Mystic June 11-14 2009

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 12:11 PM

Am I reading something wrong, or is there no listing of who is playing the Lighthouse Point concerts on Friday and Saturday evenings?

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: GUEST,Barnacle Babe
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 11:23 AM

I THINK the concert is the official kick off of the festival and usually there is a chantey sing later on that night. Someone else may know better.

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: RTim
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 10:02 AM

As a first-timer at the festival - Is the concert that night the 1st real event? Or where and when does it kick-off on Thursday, ie. are there other events earlier in the day?

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 08:01 AM

Never mind the weather,
As long as we're together,
We're off to see the Wild West Show!

If you're attending Thursday evening be sure to bring your foul-weather gear.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Barry Finn
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 08:22 PM

From some where out of the Blue?
It'll be great to see you again Wotcha, where you been?
Glad you'll be making it

Barry

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Wotcha
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 05:36 PM

See you lot there. Can't believe it's been 6 years ...

Cheers,

Wotcha
Back in the US

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Charley Noble
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 04:06 PM

Ah, I see from the grid that our Yorkshire friends, Two Black Sheep & a Stallion, are officially doing a mini-concert on Saturday, 1:30 pm, at the Lighthouse Point Stage. They are best known for their robust drinking songs, rich with harmonies.

I was able to print most of the grid by setting the page set-up at 75%.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: GUEST,Twin #2
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 12:42 PM

The Bethel has been announced on the grid for the weekend. Jeff Warner and Barbara Ben are running it so I am thinking greenman church will be unlocked/.

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Charley Noble
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 12:20 PM

A gathering with some songs sounds good to me, Sunday at 10 am, Sailors Bethel.

Of course, the building may not be unlocked that early in the morning.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Susan of DT
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 11:03 AM

If you are taking pictures at the Sailor's Bethel, how about at the end, rather than the beginning. Not everyone loves hymns. I'll be headed for the church at 11 for the ballads.

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: GUEST,Heavenly Twin PJF
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 07:06 AM

Yes the Sailors Bethel is well worth it. Even in our informal ones the past few years, the music has been wonderful. Two years ago Barbara helped my sister and I with one, but I can just imagine what a planned one would be like / I know it is tough at 10:00 AM on Sunday morning after Saturdays festivities but it is a good thing. Twin #2

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Barry Finn
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 01:07 AM

I should like to recommed on Sunday moring the "Sailor's Bethal". Should be some very nice sailor's hymns being sung & that comes from one who doesn't not like suckula singing

Barry

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Barry Finn
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 11:35 PM

Good weather coming too. Thrusday will be wet but Fri-Sun sunny in the low 70's

Kathy W, where are you flying in from?

A 'mudcat gather' that someone mentioned above would still be nice, any suggestions after reading the schedule?

Barry, who on another computer & is off to read the schedule

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jun 09 - 01:08 PM

The grid is on the Mystic website today! It can be downloaded. Now the hard part is making the choices.Three more days me Johnnies three more days. The twins

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: KathyW
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 11:21 PM

I'm excited to read what everyone is posting here. My husband and I have been trying to find a way to go to the festival for several years now, but something always seems to happen that makes us abandon our plans. But this time we have resolved to go. We have plane tickets and everything!

I can tell already that Monday through Wednesday is going to go very slowly at work.

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Charley Noble
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 03:52 PM

The matrix is not yet posted on the Mystic Seaport website but here's a fresh link to nibble on: Click here for website

Less than a week to go!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Marc Bernier
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 02:45 PM

The performers recieved their workshop grids today. I wouldn't begin to know how to post that here. But the information is out there for those of you who really need to plan your enjoyment.

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 01:28 PM

How about waiting until Sunday for the Mudcat snapshot so I can be in it as well?

SOL

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: sciencegeek
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 11:10 AM

Ah yes... the weather... we alway bring 3 sets of duds... hot-cold-foul weather....   and have somethimes needed stuff from all three in one weekend. :P

I like the idea of a mudcat snapshot.... can someone photoshop my hair back to its original color? lol

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Charley Noble
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 08:06 AM

Chantyranger-

It will be great to see you again, and you can bring us all up to date on what has been happening in San Francisco. I understand that the C. F. Thayer is back in residence.

Lighthouse Point, in the vicinity of the main stage shed, would be a great place to meet.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 05 Jun 09 - 02:57 AM

I'll be there with my girlfriend Thursday through Sunday, in NYC Monday June 8-11, then going to CT on Friday. Any Mudcat group photo interest here? Maybe meet in front of the lighthouse Saturday at 5:00? Looking forward to seeing Barry and everyone.

