Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010

Subject: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 20 Aug 10 - 02:56 AM

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106312412760708&ref=ts

Who's going?

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: The Barden of England
Date: 20 Aug 10 - 04:00 AM

I'll be there, along with Max.
John Barden

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: My guru always said
Date: 20 Aug 10 - 05:24 AM

Don't do facebook but we'll be popping along!

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Rain Dog
Date: 20 Aug 10 - 06:37 AM

Give us a clue then? (For those of us not on Facebook)

Is this something to do with Iceland again?

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Girl Friday
Date: 20 Aug 10 - 07:03 AM

Not vulcanic Ash but a good day out. Music in the garden, and in the pub. Tone Deaf Leopard and Ben Little are among the performers.
What's On at The Chequers

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Rain Dog
Date: 20 Aug 10 - 07:19 AM

Glad to hear that the ash cloud won't be darkening our glorious sunny Bank Holiday weather

(As I saw on another board "We said CASH not ash")

Can someone point me in the direction of where I can find a list of who is performning at this event? Not been able to find anything on it just yet and I don't do Facebook

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: RamblinStu
Date: 20 Aug 10 - 09:29 AM

The latest list I have is


ADRIAN O
BEN LITTLE
BOB KENWARD
DAVE AND MICK
DRIFTWOOD
GREG HARPER
JAMES & VICTORIA
JOHN BARDEN /NO WORRIES
LIZZI AND SHENA
LOOSE CHANGE
LYNDA BORLEY
MAC MC KEAN
MAX SPIEGEL
MIKE BROOMFIELD
MIKE WOOD
NO WORRIES
RAVENHILL
ROGER RESCH
SALLY IRONMONGER Trio
STUART PENDRILL/ BOTTLES
THE JONES BOYS
THE STALWARTS
TONE DEAF LEOPARD
YVONNE MARTIN

hope this helps

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 20 Aug 10 - 09:33 AM

ASH FESTIVAL 28/8/2010



THE CHEQUER INN. ASH next SANDWICH


BAR (don't overlook the Garden programme below)


11.00 to 12.30 Welcome session
Hosted by Bob Kenward & Roger Resch
         And Guests


12.30 to 2.30 PLAYALONG SESSION
      Hosted by Dave and Mick


2.30 to 3.30 Floor Spots/Singaround
Hosted by NO Worries & John Barden


3.30        MIKE WOOD
3.45    MIKE BROOMFIELD
4.00      RAVENHILL
4.15            STUART PENDRILL/ BOTTLES
4.30         LIZZI AND SHENA
4.45           Mac Mc Kean
5.0           DAVE AND MICK
5.15           GREG HARPER
5.30    JAMES&VICTORIA
5.45           BEN LITTLE
6.0           TONE DEAF LEOPARD
6.15           MAX SPIEGEL
6.30           THE STALWARTS
6.45      THE JONES BOYS
7.00       DRIFTWOOD
7.15   YVONNE MARTIN
7.35        JOHN BARDEN /NO WORRIES
8.00   LOOSE CHANGE
8.20   ADRIAN O
8.40    ROGER RESCH
9.00   SALLY IRONMONGER&
          BRIAN CARTER

9.45        till 11.00
9.46        
CARY RATHBONE AND BELL




GARDEN PROGRAMME




11.00 to 12.20 Welcome Session
Hosted by No Worries& John Barden
            And Guests



12.20. Stuart Pendrill/BOTTLES
12.40   Ravenhill
1.0        Tone Deaf Leopard
1.20        BOB KENWARD
1.40           LIZZI AND SHENA
2.0         BEN LITTLE
2.20    Mac Mc Kean
2,40    DRIFTWOOD
3.0           The Jones Boys
3.20    MAX SPIEGEL
3.40    LOOSE CHANGE
4.00    GREG HARPER
4.20           TheStalwarts
4.40      JAMES & VICTORIA
5.0           ROGER RESCH
5.20    NO WORRIES
5.40    MIKE BROOMFIELD
6.0         LYNDA BORLEY


6.15        to 7.15
TEA TIME FLOOR SPOTS
Hosted by SALLY IRONMONGER & BRIAN CARTER

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Rain Dog
Date: 20 Aug 10 - 09:51 AM

Thanks for the info

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 08:19 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 23 Aug 10 - 09:44 AM

Met-check says wevva good.

