December Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing

Subject: December Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 16 Dec 14 - 10:21 AM

The December Monthly Shanty, Forebitter, Ballad, and Annual Seasonal Song Session will be happening this Saturday, December 20th at The Press Room in Portsmouth, NH from 3:30 to 7:30 PM -- and the PMAC kids had their thing last Saturday, so we should be unimpeded from having the full session this year.

This annual sea and seasonal song session usually brings out a lot of material not sung the rest of the year. We'll definitely have to do Brian Chadburne's "Shopping Shanty" and, I'm sure, Charlie has a few seasonal songs about traditional Maine weather, etc. It's wide open for songs we only get a short opportunity to sing each year.

See you there!

Linn

Subject: RE: December Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 17 Dec 14 - 08:31 AM

Hey, group...just a reminder to make a comment when you check in here so the thread doesn't fall off the bottom.

Thanks!

Linn

Subject: RE: December Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: maeve
Date: 17 Dec 14 - 09:32 AM

I'm not a member of the group- but I'll continue to refresh your thread, Linn.

Subject: RE: December Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 17 Dec 14 - 10:45 AM

Sure, you're a member of the group, maeve! Just because you can't get to the shanty sings doesn't mean you're not a member of the group...and a very WELCOME one!

Have a happy midwinter holiday season (despite bad memories) and all the best for the coming new year.

Linn

Subject: RE: December Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: GUEST,Guest-Dianne
Date: 18 Dec 14 - 08:49 AM

A comment.

Subject: RE: December Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: GUEST,Guest-Dianne
Date: 19 Dec 14 - 08:25 AM

Another comment.

Subject: RE: December Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 19 Dec 14 - 11:34 AM

I'll see your comment and raise you a conversation...

Linn

Subject: RE: December Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: GUEST,Don Hale
Date: 19 Dec 14 - 09:01 PM

Such cogent comments! I'll comment on the conversation tomorrow at The Press Room.
                         Don

Subject: RE: December Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 20 Dec 14 - 11:58 AM

See you this afternoon, Don!

Linn

Subject: RE: December Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Dec 14 - 08:11 PM

Some of us who were not there this afternoon were happily writing out messages on our stack of Christmas cards. Sigh! Humbug!

Charlie Ipcar

Subject: RE: December Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 21 Dec 14 - 11:22 AM

Not the largest session, but the pub was quiet so we could sing a few things more difficult in its usual din.

And we had a few voices not usually in attendance...Maine storyteller Lynne Cullen, tavern wench Lynn Feingold, balladeer Debra Cowen, which made up for missing some of the usual suspects.

Hope it wasn't Jeri's Friday migraine that kept her away. My knee was feeling better but I still had my cane which kept clattering to the floor. AND I got princess parking (unlike last night's ordeal.)

More later.

Linn

Subject: RE: December Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: Charley Noble
Date: 21 Dec 14 - 11:52 AM

Thanks for the update, Linn.

Charlie Ipcar

Subject: RE: December Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 22 Dec 14 - 08:35 AM

A little later today, I promise...

Linn

Subject: RE: December Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 22 Dec 14 - 12:28 PM

Let's see, I was rather cavalier about writing down who arrived...I hope this list is more or less complete: The crew was me, of course, Emery Hutchins (otherwise known as Hutch), Dianne Lavoie, Dave Nune, Lynne Cullen, Bill Lehrman and Carol Pierson, Lynn Feingold, Peter and Audi Souza and Zinnia, Debra Cowan, Don Hale, and (actually having a meal with friends) Bruce MacIntyre. Jaki was our awesome server.

And we sang...

