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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 11 Jun 20 - 08:46 PM I'm not a frequent visitor these days, so I've only just seen this. Sounds great, and it's the kind of positive development I've been expecting to see happening with the lockdown that could maybe enrich our world when it's over. But I haven't a clue to how this Zoom thing works. No, I don't mean the techie stuff, I don't need to know that any more than I do for my iPad or my TV. But, how do I set about using it. I've got the app loaded on my iPad, but it's just sitting there. Someone point me where I can get up to speed, and join in. Or even just look in. As Joe said up the thread: "This was absolutely what Mudcat is supposed to be. " |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Joe Offer Date: 11 Jun 20 - 10:26 PM Hi, Kevin - I'll post the link here on Monday, half an hour before we start at 8 PM London time. If you have a camera and a microphone on your computer or iPad, you're all set. Click the link, and Zoom will set itself up. Zoom came out with an encrypted version within the last two weeks, and that should take care of most of the security problems people were worried about. Hope to see you Monday! -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: My guru always said Date: 12 Jun 20 - 04:09 AM It was wonderful to see & hear so many Catters on Monday, would love to be Zooming with you again. Thanks so much for organising it Joe, you made a great job of herding us Cats xx |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Mrrzy Date: 12 Jun 20 - 10:37 AM Who sang the Favorite Things song? /Detail.CFM?messages__Message_ID=1062941&messages__Message_ID=1062941 |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: MoorleyMan Date: 14 Jun 20 - 06:39 PM It was sung by Vikki (Yorkshire Yankee). It's one of her own excellent parodies. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Mrrzy Date: 15 Jun 20 - 10:45 AM Mwah. Also trying to save Zoom info offline in case Mudcat is down... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Tattie Bogle Date: 15 Jun 20 - 01:50 PM A couple of useful videos for anyone unfamiliar with Zoom, and how to improve it for music use: (not sure why the second one is so much longer, when there's actually less that you can do!!) 1. For PCs/Macs/laptops Zoom for PCs etc 2. For iPads/tablets/phones: Zoom for iPads/tablets/phones And one other thing: best to install Zoom on your device, which you can do any time before the meeting starts: if you do that, then all you need to do is, at the appointed time, open the Zoom software,go to "Join a Meeting" and use the meeting number and password. You don't need the long url if you do it that way: I know of several people who have failed to get in as they used the long url where they should have put the meeting number! May see you later! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Mrrzy Date: 15 Jun 20 - 02:14 PM Saved offline in case mudcat goes down YAY can hardly wait! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Acorn4 Date: 15 Jun 20 - 02:21 PM I'll try to come along tonight if I'm recognised (haven't done the bit signing in with an alias yet. If you're using a PC or laptop these tips might be useful. The problem with Zoom is that it was designed for conferencing not singing. It interprets long held notes or instruments as background noise and tries to cut them out. On the main screen normally at the top left (usually) there is a tab which says "turn on original sound" - make sure this is "on". Go into audio settings:- unclick "auto adjust volume" You can adjust your own and incoming voluem here. Go into "Advanced" Make sure "enable original sound" is "on". Disable both settings for background noise (persistent and the other one) leave "echo cancellation" enabled. These settings should save themselves but it pays to check each session.. Hope this helps. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: GUEST,Dani Date: 15 Jun 20 - 02:39 PM Hi all! Can't make it today, but hope to soon : ) Will work on a New Zealand connection. Dani |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround NOW!!!! From: Tattie Bogle Date: 15 Jun 20 - 03:05 PM All that in the video I linked to Acorn 4: it does make a big difference, especially if you are playing an instrument. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround NOW!!!! From: Noreen Date: 15 Jun 20 - 04:33 PM Come join us! 32 people in tonight so far :) |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround NOW!!!! From: Acorn4 Date: 15 Jun 20 - 05:31 PM Great to meet you all and listen to a range of songs from all over. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround NOW!!!! From: Joe Offer Date: 15 Jun 20 - 06:54 PM Here's an example of the sophisticated and civilized songs we hear on Monday afternoons.... Thread #16400 Message #2530997 Posted By: SPB-Cooperator 04-Jan-09 - 03:50 AM Thread Name: Animal Songs Subject: ADD: I Hates Elephants (SPB Cooperator)