Chanteyranger

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: GUEST,Barnacle Babe
Date: 04 Jun 09 - 07:43 PM

We'll be at the Festival from Thursday, June 11 to Saturday June 13. Thursday night we'll be in the evening opening concert. Saturday night We're be in the foc'sle workshop, a 3 p.m. concert in the boat shed, and a 4 p.m. dance workshop. Then on Sunday we're taking the BI ferry and performing 8 p.m. Sunday night at the BI Music Festival. Whirlwind weekend.

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: stallion
Date: 04 Jun 09 - 06:44 PM

be good to see you Tim

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 04 Jun 09 - 03:54 PM

Mary,
      Will I see you there on Sunday or are you leaving early to perform on Block Island?

SOL

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: GUEST,Guest: Barnacle Babe
Date: 04 Jun 09 - 11:09 AM

Thanks, Mark. It doesn't really matter... but it's nice to know--the grids. See everyone a WEEK FROM TONIGHT!!!!!! :)

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: RTim
Date: 04 Jun 09 - 10:43 AM

I have actually been persuaded to drive over the Bourne Bridge and venture to the main land for this years Festival. So please say hello to me if we have not face to face before - or I may NEVER do it again!
Tim Radford

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Marc Bernier
Date: 04 Jun 09 - 09:56 AM

I heard Geoff on WRIU radio last night say that he had the workshop grid finished. Now we just wait and see ifnwhen it gets posted. At this point I could just as easily look at it when I arrive at the festival.

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: GUEST,Heavenly Twins
Date: 04 Jun 09 - 09:18 AM

and dont forget surviving the rain festival probabaly about 5 years back. I remember Geoff and the guy in the Souwesters. but nothing has ever dampened the spirit. Cant wait see you very soon Twins

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Barry Finn
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 06:31 PM

Hush, don't tempt fate

Barry

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: GUEST,Salsa
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 06:16 PM

We have had heat, rain, thunder and lightening, wind, sun, but we never had S*N*O*W.

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: JWB
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 04:35 PM

Well, sciencegeek, your problem is that you come to every festival, instead of just those when the weather is good :0) We've actually had pretty good luck over the years with weather, don't you think? Thinking back I can recall wearing 5 layers just to stay warm; wearing one layer and having that be too much; wading through puddles and coming home with rusty catches on the guitar case; and trying to find some string to tie my hat on with, it was so breezy. We've had a little bit of everything, just about.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: sciencegeek
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 01:55 PM

Ah yes, good old Mystic Seaport Camp Grounds. We stayed there back in '85 & '86, before we became volunteers.

The sites they gave us were so water logged, we still had to use the vehicle. Fortunately, it was a pickup with a camper top that didn't leak.

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Marc Bernier
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 11:30 AM

Guest guest; I have almost no information on workshops. I recieved a phone call about a week ago asking me if I would do a few. But that's all I know. Geoff says he should have that finished and posted soon.

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: GUEST,Salsa
Date: 01 Jun 09 - 09:51 AM

There is a camp-ground near by. It is about 5 miles or so from the Seaport. It's called the Mystic Seaport Camp Grounds. You can check them out and stay there.

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Barry Finn
Date: 31 May 09 - 05:29 PM

There's been many times I've slept in the car too. There's just no sense in leaving once you get there,,,at least not until it's over.
I use the car as my base, for my med's, my cooler for food & drink, for things to heavy to lug back & forth, shorts & rain gear.

Speaking of leaving. The Coast Guard base where the Symposium is at
(taken from Marc's post above)

Dimick Auditorium, located in Smith Hall, at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, 27 Mohegan Ave., New London, CT 06320.
For directions: Try Here
& try here for a Campus Map

I don't suppose the Coast Guard or the Government will suppy shuttle service back & forth to Mystic?
Is this a college campus or a base? I'm usually allowed into places of academie (heh, heh, see, no threat here), but high securiety installations, they may require of me an alien ID or some sort of armed escort.

The Saturday Symposium will be easy, on site & everyone knows enough to stay clear of me after a late night.

See you on Thrusday

Love the extra symposium & the extra day's head start.

Barry

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 31 May 09 - 05:11 PM

Marc, is there any more information on the final grid of workshops? I did receive some info on workshops we'll be in but didn't know when the official one would be out.

Just curious.

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Marc Bernier
Date: 31 May 09 - 05:05 PM

Sleep down Here somewhere. I mean it. You Do Not want to leave over the weekend. I slept in my car in the Seaport parking lot for the 1st 5 or 6 years I attended the festival.

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 31 May 09 - 04:28 PM

Thanks for the all info, guys.

