Help: Where's the music in Florida?

Subject: Where's the music in Florida?
From: GUEST,el joeclone for 2feathers
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 09:30 PM

Transferring this to a more specifically named thread. Let's see if we can help 2feathers out, 'Catters. Thanks.
- el joeclone -

Subject: Where's the music?
From: 2feathers
Date: 06-Dec-00 - 07:03 PM

Leaving shortly for Florida. Hope there is a friendly music group in the area (singing, conviviality, a type of "generation bridge"- you know, "old folk, young folk, everbody come.") Location half way twixt WPB and Ft L. My winter will be all the warmer if I find some folkies.

Also, one response from the other thread:

Subject: RE: Help: Where's the music?
From: Sorcha
Date: 06-Dec-00 - 07:54 PM

If you will Personal Message one of the following, s/he may be able to help:
MoonJen
harpgirl
Abby Sales
There may be several others, I am not sure. It would have helped if your thread title had been something on the order of Music in Florida? Do you know how to PM?

Subject: RE: Help: Where's the music in Florida?
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 09:34 PM

2feathers, you can also see which Mudcatters live in Florida by going to the Quick Links, click on Mudcat Resources, then Go, then look for Mudcat Locator. Hope that helps,

kat

Subject: RE: Help: Where's the music in Florida?
From: harpgirl
Date: 06 Dec 00 - 09:46 PM

...2feathers...Broward Folk Club Singout in the Park 3rd Sunday 1-4 Secret Woods Nature Center Call Bill 1-954-832-0386
The club has alot of events.
There is a jam on some Sundays at the McArthur State Park on Singer Island. The Friday section of the newspapers lists folk events, as well.
Miami Folk Music Society, 2nd Saturday of each month contact Nellie Lee 1-305-279-8100. Hope that helps...hg

Subject: RE: Help: Where's the music in Florida?
From: Wesley S
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 10:49 AM

2feathers - I haven't lived in Florida for years but you might want to check out a site for the Friends of Florida Folk. They have a message board. It's at www.foff.org

Subject: RE: Help: Where's the music in Florida?
From: 2feathers
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 03:31 PM

Thanks all you mudcatters for your help. I WILL follow your source leads. Hope I can find the stuff closer to the retirement community I am in. Despite being young at heart, the realistically aging flesh resents traveling two hours in an evening (to and from) and reacts by wanting to fall asleep at the wheel. The folk in the community are nice, very nice, and there is a "singing" group, but they focus on nice stuff like Good Night Irene (Ledbetter, you'll live forever this way!) and You Are My Sunshine. I think they might get glassy eyed when asked about John Pryne, Bob Zentz, Bill Stains, the Saletans, Jean Redpath, Debbie McClatchy, Sally and/or Stan Rogers....enough of nostalgia....

Subject: RE: Help: Where's the music in Florida?
From: 2feathers
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 03:57 PM

harpgirl: those are good leads, especially the Sunday aaternoon in Broward County. I will contact Bill when I get south next week. THANKS Miami is too long a stretch unless I was sleeping over!

Subject: RE: Help: Where's the music in Florida?
From: 2feathers
Date: 07 Dec 00 - 04:22 PM

Wesley S.- this is true gold pay dirt! The foff.org heading "South" listed a large number of sites, and enough there to get me started. THANX

Still have to surf a few more of those leads. You are all wonderful people!

Subject: RE: Help: Where's the music in Florida?
From: Abby Sale
Date: 08 Dec 00 - 09:11 AM

2feathers did make a contact with me & I wish best of luck. I'm actually only responsible for all of Central Florida - Orlando area. I send out a detailed monthly listing of whats's "folk"ishly hapening here. Available to any. For the rest, as Wesley S gives above:

An application for FOFF membership & lots of details about Central and all-Florida folk events available at the Friends of Florida Folk (foff) WWW site at http://www.foff.org - Look for both "Continuing Events" & "Calendar" areas.

I don't know why my e-mail address isn't on the EMAIL page (it's okayed in my Membership) but if needed, it's Click to e-mail

Subject: RE: Help: Where's the music in Florida?
From: harpgirl
Date: 08 Dec 00 - 10:12 AM

...sorry I forgot to mention FoFF, which is where I got the listings...The org keeps us all communicating with the list, and the monthly listings of all folkish events in the land of flowers...

Subject: Mallory Square at sundown
From: Suffet
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 04:12 PM

Tuesday, February 20, 2001, a little before 6 PM. I make my way to what remains of Mallory Square just off Front and Duvall Streets in the northwest corner of Key West, Florida. The Hilton Resort and Marina have overtaken much of it, and the rest has been paved over so the endless phalanx of tourists can take in the tightrope walkers and fire-eating acts while buying tons of shlock souvenirs. Where is the Key West I had long heard about? The Iguana Man? The ghost of Ernest Hemmingway with his assortment of wives and mistresses? The old gay lovers holding hands in the sunset, knowing that at least here they would be safe from arrest? Maybe I'm naive, but I really expected to see Jimmy Buffett strolling on the beach with his guitar in one hand and a piña colada in the other. (Jimmy's lyrics to the contrary notwithstanding, down here the booze of choice is rum, not tequilla. Margaritaville is just the name of a high-priced bar he owns somewhere along Duvall!)

No matter. In a corner of the square I find a low brick wall to seat myself upon. Around me there are a handful of gents and one lady, all of whom appear to have seen better times. If this is all that remains of the old Key West, then I shall make the most of it. I take out my guitar and start off with _It Takes a Worried Man_ and then segué right into _Going Down This Road Feeling Bad_. My audience perks up. No one has played any songs for them in quite a while. One of the men asks, "Are you playing for money?"

"No," I quickly reply.

"Well that's good," he explains, "because we ain't got any!"

My next song is _San Francisco Bay Blues_. Then I do a request from the old man who said they didn't have any money. He asked, "Can you do _Stagger Lee_?" Damn, I wish they were all so easy! Now I am beginning to attract a crowd. The tourists are coming! The tourists are coming! My next number is a really loud one, _Hard Traveling_, followed in short order by _Rocky Top_, _Wreck of the Old 97_, and _Old Joe Clark_. Then I throw in an Irish tune, _Star of the County Down_, before attempting to end the impromptu set with _Rolling In My Sweet Baby's Arms__. But the crowd shouts "Encore!" and I oblige them with _Jesse James_ followed by _Billy the Kid_ followed by _Pretty Boy Floyd_.

Finally I'm exhausted and out of breath. I have to take a break. The tourists quickly melt away, but as they do one comes up to me and with some sort of European accent -- German or Austrian or Swiss perhaps -- offers me a five-dollar bill. I tell him, "Give it to my roadie," and I point to the old man who had requested _Stagger Lee_. The tourist complies with my request, and as soon as he is gone I signal the man to keep it. He thanks me.

Just then the sun finishes going down over the Gulf of Mexico. A loud cheer arises up and down the waterfront area. Someone nearby shouts, "Yea!" It's the one woman in the group. It seems she has a date tonight to share five dollars worth of rum.

Oh, the joys of being a real folksinger!

--- Steve

Subject: RE: Help: Where's the music in Florida?
From: paddymac
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 11:08 PM

Steve - since it's your story, and a grand one at that, i respectfully suggest you copy it into the current story thread, wher it will find an accessible home for posterity.