music on trains

Subject: music on trains
From: open mike
Date: 22 Aug 09 - 02:28 PM

i posted a link on the music on buses thread
about musical trains. www.flyingunderradar.com
is the site where you can find out more about
Charlie Hunter and the train trips he runs.

one of the of these trips is cowboy
music and poetry and some of the trains go
into copper canyon in mexico, or steam trains
that go accross the rocky mountains...

the cowboy train often goes across VIA Rail
in canada and on one of those trips i met
Peter O'Brien from U.K.

he has just put out an album here:

My CD, recorded with Tony Poole, is called
JUNKED CARS & BEAT UP GUITARS.
You can get all the information,
including order details, lyrics, comments
(including a wonderful letter of praise from Ian Tyson)
and so forth by going to
www.starryeyedandlaughing.com

Subject: RE: music on trains
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 22 Aug 09 - 02:34 PM

Sounds wonderful.

Does any-one remember Rip Rippingale's Folk Train (in the UK)?

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: music on trains
From: Paul Burke
Date: 22 Aug 09 - 02:50 PM

OM, what's the tune? I can't recall another song with a URL in it.

However, in the UK there are the Folk Trains Folk Trains that run Manchester>Edale

Subject: RE: music on trains
From: Howard Jones
Date: 22 Aug 09 - 02:50 PM

There are Folk Trains from both Manchester and Sheffield into the Peak District. The band plays on the train - the audience is a mixture of folkies who've come for the music and bemused commuters. Everyone then decamps to a pub for a few more songs, then rushes back to the station to catch the train back, with more music. The organisers have got the timings down to the second.

It's a slightly weird gig, but great fun.

Subject: RE: music on trains
From: open mike
Date: 22 Aug 09 - 03:22 PM

great!

here is the movie which inspired so many
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372279/
Grateful Dead, janis joplin, the band, etc
www.festivalexpress.com/