Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001

Subject: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: wysiwyg
Date: 01 May 01 - 09:52 AM

It appears that being in the middle of nowhere puts us in the center of a wide and wacky group of Mudcatters. We'd love to see more Mudcatters, more often, and get the most use out of this empty nest possible as long as Hardi and I serve the parish located in this lovely, almost-wild place.

So here's the thing. Hardiman and I jam once a month with our jam pals and anyone else who would like to be here. We will be expanding the number of local folks who join this, each month, as Hardiman and I get our hands on the good players we now feel able to jam with.

Guest space is now set for sleepovers, in the house and outside. Anyone who would like to keep a summer-long Mudcat Gathering going is welcome-- for the dates I will list below or anytime we are here. (Dharmabum will be around quite a bit over the summer, too, he says.) This thread can be a way of checking availability.

One thing that will make this work is if you came to (or wanted to come to) the Gathering just ended, reach out to the people you'd like to jam with and coordinate the dates you could coincide, here, and just let us know to expect you. And then check out the threads with all the stuff you need to know about making yourself at home with us, starting HERE. Follow links from there to a thread that preceded it and another that followed it. There is also a link to the local Chamber of Commerce to help you explain to your spouse why he or she wants to come along, and to see what might be here that your kids would enjoy when they aren't running amok in the midst of the music.

That front porch is mighty purty and cool in the summer, and the fireflies are so thick across the road you'd swear you could barbecue on the light.

Our jam usually gets underway about 7, and if we know you're coming we'll have supper waiting beforehand. Stay into the weekend if you want to join our Saturday Night Service pickup-band, too.

Here are the Fridays we anticipate doing some porch-pickin', and some things that may be going on at the same time:

May 18 (birthday cake!!), at our house.

June 15 (Laurel Festival!), maybe on the church porch, so festival-goers on the Green out front can wander over or hear us on the breeze. Or maybe in the church yard out back.

July 20 (afternoon canoeing at Hills Creek?), at our house.

August 17 (unless we are up at Camp near Lake Champlain!), at our house.

September 14 (second, not third Friday, due to sched conflict), at our house.

BUT AGAIN-- No need to wait for a jam Friday-- if you can head our way, anytime, please let us know!

(Click HERE to e-mail me.)

~Susan

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: wysiwyg
Date: 01 May 01 - 10:21 AM

Hahahahahhhh!!!!!

September 14 jam also coincides with this:

Northern Appalachian Storytelling Festival
Sept 13-16, 2001

"The Northern Appalachian Storytelling Festival (NASF) is celebrating our 21st anniversary with some new friends and a few old friends.... The Festival has earned a reputation as one of the top venues in the U.S.! We are the oldest storytelling festival held at a university in the U.S...."

Mudcatter Dan Keding has appeared at NASF in the past. More info HERE.

It's ten minutes from our house. Come for it all, come for a little, come for the week-- stay with us.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: Dharmabum
Date: 01 May 01 - 10:44 AM

Yes,the NASF sounds like a good one to do. I've been wanting to go for a couple of years now.

DB.

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: wysiwyg
Date: 01 May 01 - 10:56 AM

I messaged the NASF organizers to think about some potential overlapping fun, too, and PM'ed Dan Keding on it as well.

I totally missed Mansfield University's Seven-Stringband concert coming up this weekend when I planned the MudGather we just ended. (Old Timey and bluegrass.) The acoustic music stuff in Tioga County is so fragmented and news travels through odd word-of-mouth channels that we are just starting to be a part of... hardly anyone does advance publicity as we know it in today's marketing world, because that approach is just not culturally valid here.

If anyone will be up here this weekend, for info see www.mnsfld.edu-- there will be a link in the news section on a Jim Glimm memorial concert. We will probably miss it to hook up with Irish Sergeant at his Elmira civil war camp to see his new Civil War songbook. But the house is available if anyone wants to hit the stringband thing and be with us any over the weekend-- we'll get home late Friday night from Elmira. It would be great, DB, to go, just to hook up with the local players who will be involved and in attendance. Carry a guitar case and people will find YOU! Duh! Why didn't I think of that before!!!??? I musta been raised in a *(&*&&^^& barn!

But whoo-ee! What a summer it will be! Stuff the autoharp shoulder-bag with flyers and GO EVERYWHERE!

~Susan

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 02 May 01 - 11:47 AM

Thanks Sue: I will PM Also Neil

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: GUEST, Vestal Jande
Date: 03 May 01 - 11:37 AM

Hi Susan...

James and I are about an hour and a half away from you, in Candor, NY. I sorely wanted to come to your gathering this past weekend, and I'm cheered to know that there will be other opportunities.

There's some heavy stuff going down here at the moment, so I don't know when we'll be free to come, but when I get home tonight I'll print out the dates you gave above.

Thanks!

~ Jande

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 May 01 - 11:44 AM

Jande, e-mail me too, so I can get you on the notice list, OK?

Whatever is going on-- breathe.

~S~

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: Jande
Date: 04 May 01 - 12:24 AM

Susan... I'm breathin' I'm breathin'!