1. Old Zeb - Emery Hutchins
2. Maggie May - Linn Schulz
3. Clear Away the Morning - Dianne Lavoie
4. Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her - Lynne Cullen
5. Lord of the Dance - Peter Souza
6. Three Drunken Maidens - Linn Schulz
7. Come Inside You Silly Buggers - Lynn Feingold
8. Gin Was Mother's Ru-in - Linn Schulz
9. The Nurse Pinched the Baby - Linn (it was a REQUEST!)
10. Banks of Sicily - Hutch
11.Wassail - Don Hale
12. Green Grow the Rushes-O - Dianne Lavoie
13. Children, Go Where I Send Thee - Don Hale
14. If Not For the Whiskey - Dave Nune
      It's Dave's first leading of a song at The Press Room and the song is one of
      David Stone's -- and Dave Nune is on the recording
15. Rag Dance Song - Hutch
16. Bottle of the Best - Linn Schulz
17. The Trees Are All Bare - Lynn Feingold
18. The Jeannie C. - Dianne Lavoie
19. Fortune Turns the Wheel - Debra Cowan
20. Lady Franklin's Lament - Don Hale
21.The King - Audi Souza
22. Blood Red Roses - Bruce MacIntyre
23. Bulgine Run - Peter Souza
24. Agricultural Irish Girl - Lynn Feingold
25. McTavish Is Dead - Dianne Lavoie
26. Cushy McCoy - Linn Schulz (at least I tried -- it's been too long)
27. parody of "Molly Malone" - Dianne, I think
28. Shortest ballad - "It was Friday morn when we set sail
      and we sank to the bottom of the sea" - Lynn Feingold
29. Yea Ho, Little Fish - Peter Souza
30. It All Makes Work For the Working Man To Do - Dianne Lavoie
31. My Johnny Was a Shoemaker - Audi Souza
32. The Wren - Linn Schulz
33. The Roseabella -Dianne & Don
34. The Flowers of Bermuda - Audi Souza
35. Cherry Tree Carol - Lynn Feingold
      (which I followed with a verse of the version I sing including
      the line, "And Mary gathered cherries while Joseph stood around...")
36. Astoria's Bar - Peter Souza
37. Black Betty - Dianne Lavoie
38. Jack of Diamonds - Audi Peter Souza
39. Santa Come Back (Shopping Shanty) - Linn Schulz
      (Brian Chadbourne's -- thanks, Don, for having a copy with you)
40. Oyster Girl - Lynn Feingold
41. The Pox - Dianne Lavoie
42. Lish Young Buy-A-Broom - Linn
43. Hurrah, Sing Fare Thee Well - Don Hale
44. Old Bangum - Peter Souza
45. My Boomerang Won't Come Back - Peter Souza
46. & 47., I think - medley of novelty songs
48. I Wish I Had Someone to Love Me - Dianne Lavoie
49. Fair Annie - Debra Cowan
50. Up the Noran Water (Shy Annie) - Lynn Feingold
51. The Holly and the Ivy - Audi & Peter
52. Cruising 'Round Yarmouth - Linn Schulz
53. Shine Your Buckles With Brasso - Lynn Feingold
54. Down Below - Linn Schulz (Did I mention I talked to Evan Leonard,
      from whom I learned the song, and he said Sidney Carter wrote it...)
Since the Gloucester and other "away" contingent had packed up
to leave and we only had less than ten minutes left anyway, we closed with...
55. Nelson's Prayer - the Company led by Don Hale

If you spot any errors or omissions, please post them!
Happy whatever mid-winter holiday or holidays you choose to celebrate! (I choose all of 'em!)

Linn

Subject: RE: December Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: GUEST,Guest-Dianne
Date: 22 Dec 14 - 04:06 PM

Thanks Linn,

Say, do you know if Dave reads this? He should learn the custom of bringing CD's to sell.

Dianne

Subject: RE: December Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 22 Dec 14 - 08:36 PM

Sorry I missed it--again.

Subject: RE: December Press Room (NH) Shanty Sing
From: GUEST,Don Hale
Date: 22 Dec 14 - 11:33 PM

A delightful session, and they had Smuttynose Robust Porter on tap!!!
#11: "Somerset Gloucestershire Wassail", from a 1960 Kingston Trio record, "The Last Month Of The Year" (as was "Go Where I Send Thee").
I do go back a while (as I said at the session, I'm a pre-war model).
A Merry Merry and a Happy Happy to all!
                                           Don