FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-5

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-5
From: Janie
Date: 06 Oct 20 - 10:31 PM

It were fun!

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-5
From: Gorgeous Gary
Date: 06 Oct 20 - 08:29 PM

Having attended a variety of virtual events in the last few months, I have found what characterizes a successful event is whether it came as close as reasonably possible to the kind of event and experience the live version would have provided. The virtual Getaway definitely met that standard. I had a blast! Great to see all the FSGW and Mudcat regulars (and irregulars) and hear from all the voices new to us veteran Getaway attendees.

Also, given I've known her personally and enjoyed her music for at least 20 years, I was both highly amused and delighted at the splash Cecilia Eng made. Just in case y'all missed the multiple clues, like me Cecilia's a long-time member of the filk community. (She also wasn't the only in-filk-trator...I spotted at least 2 or 3 other folks I know from the science fiction/fantasy convention world.)

Gary

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-5
From: GUEST,Bradfordian
Date: 06 Oct 20 - 07:04 AM

Another fine young singer who popped into the getaway is ALICE DILLON Folksinger
Do check out her website and YouTube videos

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-5
From: GUEST,Bradfordian
Date: 06 Oct 20 - 05:47 AM

This has been a fabulous event. Congratulations to ALL involved in making it a very enjoyable, though at times, intensive experience. It all ran very well.
I got to 13 sessions and shared 13 songs and one poem. One of the things that struck me was how many excellent singer/songwriters there are among us, some great self penned powerful songs in there. The highlights-apart from seeing so many familiar and new to me folkies- were the Dogs session(Joe Offer) and Songs that get to you, that was sooooo emotional! Thanks to the “scribes” there is a pretty comprehensive list of songs & poems in google docs; so, yeah, WOW!

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-5
From: voyager
Date: 05 Oct 20 - 04:45 PM

dear fsgw / mudcatters and performers.

What a hoot (well done).
Please tell where the Saturday night concert program will be posted.

in harmony on the cosmic sea
voyager

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-5
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Oct 20 - 03:52 PM

One good singer I encountered for the first time at this year's Getaway was Ash Devine. Check out her website:

http://www.ashdevine.net/

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-5
From: Nancy King
Date: 03 Oct 20 - 11:16 PM

We surely would love to see you again, John!

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-5
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Oct 20 - 05:15 AM

Have fun. Long time since I made it over, but it was an enjoyable weekend, when I did.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-5
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Oct 20 - 01:10 AM

It all starts today!

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-5
From: Nancy King
Date: 11 Sep 20 - 09:42 AM

We'll look forward to seeing you, Skarpi! It's been a long time!

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-5
From: skarpi
Date: 09 Sep 20 - 03:41 PM

Well I might pop up 2 of Oktober..., but September 24-27, 2021,I like to be there in person, and meet , that is if this virus has been taken down .
All the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-5
From: Felipa
Date: 09 Sep 20 - 03:25 PM

and no upper bunk subsidies

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-5
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 09 Sep 20 - 03:09 AM

This year, no passports or airfares are required--and we guarantee not to room you with a stranger who snores.
--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-5
From: Mrrzy
Date: 08 Sep 20 - 05:38 PM

Hmmm... I might actually finally make it to *a* getaway!

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-5
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 08 Sep 20 - 03:12 PM

2020 FSGW Getaway • Online via Zoom

Friday, October 2, 10:30 am, through Monday, October 5



If you love good music and good fellowship, you'll love the Getaway!

Getaway 2020 will be online this year via Zoom, from Friday morning, October 2 at 10:30 am through Monday afternoon, October 5.

The FSGW Getaway is a gathering of friends, old and new, to share music and enjoy fellowship in a secluded setting that’s been going on for decades, and it will go online this year. We invite you to come and participate; bring your songs and your presence to the table, or in this hopefully unique year, the screen.

A complete schedule of what we’ve got planned for the weekend is available at https://www.fsgw.org/Getaway-Schedule, and it will be updated with any last-minute changes. Throughout much of the extended weekend, we’ll be offering two simultaneous Zoomed rooms, and you’ll be able to go in and out and switch between them at will.

For security reasons (we don’t want Zoom-bombing interruptions!), you’ll need to register in advance at https://www.fsgw.org/getaway, and we will send the Zoom links to you and activate them on October 1. Registration is free.

Join in participatory Zoom sessions celebrating inland waterways, the many ways of dogs, and the great Scots folk revival. Enjoy some comic relief; explore the joys and woes of maturing and growing older, and sing of hope and better times, or social struggle and the songs of working people. Try your hand at a ballad or chantey, or rant against pestilence, plague and disease! Put on an Irish air, give us a music hall ditty, or share an Appalachian treasure. Sing that song that gets you weeping or laughing every time.

Learn about interesting aspects of folk music through Zoomed presentations: Ed Miller will talk about Scottish border songs. Explore the work of two West Virginian folklorists, Carrie and Michael Kline. Learn about two influential New England song collectors, Helen Hartness Flanders and Margaret MacArthur. And Thomas McCarthy, an Irish Traveller, will hold forth on the songs, history, stories, and tales of his family and his people, interviewed by WOWD’s Heather Livingston.

A Vocal Clinic with Ken Schatz and a Fingerpicking Guitar Workshop with Elly Wininger will be run as master classes. If you wish to be one of the selected people our experts will work with (in a very public manner), you can volunteer in advance, while everyone else will watch, listen, and learn.

Sign up for a good slot at one of the evening concerts or sing-arounds.

And listen to short sets from some of our invited guests: Steven Levine, George Ward, Elly Wininger, and Ed Miller.

It will all be happening, and a lot more, at this year’s Getaway.

Cost: Free this year, but we’re asking for a voluntary donation. We suggest $25, or more if you’re in good financial shape and feeling generous. FSGW will skim a small percentage off the top to offset general expenses and administrative costs: registration and donations processing on the FSGW website, not to mention access to a couple of platinum Zoom accounts with all the bells and whistles. The balance will be reserved for the Lieberman/Olive Scholarship Fund to help attendees afford in-person Getaways next year and in the future.

Registration (required for security): https://www.fsgw.org/getaway

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-4
From: voyager
Date: 07 Sep 20 - 12:34 PM

Found the registration link -
Registration for Virtual FSGW Getaway (Oct 2-5)

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-4
From: voyager
Date: 07 Sep 20 - 11:16 AM

I'm there (great). My Getaway experiences date back to the mid '90s (Camp Letts). When will online registration be posted?

Thanks
voyager

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-4
From: Felipa
Date: 05 Sep 20 - 03:16 PM

Songs about dogs; there's a long Mudcat thread which could be plundered for that!

Like SussexCarole and co, my participation would be limited by the 5 hour difference in time zones. But most important, registration is supposed to open in early Sept and I don't see any info. on registration yet on the website.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-4
From: SussexCarole
Date: 05 Sep 20 - 11:47 AM

Yes - we will have wifi there. And just how appropriate - we will be staying in a wooden cabin by the side of river - just like Getaway.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-4
From: SussexCarole
Date: 05 Sep 20 - 11:31 AM

Wonderful. We'll be on holiday in North Wales so hopefully we will be able join in from there.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 online Oct 2-4
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Sep 20 - 07:44 PM

https://www.fsgw.org/getaway

The schedule is posted!

https://www.fsgw.org/Resources/Programs/Getaway/getaway%20schedule.html

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 postponed
From: Nancy King
Date: 19 May 20 - 10:37 PM

Hi Carole -- we'll keep you and Andrew in mind! And Severn, we know you'll be there, whatever the format.

And everybody else -- hope you'll join us! More details as they develop.

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 postponed
From: Severn
Date: 17 May 20 - 07:49 PM

It has become such an important part of our Year and life learning songs, making friends and creating stories that will be told in future years. I will miss it and plan for its return in any form....

Subject: RE: FSGW Getaway 2020 postponed
From: GUEST,SussexCarole
Date: 16 May 20 - 03:33 PM

A virtual Getaway sounds amazing. It would be wonderful to meet up with so many of our Getaway friends for a chat and song and whatever else you have planned. Please keep us in your planning loop Nancy

Subject: FSGW Getaway 2020 postponed
From: Nancy King
Date: 15 May 20 - 03:30 PM

It probably will not come as a great surprise to anyone that the Folklore Society of Greater Washington has been forced by circumstance to cancel our 2020 weekend. A huge disappointment, to be sure, but it seemed the right thing to do, as getting 140 or so folkies together in smallish spaces for group singing doesn't seem like a really good idea these days.

We do, however, plan to resume our annual gathering in 2021! We have reserved our usual site (West River Center on the Chesapeake Bay) for September 24-27, 2021, and we will urge all of you to join us! It's always wonderful, and I expect it will be even more so after a year's hiatus. More on 2021 in due course.

Meanwhile, we are planning and exploring the possibilities for a virtual, on-line Getaway this year, probably in early October. It won't be the same, of course, but it's the best we can do under the circumstances. Details are still being worked out, and you can be sure we will notify Mudcatters when we get it together. So watch for the Getaway news, and be sure to join in!