EARLY! Aug. Press Room Shanty Sing

Subject: RE: EARLY! Aug. Press Room Shanty Sing
From: Charley Noble
Date: 14 Aug 14 - 06:01 PM

Thanks, Linn.

Looks like a great turnout!

Charlie

Subject: RE: EARLY! Aug. Press Room Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 14 Aug 14 - 11:43 AM

Knew you were there in spirit, Don -- it was important that you were where you were.

Good thing both Pete and Laurette showed up -- looking forward to congratulating them this Saturday.

Linn

Subject: RE: EARLY! Aug. Press Room Shanty Sing
From: GUEST,Don Hale
Date: 11 Aug 14 - 09:27 PM

Notes from Rochester, NY: Pete & Laurette both showed up, so they got married! A lovely cerimony in a beautyfull setting. Glad to see a good turnout for the session. Would like to have been there, but.......
                                  Don

Subject: RE: EARLY! Aug. Press Room Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 11 Aug 14 - 02:59 PM

#22 should be -- 22. Rhyme of the Nancy Bell - Nick Noble (It's a poem by W.S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan fame)

I knew that...I'm pleading fatigue and being in a rush.

Linn

Subject: RE: EARLY! Aug. Press Room Shanty Sing
From: GUEST,Guest-Dianne
Date: 11 Aug 14 - 10:49 AM

Thanks Linn.

Subject: RE: EARLY! Aug. Press Room Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 10 Aug 14 - 04:02 PM

Let's see it I can eat a late lunch and get this posted... (Okay, that worked; now I'm trying to keep a cat off my shoulder because I can't type with her in my lap and she really prefers to stand either on my carotid artery or on my trachea, which REALLY complicates life...)

The crew yesterday was me (Linn Schulz = Bat Goddess), Dianne Lavoie, Nick Noble from Worcester, Lynn Noel and Phillip Nimeskern, Justine Donovan, Susan Young, Alan Eaton, Ramona Connelly, Carol Coronis, (which means we had all four London Julies), Bill Lehrman and Carol Pierson, Marty Stock (Bupkes) and several more people from Gloucester who I didn't get a chance to talk to or find out their names, Lynn Feingold, and Jeff Warner. Also in the audience was Alan's son Stephen and his wife and kids and Gail Diderickson and her sister Janice. And Ellen and Dave Hamil.

We were decidedly weighted towards the feminine side -- a hen frigate for the most part. Lynn, Lynn, and I don't often get to be in the same room together so yesterday was a treat. We've been threatening for several years to sing together as a group and call ourselves "Three Jolly Rogues Named Lynn". My suggestion is that one of them change the spelling of their name to Lynne and then, when asked how to tell us apart, we can say, "By our names."