I hates elephants, I do! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround NOW!!!! From: Noreen Date: 15 Jun 20 - 07:46 PM :) |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround NOW!!!! From: Mrrzy Date: 15 Jun 20 - 08:12 PM What'd I miss? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Joe Offer Date: 15 Jun 20 - 08:54 PM This was a marvelous gathering. I had such a good time! See you next Monday. If you want advance notice, email me at joe@mudcat.org to get on the list. Otherwise, I'll post the link here in this thread on Monday. Thus is so much fun, but now I'm exhausted and it's time for my nap.... -Joe- And we had one wonderful singer from Australia, so I think that makes us officially "worldwide." Thank you all for coming. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Jim Carroll Date: 16 Jun 20 - 03:15 AM "nothing starts in Ireland till 10 aT THE EARLIEST" Tends to be balanced by the fact that nothing finishes before 2-am; will be interesting to find if anything has changed When we visited Ireland then returned home to London before we moved here permanently, it took us two weeks to get used to the time-zone difference - it was like having jet-lag, only we always drove over and crossed on the ferry Jim |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Mrrzy Date: 17 Jun 20 - 10:48 AM Is it Monday yet? Is it Monday yet? Is it Monday yet? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Noreen Date: 20 Jun 20 - 05:23 PM No, but it’s coming soon! Got your song(s) picked out? Any new singers thinking of joining on Monday? All are very welcome and its great fun. :o) |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Amergin Date: 21 Jun 20 - 01:39 PM Boy this sounds like fun, like the old HearMe or the other programs. Does a new link appear every week? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: Susan of DT Date: 22 Jun 20 - 06:16 AM How does this work? I just got a camera for my computer. Do I need to download anything? Is it Zoom? What do I need to do? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays 8 PM London From: GUEST Date: 22 Jun 20 - 09:38 AM Yes, it’s Zoom. Install it before you first need it. Make sure your mic and camera are switched on, then sit back and wait for the link to be posted! Simples.... |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround NOW!!!!!! From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler Date: 22 Jun 20 - 05:22 PM Nice to put faces to names! Had to leave early I'm afraid. Robin |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays, 8 London time From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 23 Jun 20 - 04:44 AM Hi Joe Thanks for another great session. My apologies for being dogged with tech problems last night - a combination of my pc freezing, and slowing down a few times (robot in a tin box syndrome!) and internet destabilising. While it is frustrating when this happens, it can be amusing watching the feed catch up, a bit like fast forwards on a DVD player. I have been enjoying on line sessions - this one and others in UK, and I think I must be close to singing more times than all the 12 years since I left the Shanty Crew combined - I think I am even beginning to get the power in my voice back (a year ago I would have struggled to get to the end of a song before my voice starts cracking up). Just need to work on my memory as I seem to be forgetting the odd line of everything I used to do. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays, 8 London time From: JennieG Date: 23 Jun 20 - 09:11 PM I would love to join in, but geez......5 a.m. is stupid dark early o'clock here, being in winter as we currently are. Besides which, who has a singing voice at that hour? Not me, for sure; I'm not a morning person at the best (or the worst) of times. But I know how to Zoom. We have a family trivia quiz every Sunday evening on Zom with our son, DIL and The One And Only Grandkid, and son's in-laws, all of whom live two days' drive away. DIL is a music teacher so has been using Zoom with her pupils. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays, 8 London time From: Mrrzy Date: 28 Jun 20 - 01:40 PM JennieG, we tend to be there for 5 hours or more, so could you come in at 7 or 8? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays, 8 London time From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 28 Jun 20 - 07:50 PM JennieG, that's what I've done the last two weeks, from Sydney. I join around 7:30am, and it goes for another two hours or so. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays, 8 London time From: leeneia Date: 28 Jun 20 - 11:56 PM Susan, here's my non-expert advice on how to get started; Put Zoom.us in your URL box. (Note the dot after Zoom) Fill in your e-mail address. Click on "sign up for free" Follow the prompts down the rabbit hole. What you are doing is setting up a free Zoom account for yourself so you can call and join meetings in the future. It worked for me. ==================== When it's time for the sing-a-round, get your camera, microphone and earphones (if any) plugged in and ready. When it's 8 pm in London and 3 pm in New York, a link to the session will appear here. Copy the link into your URL box, and it will take you to the session. Click 'join with audio' or something like that. It's pretty clear what to do. This is one hour before the official start, but people like to chat. The sessions are pretty long, so don't worry if you miss the start. I plan to be there. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays, 8 London time From: Joe Offer Date: 29 Jun 20 - 12:05 AM OK, so I'm giving up on the practice of sending personal messages to everyone who has posted to this thread. I've built an email list and I will be sending out a link to Monday's singaround within half an hour. I think I have correct email addresses for everyone, except the honorable Black Belt Caterpillar Wrestler and Acorn4. If you'd like to be put on the email list, email me, joe@mudcat.org Looking forward to singing with you tomorrow. If we're lucky, maybe Mrzzy will sing something in Hungarian for us. Thanks again to Noreen and Casey for acting as co-hosts. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays, 8 London time From: JennieG Date: 29 Jun 20 - 02:40 AM I'll give it a go - Gerry, if you can make it at that hour I can too! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays, 8 London time From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler Date: 29 Jun 20 - 03:21 AM I got the email OK thanks. Robin |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays, 8 London time From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 29 Jun 20 - 11:44 AM Haven't had a link for tonight in my PM box yet. Will this go up here in the next 2-3 hours? If you are unlucky, I might have a Czech song practiced enough. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround NOW!!!! From: Noreen Date: 29 Jun 20 - 04:47 PM Come on in and join us! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround NOW!!!! From: Waddon Pete Date: 29 Jun 20 - 05:05 PM I did and it was great fun! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround NOW!!!! From: DMcG Date: 29 Jun 20 - 05:37 PM One of these days I will make it! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround NOW!!!! From: Richard Mellish Date: 29 Jun 20 - 05:39 PM I was about to join tonight than decided I have too much going on and could do with a reasonably early night. Probably see you all next week. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround NOW!!!! From: JennieG Date: 29 Jun 20 - 08:15 PM Made it......how fun was that! Thank you, Joe, you are a wonderful bloke. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays on Zoom From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 29 Jun 20 - 10:41 PM Glad you could make it, JennieG! Here's the verse I wrote to add to John Broomhall's song, Time is a Tempest: First came the bushfires, then came the virus. The year twenty-twenty is sure going to tire us! Thank Heaven the Mudcat is here to inspire us To sing the chorus again. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays on Zoom From: JennieG Date: 29 Jun 20 - 11:51 PM Gerry - I love your extra verse! First heard that song from John Broomhall, it would have been way back in the mid-80s......it was a lovely song then, and it's still lovely. Thank you for singing it. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays on Zoom From: cujimmy Date: 30 Jun 20 - 01:22 PM That was another wonderful evening yesterday, very friendly people from all over sharing songs and stories and spreading the living tradition which is Folk music at its finest. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays on Zoom From: Tattie Bogle Date: 30 Jun 20 - 06:22 PM Sorry I didn't make it again, but getting a flavour of it from all the wonderfully creative song lyrics posted above! Especial thanks to Yorkshire Yankee! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays on Zoom From: Mrrzy Date: 01 Jul 20 - 08:29 AM Oh, lucky, eh? Thanks, Joe! And thanks, Yorkshire Yankee! |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays on Zoom From: Joe Offer Date: 05 Jul 20 - 03:24 AM I've sent out the email for Monday's singaround. If you didn't get one, contact me by email, joe@mudcat.org. JennieG, the email I sent you got returned. Hope to see you all Monday.. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays on Zoom From: SPB-Cooperator Date: 05 Jul 20 - 04:52 AM Hi Joe, hope to be there tomorrow nght, but I have to go to a zoom committee meeting before hand - because AGMs have been postponed/cancelled, I haven't found a way of getting out of this one. I will probably arrive about 10:00pm my time. Vikki, your multi-lingual lyrics reminds me of a version we collectively wrote in the Shanty Crew when we were kicking our heels in our hotel after we had fininshed our afternoon sets and waiting for the pub to open for the evening session at Lancaster Maritime Festrival. That one was a bit x-rated referring to 'Sheep in galoshes and nuns in black leather' and the instrumental bridge between the verses 'Nudge nudge nudge, wink wink wink' - referring to Monty Python. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays on Zoom From: Mrrzy Date: 05 Jul 20 - 08:12 AM If somebody could sing Power and Glory that'd be great. I can't, my throat closes. Emotional. |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays on Zoom From: Joe Offer Date: 06 Jul 20 - 03:10 AM I hope everybody who wanted email notification of Monday's singaround, got it. If you didn't get an email from me and wanted one, please email me, joe@mudcat.org - but you probably won't get one tomorrow, because I won't have time to deal with email. I teach a class on Monday that ends at the exact time I open the doors for the singaround. I'll post the link a couple of hours before the singaround, but I don't want to post it too early because of the nuisance of Zoom bombing. See y'all tomorrow, -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays on Zoom From: Noreen Date: 06 Jul 20 - 02:05 PM I've posted the link on the Mudcat Facebook page too. Only just, as I've just got back from a walk on the beach after spending the weekend with my son and d-i-l: first visit for many months :) :) :> |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays on Zoom From: Mrrzy Date: 06 Jul 20 - 02:29 PM Says Host is in another meeting? |
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Subject: RE: Mudcat Worldwide Singaround Mondays on Zoom From: Noreen Date: 06 Jul 20 - 04:04 PM 34 of us in here now, going great! Come and join in. |
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