Great workshop..Seattle Folklife

Subject: Great workshop..Seattle Folklife
From:
Date: 24 May 01 - 11:53 PM

There is a workshop I heartily recommend (and humbly since I will be in it.) It is actually going to be songs of the Pacific Northwest, led by Jon Pfaff. However, it is under the schedule as songs of the 20s and 30s. Here is some info:

 The Historical Song workshop is Sunday @ 6pm in room IV, Mercer Forum. The panel of singers are: Kurt Liebezeit (Portland), Mary Garvey (Vancouver, WA), Me (Seattle), Linda Allen, (Bellingham), Zeke Hoskin ( on the road between Bellingham & Vancouver BC, and Brian Robertson (Vancouver BC);.

Like Jon said, a sterling lineup. Some awesome northwest talent there, and we in general have not done a great job exposing people to some of the songs of this recent, both recent and historical. So I encourage everyone to show up.

mg

Subject: RE: Great workshop..Seattle Folklife
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 25 May 01 - 06:12 PM

Wish I could, Jon and Mary. Please say hello to everyone for me.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Great workshop..Seattle Folklife
From: Art Thieme
Date: 26 May 01 - 12:47 AM

It'd be the perfect excuse to visit your lovely corner of the world. Wish I could be there too.

Art

Subject: RE: Great workshop..Seattle Folklife
From: Haruo
Date: 26 May 01 - 01:00 AM

Is there a charge for that? If not I might be able to show up. An excuse to leave work early Sunday. Any idea what sort of songs will be covered? "My Dreidl" by any chance? (Noticed it's in the Washington Centennial songbook.) How about "Quincyland, My Quincyland"? First Peoples' stuff perchance?

Liland

Subject: RE: Great workshop..Seattle Folklife
From: Haruo
Date: 27 May 01 - 02:06 PM

This fall will be the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Denny Party at Alki. Prompts me to ask, are there any genuine Seattle songs (not counting First People ones) that predate Acres of Clams?

Liland

Subject: RE: Great workshop..Seattle Folklife
From: GUEST,Mark Cohen
Date: 27 May 01 - 06:26 PM

You should ask Linda Allen of Bellingham, editor of "Washington Songs and Lore", and a sometime Mudcatter. Hey, maybe you guys could do my "Apple Maggot Quarantine Round"! Only Linda got the tune wrong in her book....

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Great workshop..Seattle Folklife
From: dr soul
Date: 28 May 01 - 01:04 AM

Hmm . . . Good question. What's a "genuine Seattle song"? The Museum of History (and Industry?)near the University of Washington should have background on who all were in the Denny par-tay. Were there any musicians on board? I imagine folks at the end of the Oregon trail sang spirituals, I'm sure some had a fiddle stashed in their kit. What was the status of folk music in 1850? I imagine the first Seattle music was probably in whatever the popular bag was, but it _would_ be interesting to know what the first song composed with a theme of "Seattle" might be - or about the rest of Washington state, for that matter ;)

Subject: RE: Great workshop..Seattle Folklife
From: Haruo
Date: 29 May 01 - 08:57 PM

It was a great workshop.

Nice to be able to put faces to some names (actually I'd seen Mary Garvey before, maybe in Mudcat Photos?).

Liland

Subject: RE: Great workshop..Seattle Folklife
From:
Date: 29 May 01 - 09:49 PM

perhaps you saw me on Baywatch...

anyway, workshop was great..whole festival was great...some ones I had never heard by Brian Robertson and Toby? someone from Astoria who writes great songs but I don't know much about him...then recent ones about the earthquake, WTO etc...more songs about NW history and industry rather than very old songs...which probably would have been either in Chinook or Swedish...mg

Subject: RE: Great workshop..Seattle Folklife
From: MAG (inactive)
Date: 30 May 01 - 01:50 PM

This thread started after I had left for the Fest or I would have caught it for sure. Sorry to have missed it. Wish the program had spelled it out in more detail.

Is there a post-fest thread here??

Subject: RE: Great workshop..Seattle Folklife
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 May 01 - 04:35 PM

Walt Robertson recorded a collection of Northwest Ballads - any relation to Brian Robertson?

Subject: RE: Great workshop..Seattle Folklife
From:
Date: 31 May 01 - 12:14 AM

post festival...it was great, as usual. Highlight for me was seeing Jill King...an awesome New Zealand singer now in B.C....

I doubt Walt and Brian are related.

mg

Subject: RE: Great workshop..Seattle Folklife
From: Deckman
Date: 31 May 01 - 11:16 PM

Walt Robertson had no sons. CHEERS Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: Great workshop..Seattle Folklife
From: Haruo
Date: 01 Jun 01 - 05:57 PM

Hey Mark, what's the right tune?

Liland

Subject: RE: Great workshop..Seattle Folklife
From: Haruo
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 07:28 PM

If you're following this thread, and/or if you're Mark Cohen or Linda Allen, please note my new Apple Maggot Quarantine Round thread. Thanks,

Liland