1. All For Me Grog - Alan Eaton
2. Home, Dearie, Home - Linn Schulz
3. Congo River - Dianne Lavoie
4. A Drop Of Nelson's Blood (Roll the Old Chariot) - Nick Noble
5. Bedford Whalers (Masefield poem) - Lynn Noel (her setting of the poem)
6. Stormalong John - Justine Donovan
7. Race of Long Ago - Linn Schulz
8. Sitting On the River On the Levee (Noah Built the Ark) - Susan Young
9. Strike the Bell - Alan Eaton
10. Twelve Gates To the City - Lynn Noel
11. Five Constipated Men In the Bible - Dianne Lavoie
12. Haul On Your Sequins (Million Dollar Line) - Lynn Noel
13. Blow Ye Winds In the Morning - Nick Noble
14. Wild Goose Shanty - Alan Eaton
15. Sailor's Prayer (Tom Lewis) - Linn Schulz
16. Tinker, Tailor (Tom Lewis) - Dianne Lavoie
17. If I Were a Blackbird - Ramona Connelly
18. Heave Ya Ho - Marty Stock
19. Bay of Biscay - Lynn Noel (who also learned it from the
       Tim Hart & Maddy Prior LP)
20. What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor? - Carol Coronis
                                                                      w/Sue Young on bodhran
      (That was the kick ass Greek rock 'n roll version...)
21. Saltpetre Shanty (Tom Lewis) - Justine Donovan
22. Nancy Belle Brig - Nick Noble
23. 34 Essex Street - Lynn Noel
24. Aunt Clara - Linn Schulz (don't ask...)
25. Amelia Where You Bound To? (Across the Western Ocean) - Susan Young
26. A-Roving - Ramona Connelly (sort of "Maid of Portsmouth Town"...)
27. Cruising 'Round Yarmouth - Linn Schulz
28. Sprig of Thyme - Dianne Lavoie
29. Cape Cod Girls - Alan Eaton
30. Give Us a Drop of Brandy-O - Marty Stock
31. Backside of Nantucket Point - Linn Schulz
32. Spanish Graves On the Isles of Shoals - Lynn Noel
33. Mrs. McGrath - Justine Donovan
34. Lover's Wreck - Carol Coronis
35. Maggie May - Linn Schulz
36. Little Ball of Yarn - Lynn Feingold
37. Go To Sea Once More - Jeff Warner
38. Greenland Whale Fisheries - Nick Noble
39. The Rosabella - Dianne Lavoie & Lynn Noel
40. Help Me To Raise 'Em - Justine Donovan
41. Black Betty - Dianne Lavoie
42. All Through the Ale - Jeff Warner
43. Mary Mac At Sea - Jeff Warner
44. The Old Clockwinder - Lynn Feingold
45. Nelson's Prayer - Jeff Warner and the Company

There...lunch, two phone calls and a cat attack later...

Please let me know if and where I've screwed up as a scribe.

Linn

Subject: RE: EARLY! Aug. Press Room Shanty Sing
From: Charley Noble
Date: 09 Aug 14 - 09:21 PM

Looking forward to the report!

Charlie Ipcar

Subject: RE: EARLY! Aug. Press Room Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 09 Aug 14 - 08:54 PM

Guest, as far as I know, that name is taken.

Great session. Started out with only four of us, but you'd never know it from the volume and energy. But it grew. Right from the get-go, it was as if we had worked out arrangements. Really good session. Makes me wish I'd brought the wherewithal to record it. Actually, I think I'll start doing that again (only digitally this time). I stopped recording the sea music sessions when Tom lost his voice to vocal cord cancer.

Anywho, I'll post the crew and the playlist tomorrow. Right now I'm going to bed.

G'night!

Linn

Subject: RE: EARLY! Aug. Press Room Shanty Sing
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Aug 14 - 02:42 PM

If it's in the press room, does that make y'all the Press Gang?

Subject: RE: EARLY! Aug. Press Room Shanty Sing
From: Bupkes
Date: 09 Aug 14 - 11:24 AM

I'm planning to come up, along with 3 others from the Gloucester Sheets supply gang....

Marty

Subject: RE: EARLY! Aug. Press Room Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 08 Aug 14 - 11:21 AM

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TOMORROW! -- August 9th.

Linn

Subject: RE: EARLY! Aug. Press Room Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 07 Aug 14 - 08:04 AM

Refresh

Linn

Subject: RE: EARLY! Aug. Press Room Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 06 Aug 14 - 09:58 AM

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THIS Saturday -- August 9th.

Linn

Subject: RE: EARLY! Aug. Press Room Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 05 Aug 14 - 07:55 AM

Don't forget -- date change FOR THIS MONTH ONLY!!!

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Linn

Subject: RE: EARLY! Aug. Press Room Shanty Sing
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 04 Aug 14 - 07:08 PM

Wish I could!

Subject: EARLY! Aug. Press Room Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 03 Aug 14 - 03:04 PM

This coming Saturday, August 9th, will be the IRregular monthly Shanty, Forebitter and Ballad Session at the Press Room, Daniel St. in Portsmouth, NH from 3:30 to 7:30 PM. For this month only!!!

Yes, I know it's summer and there are many gigs and other things scheduled... And it's the SECOND Saturday of the month instead of the usual THIRD Saturday to accommodate a session member who could only schedule his wedding on the third Saturday. (Yes, I know, too, how complicated THOSE plans can be!)

But please come this Saturday; let's join our voices and make the Press Room rafters roar!

Linn