Charley, I'm sure to spot you right off. Sounds like a plan.

The only bummer will be that I'm commuting (from 1 1/2 hour away), meaning early nights, less Appleton's...and possibly missing the really unguarded witching-hour no-holds-barred exclusive shenanigans...that is, if such things are wont to occur ;)

Gibb

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: mg
Date: 31 May 09 - 03:12 PM

Everyone from west coast of USA please to take notes. We are talking (well, I am mostly talking to myself in my head) about something similar in NW, probably Seattle, next year...main reason is to re-assemble and record the amazing group of maritime singers and fisher poets etc. all up and down the Pacific coast who have sung togehter for 30+ years, and now are frankly starting to die.... mg

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Charley Noble
Date: 31 May 09 - 02:36 PM

Gibb-

Barry Finn and I plan to be there late Thursday afternoon. We'd be happy to shepherd you to any late evening singing. Here's a link to my website to help identify me: click here for website!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Marc Bernier
Date: 31 May 09 - 02:27 PM

Most of the Symposium consists of Individual persons presenting Papers. W/This year's expanded format, the Symposium will also include at least one panel discussion I'm aware of.

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: KathyW
Date: 31 May 09 - 02:01 PM

Question about the symposium presentations: am I correct in assuming these are panel discussions? And are there usually written papers accompanying them?

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Marc Bernier
Date: 31 May 09 - 01:59 PM

Charley; Not Me!

Gibb; the festival officially starts w/the Thursday Evening concert. However, as there are a few people on the Thursday lineup that are traveling to get there, we will most likely be seeing people arriving in Mystic all afternoon on Thursday. There is music presented by a real person at Mystic 364 Days a year, and as performers start arriving in town, they usually hangs w/the Chantyman of the day. You get there on Thursday, and you stand that much better a chance of being in the center of things as they start to pick up. It's all up to you, but anyday in Mystic is Better than a day at Work. Unless of coarse you work in Mystic.

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: KathyW
Date: 31 May 09 - 01:57 PM

Gibb, perhaps someone more knowledgeable will answer, but when I asked that same question of friends who have gone before I was told it starts with the Thursday night concert.

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 31 May 09 - 01:03 PM

Can those in-the-know please tell me:
Do Thursday's events just start in the evening (7pm concert), or is there stuff during that day,too? I am gearing up to ask for that Friday off from work, and I'd like to know if I need to ask for Thur, too. I do NOT want to miss anything this year!

thanks

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: CET
Date: 31 May 09 - 12:52 PM

Charmion and I will be there. Who can we look forward to seeing?

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Charley Noble
Date: 31 May 09 - 11:59 AM

Marc-

Who is managing sound for the main stage this year?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Marc Bernier
Date: 31 May 09 - 08:45 AM

Here is some more symposium info. I find it very curious that with less than 2 weeks to go till the festival, there is not more discussion. Isn't there usually more chatter going on at this point?

*****
"MUSIC of the SEA"
Mystic Seaport's 30th Annual Symposium
Co-Sponsored by Mystic Seaport, the United States Coast Guard Academy, and the University of Connecticut at Avery Point
Schedule

Friday, June 12, Dimick Auditorium, Coast Guard Academy

10:00 - 11:30 Sea Music and Distant Peoples
Dan Lanier and Vincent Reid - Serendipitous Visitors: An Appreciation of Barrouallie Whalers and Shanties
Talitha MacKenzie - Hero Sailors and Fantastical Boats: Nautical References in the Scottish Gaelic Waulking Song
Martin and Shan Graebe - Sabine Baring-Gould - Songs and Stories from the Sea
Glenn S. Gordinier - Moderator

11:30 - 1:00 Lunch Break

1:00 - 2:30 19th-Century Seafaring Culture
Christopher Smith - "Dancing for Eels on the Catherine Wharf": Afro- and Irish-American Musical Interactions in the Age of Sail
Elizabeth Spoden - "Come all ye bold seamen ": Defining Sailor Masculinity Through Song
Stephen Sanfilippo - "Her Bright Eyes Still Haunt Me": Hard Work and Romantic Reality: The Songs of Melvin P. Halsey, Long Island Whaleman
Glenn S. Gordinier - Moderator

2:30 - 3:00 Break

3:00 - 4:30 The Sea and Music
Edward Green - The Music of Obsession; or Moby Dick: a Study of
Bernard Herrmann's 1938 Cantata
Karen and Robert Madison - Simon over the Lee: Robin Hood at Sea:
Joseph Ritson's "The Noble Fisher-Man; or, Robin Hood's Preferment"
Heather Wood - Rudyard Kipling: Chronicler of the Sea, Ships, and Sailors
Faye Ringel - Moderator