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 23 Aug 10 - 10:10 AM

Wouldn't miss it, especially since Adrian O invited me specifically back at the Rochester Sweeps. I was quite flattered that he remembered me from last year.

So yeah. I'm there.

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Girl Friday
Date: 23 Aug 10 - 10:34 AM

See you Saturday Tam and TSO

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: morning wood
Date: 23 Aug 10 - 10:43 AM

I'm rockin' up with my Rickenbacker 330 and Vox AC30. Should be good!

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 23 Aug 10 - 07:10 PM

Me too, I'll be there for the day. Looking forward to meeting me pals, Max and Pauls Rickenbacker.
Al

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 24 Aug 10 - 12:53 PM

and Mr O says bring a chair it will make your day more comfortable.
Al

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: morning wood
Date: 25 Aug 10 - 04:47 AM

Whilst at The Chequers in Ash the other evening I genuinely lost a plectrum. Being one of a pair and with only a few thousand strums on the clock I'd dearly love it back. So as Shaw used to say "keep 'em peeled".

It's yellow btw!

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 25 Aug 10 - 06:07 AM

Is that Sandie Shaw? Dave Shaw ?
You should swap notes with Andrew about securing plectrums.
Al

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: morning wood
Date: 25 Aug 10 - 06:48 AM

"keep 'em peeled"

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 25 Aug 10 - 10:31 AM

I should have stayed in more! Well I knew it wasn't GBS.
Did you say you had a folding chair? I only seem to have one and it has a foot missing. One of the feet that is not 12"
Al

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 26 Aug 10 - 11:57 AM

Met-office says wevva nice.

Metcheck says rain arriving by one.

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Girl Friday
Date: 26 Aug 10 - 02:43 PM

B B C (as usual) disagrees. Sunny, and 18 degrees
Sandwich wevva

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: GUEST,Lady of the Isle
Date: 26 Aug 10 - 04:08 PM

I'll be there, Great time last year and weather was fantastic. Assured more of same ordered.J

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: My guru always said
Date: 27 Aug 10 - 12:01 PM

You'll have noticed that there is a 'Max Spiegel' amongst the spots, 3.20 in the Garden & 6.15 in the Bar

This will be an incredibly rare chance for you to hear & meet the Founder and Owner of the MudCat. Please make yourself known to him and sign the MudCat Register which he'll be keeping as a souvenir of his trip to the UK. He also has a 'little black book' which Catters are writing messages in for him to keep as a memento. You'll enjoy his playing and he IS very cute!!

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 27 Aug 10 - 12:15 PM

Met office and met-check have changed positions. Met office says raining at 1pm, met-check says nice until 4.

Nasty and cold at 16 to 17 degrees tops.

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Girl Friday
Date: 27 Aug 10 - 12:38 PM

Just spoken to Adrian O, who's been busy putting up rain/sun shades. He says he's ordered the weather. We seem to have lost Ben- can't make contact at all.

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 27 Aug 10 - 12:45 PM

damn... Max needs to hear Ben play and sing. Really!

re weather... I doubt it will make a whit of diff to how bad I am feeling right now so I will likely be there. Bringing chairs but no guitar.

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: morning wood
Date: 28 Aug 10 - 03:55 AM

Nice weather for it.

See you all on the slASH later!

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: GUEST, Richard Brige on the netbook
Date: 28 Aug 10 - 01:22 PM

It's being nice!

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Girl Friday
Date: 28 Aug 10 - 07:07 PM

Pleased to say that the sun made several personal appearances. Wonderful day - once again - well done everyone, and big thanks to Adrian and Sue for all their hard work. Good to see Max enjoying some true Kentish hospitality and some fine traditional songs.Godspeed Max, and enjoy Wales.

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 29 Aug 10 - 05:26 AM

I should correct a possible misapprehension. I was asked, at Ash, about my "two self-penned songs". They weren't.

"Hilda's Cabinet Band" is by Lal Waterson (and a version with Martin Carthy on guitar can be found on you tube)

"A Living Wage" is by Ron Kavana.

In both cases I have been at them slightly.

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 29 Aug 10 - 05:53 AM

Most impressive lineup, and really difficult to decide between some acts performing simultaneously, one in the bar, and one in the garden.

I enjoyed every minute, but the real high spot came during Capella's performance, when Leslie proved the power of suggestion by calling down the first drops of rain of the whole day, before she and Tony backstepped neatly under cover of the marquee.

