Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014

Subject: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 14 Jan 14 - 10:59 PM

Now that Chantey Blast is over, it's time for a new thread! The 35th annual Mystic Sea Music Festival starts on Thursday, June 12, 2014, at 7 PM, and continues almost continuously through Sunday afternoon, June 15, 2014. Here's a link to the website for more info. http://www.mysticseaport.org/event/sea-music-festival-2/ Some of the line-up for June's Sea Music Festival are Dave Webber and Anni Fentiman, Barrouallie Whalers, Martin and Phil Hugill, Ana Vinagre, Jack Dalton, Dan Milner and Robbie O'Connell, The Johnson Girls, and Bob Walser. I hope to see you there!

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: maeve
Date: 15 Jan 14 - 07:33 AM

Well now, doesn't that look like a fine line-up? Have a wonderful time, Chanteylass.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Jan 14 - 08:16 PM

I'm looking forward to hearing Dave Webber and Anni Fentiman. I've listened to a number of their CDs but never heard them live. They also have an interest in Cicely Fox Smith's poems. And of course I'm looking forward to the rest of the line-up as well.

Cheerily,
Charlie Ipcar

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: MMario
Date: 22 Jan 14 - 08:34 AM

I find it interesting that I just got the spring newsletter from Mystic - which mentions various things and events to the end of June; but no mention of the Sea Music Festival. Though I guess most members would already be aware of it.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 22 Jan 14 - 09:36 PM

Oh, my! If the spring newsletter you got is the WindRose, you are correct that it does not mention the Sea Music Festival! In the case of the Morgan's ports of call, summer camp, and sailing programs, it actually goes into August! For the latter two, that may be to encourage early registration. For all other events and activities, it seems to go through May. I imagine the Sea Music Festival will be in the summer newsletter which I hope comes out early. However, the dates are on the website at the link I posted when I started this thread.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: Trad Folkie
Date: 27 Jan 14 - 08:06 PM

I just created a new thread for the 2014 Mystic Seaport's 35th Annual Symposium "MUSIC OF THE SEA" Call for Papers. This is the official Call for Papers that I received from Geoff Kaufman.

The thread is Sea Music Symposium Call for Paper '14 .

The deadline for proposal submission is February 15th, 2014.

The Friday, June 13, session will be held on the maritime campus of the University of Connecticut at Avery Point in Groton, CT, and the Saturday session, June 14, will be held at Mystic Seaport, in Mystic, CT.

Subject: RE: Mystic 2014 Sea Music Symposium CFP Deadline
From: Trad Folkie
Date: 16 Feb 14 - 10:03 PM

The deadline for submission of proposals for the 2014 Sea Music Symposium has been extended to March 1st, 2014.

Please see the thread:
Sea Music Symposium Call for Paper '14
for the official announcement.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Feb 14 - 08:55 PM

Thank you! I was just thinking I should refresh this thread, but your post has done it for me!

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 16 Mar 14 - 09:14 PM

Time to bring this thread back up to the top!

I was at the seaport today, and it was a sunny, cold, windy one, but any day at the seaport is a great one. I saw the Morgan for the first time since early December, though of course I've been following her restoration on the seaport's website.

I found a dime on one of the dirt walkways. Nobody was around, so I picked it up and put it in my pocket.

Don was today's chantey singer. A large group of students from Japan, probably high school age, came with a translator and guide to the seaport and heard him. He asked if any of them played an instrument. One plays a mandolin, another drums, and a third the koto. They were an attentive audience and Don got them to participate on a chantey. After, the koto player and some of her friends asked Don to write the name of two songs ("Molly Malone"--this was Music of the Sea and Shore, and tomorrow's St. Patrick's Day--and the chantey "Haul on the Bowline" and to sign his name. The koto player came over to me to show pictures on her phone of her playing the koto. I asked if she played "Sakura." She smiled and said yes, and I started singing the song. Okay, I only know the first two words, "Sakura. sakura," but I hummed a little more. She smiled again, said with surprise, "You know it!" and hugged me. Then she showed me a video of her koto teacher playing it.

Like I said, it was a great day at the seaport, and the days and evenings of the Sea Music Festival will be great!

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: Charley Noble
Date: 17 Mar 14 - 10:19 AM

Sounds like a nice wintery day at the Seaport.

