Tom Hall (Curmudgeon) Memorial Gathering

Subject: RE: Tom Hall (Curmudgeon) Memorial Gathering
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Mar 14 - 09:07 PM

Just watched the YT vid. Smiled, sang along and.... cried. RIP. And, thanks.

Subject: RE: Tom Hall (Curmudgeon) Memorial Gathering
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 01 Mar 14 - 11:20 PM

What an amazing afternoon!

Dave Hallowell's video is brilliant! I'll post a link tomorrow (unless someone does it first).

Linn

Subject: RE: Tom Hall (Curmudgeon) Memorial Gathering
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 02 Mar 14 - 07:23 AM

Here's the link to Dave Hallowell's beautiful tribute to Tom and the folk community he engendered with the Press Room sessions --

Tom Hall, A Musical Life

Linn

Subject: RE: Tom Hall (Curmudgeon) Memorial Gathering
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 02 Mar 14 - 07:51 AM

This morning's Portsmouth (NH) Herald --

A Press Room Salute to the Memorable Tom Hall

Only one factual error -- Tom and Bob Frost met at The Stone Church in Newmarket, NH in 1970 -- the second or third weekend the Stone Church was open.

Linn

Subject: RE: Tom Hall (Curmudgeon) Memorial Gathering
From: GUEST,Guest-Dianne
Date: 02 Mar 14 - 08:39 AM

Great Video Dave. Thanks.

I am so sorry I was unable to attend, it looks like it was a great tribute and a fitting send off.

Subject: RE: Tom Hall (Curmudgeon) Memorial Gathering
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 02 Mar 14 - 08:40 AM

W.B. said (at Facebook) -- "Likely the largest crowd ever upstairs at the press room for the memorial. Tom Hall, more friends than Elvis."

Linn

Subject: RE: Tom Hall (Curmudgeon) Memorial Gathering
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Mar 14 - 09:12 AM

I didn't know there was a card there, Linn. I would have signed it.

Subject: RE: Tom Hall (Curmudgeon) Memorial Gathering
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 02 Mar 14 - 11:01 AM

Stephan Smith's wonderful slideshow of photographs with audio from Tom's performance at the concert for the 2002 Songs of Sail festival in Kennebunk and Kennebunkport, Maine is here -- Tom Hall Slideshow

Linn

Subject: RE: Tom Hall (Curmudgeon) Memorial Gathering
From: gnu
Date: 02 Mar 14 - 01:28 PM

Said my piece on FB.

Re "W.B. said (at Facebook) -- "Likely the largest crowd ever upstairs at the press room for the memorial. Tom Hall, more friends than Elvis."" above. Like.

Subject: RE: Tom Hall (Curmudgeon) Memorial Gathering
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Mar 14 - 03:04 PM

Linn, now that I've listened to that, it IS the one I got off the board on a mini-disc. Have to go watch it again. A great video.

Only in this crowd (or maybe not), but in both presentations, many people sang along with the choruses.

Subject: RE: Tom Hall (Curmudgeon) Memorial Gathering
From: Micca
Date: 02 Mar 14 - 07:13 PM

Loved The video and Slide show, in all the years (nearly 14) that I have been going to the Press Room I have always felt Welcome and part to the "Family"!! and Tom Hall was my friend from the start! Back in 2001 a Month after 9/11 a friend( Chance, I owe you) talked me into coming to The US for The Folk Society of Greater Washington Getaway in Maryland, and since I had a weeks leave and it seemed a shame not to have a look around.... Another friend (from New York)asked me if there was anything I particularly wanted to do, I said , "Sing at The Press Room" I had heard about it and wanted to see it, anyway, after much travelling (Mary driving)and many adventures, visiting Friends I had only met online, on the last Friday we turned up at the Press Room I was "expected" as much correspondence had gone on in the time leading up to the trip!, It was a Magical experience, and Tom, Linn and I became Fast friends, so much that almost every subsequent year (and some times more than once a year) when I have visited the US The Press Room has been a "Must" and will continue to be as long as I can make it, Thank you , Tom and Everyone, I feel a sense of very personal loss at your passing, but also a sense of the esteem in which you are held by both your friends and peers, and there are few better epitaphs than that!

Subject: RE: Tom Hall (Curmudgeon) Memorial Gathering
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Mar 14 - 07:20 PM

Both videos were wonderful. I am glad that the Press Room upstairs was crowded. Rightfully so.

Subject: RE: Tom Hall (Curmudgeon) Memorial Gathering
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 04 Mar 14 - 10:36 AM

Tom Hall changed and influenced so many people's lives...including mine. He wasn't an ambitious man, but he accomplished so much...more, even, than I think he realized.

I can't begin to thank -- and I'm not sure I even have the words -- everybody (including those who couldn't be there in person) who contributed to making his memorial gathering at The Press Room such an amazing event.

I tried to see and talk to as many friends as I could. I elbowed my way (sorry for any bruises I'm responsible for) towards the bar/buffet area as often as I could, stopping for a few words where I could, waving when I couldn't get close enough...

I am still quite overwhelmed.

And while such an outpouring of memories, images, Tom's voice (and David Behm's and many others) was immensely comforting and consoling (for want of better words), it was a very emotionally wrought day for me.

Linn

Subject: RE: Tom Hall (Curmudgeon) Memorial Gathering
From: Charley Noble
Date: 05 Mar 14 - 09:16 AM

I t was an amazing tribute to an amazing person, friend and mentor.

There are photos posted on my Facebook page and also on Pressroom Gang and Clan.

Charlie Ipcar

Subject: RE: Tom Hall (Curmudgeon) Memorial Gathering
From: gnu
Date: 05 Mar 14 - 02:14 PM

I am away to look at the pics! Thanks Charlie!