Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Aug 13 - 10:42 PM

Great photos!

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: KathyW
Date: 17 Aug 13 - 07:16 PM

I had some camera issues this year, but here are some (much delayed) photos from the festival:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/19474091@N02/sets/72157635111123371/

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 18 Jun 13 - 08:37 PM

Hmm. Here's what's currently available at Green State Airport (Providence/Warwick, RI). I don't know what the hours are for each these places, though, but if I transported you I'd make sure you had access to some kind of food.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 17 Jun 13 - 09:58 PM

sounds great. i found the hartford airport disappointing..not so much as a vending machine and a consensus among people i talked with there and elsewhere that hartford was the most corrupt town in america...or at least usa portion of it. mayor is not beloved.   but people were nice.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Jun 13 - 07:58 PM

Blue clicky for Mary's link: http://ecti.english.illinois.edu/Media/Ballads/CallerHerrin.mp3

Mary, I'm glad your camera found its way home to you.

Remember, if you come back to Mystic, New Bedford, or anywhere in RI, look at flights to Providence. Let me know before you book your flights and I'll tell you if I'll be available provide transportation when you land or depart. This goes for anyone else flying toward those destinations. I won't do Hartford, New London, or Boston, but Providence is really Warwick and I live in a neighboring town.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: mg
Date: 17 Jun 13 - 07:29 PM

Wanted to report that my bag arrived today and sure enough, there was the camera inside my little knapsack in big knapsack. Thank heavens. I think I have some nice family pictures on it. Took zero pictures at Mystic although opportunities surrounded me. It was all quite awesome. Thanks Charlie for hauling me around to security to report it..I called them and told them it was found.

One of my favorite memories is hearing Danny Spooner singing Caller Herrin..I really didn't know the song..was aware of it..but he just nails it..here is a link from another time he sang it..http://ecti.english.illinois.edu/Media/Ballads/CallerHerrin.mp3

Sorry I don't have that song on cannery cd, which also includes fisher lassies etc..oh..last night I googled caller herrin history and there is a 1947 Scottish Film Board film by the name..also at last one short film of the herring or fish lassies....Well..perhaps I can use it on a future run of cd...reminds me, I should tell people it is out..well, it is out for $10 plus shipping...$2.25 in US and more in Canada and who knows how much elsewhere. But if you bought a bunch shipping gets very cheap in US with media mail.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: Charley Noble
Date: 14 Jun 13 - 10:01 PM

Meeting Paul Mercer at the late night YTB sings was nice. I find him a very interesting person, researcher and songwriter.

And he's also a world renown expert on "Termite Farts."

Glad to hear that you got back safe, mg.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 13 Jun 13 - 10:25 PM

Mg, speaking of cameras, Charlie (Charley Noble) Ipcar has put links to his photos on Facebook. Even if you are not his FB Friend, you will probably be able to see them by going to his page or by going to the Mudcat FB page. Hopefully at some point Mystic Seaport will post some photos on FB, too.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: mg
Date: 13 Jun 13 - 05:33 PM

I might have lost a camera there..I think Canon in a black little case..had it on Sunday morning and knew it was lost when I checked into motel..reported to security Monday morning...it was in the Lewis House when last remembered..I think I had it with me Sunday afternoon because i wanted to get batteries so I could actually take pictures...then no camera..possible it got into a mystery pocket in the knapsack I mailed back home..here's hoping.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: sciencegeek
Date: 13 Jun 13 - 10:49 AM

We had a great time meeting Paul Mercer from the NY State Library & spent a lot of time in the YTB exchanging songs... including Mike's rendition of the Wreaker's Prayer - the Newfoundland poem he wrote a tune for & added a chorus/refrain... it's a blast.

We must have getten at least 6-7 inches of rain at home in western NY and it's pouring still... sigh. I should have planted rice paddies...

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 13 Jun 13 - 09:38 AM

great idea. I heard Paul M. do an Ocean Ranger song that was just gorgeous. I know he and Mike exchanged theirs their's???

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: sciencegeek
Date: 13 Jun 13 - 09:14 AM

glad to hear you got home OK, Mary.