Cheerily,
Charlie Ipcar

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Mar 14 - 08:31 PM

And I made my hotel reservation while I was in Mystic!

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: GUEST,Heavenly Twin
Date: 30 Mar 14 - 12:30 PM

We will be at the Seaport on Saturday April 5 at 10:00 am for a memorial sevice for Bob Webb at the meetinghouse. So nice that this is being done.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 30 Mar 14 - 01:43 PM

I'll be at the memorial, too.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 05 Apr 14 - 09:11 PM

I was at Mystic Seaport today and picked up a festival flyer. Here's the complete line-up.

Barrouallie Whalers
Jack Dalton
Forebitter
Winston "Jeggae" Hoppie
The Johnson Girls
Nanne Kalma, Ankie Van Der Meer, and Tseard Nauta
Larry Kaplan
Chris Kastle
Margaret McCandless
Dan McKinnon
Dan Milner & Robbie O'Connell
Celeste Bernardo
Dick & Carol Holdstock
Dave Peloquin
John Roberts
Don Sineti
Ken Sweeney
Ana Vinagre
Bpb Walser
Dave Webber & Annie Fentiman
The S.S..Chanteens

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: sciencegeek
Date: 06 Apr 14 - 08:11 AM

was thinking Mystic and Bob Webb's memorial service yesterday. I really hope to see Helen & Margaret this June.

Did they have any info on the symposium lineup?

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 06 Apr 14 - 09:50 PM

The memorial service brought me to Mystic, but I stayed for the rest of the day. The flyer I picked up was one of a few sitting on top of a barrel in the Neptune's Orchestra exhibit where Music of the Sea and Shore is presented until May when it moves to the Green. I don't know anything about the symposium lineup. I guess that's still to come. I plan to be back at the seaport on May 17, when the Morgan leaves for New London, but I may get back there sooner. My guess is that I won't find out anything until it appears on the website.

And I still have the Alistair Anderson CD for you!

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 10:15 AM

I was talking with Craig Edwards yesterday and mentioned to him that one of the highlights of the Fisherpoets Gathering is the Sat night poetry contest. A line is given out and participants come up with an 8 line poem using that line or phrase. It is a fierce competition with a lot of entries (no prize, but bragging rights). How about a new chantey contest at SMF. No parodies, but something fresh and new, either referencing historical or contemporary work, I will disqualify myself (maybe ) having already written a yachting chantey.....who's got the line?

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: GUEST,sciencegeek
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 10:55 AM

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: GUEST,sciencegeek
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 10:56 AM

that you, Jon?

if you're not competing, howse about you throwing out the first line?

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: Charley Noble
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 09:48 PM

Looking forward to the Festival.

Charlie Ipcar

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Apr 14 - 09:40 PM

The crack was 99, when someone hit the floor...

Subject: Announcing Symposium on Music of the Sea
From: GUEST,Denise Kegler
Date: 29 Apr 14 - 10:03 AM

Symposium on Music of the Sea
35th Annual Sea Music Festival
June 13-14, 2014

Co-sponsored by Mystic Seaport, the University of Connecticut at Avery Point, and the United States Coast Guard Academy.

Friday, June 13, UConn Avery Point, Auditorium in Academic Building
8:30 Coffee and Danish
8:50 Welcome: Moderator Craig Edwards
9:00 Peter Wood, "Not Bold Nelson's Praise: Songs About Horatio Nelson and Trafalgar"
9:45 Cindy Campbell-Stone, "The Lady In the Lighthouse: The Catherine Gallagher Story"
10:30 Coffee and Danish
10:45 Robert D. Madison, "The Other Little Nell"
11:30 Stephen N. Sanfilippo, "Chanteys and Masculinity in the Works of Dana, Melville, London, and O'Neill"
12:15 Lunch (can be purchased at Mort's Cafe in the UConn Avery Point Student Center)
1:45 David Peloquin, "Ahab's Tear; Melville's Mystic Heart"
2:30 Soft drinks and cookies
2:45 David Webber and Anni Fentiman, "Of Whales and Men"

Please join us at Mystic Seaport following the Friday Symposium for a Special Presentation by the "Barrouallie Whalers"

