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Subject: Where was your first time From: Hawker Date: 20 Jul 01 - 05:12 PM No, this is not a thread about sex! I was just curious where you first sang / played / performed (musically, please!) in public? I thought it would be interesting and now I am trying to remember where I first performed..... it MUST have been at school, but I shall have to think very hard what it was! Lucy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: mousethief Date: 20 Jul 01 - 05:19 PM Probably something in Sunday School, which I was in in maybe 2nd or 3rd grade, but it's much, much too long ago to remember. After that it would be at the "Way Inn" coffehouse in the U district, Seattle, sometime in the 1980-1981 school year. Alex |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: GUEST,artbrooks@work Date: 20 Jul 01 - 05:19 PM Pretty sure it was in a (Lutheran) church choir...after which I got kicked out because my voice changed... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: DougR Date: 20 Jul 01 - 05:22 PM A contest at the local Fair and Livestock Show. I was probably around eight or nine years old, and I sang "Let Me Call You Sweetheart." I won second prize. First prize was won by the daughter of the guitar player that accompanied all the contestents. DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: CarolC Date: 20 Jul 01 - 05:24 PM You mean other than sessions? Probably playing the recorder in the O'Hurley's General Store Band as the opening act for Bryan Bowers. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: IvanB Date: 20 Jul 01 - 05:26 PM All through my youth I was told that I had sung 'Accentuate the Positive' with all the words and diction correct at family reunions around the age of 3 and 4. Hearing that in my teen years was a constant source of embarrassment to me, something akin to seeing a nude baby picture of myself. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Kim C Date: 20 Jul 01 - 05:49 PM Then it's not BS, is it! The first time I remember singing in public was in 1973, in the first-grade Christmas pageant, back when they used to allow that sort of thing in public school. I led "Silent Night," and I wore an angel costume made from a bedsheet and a coat hanger with tinsel wrapped around it. :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: katlaughing Date: 20 Jul 01 - 06:08 PM The first I truly remember was when Muffie Fulton and I were in second grade and we sang "I Don't Wanna Play In Your Yard" for a school talent show. Our moms made us matching gignham dresses with white pinafores and put our hair in braids with matching ribbons.:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: DancingMom Date: 20 Jul 01 - 06:13 PM My high school theatre production of "Brigadoon". Sharon |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Grab Date: 20 Jul 01 - 06:14 PM Everyone has to do school plays, don't they? So that'd be around age 7. Graham. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Mark Cohen Date: 20 Jul 01 - 06:17 PM Well, I was a first soprano in the All-Philadelphia Elementary School Boys' Choir in 1962, and we sang in Convention Hall. Whoa, it sure looks strange to see that in print: "I was a soprano"! Then I guess it would have been the 1983 Northwest Folklife Festival in Seattle, as one third of "Benson, Ingerson, and Cohen", one of those "ad hoc Folklife groups" which reappeared the following year as "Small Craft" and then vanished. Aloha, Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: running.hare Date: 20 Jul 01 - 06:20 PM apart from Nativity plays etc... my girst proper singing performance whould proberbly, be in my A-level group production of 'La Malade imaginaire' (sp??) by Molier. I played Angelique, who had to sing to her lover (who was desguised as a music teacher) In order to tell him how she realy felt, with out her father finding out what was going on! I was also given a prolge to sing, which was terifieing! any way this way nearly 2 yrs ago & doing that & continueing with the singing lessons has given me the confidence to sing in public a bit more. Now I just need to extend my repitoir a bit, ;¬) Hence I am here. I've been lurking a bit, but this is my 1st post, so If I've made any huge fopars, or my awful spelling anouse you I apologise now. *- Lizabee* |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: CarolC Date: 20 Jul 01 - 06:23 PM Welcome to the Mudcat, Lizabee! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Celtic Soul Date: 20 Jul 01 - 06:28 PM I first sang in front of an audience when I joined Jr. High chorus class lo these many moons past ;D The first time professionally was a lot later. I was all of about 22 or 23, and I sang madrigals at a festival. We got paid nada, really, but it was my first job singing under contract. Now, it's mostly folk music at festivals, coffee houses, parties, bars, and the like, and for a much better rate of pay.