We did our best to keep you hale & hearty... LOL.... but it most definitely is an endurance test. Just the hike around the 17 acre grounds is enough to wear you down :)

Now we need to get Heather Sparling to do a symposium paper on her work with maritime disaster songs... we only have 11 months to go.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Jun 13 - 11:53 PM

I'm still recovering, trying to catch up on sleep!

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: GUEST,HT 2
Date: 12 Jun 13 - 06:28 PM

How is it possible that each festival gets better than the last? This was the 25th for the HTs and we never had a better time. Laughing, crying, hugging and kissing...old friends and new...the young and the old...old favorite songs and even some new ones...bawdy songs and hymns and both in the church,,,John Roberts performing with everyone...Geof Kauffman sitting with us and signing Grey Funnel Line (SIGH)...dancing the Unicorn Song wit Don Sineti...many beers and boullibase (sp) in Latitude 41...friends like Charlie, Peter,Celeste, Penny,Judy,Joy, Bonnie,Don, Paula, Cliff and the list goes on and on...goodbye dear friends until we all meet again to sing our beloved music...Much love

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 12 Jun 13 - 03:42 PM

If I were a festival, Mystic is the place I'd like to be held. Glorious weekend!

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 12 Jun 13 - 03:08 PM

Absolutely great festival..could not have had a better time. It is great to see people on their turf...missed the very late night singing unfortunately..just too wiped out...symposia were very good...

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: Charley Noble
Date: 12 Jun 13 - 12:27 PM

There's an album of about 50 Mystic photos (mostly mine) on Mudcat Cafe Facebook Forum if anyone wants to look at them.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: Charley Noble
Date: 11 Jun 13 - 02:30 PM

There were a lot of highlights for me. There were the old friends I only get to see about once a year. There were the new people I get to hear sing and share stories and songs with after during the wee hours of the morning. There were the Museum grounds and ships; I could just live there forever if they'd let me.

I only lasted this year at the YTB late night sings until about 2:30 AM. I just don't have the stamina anymore to make it until the sun rises.

Thanks again to everyone who helped make it so much fun.

And the new CDs I bought and swapped carried me all the way back to Maine.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: GUEST,Peadar (formerly) of Portsmouth
Date: 11 Jun 13 - 01:04 PM

Wow...what a great weekend. So glad to meet the 'catters I did (esp Chantey Lass who flagged me down). Great music, new friends and we (Mudhook) had a terrific time.

Hope to get back there...but in the meantime hope to see some of you at the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival in September.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: sciencegeek
Date: 11 Jun 13 - 11:58 AM

survived another expedition from western NY to mecca... I mean Mystic.   LOL

Had a great time & met new & old friends... even managed a few hours of shuteye...

Marc, remind Geoff that all the symposium recordings have been transferred over to the computer with the Fishtown Chapel recordings.

Hope to make it to Old Songs & keep the party going.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 10 Jun 13 - 10:21 PM

Nice? Understatement (Big Grin)! I had a wonderful time, even with the downpour throughout Friday evening's concert under the roof of the boat shed. Thank goodness for the dropdown canvas sides of the shed. I enjoyed the music, appreciated the variety of presentations at the symposium, and loved the pub sings. I also was thrilled to meet some Mudcatters but wish I could have met all or you who were at the festival. Maybe next time you go   . . . .

Next year's festival will be the 35th on June 12-15, 2014, assuming that it runs for four days. (One year it had to be cut back to three days.) I am basing those dates on the announcement that the symposium will be June 13-14, and proposals for papers (History, Folklore, Literature, Ethnomusicology or other appropriate disciplines that address any appropriate aspect of music or verse of the sea or inland waters from the Age of Sail through the present day. Graduate students are encouraged to submit proposals.for symposium papers and a brief curriculum vitae or resume to Dr Glenn S. Gordinier via e-mail at [e-mail] by February 7, 2014.) are already being sought. Please note that June 15, the Sunday of the festival, will also be Father's Day. Taking your dad to the festival will be a great gift!