Saturday, June 14, Mystic Seaport, Greenmanville Church
9:30 Welcome: Moderator Craig Edwards
Lawrence C. Kaplan, "E. Gale Huntington's 'The Gam' and the Collector as Scholar"
10:15 Marc Bernier. "Music, Media, and Memory: Acquisition of Repertoire Across Generations": Panel Discussion with John Roberts, Don Sineti, Marc Bernier, Craig Edwards, Nicole Singer, and Erin Breen

The first day of the symposium is free and will be held at the Avery Point campus of the University of Connecticut, 1084 Shennecossett Road, Groton, CT, in the Auditorium of the Academic Building.
The second day of the symposium will be held in the Greenmanville Church, Mystic Seaport, 75 Greenmanville Ave., Mystic, CT. For directions, click on "Plan Your Visit" at . The cost of the symposium at Mystic Seaport is included in the cost of admission to the 35th Annual Sea Music Festival. Go to . Tickets can also be bought at the door.

We would like to thank the University of Connecticut at Avery Point, Mystic Seaport, and the Coast Guard Academy for co-sponsoring the Music of the Sea Symposium. We would also like to thank the Symposium committee—Mary K. Bercaw Edwards, Craig Edwards, Glenn S. Gordinier, Geoff Kaufman, Faye Ringel, Mark Slobin, and Robert J. Walser—as well as Tom Brillat and Denise Kegler of Mystic Seaport for all their help. Friday's refreshments are from Mort's Café, UConn Avery Point—thanks to the Maritime Studies Program of the University of Connecticut for providing the refreshments

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 29 Apr 14 - 08:51 PM

Thank you, Denise! Once again, the symposium should be very interesting.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: GUEST
Date: 15 May 14 - 04:37 PM

only a month left to wait for the festival. As Don Sineti told us as he invited us to our first festival twenty six years ago " Its like Christmas and birthday all rolled into one   everything that you wait a whole year for" The line up is outstanding cant wait The Heavenly Twins

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: GUEST,Linda kelly
Date: 15 May 14 - 06:12 PM

You will love Dave and Annie.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: GUEST,Linda kelly
Date: 15 May 14 - 06:12 PM

You will love Dave and Annie.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: GUEST,Linda kelly
Date: 15 May 14 - 06:12 PM

You will love Dave and Annie.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: GUEST
Date: 16 May 14 - 11:44 PM

You can say that again

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: GUEST,anon
Date: 18 May 14 - 06:09 PM

Anyone find on the website the list of performers and bios?

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 May 14 - 04:07 PM

I posted the list of performers on this thread on 05 Apr 14 - 09:11 PM. For now I think you'll have to do websearches to find their bios. On 29 Apr 14 - 10:03 AM, Denise Kegler added the presenters and topics for the symposium again I think you'll have to do websearches if you want bios. I'm not finding bios on Mystic's website.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: GUEST,HT2
Date: 25 May 14 - 11:00 AM

performers bios are on the Mystic site so many excellent groups its going to be hard to choose between workshops See you all soon The Twins

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 26 May 14 - 08:19 PM

Great to know the bios are up! Thanks! I was there today and bought my all-access pass.

I love the way Mystic Seaport commemorates Memorial Day as if it was 1876, and they call it Decoration Day.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From:
Date: 27 May 14 - 11:46 PM

Besides the awesome Dan McKinnon, another Nova Scotian will be there.

Cindy Campbell-Stone has been researching and working towards this show about Catherine Gallagher for years. Catherine Gallagher was one of the people who supplied songs for Dr Helen Creighton.

Cindy has been invited to lecture on this work at the music of the sea symposium and presenting exerpts in workshops during the upcoming Mystic Sea Music Festival in Mystic Seaport, Connectcut in mid June and would welcome any and all

Please take in her lecture and give her feedback

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 May 14 - 08:02 PM

Always a good opportunity to hear some fine nautical singers, and to lead some songs yourself during the after concert chantey sessions in the German Dance Hall across the street from the Museum grounds.

Cheerily,
Charlie Ipcar

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Jun 14 - 01:55 PM

For those who have been waiting for it, The Gam----More songs the Whalemen Sang, the long-awaited sequel to Gale Huntington's Somgs the Whalemen Sang will be introduced at this fesival.
PUblished by CAMSCO Music.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 03 Jun 14 - 02:14 PM

Darn..I was really hoping I could attend this year but just can't. Hopefully next year...retirement looms...hello to everyone from last year...mg

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: GUEST,sciencegeek
Date: 03 Jun 14 - 02:53 PM

a pity you can't hitch a ride... but we'll be thinking of you.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 03 Jun 14 - 09:47 PM

Hi, mg! I'll miss you! It was great to meet you last year.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: Charley Noble
Date: 04 Jun 14 - 08:51 PM

More advice to newbies:

Come on Thursday if you like leading songs. The after concert shanty session at the German Hall is less crowded and you may be able to lead more than one shanty.

