Nov. Shanty Session@The Press Room (NH)

Subject: Nov. Shanty Session@The Press Room (NH)
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 16 Nov 11 - 06:39 PM

Here it comes again!

The monthly shanty, forebitter, and ballad session is coming up this Saturday, November 19th, at The Press Room on Daniel Street in Portsmouth, NH (USA), 3:30 - 7:30 PM.

See you there!

Linn (and Tom, who is busy cooking dinner)

Subject: RE: Nov. Shanty Session@The Press Room (NH)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 16 Nov 11 - 08:57 PM

I'll be there and Nor sounded interested in coming with me the last time I talked with him. Maybe we can get Dick to come as well.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Nov. Shanty Session@The Press Room (NH)
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 18 Nov 11 - 12:42 PM

Refresh

Subject: RE: Nov. Shanty Session@The Press Room (NH)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 12:29 AM

Someday i hope to get to this. Refresh.

Subject: RE: Nov. Shanty Session@The Press Room (NH)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 09:47 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Nov. Shanty Session@The Press Room (NH)
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 10:55 AM

ChanteyLass, hope to see you one of these days!

It can be combined with the previous night's weekly Press Room session, a melee of songs and tunes in the tradition (mostly English, Scots, Irish, and sea music, but you never know what might come up).

Or come by during the last full weekend in September for the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival -- PMFF

Linn

Subject: RE: Nov. Shanty Session@The Press Room (NH)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 Nov 11 - 05:45 PM

The Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival looks wonderful, but it conflicts with the New Bedford Working Waterfront Festival!

The idea of two nights of music sounds good, too, but my car's not young and on Thursday night my RI state pension got reformed! It will be a while before I start feeling a pinch, but I will have to think more carefully about entertainment and travel.

I'll keep reading this thread, and like I said, someday . . . .

Subject: RE: Nov. Shanty Session@The Press Room (NH)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Nov 11 - 12:37 PM

There were about 12 singers gathered at the Press Room yesterday. Another really nice session, slower paced, and everyone had an opportunity to sing several songs.

I got to try singing my new blues version of the Kipling poem "Mulholland's Contract" about the sailor in charge of the lower deck of a cattleboat, and several other songs, old or new to me in different stages of polished presentation.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Nov. Shanty Session@The Press Room (NH)
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 20 Nov 11 - 06:34 PM

Not sure when I'll get the song list posted, but maybe I should start with who our accomplices were yesterday --

Tom (Curmudgeon) and I (Bat Goddess) were there, of course. Charlie Ipcar (Charley Noble), Ernie Pigeon (NbptErnie), Don Hale, Martha Burns and another of the Gloucester crew whose name I don't know, Jeri, Chris Maden, Marty Stock (Bupkes), Barry O'Brien, Steve Smith, Justine Donovan, Chris Vaughn, and Phyllis Richard-Sloat (for a little while).

Smallish group, but very vocal, both in singing and in discussing the songs.

Song list...well, at some point. (It's going to be one of those weeks...)

Linn

Subject: RE: Nov. Shanty Session@The Press Room (NH)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Nov 11 - 10:18 PM

Nice to be reminded of the names of who was there. The other fellow from the Gloucester area was Ray Spiecker.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Nov. Shanty Session@The Press Room (NH)
From: Bupkes
Date: 21 Nov 11 - 01:46 AM

That was Martha Bowen (not Burns) up from Gloucester, who writes songs, and who rekindled my interest in Charlie O'Hegarty's songs. Here's a link to Charlie's Memorial web site, which has some of his songs available too.

Marty

Subject: RE: Nov. Shanty Session@The Press Room (NH)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 21 Nov 11 - 07:44 AM

Marty-

Thanks for the link to O'Hegarty's memorial site. I was only familiar with his nautical recordings, not the person.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Nov. Shanty Session@The Press Room (NH)
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 21 Nov 11 - 08:27 AM

Thanks for the name corrections!

As for the song list, here goes...(I've got a bunch o' stuff I need to do before heading to work, so it's just a start)...