Also, Geoff Kaufman said there might be a ChanteyBlast in September. I hope it won't conflict with the Portsmouth Maritime Festival or the New Bedford Working Waterfront Festival! It's bad enough that January's Chantey Blasts have conflicted with the 24-hour Moby Dick readings at the New Bedford Whaling Museum!

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: Abby Sale
Date: 10 Jun 13 - 07:03 PM

Well, that was nice.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: GUEST,mmario
Date: 09 Jun 13 - 08:03 PM

*pout* and it's over for another year. I am tired, sun burned and very happy

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: Charley Noble
Date: 06 Jun 13 - 08:28 AM

ChanteyLass-

Happy to hear that Mary has landed in Mystic.

Back to packing!

See you all this evening!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 05 Jun 13 - 10:03 PM

I'm another one who will show up on Thursday, definitely in time for the concert.

Laura Travis, who usually hosts the Sunday afternoon closing concert, promoted the festival on her radio program Celtic Realm (WRIU, Wednesdays 6-9 PM). Her guests were Jon Campbell, Bonnie and Dan Milner, and Mary Garvey, so Mary has made it safely to this part of the world.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: Charley Noble
Date: 05 Jun 13 - 08:34 PM

Best bring your foul weather gear.

No, I'm not a tea-toddler, which reminds me that I best pick up a six-pack or two for show and tell.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: Susan of DT
Date: 05 Jun 13 - 08:00 PM

See you tomorrow

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: RTim
Date: 05 Jun 13 - 05:32 PM

I'll be there also on Thursday. See you all

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: DebC
Date: 05 Jun 13 - 04:14 PM

I'll be there on Thursday. Looking forward to seeing everyone.

Deb

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: Marc Bernier
Date: 05 Jun 13 - 04:08 PM

Charlie a teetotaler! I never noticed that. Hmm. You carry it well.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: Abby Sale
Date: 05 Jun 13 - 08:45 AM

About 5?
Sounds good.
I seem to recall you are an ardent teetotaler, though. That could compromise the pleasure.

Anyone else?

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: MMario
Date: 05 Jun 13 - 08:30 AM

Depending on traffic I MAY make the Thursday concert. it'll be my first time to make the ENTIRE festival if so.... usually I don't make it until Friday evening.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 Jun 13 - 04:12 PM

mg-

I'll be in and around the entry hall about 5 pm on Thursday if you'd like to share a quick and inexpensive supper before the evening show at 7 pm.

I probably will be wearing a blue denim Greek sailor hat, and will answer to either "Charley Noble" or "Charlie Ipcar." I will have nearby wheels.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 03 Jun 13 - 11:28 PM

If all else fails, you might be able to catch a Peter Pan bus to Providence and call me. Departure times are 11:15 AM and 5:30 PM, and it looks like each route has one stopover. It also looks like each bus will take you to the Peter Pan terminal in Providence, which is what you want. If the driver offers the option of getting off at Kennedy Plaza in downtown Providence, it would be much harder for me to pick you up there. It will take about 90 minutes for me to drive you from Providence to Mystic (but it would take me only an hour if you were flying to Providence, which is really Warwick). It would also be harder for me to find you at Kennedy Plaza than at the terminal. I'm not even sure if I could park the car near the plaza to get out to look for you! If you do take the bus to Providence, call me. Also see the PM I sent a few minutes ago and the new one I'll send with my landline number.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: mg
Date: 03 Jun 13 - 01:55 AM

If anyone was driving from Hartford to Mystic on Wednesday, I would love to pay for gas and hitch a ride...Or I think I can get to New Haven by peter pan bus but not sure about new haven to mystic..i'll call tomorrow and see..they are not good about telling us what the routes are..i know amtrak goes in the late evening but it is later than i want..

or if anyone is coming from springfield on wednesday, or would like to, i would love to take the peter pan up there (presuming I can) or to Chicopee...genealogy stuff...oh there probably is not time...and if a female sort needs a room I could offer half a room in mystic on wednesday night...I just don't feel like renting a car right now...I drive on a sand spit at 25 miles an hour and just not used to traffic zooming any more...mg