Oh, and don't forget to charge your camera batteries before arriving at the Festival, and bring your charger.

Cheerily,
Charlie Ipcar

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 05 Jun 14 - 10:06 PM

Another hint about leading songs at the late-night pub sings: if you have one you plan to sing, try to do it early before someone else sings it! It's okay if the same song is sung once on each of the three nights but not so good if a song is sung more than once on any given night!

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: GUEST,sciencegeek
Date: 09 Jun 14 - 12:55 PM

trying to get things together for the trip... now to figure out where I hid stuff on myself... LOL

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 11 Jun 14 - 09:09 PM

Question for local/programming people:

The Symposium schedule states, for Friday,

"Please join us at Mystic Seaport following the Friday symposium for a special presentation by the Barrouallie Whalers."

*Does anyone know the exact time planned for this "presentation"?

The symposium would probably end at 3:30. The Friday evening concert (in which the Barrouallie Whalers are scheduled to perform) starts at 7pm.

Presumably, this "special presentation" is some time between 4pm and 7. But when? Will it require $35 admission fee for the Seaport on Fri. just to see that presentation at the end of the day (seaport closes at 5)?

And an opinion question :)
And is it worth buying an "all access pass" just to get into the Seaport to see this late Fri. afternoon presentation when the Two Day Pass gets you into the concert starting @7 that evening and every other thing thereafter?

Thanks, bullies!

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 11 Jun 14 - 10:07 PM

Gibb, are you going to be at the symposium, or at least the afternoon portion of it? I'm guessing you are flying in from CA, but I don't know when or where you are arriving or if you'll be too tired to go to the symposium which is free at Avery Point. I also don't know if the seaport would charge you or not. It will probably be close to closing time. The last time the Barrouallie Whalers did a demo we were told before leaving the symposium at what time we should gather at the seaport. My member's pass is a Plus Membership, so I can bring one guest any time I go. I can meet you in the entrance building to get you in free for the demo late Friday afternoon. I have a definite guest for Sunday and a tentative one for Saturday, but none of my friends have claimed Friday. I'm going to PM my email address and you'll be able to contact me that way to let me know. You can also email me your email address, but do NOT PM it to me because I'll only have my cell phone with me and won't be able to access PMs because I don't have a Mudcat cookie on it. If you email me your address, I can send a message to let you know at the end of the symposium what time the demo will be and when I should be at the entrance building.

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 12 Jun 14 - 08:41 AM

Thanks very much, ChanteyLass, but I can't make any definite plans. I might pop in, might not, depending on timing of various things. Don't think I'll be able to make the symposium. And I have an engagement at 5pm. I'm being vague. I had simply hoped the Seaport had posted the exact time and info for this "special presentation" on their site. I mean, it is definitely scheduled, right? So why leave it unannounced?

The same goes for the Festival events, i.e. who is performing where and when. For some reason, they don't post this, though they have it mapped out and you see it on paper once you get there. Once in the past I found the schedule document, on-line, but posted privately!

Anyways… whinging is fun.
:-)

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: Charley Noble
Date: 12 Jun 14 - 08:50 AM

Nope the Seaport is not posting any spreadsheets for the day activities Saturday and Sunday, or if they have, I'm unable to find any. We'll just have to pick them up at the gate.

Judy and I should be arriving late this afternoon, and probably grab a bite to eat before the evening concert.

Charlie and Judy

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: bbc
Date: 13 Jun 14 - 12:58 AM

Have a wonderful time! Maybe I'll make it, some year. Right now, though, I'm getting ready to move,

Barbara

Subject: RE: Mystic (CT) Sea Music Festival 2014
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 16 Jun 14 - 09:43 PM

I'm home. I'm still exhausted. That's due to the normal lack of time I find to sleep during this festival, but in addition I had insomnia Saturday night. I hope to write more about it when my energy returns. In the meantime, my quick summary: it was wonderful!