I'll email you soon...

~ Jande

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 May 01 - 12:26 AM

Yah, but deep and slow!

~S~

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 May 01 - 12:29 PM

Scroll up to the top of the thread if you have not alreay read the foregoing posts, please.

LATEST: Those unable to make the May 18 jam are invited to phone starting at 7PM to swap one or two via speakerphone. I'll post a thread that afternoon for signing up for time segments so people aren't stuck getting a busy the whole evening.

Wish this puder could do PalTalk. But with speakerphone we can all be hearing one another, I think. May mike up the speaker to make phoners louder too. Have to speriment a bit first. Phonaoke. Phone-a-Folkie. PhonFolkin'. FineFoneFolks. FFF. FolkinFone. "Hey somebuddy answer the Folkin' FONE!!!" FF. OK. Look for an FF thread May 18! I don't want to post the phone number in the thread so please PM me for it in advance if you do not have it. We will not be tending the thread once the jam gets started.

BIG CAT GATHERING IN SEPTEMBER? I am hearing from a lot of Catters that the September date coinciding with the storytelling festival may go big. Grab that calendar now and plan on being here! Pennsyltucky Swami Soozinanda say, "I see a Friday or Monday sick day in your future..."

FALL.October date not yet set but-- leaf-peeper season up here is awful pretty! Do you know about our Grand Canyon and our eagles riding the drafts?

~Susan

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: Burke
Date: 07 May 01 - 03:14 PM

If you have any chance at all of coming to the New York Sacred Harp convention in October don't do it Oct. 19.

I'm looking at the Sept. date. The storytelling sounds interesting.

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Jun 01 - 04:07 PM

June 15 (Laurel Festival!), we WILL be out on the church porch, so festival-goers on the Green out front can wander over or hear us on the breeze. Or maybe in the church yard out back. (See first posts FMI).

Be there or be square!

I know who you are.... I'm calling you.... come.... come.... come to us......

~S~

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Jun 01 - 12:29 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From:
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 08:56 PM

I just looked at this thread for the first time in several weeks, and it looks like I'll be able to make it this Friday, the 15th. I've got your previous detailed directions stashed away somwehere, but if you've got the ones to the church easily at hand, please e-mail them to me. Otherwise I'll dig around and find them. I'm looking forward to seeing you all. Greg.

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Jun 01 - 11:12 PM

GS-- Watch tomorrow's mail and remind me if we forget. We have a HUGE funeral being worked up for Sunday, and jamming Friday will be GREAT!!! But a busy week, so do remind me if I slip up.

Staying over? Coming alone? Big craft fest going on right in front of the church.

~S~

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Jun 01 - 11:52 PM

shazzam!

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Jun 01 - 02:29 AM

We had a great time.

Hogeye has a boodle of tunes in a binder and we learned a buncha new stuff. Sick twisted murders especially-- we had a creepy laugh over the "strange people one can meet on the Net....".

Dharma didn't make it, but we had me, Hardi, Ed, and Mike. Hogeye's mandolinning and fiddling were great, as well as his geetarring. Mike brought some tunes and we did the one we could reckanize enough to sing... "What a Day for a Daydream," courtesy of OLGA.

My folkbaby Katarina was here and discovered DANDELIONS and BIG YARDS on a soft summer night with sun casting those long June shadows... We took turns spending time with her, and Hardi took her on a yard ramble where she met NEW CATS! Leo the Awful actually liked her enough to sniff noses. Guess he likes his humans pint-size, if he must put up with us in his territory.

Katarina danced when the dance music came... BEST (IMO) was that she lit up and quivered all over in grins when we broke into the ones we had sung when she was fetally present several years ago... when we all first started to play together. Naturally, the tune was, NEVER GROW OLD.

I made skordalia,, a deliciously vile-tasting Greek concoction. Lefotver potatoes processed with garlic, vinegar, and olive oil. I added parsley and a hint of oregano, with a bit of salt. Mmmm, on sesame bagels!

We ended up staying home-- too hot to brave Laurel Festival traffic. Front porch was might purty and breezily cool after a muggy day of chores. And I got to try out, in "battle," my new portable autharp stand Hardi and I came up with. Now I can throw my walfker away, praise Jesus! *G* (I was using a walker as a stand, big yuks in the nursing homes!) We should take the walker so I can use it as a prop at our upcoming church gig, which Hogeye was kind enough to say he'd come back for. ("I'm HEALED!")

All that was missing was... YOU.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: Amergin
Date: 16 Jun 01 - 02:32 AM

one of these days, Susan, i will count myself lucky to meet you....but the problem is knowing when....

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Jun 01 - 02:41 AM

Dharma is coming tomorrow, I believe, and your song is up to be finished, 'gindear. *G*

If I save you some skordalia it will only smell worse and worse the longer you wait. *G*

Hey Nathan. Want a giggle? Ask Dharmabum (PM) what he wore last time he visited, and why. Tell him I told you to ask-- that you are authorized to KNOW. Just you. It's very funny what happened!