1. Stormalong, Stormy, Stormalong - Charlie Ipcar
2. Jobatt's Arm Long Liners - Ernie Pigeon
3. Black Ball Line - Martha Bowen
4. Nine Times a Night - Linn Schulz
5. Farewell to Tarwaithie - Don Hale
6. The Crossing - Jeri (which she'd just written that mornng)
7. Mulholland's Contract - Charlie
8. Rolling Down the Bay to Julianna - Ernie
9. The Sailor Deceived - Ray Spiecker
10. Rounding Cape Horn - Don

That's it for now -- more later.
Linn

Subject: RE: Nov. Shanty Session@The Press Room (NH)
From: NbptErnie
Date: 21 Nov 11 - 03:17 PM

Linn,

The name of song #2 is "Joe Batt's Arm Longliners" Joe Batt's Arm is a fishing community in Newfoundland. See "http://www.joebattsarm.ca/About_JBA.html". The song was written by Frank Dwyer.

Ernie

Subject: RE: Nov. Shanty Session@The Press Room (NH)
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 22 Nov 11 - 08:31 PM

Today's installment...

11. Reuben Ranzo - Chris Maden
12. It's a Beautiful Day - Marty Stock (Charles O'Hegerty song)
13. Deep the Water - Jeri
14. Laying On the Screw (Yakker, Yakker, Yakker) - Charlie Ipcar
15. Hands to the Pump - Ernie
16. Sailor's Prayer - Linn
17. Rolling Home - Martha
18. Brave Wolfe - Marty
19. Ranzo Ray - Ray Spiecker
20. Mingulay Boat Song - Chris Maden
21. Haul Down Billy O'Shea - Barry O'Brien
22. Shallow Brown - Marty
23. Plum Island National Anthem - Linn
24. verse of "Why Should I Marry?" also written by Richard Johnson - Linn
25. A Night At Dago Tom's - Charlie (poem by John Masefield)
26. Nellie J. Banks - Ernie
27. Sitting On the River On the Levee - Chris Maden
28. Classic Yankee Clipper - Martha (another Charles O'Hegerty song)
29. Race of Long Ago - Linn
30. By the Old Pagoda Anchorage - Charlie
31. Titanic - Jeri
32. Socialized the Losses and Privatized the Gains - Marty
33. Put It On the Ground - Linn
34. Come Out Ye Black and Tans (?) - Ray
35. Oh, Riley, Oh, Man - Justine Donovan
36. Jolly Roving Tar - Chris Maden

Supper's ready...gotta go. I'll finish tomorrow.

Linn

Subject: RE: Nov. Shanty Session@The Press Room (NH)
From: Jeri
Date: 22 Nov 11 - 08:47 PM

My "written this morning" song went over like a ton of bricks on a lead balloon named "Titanic". I think people expected a serious song and got some awkward-for-a-serious-song terms and wacky alliteration. "Water fell like rain"? Really? Or maybe it just sucked. Funny--my voice was relatively OK, then I got home and it went south again.

(I fixed a song title of mine and the spelling of somebody else's. Been workin' at the test scoring mines all day and I wanna correct some shit.)

Subject: RE: Nov. Shanty Session@The Press Room (NH)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 23 Nov 11 - 08:38 AM

Jeri-

I'd like to hear your song again. It usually takes several singings of a new song to work out all its kinks, and for others to figure out what you are doing.

I bet hardly anyone has a clue what the new song I launched, Mulholland's Contract, was about. And I haven't got a clue of how well it might work at this point, only that it interests me.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Nov. Shanty Session@The Press Room (NH)
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 23 Nov 11 - 11:35 AM

Power back on, so here goes...

37. Sailor's Prayer - Barry O'Brien
38. Young Banker - Marty
39. Haul 'Er Away (Little Sally Racket expanded) - Ernie
40. Help Me To Raise 'Em - Justine
41. Out On the Rolling Sea - Barry
42. Mobile Bay (Roll the Cotton Down) - Charlie
43. Plains of Mexico - Ray
44. Jim Jones In Botany Bay - Marty
45. Greenland Whale Fisheries - Ernie
46. Ida Lewis - Justine
47. Whiskey-O, Johnny-O - Linn
48. Bold Benjamin - Charlie
49. Rolling Down to Old Maui - Chris Maden
50. Astoria's Bar - Martha
51. Shanty for Barry Finn - Marty
52. Where the Ocean Meets the Highway - Chris Vaughn (not sure of title)
53. Outside Track - Charlie
54. Ten Stone - Linn
55. Johnny Come Down to Hilo - Justine
56. Pilot Boat Can Do - Ernie
57. Nelson's Prayer - Chris Maden

That's it!
Linn