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Hawker Date: 20 Jul 01 - 06:34 PM Hear Hear - Welcome Lizabee, thanks for the input! Great memories eh? I am still re-living all my childhood performances and trying to think which came first! Earlier when I posted this, I was going to say that my first folkie performance was 23rd July 1988, but that was of course the first time I played in the band in public. The first time I sang a folk song in public was around a year later, but maybe that's not true, for I am sure I have always sung traditional stuff with my family and friends at get togethers, but Wadebridge Folk Festival, Cornwall 1989 was my first in earnest as it were! My Grandfather was half Irish and always played traditional music - on his fiddle, which I have inherited, being the only grandchild with an interest in music. He did I believe have the habbit of playing it like a ukelele, I sadly was too young to remember him clearly, though I do have some reel to rell recordings of him singing and playing Potted history over! Cheers, Lucy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Amergin Date: 20 Jul 01 - 06:41 PM In a motel room.....oh you mean performing musically....how about poetically? In college, we would read our works to the class....and a few times I read out poetry in literature class...and started to love the feeling of every eye upon me.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Amos Date: 20 Jul 01 - 06:44 PM Aside from a couple of choir solos -- I think it was singing "The Auctioneer" in a talent show around sixth grade. Been saying too much, too fast ever since. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: CarolC Date: 20 Jul 01 - 06:52 PM I'm a little envious of those of you who grew up being comfortable with performing. Other than at sessions or playing with friends, I've probably performed in public less than a dozen times. The thought of performing petrifies me, and I probably wouldn't have even done it that many times had I not been roped into it. You people are very lucky. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Rick Fielding Date: 20 Jul 01 - 07:05 PM Hi Carol. My first time was at a high school auditorium. Sang Ewan macColl's "Springhill Mine Disaster". I had kind of the reverse situation as you. I was not a happy camper as a high school student, but the minute I got on that stage, I suddenly felt comfortable and relaxed. Weird, but accurate. Guess it had something to do with discovering MY world, rather than trying to fit into the "real" one. Rick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: CarolC Date: 20 Jul 01 - 07:13 PM *smile* I noticed that when I saw you on a stage or two, Rick. The stage does seem to be your home. And I think you make your audiences feel at home because of it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Chip2447 Date: 20 Jul 01 - 11:35 PM Still waiting to perform publicly. With a bit of luck I'll be ready for next ren fest season. Now, the big question is, will renfests be ready for me. Welcome aboard Lizabee. Chip2447 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Kaleea Date: 21 Jul 01 - 12:50 AM I was about 4 years old, and my mother had me stand on a chair to sing "Fairest Lord Jesus" as she accompanied me at the piano, for the Beams of Light Tabernacle in Sapulpa Oklahoma. I was accustomed to singing for the family (usually standing on a chair-perhaps she thought the breathing mechanism works better at highter altitudes?) and did not think this was anything unusual at the time. It was about the year *%#~! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Barbara Date: 21 Jul 01 - 01:51 AM Unless you count singing in the church choir, the first time I had a solo was in ninth grade and I had to sing four lines at the end of "Moon River" (or "Mooon Ribah", as our choir director directed us to say). I expect it was pretty excruciating, but, once I got the bit in my teeth, I ran with it. Just think of all those lucky guys in college who, on their first date with me, got to listen to several hours of me singing along with my guitar... "He came from his palace grand/He came to my cottage door..." Dunno why so few of 'em stuck around... Blessings, Barbara |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Mr Red Date: 21 Jul 01 - 04:42 AM Somers Arms, Leigh Sinton nr Malvern, when the Somers FC was still there.<>1983 in a duet with Sylvie Beckenham shanty "In Amsterdam there Lived a Maid" it would have to be a Fri (club night) in October being the first time it was the hardest. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: John P Date: 21 Jul 01 - 09:56 AM When I was 15, in a rock band at a school dance. Yikes! That means I've been a performing musician for 31 years. I ought to be better at it by now. CarolC, sorry to hear about the stage fright. I get that sometimes, mostly when I'm doing material I'm a little unsure of and there are musicians I respect in the audience. But 99% of the time it's not a problem. I've known people who got over chronic stage fright by just performing a lot, but there are also musicians who never get past it, no matter how often they get up on stage. Come out and visit sometime, we'll put together a very small gathering of very warm and accepting Mudcat folks for you to perform for in the living room . . . John Peekstok |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Brían Date: 21 Jul 01 - 10:43 AM I was avoiding this thread because the heading looked too much like many I was sorry for wandering into