Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival

Subject: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 31 Mar 19 - 06:13 PM

18th to 22nd April - last night I got my coat & heavy jumper out of my wardrobe to inspect them, my motel is booked, my ride to Canberra is unsure but I have 2 other options ...

2019 program

not many sleeps till we are there ....

Jenny Hrothger & I have our gig again -

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 31 Mar 19 - 09:34 PM

I expect my ex-fiancee and I will be there, as usual.

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Apr 19 - 12:08 AM

see ya!

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Apr 19 - 01:51 AM

Not me, but my sister, Alex and B-i-L, Noel, from Maleny, Qld will be performing!

R-J

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Bruce D
Date: 01 Apr 19 - 04:53 AM

I will be there, camping this time, Just look for the bright Yellow Caravan in the camping area.


Bruce D

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: JennieG
Date: 01 Apr 19 - 06:45 AM

Himself and I - as Sandra mentions above - will be there!

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Bugsy
Date: 01 Apr 19 - 07:06 AM

Enjoy!

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Apr 19 - 07:16 AM

Rich-Joy, what's their act name?

Bruce - a bright Yellow Caravan in the various camping areas? probably best to meet you in the usual places

I'm staying at the Ibis - Tent City was to hard last year & I have even more sore bits this year (poor me!)

Still haven't won the lottery Bugsy? Dunno if we'll ever meet. If my sister & brother-in-law hadn't sold their house in Freemantle to live permanently on the Sunshine Coast when they retired, I could be visiting them & meet you & Mrs Bugsy.

sandra

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Bruce D
Date: 01 Apr 19 - 05:42 PM

I was too late in booking to get one of the powered sites, so I have to find a spot with power & water amoungest the general camping areas. I will be at Epic from Monday.

Bruce D

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Bugsy
Date: 01 Apr 19 - 09:25 PM

Onea day, Sandra. One day......

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Bruce D
Date: 02 Apr 19 - 03:25 AM

I through WA was one of the featured states for the National, couldn't gotten on one of the preformers tickets ?


Bruce D

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Apr 19 - 07:22 AM

Sandra, they go under "Noel Gardner & Alex Bridge" :)

Cheers!
R-J

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: rich-joy
Date: 02 Apr 19 - 07:23 AM

Damn, shoulda re-set ma cookie first!
R-J

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 02 Apr 19 - 07:53 AM

Noel won the John & Dale Dengate Parody competition in 2018 & we corresponded for a while. It will be good to see & hear him again

sandra

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: rich-joy
Date: 02 Apr 19 - 06:16 PM

Ah yes!!! I think Dale thought her gig at The Nash might clash with Alex & Noel's though??

John & Dale are old mates too, particularly of my late Beloved, Paul Lawler. (5 years anniversary next week ...... sigh ......)

Oh Well. Onwards and Upwards.

R-J

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Hrothgar
Date: 05 Apr 19 - 07:44 AM

I'll be there with my hair in a braid.

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: JennieG
Date: 05 Apr 19 - 07:17 PM

Nice!

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 05 Apr 19 - 10:34 PM

no tiara, roger?

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: JennieG
Date: 06 Apr 19 - 01:00 AM

I'll bring mine!

Sandra, I have a pressie for you - a purple 'Crown Royal whiskey' bag in which to store your sparkly headband. Poor Himself had to drink the contents of more than one so I could have a bag, and have a couple of spares.

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 06 Apr 19 - 04:24 AM

oooh!

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 08 Apr 19 - 11:28 AM

bump!

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: JennieG
Date: 13 Apr 19 - 01:22 AM

Arriving in Canberra tomorrow!

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 13 Apr 19 - 09:10 PM

I'll see you Thursday night

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: JennieG
Date: 14 Apr 19 - 12:42 AM

You will indeed.

We are now set up in the camping area, people are setting up around us, but so far no one is playing any music.

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Bruce D
Date: 14 Apr 19 - 06:48 AM

I'll be joining you in the morning, need to find a camping site with access to power and water, any hint's ?


Bruce D

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 14 Apr 19 - 07:35 AM

only 4 more sleeps till I head south ...

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: JennieG
Date: 14 Apr 19 - 08:59 AM

Bruce - water probably not, you might have to be like the rest of us and fetch water from the nearest convenient tap. Power - yes.

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Bruce D
Date: 14 Apr 19 - 10:50 PM

All sorted, tucked behind a building with a large power box a few feet away and a tap around the corner,

a stone throw from other BMC club members, and near the entrance for the Oval camping.

I'll take a ride around the site later,

Bruce D

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Bugsy
Date: 15 Apr 19 - 12:48 AM

Like performing with the Fo'c's'le Firkins at the Inaugural Australian Shanty Festival in Albany WA.
We'll be celebrating the 34th anniversary of our First public performance on Good Friday.

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Bugsy
Date: 15 Apr 19 - 12:50 AM

Bloody auto correct!

"I'LL BE" performing.

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 15 Apr 19 - 02:41 AM

good to know you like performing

enjoy your festival.

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: JennieG
Date: 15 Apr 19 - 05:49 AM

Have fun, Bugsy!

I knpw where you are, Bruce......can just about see you from here.