~S~

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: Dharmabum
Date: 16 Jun 01 - 08:01 AM

First time I ever got into one, and didn't get slapped!**BG**

Sorry I missed it last night, mired down here at the moment.

DB.

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Jun 01 - 11:01 AM

Well, we are on for the July date (see first post) and maybe for August, at our house.

Amenities now include that the catpee rugs are gone, but out back is the piece de resistance... nestled into the triangle in front of the corn crib, poised between all the pretty views, is a 12 x 18 foot screen room, and inside that is a 30" deep by 12' diameter sitting pool... with a few chairs scattered around it... and our breezy, cool front porch is all set for pickertunities.

Lemonade, sweet tea, anyone?

Bunch of people are also talking about the Canyon Country Bluegrass Festival July 14, a one-day event preceded by some Friday night jamming at the campground-- all ten minutes from here. Come on over if you are interested in that.

I am hearing from a lot of folks that the September date (which coincides with the storytelling festival) is likely to attract a lot of Mudcatters. Be there or be square. *G*

~Susan

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: MMario
Date: 29 Jun 01 - 11:07 AM

I am *not* awful. and I like big people too, after all I like *me*

Leo-thenotawfulcat

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Jun 01 - 11:13 AM

Yeah but do you lurk under bushes?

~S~

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: MMario
Date: 29 Jun 01 - 11:17 AM

if I tell you that I'll never get to see anything again, dang it!

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Jun 01 - 12:17 PM

Well your white paws and mustache would give you away anyhow. It's poor camo.

I'm just grateful you stopped spraying everywhere.

*G*

~S~

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Jul 01 - 12:27 PM

August 17 will be at our house. If we are going to be a day late getting back from vacation, and miss it, the key will be here under the control of one of our gang and he will host in our absence. Tenting will be fine in either event.

We are also on for September and please page up to read about the storytelling festival that will be on at the same time if you have not done so. I will check the festival's link closer to the event to be sure all is still current.

If none of this makes sense to you because you are new to these parts, read the thread from the top down-- it's all in here.

BTW, I see the site at the NASF link above now includes a constant weather forecast for our area. So if you aren't sure if it's too mountain-cold to tent, check that out.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Aug 01 - 09:56 AM

Naemanson will be here this evening if anyone can sneak over here.

September is just a month away-- who's coming? Page up for details, but the basics:

Mudcat Gathering plus Northern Appalachian Storytelling Festival
Sept 13-16, 2001

It looks like the work to repair the fire damage in the addition will be all done by then, and even if it is not, it is done enough now to use it. My plan is to leave its large downstairs room and large attic room (finished nice) open and unfurnished mostly, as a MudDorm. In warm months it will be wonderful. In cold months... we'll see. And of course there is tent space as well, and actual bedrooms (and Bert's couch) for those who need them.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: Dharmabum
Date: 20 Aug 01 - 12:15 PM

So far,the plan is to be there on the 13th.

Don't forget, Dave Van Ronk at the Wellsboro H.S. October 20th. I'll post more details as I get them.

DB.

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: MarkS
Date: 20 Aug 01 - 08:09 PM

Susan - If you put something together for the end of September, please send me a PM and let me know. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed the brief time I spent with you earlier this year. I would very much like to come again and maybe, just maybe, bring my lady.
Thanks
Mark

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: bill\sables
Date: 20 Aug 01 - 08:12 PM

Susan, are you doing anything after the Getaway?
Bill

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Aug 01 - 10:13 PM

Mark-- Anytime! Best would be you call Greg at his office. Set up a time for the four of us to have some time, maybe?

Bill-- Uh.... when's that again?

~Susan

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: MMario
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 12:24 PM

october 19,20,21,22

sadly (and I do mean sadly) I have rehearsals every weekend for the next month...I *might* depending on family committments etc - be heading south one day over Labor day weekend - but not sure. I currently have three places I "need" to be that weekend - and they are way too far apart!

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 12:46 PM

I'm sorry for your loss, dear.

~S~

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: MMario
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 12:56 PM

Wysiwyg - if I *can* make it down sometime Labor Day weekend I'll be in touch! Give the rubydooby-dooby a scritch fer me, and "hi!" to greg!

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 01:01 PM

OK. You know, come ahead any time. The camper is all set up.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Ongoing N. PA Mini-MudGathers 2001
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 02:43 PM

As far as FSGW, there is nothing specifically planned but if people wnated to be here before or after or both, that would be fine.

We are available as a space anytime, if anyone wants to form up the troops.

What we need to check out is how to heat the repaired addition well enough for a year-round MudDorm. As in, is there something that could be rented or purchased very cheaply that would be plugged in only when needed, that participants could chip in toward the cost of running it. Something that wouold not require ANY space modification, venting, etc., because we rent.

I thought we ought to call it the Mudcat Orphanage, BTW.

If we made that year-round, at least warm enough for sleeping, we could be a regular non-festival DIY mini-festival location. Like, weekend-long house-concert-gathers. With the church and its acoustics always there if things get big unexpectedly or if a large audience suddenly evolves.

~Susan