lately. I'd be glad to tell of my first public performance. We had an all-school talent show where everyone was asked to get up and perform something. I sang a medley of Irish children's songs I learned off a Clancy Brother's album:A MAN OF DOUBLE DEED, WALLFLOWERS, AHEM, AHEM, SHELLICKY BOOKEY, A BIG SHIP SAILING. I believe the teacher may have nixed some rebel song. The troubled were resurging and there were descendants of Ulster Orange stock in the school(rural New England)and was asked not to sing that **** around here(no further comment). I remember sweating so bad I thought I was going to melt away completely on stage. I also remember the seemingly deafening applause I got after I finished and the requests I got to sing on the bus for weeks afterward. I didn't realise until the day of the performance that I was to be one of the few people to get up and sing(as opposed to lip-synching with a record). I still get stage fright when I have to perform, but it goes away when I start singing. Brían |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: CarolC Date: 21 Jul 01 - 04:19 PM Thanks John P! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Charley Noble Date: 22 Jul 01 - 12:52 PM Well, this thread turns out to be a pleasant surprise! My fist "professional" performance was when I was escaping for a weekend from reconaissance geology mapping in deepest darkest Maine at the age of 20. I had my Stewart 5-string banjo, a sleeping bag, and a ice chest of fried chicken and had camped out at some small lake near Guilford (somewhere near Moosehead Lake). At some point I gathered up the courage to approach two lovely teenaged girls who were camping nearby, and regaled them with renditions of Sloop John B and Tom Duly, upon which they suggested we meet later that evening at a local roadhouse which I did but surprisingly they never appeared. Tragic. However, the bartender, noticing my banjo, suggested I play a few songs for those who were lined up at the bar. So I did a medly of Appalachian songs I'd learned from Obray Ramsey: Rain & Snow, Wild Bill Jones, and Poor Ellen Smith. There was even some applause and much to my amazement a glass of bourbon appeared and...well, I didn't know David Dodson's song "I Was Right, I was Wrong All Along" at the time so I swigged it down. I don't remember what happened next but I'm sure my playing deteriorated. Thanks for the memory!;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Jande Date: 22 Jul 01 - 02:55 PM Nice thread! Sang a solo rendition of O little Town Of Bethlehem at a local church's Christmas Pageant at the age of 6 or 7. I closed the show and got a thunderous applause, which for some reason both pleased and embarrassed me. The strange thing is that I had been waiting for this for months, but it was almost a disaster. My parents, who were not churchgoers, had bought me a new red velvet dress for the occasion. They'd had my hair curled and tied up with red velvet ribbons. I wore shiney black patent-leather shoes. When we walked into the church at 7 pm I was crisp and rosy and ready to perform. By 9 pm I was exhausted, bedraggled and dissappointed. No-one had called my name to perform. I think I started crying a bit, and one of the monitors noticed and asked what was wrong. My parents explained in rather irritated and embarrassed voices that I was supposed to be performing that evening, but that the last performance was happening at that very moment. The monitor was very kind. She took me by the hand, dried my tears, retied my ribbons, and led me to the front of the church, then announced, just as people were standing up to leave, that there was one more performance and something about saving the best for the last. Everyone sat down again and waited. Since they had forgotten about me there was no music, so I sang without accompaniment. I was still feeling quite hurt and sorry for myself before I started singing, but it all melted away once I got started. I loved the song. That experience is as vivid to me today as it was then, Thanks for the opportunity to relive it by sharing it! ~ Jande |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Suffet Date: 22 Jul 01 - 03:03 PM Camp Towanda, Honesdale, PA. Summer 1958. Back-up singer on "Hard Ain't It Hard" and "Jesse James" choruses in talent show. No big deal, but that's the earliest I can recall. --- Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Naemanson Date: 22 Jul 01 - 03:12 PM Well, my first time must have been in Junior High Band playing the trumpet. Never cared for that, too little so I took up the sousaphone in High School. I first ever singing gig was at the same place I'll be singing this afternoon, the Portland Observatory. I get a little confused though, it might have been at a little Saint Patrick's Day concert at the Swedenborgian Church in Portland. It was definitely one of those places... unless it was... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Metchosin Date: 22 Jul 01 - 04:27 PM My first time was in 1952 in Grade 1 at the Strawberry Vale Elementary School Christmas Concert, when I played xylophone in a rhythm band. We performed the Syncopated Waltz and I got to do the last 2 notes of each bar. Apparently it made my parents extemely nervous, because unlike the other children, who seemed to demonstrate considerable concentration regarding each of their parts, I spent my time rubbernecking the whole time and appeared not to be paying attention to what was going on, but I never missed a beat when it came to my turn or plunked a wrong note.