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Bruce D
Date: 15 Apr 19 - 07:12 AM

Well, a bright Yellow van is hard to miss, by the end of the festival half the campers will be using my van as a reference mark !!


Bugsy, a few years ago I converted my Fo'c's'le Firkins cassettes into CD's and then transfered them on to my ipod, still enjoying the Firkins singing.

Bruce D

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Bugsy
Date: 15 Apr 19 - 10:15 AM

Good onya Bruce!

Last year we recorded our first official CD as "The Original Fo'c's'le Firkins. That's 7 of the 8 surviving members of the 10 man team who performed at our first gig at the 1985 National Folk Festival in Perth.

Good Friday next year will be our 35 anniversary. Maybe we could get a gig at the Nati9nal to celebrate.

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Bruce D
Date: 15 Apr 19 - 05:07 PM

Well WA is one of the featured states this year, it would be good is see another shantie group at the National.

Bruce D

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 17 Apr 19 - 08:59 AM

less than 12 hours till I walk out the door - so much to do & where is my camera battery charger with spare battery? - I remember putting it away carefully ...

maybe it's with a friend's mobile which she put away carefully in a safe spot in her flat. She tried calling it but the battery is flat (insert sad face)

sandra

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Bruce D
Date: 22 Apr 19 - 06:05 AM

Well the end of another National, its been a long time since I stayed on site. and having my own Caravan on site was fanitasic, about a 1/3 the cost of staying 4 nights in a hotel and I been here for 8 days.

My only issue is the Bars not taking cash you had to use a credit card for all grog, time comsuming and no way of tracking what you have spent.

Walking round the site was a killer for me but managed about 40 kms during the 5 days.

Highlight was April Verch, Hymn Singing and the colonial ball (again) and also G&S's Trial By Jury by Loosely Woven.

Great to catch up with friends, hope to be here next year.

Bruce D

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Apr 19 - 11:46 AM

Back home again & I've downloaded 430 pics & have sorted them into events. National Folk Festival facebook page

early this morning I had to do a preliminary sort & delete nearly 100 pics as I'd run out of memory, but as I often take multiple pics of a scene, especially of movement, I just deleted blurry & duplicate pics so I could continue taking pics!

Moral of the story is to take a second memory card, tho this is the first time in 4 years I've run out of memory at a large event.

YAWWWWN - off to bed

sandra in sydney 1.46am Tuesday morning

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: JennieG
Date: 22 Apr 19 - 06:18 PM

Excellent, Sandra......will check those out when we get home, we have limited internet in our van!

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 23 Apr 19 - 01:36 AM

Among the many highlights: Eric Bogle, the Fagans and all subsets thereof, Bob Fox, Ricardo Tesi and Banditaliana, Enda Kenny, Penny Davies and Roger Ilott, Melisande [Electrotrad], Matthew Lykos, Xenos, The Spooky Men's Chorale, Nicola Hayes & Helene Brunet. I missed John Schuman & Shane Howard, but my wife saw them and was over the Moon.

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Apr 19 - 03:18 AM

The NFF Facebook page is a pig to navigate, Sandra. Would have loved to see your pics, but gave up. Any hints???

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Apr 19 - 05:27 AM

Guest, none of my pics are on facebook or will be there, I just put the link up so facebookers could see what is already there.

My pics will go on the Bush Music Club blog as I was there with BMC's Saplings workshops - traditional music for young musicians & would-be-musicians 8-18.

sandra (who is not on facebook)

Gerry - I was one of many who walked out of the Schumann/Howard concert on Saturday night - it was far too LOUD, I'm an old folkie, not a deaf old rock'n'roller!
I was told audience members were asking the sound blokes to turn it down & as I left an 80 year old friend was leaving because even with her earplugs in it was still too loud. As we left another bloke came out removing his earplugs. I met 2 friends outside & we kept listening as it was comfortable with the doors closed, but every time people left it blared out.

But it was wonderful hearing him sing I was only 19

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 23 Apr 19 - 06:15 AM

Sandra, Teresa saw them Monday afternoon. Maybe they were feeling more mellow, or maybe someone had a word with them, or with the panellers.

You would not have liked Melisande [Electrotrad]. I could only take a few minutes of her. But I give her full marks for energy, for her vocals, and for finding interesting material.

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Apr 19 - 07:54 AM

Melisand's agent had asked a few of us if we could suggest a support for her Sydney concert but I was unable to suggest anyone as her style of music is outside my experience.

Trad is great, but electro is not my thing.

sandra

A friend who was at Pennsylvania State University in the 60s did not like it when Dylan when electric ...

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Apr 19 - 08:10 AM

Thanks, Sandra, for your explanation re. photos.

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: JennieG
Date: 23 Apr 19 - 07:13 PM

I was working in the festival office during the Sunday Night concert - we had a couple of windows open, but needed to close them because the Shane Howard/John Schuman concert was so loud, even in the office. We couldn't even hear ourselves when on the phone.

That volume is not necessary.

Subject: RE: Ozcatters @ 2019 National Folk Festival
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 20 May 19 - 07:43 PM

finally getting around to posting these links

Report on Saplings sessions at 2019 National Folk Festival

Report on Dennis O'Keeffe Memorial Aussie Songs session @NFF19

Report on Colonial Ball & a few other dances 2019 National Folk Festival

Report on other events at NFF19