13 PM

Got a PM asking me why I said "Oh". I dunno.

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: maeve
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 05:11 PM

Ken M.- Thanks for confirming my impression. I love kitchen parties. :)

maeve

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: KenM
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 04:45 PM

I think you nailed it with your description, maeve.............

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 02:10 PM

Ohhhhh...

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 02:09 PM

Well! FUCK ME with a wire brush ten ways from TUESDAY!

RUM!

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Beer
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 01:57 PM

This is all I have except what will be posted on our Web site.
ad.

http://picasaweb.google.com/adrien.doucette5/SundayGettogether?authkey=Gv1sRgCMLdpIDbw8jx4gE#

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: maeve
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 12:24 PM

Judging from commentary and photos, I'd say that Apple Hollow Fest is the perfect kitchen party; friendly, lively, and offering lots of excellent music, with moments of sheer heaven alternating with top notch banter.

You who have been part of it are fortunate indeed.

m

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: Beer
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 12:08 PM

Here are a few more. Some of which are Ken's.

http://picasaweb.google.com/adrien.doucette5/Fest12009?authkey=Gv1sRgCKGh6_zAwpW5_gE#

Subject: RE: Apple Hollow Music Fest Quebec Canada '09
From: KenM
Date: 28 Jul 09 - 10:29 AM

Adrien:

That is excellent!!

Ken