In Grade 4, I got the solo singing part at another Christmas Concert of: In Grade 6 I played Allegany Moon on the piano for the school. I don't recall that as a pleasant experience either.
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Metchosin Date: 22 Jul 01 - 04:38 PM Oh, Oh! I just remember another, although not really public. Every Christmas, when I was small, my Uncle would have my cousin and I stand on a stool and sing to a large family gathering. I particularly remember we did a really great renditions of Mr. Sandman, I've Got a Loverly Bunch of Coconuts and Your Baby Has Fallen Down Plughole. I really enjoyed that stuff, we got to choose our pieces and always got a quarter for our efforts. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Metchosin Date: 22 Jul 01 - 04:48 PM ahhhh!....Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum, bum bum bum bum Bum! Mr Sandman....thanks for the memories... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: kendall Date: 22 Jul 01 - 08:19 PM My very first was in a school play somewhere around the age of 5 to 7. Had to sing a ditty. I LIKE TO SEE THE TRAFFIC COP, I LIKE TO SEE HIM STAND, AND SHOW THE PEOPLE WHERE TO GO BY MOVING JUST HIS HAND. I remember thinking at the time, "What is a traffic"? I was raised in a very rural area with no more than a dozen cars in the whole village. My first paid gig was for the Knighs of Pythias in 1951. Three dollars for two songs, got hooked right there! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Gypsy Date: 22 Jul 01 - 09:30 PM Well, twas at church. The power had gone down AGAIN, it was holiday time, and the sanctuary was like the proverbial tomb. So, we went into the recreation hall (big windows, solar heat) and i felt smug that my hammer dulcimer didn't need electricity. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Gervase Date: 23 Jul 01 - 08:22 AM Loads of times at school - but the m ost memorable was when I was 11 and had to sing for the first time at Covent Garden. No - it wasn't anything grand - merely that our school used to be in the pool that provided kids for juvenile choruses in their operas, and I got picked a few times for a chorus part. My abiding memory of the place was the canteen, where these hefty cockney women (whose husbands were generally working in the fruit and veg market) would serve up vast portions of egg and chips and fuss over us like mother hens. The first opera for us was Taverner by Peter Maxwell Davies - and to an 11-year-old it sounded 'orrible. We had to learn a chorus in Latin to be sung while we capered across the stage, half naked, covered in red, white and black bodypaint and wielding rubber tridents. As we came on, the male lead would be taking apart a life-sized statue of the Virgin Mary and removing her entrails - lengths of cloth-covered foam rubber like a giant string of sausages. Offputting? Only the first time, and thereafter we just treated the roles as fairly routine; preferring the larking around backstage and the canteen to the performances themselves. I only saw the whole opera thorugh once, and that was because I chose to and could arrange to be picked up at the end by my parents - otherwise we arrived after school, got costumed and painted, stuffed our faces and then did five minutes on stage before trooping off, scrubbing up and going home. The biggest problem was a few of the members of the male (adult) chorus, who would find pressing reasons to visit the showers when we tried to scrub off the body-paint (the red stuff stained for days and made us look as if we'd been beaten). Then the battleaxes from the canteen would spring into action, emerging from where they'd been keeping a motherly eye on us and ordering the chorus boys out of the showers - "g'warn, piss off you old pooves! Honestly - leave the bleedin' kids alone!". We were ferried everywhere by a minibus driver with one leg and the most awesome command of filth and invective even I had seen (and my father was legendary). Driving to and from the opera house we'd be kept entertained by his opinions of every other driver on the road and his inept crashing through the gears like a rhino with Tourette's. Someone was carsick every journey, so we'd always have the windows open, heads sticking out and abusing passers-by while Tony the driver told the angelic choir of 11-year-olds to "F***ing sit down, yer little c***s, or I'll cut yer b******s off wiv a rusty breadknife!" Highlight of the Taverner run was that Radio3 broadcast it, so I ended up with a cheque for £15. Otherwise it was all done for love and the fun of it - and because Miss Povey had said we should regard it as a great honour (though I suppose the school trousered a fee for providing us lil' darlings). Other operas we did included Turandot and Carmen, but none was as fun as the awful Taverner. And then my voice broke, and now I sing like a file crossed with a fog-horn. No more Covent Garden for me! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Bat Goddess Date: 23 Jul 01 - 11:33 AM As a singer, probably when I was 8 or 9 and Judy Miller (my next door neighbor) and I were the "featured" solo-togetherists in the Greenfield Park Lutheran Church Junior Choir in West Allis (west 'burb of Milwaukee), Wisconsin. Judy and I could always be counted on to show off. Sang at church services and funerals. First time I ever read/performed (had instrumental backup) my poetry was a coffee house in Milwaukee when I came back to visit in the early '70s. My (now) ex-husband and I never really performed (Peter Paul & Mary, Joan Baez, Judy Collins & Phil Ochs repertoire) in the '70s because we didn't like to learn the same material. (This was indicative of the way the marriage went, too.) I started performing with Curmudgeon fairly early in the '80s at The White Horse Pub in North Conway and at the Press Room, of course, in Portsmouth, NH -- I just ran across my calendar notation of when I first got paid for singing with the group. (I think it was either for Friends of Odiorne or the Gundalow Project.) Bat Goddess
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Don Firth Date: 23 Jul 01 - 01:35 PM I guess I started a bit late compared to some people here. I first started singing at songfests and parties when I was about 22 (this was in 1953). Walt Robertson occasionally took me along when he had a performance to do, and a couple of times (at house concerts) he had me sing a few songs. But I had the security of his being there to smooth things over if I blew it. Dick Landberg, another friend of mine and I used to do occasional programs at hospitals and retirement homes, for audiences of maybe thirty or forty. At the time, neither Dick nor I had very large repertoires, but between the two of us, we could cobble together a reasonable program. My first time to really go solo was at a hospital in Denver, where I was undergoing physical therapy. They decided to have a "talent show" in the dining room and could I do, maybe, three or four songs? Sure, I said. I thought there would be an audience of thirty or forty at most, but when I walked in, I discovered that they had pushed all the tables against the walls and set the chairs up in rows. Patients, doctors, staff, and some visitors were all there -- about 250 altogether! My hands were trembling so bad I could hardly play the accompaniment to my first song, but I managed to blunder through and got a good round of applause. After I did the next two songs, they wanted an encore! I wasn't going to be lynched after all! I discovered that singing and getting applause for it is highly addictive. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Firecat Date: 23 Jul 01 - 03:42 PM I can't actually remember!! I've been performing in public for about 12/13 years which would make me about 4 or 5 when I first performed. Mind you, I have been on the folk scene all my life!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Hawker Date: 23 Jul 01 - 06:52 PM What lovely stories! My six year old folk baby, Amber, just had her debut performance tonight, at the end of term concert, she played her first ever violin solo......Twinkle twinkle little star.......And she was a little star and my how she sparkled! (but then, I am biased) - and wasn't there a big lump in my throat! I hope she'll look back on it fondly in years to come - I know I will! cheers, Lucy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Charley Noble Date: 23 Jul 01 - 08:14 PM Maybe this thread will still be refreshing! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: GUEST Date: 23 Jul 01 - 08:44 PM Hi, y'all! Apart from entertaining people on a bus with the bus microphone when I was 8 (they wanted me to tour guide, but I was just happy to sing!)and doing the odd song at school, the first real time I performed publicly was in '97 in a pub in Alice Springs (central Australia). The pub was called 'Bojangles' and I had a regular Wednesday night gig there when they would pay me in Guiness. Just me and my guitar, a huge Alice Springs Hospital crowd (I worked in the hospital) and some tourists. It was great fun. I would never have had the guts to do that in Sydney! Finny. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Gypsy Date: 23 Jul 01 - 10:13 PM Don, you weren't all that late. My first was in my mid thirties! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Peter Kasin Date: 23 Jul 01 - 10:43 PM My first time singing in public was when I was in high school. We had a madrigal group, and the members decided one day after school to take our music to unusual places, so we sang in a cavernous bus terminal for the commuters. The people waiting in line enjoyed it, but we were chased out by the transit terminal's anti-madrigal tactical squad. I think we went and sang in a laundromat after that, though my memory of that is fuzzy. That was in 1971, my senior year. My first time leading a song solo was in 1990, soon after I started attending the monthly chantey sings at the Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco. Celeste Bernardo was the ranger running the sings then. I'll never forget how newbies were encouraged to sing, and now that the tables are turned - I'm now a ranger there and am hosting the sings - I'm glad to see others come out of their musical shell and begin to sing. -chanteyranger |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: FriendlyFinny Date: 23 Jul 01 - 11:14 PM Wow, that's really great! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Benjamin Date: 24 Jul 01 - 12:07 AM I played y first recital when I was 7. I played Twinkle Twinkle on the violin (accompanied by my teacher on piano). Thanks to my mom for saving the program. Benjamin |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: JudeL Date: 24 Jul 01 - 05:20 AM If we are counting for family, church and school, I can't remember a time when I didn't sing for others. I don't know if they do it any more but, at the time I grew up in Wales, once a year most schools had a school eisteddfod, where everyone was expected to participate. The participation might not be exactly musical, it might be choral speaking ( a sort of group recitation ) or providing sound effects but everyone had to do something. Going on stage didn't seem like such a big deal since everyone did it. I was also in school choirs and choral groups, almost from the day I first went to school. Since we kept going to perform for local old people's homes etc it meant every now and then we had a legit reason to miss lessons! But the first time I sang in a folk club would have been in the New Inn on Tottenham Court Road some 20 years ago. I think I sang All Around My Hat (a song which I still sing). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: JohnB Date: 24 Jul 01 - 06:31 AM Church pantomime at age 11, in the chorus (with right arm in a cast due to a broken wrist) we played 3/4 different parts and sang I think in two. I still remember the market place song. It was Sindbad the Sailor and my sister was Principal Boy. After that about 16/17 sang in a couple of small folk clubs with a friend, everyone told me to lose my friend. Also in a social studies class at college, must have had real balls back then. After that a really big performing hiatus until about 36 years old I joined a local choir. That eventually lead to me forming an a cappella octet when I was about 42 we sang all over the place for about 8 years, medieval festivals, ren fairs, all sorts. We folded this year. I now have a trio doing mainly TRAD British stuff. Pity about that hiatus. To get over the nerve bit CarolC, try always starting your set with a piece you know down cold, inside out and backwards. After that first dose of clap from the audience you will be away to the races. They will have to drag you off kicking and screaming. JohnB |
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Subject: RE: BS: Where was your first time From: Sarah the flute Date: 24 Jul 01 - 06:49 AM Folk wise it was on the whistle in a folk club in Norway 1979 called Jeppes with my big sister playing the zither. This was my epic European interail student tour. Singing must have been at the Oast House Folk Club in Rainham Kent circa 1980 and I guess I've been performing ever since!!! |