Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?

Subject: Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 02:03 PM

Going to Tarbert by Loch Lomond for a few days. Wondering if there any live acoustic sessions/singarounds/folk clubs?

Subject: RE: Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?
From: GUEST,Akenaton
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 02:09 PM

It's TARBET......and naw thurs no'.

Subject: RE: Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?
From: GUEST,akenaton
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 02:11 PM

Tarbert is doon Loch Fyne near Lochgilpheid.....an' thurs nane therr nethur.

Subject: RE: Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 02:24 PM

hoots mon- naethin ava'?

Subject: RE: Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?
From: Gallus Moll
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 02:49 PM

You cud start one?
Tarbet is close by Arrochar and there used to be folk sessions and events there...and musicians and singers living in the area (sorry i am a bit out of touch with current events)
There are some websites and facebook pages you could check out for what is on...or put your request into. I'll have a think then post them!

Subject: RE: Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 03:07 PM

Celtic Connections is on in Glasgow, do much of the folkie world will be up there this week.

Subject: RE: Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?
From: GUEST,Kenny B (inactive)
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 03:54 PM

you could try the email on Lomond Folk link its at the other end of Loch Lomond or the TMSA site for the Helensburgh Folk club

Lomond Folk Club

Subject: RE: Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?
From: GUEST,ake
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 05:31 PM

Celtic connections?.....ye wid be bettir affin Lochgilpheid!!(In joke)

Subject: RE: Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 05:59 PM

This Tarbert I refer to is definitely the Loch Lomond one not the Loch Fyne one.

Subject: RE: Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?
From: GUEST,Observer
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 07:23 PM

In which case GUEST if you'd actually refer to a map you will find there is no such place on Loch Lomond as Tarbert, but there is a place called TARBET as has already been pointed out to you.

Subject: RE: Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 07:37 PM

The only town on Loch Lomond
with a name that sounds like that
that I know
doesn't have an r in the spelling.
Here it is in googlemaps, could you check if this is the place?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/zDKND

When I looked for organised\publicised music round there a couple of years ago I don't think I found anything within about forty miles(Dunoon I think).

Do you know what time of year you'll be there?
How far are you prepared to travel for the evening?

Subject: RE: Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 22 Jan 19 - 09:05 PM

^^^^^^ ! I meant "only has one r in the spelling" !

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Subject: RE: Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jan 19 - 05:37 AM

there's one in Harris as well

Subject: RE: Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 23 Jan 19 - 05:45 AM

Didn't the pub in Ardlui have them? - owned by the same guy who had the Uisge Beatha in Woodside, Glasgow and because of his personal predilections had all his barmen strapping young men in kilts. The Glasgow one had regular sessions and singarounds and still does under its new ownership. Ardlui to Tairbeart isn't far.

Subject: RE: Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 23 Jan 19 - 07:01 AM

the word even has its own wiki page
Tarbert (Scottish Gaelic: An Tairbeart) is a place name in Scotland and Ireland.
All placenames that variously show up as tarbert, tarbat or tarbet in their anglicised form derive from either the Irish or Scottish Gaelic an tairbeart, commonly translated as "the isthmus" today.
... This can be where two lochs nearly meet, or a causeway out to an island.
...Both these words derive from two Old Irish elements, 
tar "across" and
a nominalised form of the verb ber "to carry".
The /?/ in tar was assimilated to [/??/] -.
...So the literal translation would be an "across-carrying". The reason for this is that all tarberts are in fact located at or near old portage sites.
In English language spellings the first syllable "tar" has generally remained constant but the second syllable "bert" has variously been spelled as "bart", "bert" "bat", "bad" etc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarbert#Examples 

Subject: RE: Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 24 Jan 19 - 09:44 AM

Loch Lomond area
there might be some live music on at The Drovers at the north end of the loch - check youtube\ask.

I asked Joe Quinn on FB and he suggested
Mon ... Corrie, Balloch, club as mentioned above
Thur ... Corrie, Balloch, open session
Sat 2-5 ... Balloch House Hotel, session
Sun ... Slanj, Tarbet, session
Sun fortnightly ... Doghouse, Balloch, open mic(Joe Quinn)

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https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1plE0C69JOiO8FotbmDlDvE2qxbM&ll=56.107%2C-4.829&z=10

Subject: RE: Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?
From: beachcomber
Date: 24 Jan 19 - 10:36 AM

Yes, there is also at least one TARBERT in Ireland, on the Shannon River which is the location of an ancient river ferry crossing, there is now a tunnel there.

Subject: RE: Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jan 19 - 10:59 AM

That's incorrect, beachcomber, the ferry from North Kerry to West Clare is still running between Tarbert and Killimer (Shannon ferry). There is a tunnel on the western outskirts of Limerick - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_Tunnel.

Subject: RE: Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?
From: GUEST,Modette
Date: 24 Jan 19 - 11:37 AM

Sorry, that last posting was mine.

Subject: RE: Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?
From: beachcomber
Date: 24 Jan 19 - 01:15 PM

OOps, sorry Modette, imagine it, I haven't been over there for many years and just rem the old ferry.

Subject: RE: Folk Club/ sessions Tarbert?
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jan 19 - 03:00 PM

Have to make our own by the looks of things. Now transport on coach hol. Mon to Thurs 2 weeks time.