Canal Catters

Subject: Canal Catters UK
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 04:27 AM

Canal Catters? Are there any out there? Canal side Folk Clubs/Open Mike sessions etc.?? Where are they?

Pls help? :-)

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: GUEST,Don Meixner
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 08:41 AM

Which Canal? Erie? Panama? Auditory?

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Charley Noble
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 09:54 AM

Elementry!;-)

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 11:09 AM

There is a canal catter- my mate White Dove who is hovering on her boat somewhere in Cheshire. I am sure she would be delighted to hear of any folk clubs that are near canals as I beleive she is intending to move around a bit!

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: sledge
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 11:17 AM

If the journy can be made by Narrow boat, the White horse folk club in Banbury is based at the Mill arts centre, right next to the canal.

Sledge

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 12:41 PM

The Jug at Chapel Haddlesey backs onto the River Aire, not the navigation, as there is a weir just downstream, but the branch of river is accessible, and at various times boat have moored beyond the end of the beer garden!
Mudcatters are always made welcome by Syd and Val.
Quack!

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Mr Red
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 04:51 PM

The Boat at Ashleworth on the the river Severn Tues once a month. The same sessionists gather at the Village Inn in Twynning on another Tues (Avon), both in the Tewkesbury area. The Somers TFC is right by a canal in Worcester near the Diglis Basin (Fri). Pershore and Eckington on the Avon have sessions.
Don't Tim van Eyken, and Nancy Kerr and James Fagan live on narrow boats?

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Mr Red
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 04:54 PM

Derek & MAry run the Folk 'n good Music day at the Mill in Banbury and live on the "Rosy & Jim" moored at Fenny Compton.
details at www.rideacockhorse.co.uk

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Mr Red
Date: 13 Aug 01 - 04:56 PM

for Rosie & Jim read "Just William"
ca't think my fingers won't talk properly.

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 06:51 AM

Hi Guys.... Hi Ickle!!!Hi Mr.Red...we just got our boat from Nantwich...being the week b4 The Nantwich Festival we stayed on and saw Tim van Eyken,Nancy Kerr and James Fagan. A class act indeed!

Ickle..mate!...I am currently moored on the Calden near to The Trent and Mersey. ie Stoke on Trent. And yes.help finding Folky pubs and Clubs nearby would be good.

Hello Geoff, I will bump into you at Whitby no doubt.

White Dove

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: White Dove
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 10:57 AM

I am writing this 4 no other reason than to see if I am now a fully fledged Muddy person. Being the computer nerd that I am I puddled up my login stuff, and now thanx to the help team here I hope I will no longer sign in as Guest!!

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 11:06 AM

Mudcatter Lanfair (Bron) had a summer gig last year performing on the dayboats from Welshpool on the canal there, don't know if she's doing it again this year. (Too busy with sheepskins and trips to "foreign" parts lie Yorkshire, I expect!).
RtS ("did" the canal du Midi myself once with family, but I was the only entertainment. I was so bad, even I jumped ashore)

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: GUEST,Rana
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 11:30 AM

Was back "home" in Brum couple of weeks ago. Enjoyed the city centre canal area (formerly Gas Street basin, I think). Anyway there are some nice pubs, one in particular is the Fox and Fiddle (which has a water bus stop outside it). Started by 2 members of the City of Birmingham Symphony orchestra, it features either folk or jazz every night (free I believe). Was also impressed by the Friday 5 pm jazz (great artists) and a free buffet.

Cheers Rana

PS the only other music I caught was Dick Gaughan and Brian McNeill in the pouring rain at the MAC, plus a couple of village stops on the Monday night dance outs with St. Albans Morris Men.

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 11:40 AM

Ahh,Rana, memories....I used to be a regular at the Opposite Lock jazz club in Gas Street (probably no more) before the area was yuppified...and before I was deported to the South in 1970
Now I only get there to see Aged P and never have time to get to city centre.
RtS

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: shankmac
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 11:43 AM

Middlewich Folk and Boat Festival is a cracker. It is usually on the middle weekend of June. It was reduced in size this year due to FMD but is well worth looking out for next year. Kings Lock Pub also worth a visit and might find music.

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: White Dove
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 11:58 AM

THanks Shankmac....I will deffinatley put Middlewich Fest on my list for next year...I just passed The Kings Lock.Wil check out the music.

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Marymac90
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 12:36 PM

Well, White Dove, let me be the first to welcome you to full-fledged Mudcatdom!!! You're a member!!!

And it's so interesting to read about folks (folkies!) living on boats, and travelling about on canals!!! I grew up not too far from the New York State Barge Canal, which still had working locks, and was a successor to the Erie Canal. Around here we have the Manyunk Canal, and its towpath has been converted into a bike- and skate-path.

I have known people who worked on big boats or ships, or who played on sailboats (large or small) or canoes, but I've never known anyone who lived on their own canal boat!

Marymac

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Willie-O
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 12:57 PM

wey-ell, I've been playing off and on for over a year at the Yellow Canoe Cafe in Merrickville, right beside the Merrickville lock on the Rideau Canal. Piles of boats moored there waiting to lock through, or whatever it is they're doing--I'm not sure what, cause hardly any of them have ever ventured over to the cafe!

Probably my last gig there is Sept 1.

I played on a (replica) Durham boat once, which was going up and down the Rideau, mostly in Ottawa, all summer. Durham boats being an early-19th century settlers' people-and-goods conveyance. Saw the boat again a couple of years ago, now belongs to a Scout troop.

Hard on the beech oar...
Hoisted her upon the mast as a signal of distress
I scarecely think we'll get a drink...

Willie-O

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Llanfair
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 03:35 PM

Are you living on the boat, White Dove? or on holiday? You are travelling through the area that I used to live in, Middlewich, Wrenbury,Nantwich.
We haven't been asked to do the canal stuff this year, but F&M has affected the boats as well.
Cheers, Bron.

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: White Dove
Date: 22 Aug 01 - 12:46 AM

Hi Marymac, Thanx for the welcome... and Llanfair...yes I plan living on my boat most of the time and hoping to find new folkie friends along the way. ..and hopfully more Canal Catters. The response here is great and all the info is appreciated. Thanx

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: White Dove
Date: 22 Aug 01 - 05:06 PM

Willie-0......thanks for the lil ditty..any other canal boat folk songs would be appreciated.

:-))

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: White Dove
Date: 22 Aug 01 - 05:07 PM

Willie-0......thanks for the lil ditty..any other canal boat folk songs would be appreciated.

:-))

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Gareth
Date: 22 Aug 01 - 06:34 PM

With luck, the sloop "Marie Llewllyn" should be back in the water next year. Any folk venues on the creeks and shores of the London River, Kent and Essex Coasts and creeks. Sorry canals are out due to draught and air draught constrictions.

Gareth

Subject: RE: Canal Muddy people
From: GUEST,White Dove
Date: 16 Jul 03 - 06:21 AM

I resurected this thread. One year on and still afloat and now looking for other folkie boaters on the Shroppie Canal for the summer. I have been told the Anchor at High Offley is a great music venue. Woodies at Mkt Drayton on tues..been having a sing or two there with eats tooooo!
Lord Cumbermere on a Monday...

Helloooooooo to all Hull Muddies

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 16 Jul 03 - 06:36 AM

Helooo,white,dove.john

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Raggytash
Date: 16 Jul 03 - 08:25 AM

Hello Roz, how's tricks, haven't heard or seen you in yonks, glad to know you're almost fit and well, saw the thread about Whitby. See you there for a time. Any room on your boat for one in Shropshire, haven't been down there for years

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jul 03 - 08:39 AM

If you want a piece of US history -- the American Canadian Caribbean Line, a small boat company out of Warren, RI -- actually cruises the Erie Canal, Albany to the lake. Actually the entire cruise is from Warren to the Sangunay in Canada and even out into the Bay of the St. Lawrence, via the Hudson River, the Erie Canal, Lake Oswego, the St. Lawrence Seaway, Montreal, Quebec, and you disembark in Montreal for a trip either home or by bus back to Warren.

I've done it, it's lovely. In the Fall it's particularily nice.

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: greg stephens
Date: 16 Jul 03 - 11:47 AM

you'll often see me at the red lion, market .drayton session on a Wdnesday. Lord Combermere, Auddddddlem, on a Monday normally has the oddd boatie musian in too.

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Leadfingers
Date: 16 Jul 03 - 01:45 PM

Any Boaters heading up or down the Thames might be interested in the Ferry at Cookham,right by the road bridge.Maidenhead Folk Club meets
there every Thursday evening and there is good mooring at the pub.

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: AggieD
Date: 16 Jul 03 - 06:15 PM

I'm another Canal Catter. We may be heading up th Shroppie later on in the year, possibly September, & probably heading up to the Trent & Mersey via the Coventry next week.

Anyone seeing NB Damascena, give us a wave & let us know that you're a Mudcatter.

AggieD

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: GUEST,White Dove
Date: 08 Aug 03 - 07:56 AM

Hi John see you in Hull soon maybe after Whitby

Hi Raggy...hows the family??? Maybe I will get up the Huddersfield sometime and call in for a coffeeeee!

Greg we must have met...pop in to Woodies on a tuesday ok...

Hi Aggie, will look out for Damascena...late Sept

Anymore canal catters out there????

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: mooman
Date: 08 Aug 03 - 08:38 AM

Living on a canal barge or long boat is my ultimate dream and if anyone can offer advice (not urgent) on the pros and cons and dos and don'ts, I'd be most appreciative! I live in Belgium now but when our daughter is off to university we may move back to the UK or Ireland.

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: greg stephens
Date: 08 Aug 03 - 08:39 AM

Last Christmas saw good sessions along the Caldon--Foaming Quart, Norton, Holly Bush in Denford, and Black Lion, Consall Forge.
White Dove, where are you next week(Aug 11). may be Trent and Merseying Chehire. And surely we've met, what do you play/sing?

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: greg stephens
Date: 08 Aug 03 - 08:43 AM

mooman
want to buy a narrow boat? Have a little spin? Examine some canal-side hostelries? PM me.

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: mooman
Date: 08 Aug 03 - 08:46 AM

Dear Greg,

Thanks for the offer! I might just take you up on that!

Peace,

moo

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: greg stephens
Date: 08 Aug 03 - 09:02 AM

White Dove, where are you right now? PM me if you do not wish this info publicly broadcast.(when I say now, I mean more like where are you mooring up tonight?Or soonish? Looks like a bit of music might be called for.

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 08 Aug 03 - 03:35 PM

White Dove are you well! Seems ages since we spoke-let me know when you are in Hull.

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Harry Basnett
Date: 08 Aug 03 - 04:45 PM

The Open Door folk club is based at the Railway and Linnet pub by the Rochdale Canal (Sunday nights)...the Linnet part of the pub name comes from the Linnet Lock (Lock 64) on the canal...24 hour mooring at the Rose of Lancaster which is nearby.

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: GUEST,John J...notaguest
Date: 09 Aug 03 - 06:06 AM

The Anchor Inn, High Offley, near Woodseaves, Staffordshire. Excellent for beer, singing and music.

JJ

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: GUEST,White Dove
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 06:49 AM

...sorry I seem to be here one minute and not the next..but getting on line is quite tricky..thanx 4 all the messages

I am back in Hull till end of Sept, then heading North again.
Raggy...get in touch I may need someone who is a whole lot fitter than I am right now. Have you heard from Russ or Derek lately???

Greg...we must have met I should think? Jon??Hi! Saw Steve a couple of weeks back at The Anchor? Good session Do you know him?

Hiya Linda Girlllllllllliiiiiiieeeeeee! I thought you had abandonned meeeeee! You are doing great I hope :-)
May catch up next Thurs at Jons thingy if I am up to it ok?????

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Raggytash
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 06:52 AM

Wilkes Head in Leeks on Sunday 6th September has an all day extravaganza, real ales by the bucket full and a looney landlord

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Mr Happy
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 07:21 AM

hi roz- long see no time!- u seemed to have sailed off edge of world- c u next time you're round our parts!

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: GUEST,IanN
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 08:55 AM

The original post mentioned Cheshire............

Don't forget the Middlewich Folk & Boat Festival in June - there are a lot of boaters at that! The festival also runs monthly sessions at the Boars Head on the 2nd Saturday every month and periodic concerts of various types throughout the year - see www.middlewichdfestival.org

The Salt Town Poets also host Middlewich Open Mike Night (MOM) on the 3rd Wednesday every month at the Boar's Head (next one is on 17th Sep) - see www.salttownpoets.co.uk

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 09:18 AM

Raggy - If I'm on my boat, I expect my real ale by the Buckby Can Full.

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 09:31 AM

BTW - I'm surprised that Breezy hasn't come in on this thread - he doesn't usually miss a chance to plug one of his sessions, but the "White Bear" at Rickmansworth is right by the GU at Batchworth.

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Mr Red
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 01:47 PM

The Boat at Ashleworth is on the River Severn (probably 4th Tues but they don't like too much publicity because of PEL and room size)

Stourport >nr canal -Bird in Hand *pub 01299 822385 -- 2nd Fri I am told it is easier to get to from the canal.
Dabbers Natwhich is (was?) not too far from water.
Albion near Diglis Basin Worcester has 2/4th Thur and Fri FC
Sesions in Digbeth the centre of Brum are not that far a cut.
See my site cresby.com and Bob Tabener's Midlands. Is Bristol within your remit? Plenty a short walk from the floating harbour.

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Mr Red
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 01:50 PM

Village Inn Twyning (Tewkesbury) 2nd Tues - again they fear publicity but it is a good session I am told.
Is Gilwern realistic ? (it is on the Mon-Brec) see my website.

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: fiddler
Date: 04 Sep 03 - 03:27 PM

Very timely thread, I've just bought a narroe boat but sadly am tied to work for a little longer yet!

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: GUEST,White Dove
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 09:55 AM

Canal Muddy Catters !!

There seem to be quite a few of us spread far and wide.

Is a canal boat catters meeting out of the question some day???

Roz

Subject: RE: Canal Catters
From: Mr Red
Date: 05 Sep 03 - 01:26 PM

Middlewhich Boat and Folk Festival seems a most appropriate venue for that rendezvous