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 27 May 13 - 10:10 PM

I was at the seaport today for its Memorial Day observation. I bought my all-access pass for the festival. I also renewed my membership for another two years. And the Rotary Club was holding it's annual Lobster Days fundraiser all weekend. It was a pretty expensive day but lots of fun. And there was more music than usual because of the holiday. However, there was no Dead Horse Ceremony. It appears that for now that is only being done on weekdays.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 May 13 - 02:45 PM

That sounds great. Even though I live only about an hour from Mystic, I never got to the Sea Music Festival until I retired. In my job, June was a busy month and I never had the time or energy to go.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: GUEST
Date: 26 May 13 - 12:44 PM

ChanteyLass we do wish that but Heavenly Twin 1 is finally retiring at the end of this school year so there may be new options for us next year

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 25 May 13 - 10:50 PM

I'll see you there! I wish you could be there for Thursday evening's concert, but I'm sure you wish that, too.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: GUEST,Guest Heavenly twin 2
Date: 24 May 13 - 08:02 PM

two weeks from tonight in the boatshed Friday night concert cant wait

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: Charley Noble
Date: 17 May 13 - 09:10 AM

ChantyLass-

Thanks for the clarification on the Morgan dates. I'll probably be bringing some friends with me as well for the re-launching July 21.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 May 13 - 12:11 AM

Peter, the coolest thing, in my opinion, will be singing on the Morgan.

Charley, there is a Morgan pre-launch party on July 20, but the actual launch is on July 21. I'm glad you'll be a guest performer.

Sciencegeek, my ChanteyLass nametag is already dangling from my car's rearview mirror!

Anyone who wants to meet me, i will probably be wearing a wide-brimmed yellow cloth hat with a Mystic Seaport member's sticker on the crown and carrying my own folding chair or a cane with a fold-down seat..

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: Charley Noble
Date: 16 May 13 - 07:57 PM

Yes, I've noticed that the re-launching of the Charles W. Morgan was moved up from July 27 to July 20. I still plan to be there.

The Mystic Sea Music Festival itself is coming up fast, June 6-9, for all who love to hear good nautical music, and be in a space where hundreds of voices rise to the choruses. Here's a link: http://www.mysticseaport.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&page_id=C9BE0FCF-D86E-382C-FA65352B6393646D

I'll be there as a Guest Performer singing with Jon Campbell and Mary Garvey in their Fisheries Workshop.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: GUEST,sciencegeek
Date: 16 May 13 - 02:33 PM

I'm thinking of making a mudcat nametag... which I will most likely leave behind in the mad rush to get on the road... LOL

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 May 13 - 11:09 PM

The Sabino tickets are sold out. No surprise - that looks like a fascinating thing to watch.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: GUEST,Peadar (formerly) of Portsmouth
Date: 15 May 13 - 02:01 PM

hmmmm...blicky didn't work...but we're at mudhook.net if anyone wanted to visit. We also posted our schedule of Mystic assignments on our Facebook page (facebook.com/Mudhook).

See ya there...

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: GUEST,Peadar (formerly) of Portsmouth
Date: 15 May 13 - 01:58 PM

All the members of Mudhook are looking forward to making our Mystic debut!

Hope all the 'Catters will introduce yourselves since I've met so few of you in the flesh.

Cheers,

Peter

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 May 13 - 11:00 PM

I hope I get to meet all of you Mudcatters!

Charley, maybe that was a typo, but the Morgan will be relaunched on July 21st, not the 27th. I plan to be there. For an extra fee, one can watch from the Sabino. I will not be doing that, although I am sure that would be a lot of fun. For anyone who is interested, information for reservations to watch from the Sabino can be found on the lower right side of this webpage. http://www.mysticseaport.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&page_id=6848EB0D-1E4F-379B-606527C0FA7AC20F

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: GUEST,mmario
Date: 02 May 13 - 08:35 PM

"Guest" above was me, I didn't notice my cookie had crumbled

MMario

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2013
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 May 13 - 12:00 PM

I'm planning to be there and also there on July 27 when the Charles W. Morgan is re-launched.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble