Old Songs Festival 2000 - Make your plans now

Subject: OLD SONGS FESTIVAL - Make your plans now
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 12:42 AM

Thought I might post the Old Songs Festival web address, so Mudcatters can start making plans to gather there again in late June. For those outside of the US northeast, it's a fine festival of folk music and dance held at the Altamont fair ground near Albany, New York. Here's the blue clicky thing to bookmark for future reference: OLD SONGS FESTIVAL. As always, I hope this works.

Sandy

Subject: RE: OLD SONGS FESTIVAL - Make your plans now
From: thosp
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 12:52 AM

sandy - do you have any plans for the Clearwater Festival?--- i believe that it is the week before

peace (Y) thosp

Subject: RE: OLD SONGS FESTIVAL - Make your plans now
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 01:27 AM

We've been at the past several Clearwaters, but may not make it this year. It's sort of up to my son, Robin, who has to do the heavy work of setting up the booth, etc. He got a bit festival'd out last year, I think. My plan would be to combine Folk-Legacy and Camsco into one great folk recordings booth. Hope we can do it.

Sandy

Subject: RE: OLD SONGS FESTIVAL - Make your plans now
From: georgeward
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 02:27 AM

Hey Sandy, On behalf of all of us laborers in the Old Songs vineyard (which is probably a sea of mud about now), thanks for the link. We've made it to twenty years of this festival, if the Good Lord says the same. Who'd a thunk ?

Subject: RE: OLD SONGS FESTIVAL - Make your plans now
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 04:19 AM

Sandy--

I notice that you and Caroline are official performers this year. I hope you won't be kept so busy singing official workshops and concerts that you won't be available for song-circles. Last year's late-Saturday-night sing-around in the Dutch Barn, once it shifted into informal gear, was a memorable exchange of songs, and I remember sitting around behind the Folk Legacy sales booth with other Mudcatters, cheerfully ignoring the acts on the Main Stage and having a wonderful time making music for and with each other.

I'm certainly planning on coming this year--the only question is how many of my Silver Spring neighbors I can drag up with me.

To anyone who hasn't been to Old Songs yet--this is the one festival to go to if you can only get to one. Not only is the music great (see their website for performers), but with two decades of experience, the logistics of the festival have been thought out and planned down to the most nuanced details--for eaxmple: seating at the mainstage by chair-types. And: the provision of late-night jamming areas for those who want to jam all night and early-evening quiet zones in the campground for those who need to sleep instead.

See you there.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: OLD SONGS FESTIVAL - Make your plans now
From: Midchuck
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 07:46 AM

Here's a little web page with some additional Old Songs photos, that our friend Dave Guertin, who went to Old Songs with us last year, and is a full-time computer geek for Middlebury College, snuck onto Middlebury's server. Don't tell anyone.

Peter

Subject: RE: OLD SONGS FESTIVAL - Make your plans now
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 10:52 AM

I'll be there, with or without bells on (depends on what else is going on when the morris dancers arrive!) Old Songs is the highlight of my summer, or at least of my late June.

Subject: RE: OLD SONGS FESTIVAL - Make your plans now
From: bbc
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 03:11 PM

I am sorry to say that Duane D. & I will most likely not be there this year. My son, davidmc24, is graduating from high school that weekend--an event not to be missed. We may very well be at Clearwater the week before.

bbc

Subject: RE: OLD SONGS FESTIVAL - Make your plans now
From: Paul G.
Date: 05 Mar 00 - 03:46 PM

I see that Kim and Reggie Harris are on the schedule this year -- I had the opportunity to spend some time with them at theis year's South Florida Folk Festival. Wonderful people, wonderful performers. Wish I could be there, but the road calls in another direction...

pg