Stunning! As was their singing, but from now on I shall think of Lslie as England's most successful rainmaker.

LOL
Don T.

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 29 Aug 10 - 06:02 AM

You are right Don about the problem of simultaneous acts. Difficult to know where to place myself. Luckily I was in enough discomfort, I had to keep getting up and moving around. So I am pretty please with where I ended up.

Wondering about the set up outside. This year I could not hear the performers when they were up on the rise. Last year I could hear them quite well. Was it just me, or did others have this problem as well?

Big thanks to Adrian O and the Chequers Inn people. Poor Adrian he was rushing back and forth between indoor and outdoor venues, playing timekeeper as well as MC and hawking for the raffles too. Maybe he needs an assistant to delegate some of that work to.

Anyway I hope they are resting well this morning.




p.s. I want guitar lessons from that chap with the resonator. Wow!

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: GUEST,Wee Jock
Date: 29 Aug 10 - 07:48 AM

Just to say how much Dean & myself enjoyed the festival,a big thanks must be given to Adrian who organised this event he certainly worked his socks of. Looking forward to next year's bash. Once again well done

Wee Jock (Border Crossing)

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Penny S.
Date: 29 Aug 10 - 07:54 AM

VTam, I wondered how you were feeling - are you better today? Very positive way of looking at it - I'm impressed.

Penny

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 29 Aug 10 - 08:11 AM

Thanks PennyS.. Nice to have met you. If by better you mean am I able to sit still for very long? No. But that is ok. Every time I get up, I get a little bit more work around the flat done.

8~}

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Girl Friday
Date: 29 Aug 10 - 09:42 AM

That's the way Tam . I have a house- a fairly untidy one at that but I try never to go upstairs without something that needs to be taken up, then do something once up there. Trouble is - I get sidetracked. Hope the pain is less today- shame you can't take anything, but moving about is wise.

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: The Barden of England
Date: 29 Aug 10 - 11:04 AM

What a grand day Adrian, Sue and the landlord and staff put on for us. I thought I was going to loose my voice at one time, but it pulled through. Thanks for putting on the weather too :-)
John Barden

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Girl Friday
Date: 29 Aug 10 - 07:26 PM

The mystery of Ben's whereabouts has been solved. He had to go and register for his college course on Friday, and was very late getting back. As we thought, he was home alone all weekend, and didn't answer the phone. He didn't have his mobile on either. He assures us he will be at Wat Tyler Festival, where he has a slot on the Fab Club Stage.

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: My guru always said
Date: 30 Aug 10 - 06:32 AM

Lovely day at Ash, thanks for much for the excellent organisation and hard work to making it happen. It was nice to hear & meet Folkies from Kent (fantastic to see Capella again), we really ought to get about to more 'local' music as we're only in Leatherhead.

Max thoroughly enjoyed his day with you all, weren't his floorspots great? He's such a good boy...

Anyway, I thought I'd just pop the Mudcat Register here, Max is taking the paper copy home with him as a souvenir.

Max
The Barden of England
Don(Wyziwyg)T
Poetry Bird
Richard Bridge
Abdul the Bul Bul
Wee Jock
DeanofRochester
Lady of the Isle
Girl Friday
Mumblin Len
Ramblin Stu
My guru always said
Richard Atkins
Penny S
Micca
Virginia Tam
The Silent One
Cap'n'Ella

My apologies for any errors and omissions, see you again soon!
Hil

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Micca
Date: 30 Aug 10 - 12:28 PM

Many thanks to you all for your friendly welcome to a very enjoyable afternoon and some very special music. Here are a few pics I took ,if anyone can add names (I am too chicken, in case I get them wrong, to name anyone I'm not certain of) Please feel free to PM me with names and I will added them as appropriate.
Micca

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 30 Aug 10 - 12:46 PM

I put some comments and a few names in for you Micca

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Micca
Date: 31 Aug 10 - 03:19 AM

VT, You are a GEM!!

Subject: RE: Ash Nr Canterbury UK 28 Aug 2010
From: Cap n' Ella
Date: 31 Aug 10 - 01:55 PM

So glad we came along on Saturday. We had a brilliant day. What a great little festival. Many thanks and congratulations to Adrian, Sue, Richard and all the Chequer staff. Honest, I do not have connections 'upstairs' (although my cousin is a vicar) it was all coincidence re the rain.
My first ever posting on Mudcat!
Lesley (Ella)