Saturday, June 13, Greenmanville Church, Mystic Seaport Museum

9:30 - 10:15
Paul Krejci - FROM SKIN DRUMS TO SQUEEZE BOXES AND BEYOND
Musical Impact of the Commercial Whalers and Traders in the Beaufort Sea from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day
Glenn S. Gordinier - Moderator

10:30 - 12:00
Panel - MUSIC of the SEA: Thirty Years of Study and Conversation
Stuart Frank
Craig Edwards
Dick Swain
Robert Walser


Presenters:

Craig Edwards took his degree in ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University and has been a long-time performer and recording artist of traditional music and song. A founding member of Forebitter, Edwards has also served as director of past Sea Music Festivals.

Stuart M. Frank created the Sea Music Festival and Music of the Sea Symposium while on the staff at Mystic Seaport. A respected scholar, recording and performing artist, Dr. Frank has long been considered a leading authority in the field of sea music and seafaring culture.

Glenn S. Gordinier teaches for the University of Connecticut and is the Robert G. Albion Historian at Mystic Seaport where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses. A one-time Mystic Seaport chanteyman, he has served as moderator for this symposium since 1981.

Dr. Edward Green is an award-winning composer who teaches at Manhattan School of Music and at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation in New York City. He is also the editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington.

Shan Graebe's involvement in traditional music began in her grandfather's pub in South London. She has performed in various concerts and on the BBC and has recorded two separate albums, largely based on the Baring-Gould collection, with her husband Martin.

Martin Graebe came to the English folk revival while at University. Leaders in that movement have recorded a number of his original songs. Since 1992, he has researched, published, performed, and recorded music of the Sabine Baring-Gould collection.

Paul R. Krejci is working on his dissertation at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. With advanced degrees in music and in philosophy, he has also performed in a variety of musical genres. His research involves musicultural change and globalization among indigenous peoples.

Dan Lanier is an environmental professional with training in chemistry and geology. He is a Mystic Seaport chantey veteran and has worked closely with indigenous groups and their maritime heritage including Eskimo from Alaska. Dan founded the non-profit Barrouallie Whaler's Project, Inc.

Karen Lentz Madison taught at Maryland's Loyola College after receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Having published on a variety of subjects, her current work, along with her husband, is on James Fenimore Cooper.

Robert Madison, was a chanteyman at Mystic Seaport during the age of sail . . . almost. Having served on the faculty at the U.S. Naval Academy for many years, he now teaches at the University of Arkansas.   His presentation is in conjunction with Karen Lentz Madison.

Talitha MacKenzie currently teaches at Edinburgh Napier University and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music. A long-time performer and teacher of music and dance, she was on the chantey staff at Mystic Seaport before the first Sea Music Festival.

Dr. Faye Ringel has recently retired from the faculty at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy where she taught English and Humanities courses. Having performed and recorded, she is particularly drawn to traditional tunes, bawdy ballads, and ragtime piano.

Stephen Sanfilippo of Long Island and the coast of Maine is a long-time performer and interpreter of sea music. He is currently working on his dissertation for SUNY Stony Brook which focuses on religion as expressed in the journals and songs of Yankee whale men.

Professor Christopher J. Smith teaches musicology and ethnomusicology at the Texas Tech University School of Music. With a wide-ranging interest in traditional music and cultures, his current book project deals with artist and musician, William Sydney Mount.

Elizabeth Spoden has just completed her Master's Degree at Indiana University-Purdue University. She has worked at a variety of museums including those in Newport, Salem, Indianapolis, Chicago and London.

Dick Swain is the Director of Library Services at West Chester University's Francis Harvey Green Library. With many years as a scholar of traditional music to his credit, he is also an accomplished musician who has performed in a variety of traditional styles

Robert J. Walser, ex Mystic Seaport chanteyman, took his Ph.D. at the University of London. He has recorded and performed widely and has carried out original work in archival organization and sea music scholarship for the Library of Congress and the University of Aberdeen.

Heather Wood was a founding member of the U.K.'s "Young Tradition" and as such was at the center of the Folk Revival. Her distinguished career as a performer relates closely to her long affiliation with the works of Rudyard Kipling.

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: Charley Noble
Date: 25 May 09 - 05:38 PM

Here's a fresh link to the performer list: click here for a good time!

Looks good.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic June 11-14 2009
From: KathyW
Date: 25 May 09 - 05:15 PM

I was looking at the ticket options online and noticed that one, the "all-inclusive" ticket, includes a sea music CD. Could this be a sign that they are going to do the festival CD again this year?