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March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH)
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Subject: March Shanty Session at the Press Room From: curmudgeon Date: 02 Mar 03 - 10:34 AM Next Saturday, 8 March is the date for the monthly shanty/forebitter session at the Press Room in Portsmouth NH. Per usual we will be starting at 3:30 and singing unttil 7:30. We hope to see lots of you there -- Tom |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room From: Brían Date: 02 Mar 03 - 11:59 AM Count me in Tom! I have a new song I am hoping to have ready for the show. Brían |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room From: Charley Noble Date: 02 Mar 03 - 12:36 PM Tom and Linn- I'm looking forward to attending, along with Nor from Roll & Go. Brian, you're welcome to ride with us, pick-up at the usual 2 pm time SHARP. I'm going to check with Bunker and Sharon to see if they'd like to join us. We might consider dedicating some songs to Jonathan Eberhart, recently deceased member of The Boarding Party. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room From: SINSULL Date: 02 Mar 03 - 12:48 PM I'll be there with a new old song from the Boarding Party if I can manage to make myself heard. Tinker??? Where are you???? Mary |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room From: curmudgeon Date: 02 Mar 03 - 12:50 PM You're reading my mind, Charley. Although I haven't learned anything from the BP, I do have a song that I first heard sung by Jonathan back in 1970 when I was living in the DC area. Yes, Sinsull; you can make yourself heard. See you on Saturday -- Tom |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room From: Bat Goddess Date: 02 Mar 03 - 01:42 PM Haven't quite finished committing to memory "Shanghaied Dredger" which Jonathan collected and recorded with The Boarding Party -- so I guess I'll have to "Bruce it" again. Gotta nail Tom's feet to the floor REAL SOON NOW so we can together work out his concertina accompaniment on it one of these days. (Oh, yeah, and silly things like what key I do it in.) I don't have "to Bruce" "Race of Long Ago" anymore. ;-) Linn |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room From: Charley Noble Date: 02 Mar 03 - 02:17 PM Sharon and Capt. Bunker (China Sea Marine Trading Co.) are seriously considering coming. Linn- Nor also does a version of "Shanghaied Dredger" but he'd be happy to chorus along with you, or provide penny whistle accompaniment Anyone ask Kendall? Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: SINSULL Date: 02 Mar 03 - 05:21 PM Kendall's still in Florida. He can't make it. |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: curmudgeon Date: 02 Mar 03 - 08:46 PM Anyone know if Brett will be back for this? Uncle Jacques, where are you? |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Tinker Date: 02 Mar 03 - 09:46 PM Okay, I made it through this weekend.... just a tad over scheduled. But I will be up on Friday. Mary I'll PM you a late afternoon time after I buy my ticket tommorrow. Can't wait... Tinker |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Brían Date: 02 Mar 03 - 10:35 PM Charley, I'll ride with Sinsull this trip but I'll see you there! I hope Uncle Jacque shows up. He's sorely missed from these gatherings. Brían |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: SINSULL Date: 03 Mar 03 - 07:24 AM Great Tinker! Now I will have to clean the house! |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Charley Noble Date: 03 Mar 03 - 08:05 AM Brett won't be back from CA in time. A couple of old friends based in Kittery are planning to come, primarily to listen but they might be provoked into joining a chorus or two. Is Jeri planning to come or is she iced in for the duration of winter (and spring...)? Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: curmudgeon Date: 03 Mar 03 - 08:24 PM Tinker -- Glad to hear you're coming. Will be good to have you with us. I saw Jeri at work today. I expect she'll be there barring some unforeseen natural disaster. Fred & Julia, where are you? Weather prognosis looks tolerable. See you on Saturday -- Tom |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Uncle Jaque Date: 04 Mar 03 - 05:13 PM Thanks for thinking of me, Brian and Curmudeon; being missed is certainly a warm affirmation, and I appreciate it.
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Uncle Jaque Date: 04 Mar 03 - 05:15 PM OY!; looks like we don't need HTML formatting tags anymore, huh? Duh! *{B^{/~ |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: GUEST,Brian Date: 04 Mar 03 - 07:10 PM I am having computer problems and can't get to my PMs. SINSULL, I'll be ready at 2pm unless I hear anything different. You should have my phone # and address from the other PMs. Brian |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Charley Noble Date: 04 Mar 03 - 08:11 PM Come on, Uncle Jaque, join the party! You're welcome in our van if you can make it to 40 Salem St. by 2 pm sharp! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: curmudgeon Date: 04 Mar 03 - 08:32 PM Glad to see all the responses. For those gluttons for musical punishment, our Friday night sessions will be at least four members shy for the next two Fridays, 7 and 14 March -- Tom |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Charley Noble Date: 05 Mar 03 - 08:30 AM Sounds like the Angel Band is banking on the St. Patrick's Day gigs. It's so nice when the money rolls in! Friday evenings at the Press Room are typically more of a mix of singing and instrumentals, with the singing necessarily at the top (or beyond) of one's range to be heard. Still, it can be a blast! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Naemanson Date: 05 Mar 03 - 09:07 PM Charley's right. I will not be flying into Portland until after 9:00 on Saturday night. Have a great evening everyone! See you later! |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Brían Date: 05 Mar 03 - 10:57 PM I am logged back in now. Sorry Naeman'son not going to be there. Brían |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Bat Goddess Date: 06 Mar 03 - 11:00 AM Gee, Brett, you'll just have to sing louder then, eh? (And hope they don't throw you OFF the flight before it lands!) Linn |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Naemanson Date: 06 Mar 03 - 02:37 PM Well, they wouldn't have too difficult a fight in getting me off the plane as long as they do it in Los Angeles. I am allergic to falling any distance at all. It isn't the fall I hate so much as the sudden stop at the end that bothers me. |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Barry Finn Date: 06 Mar 03 - 02:37 PM Hopefully I'll be there. My daughter is throwing a teen sleep over party. She forgot to mention how big it was until last night. The girls will probably drive my son out & maybe we'll both make it. Barry |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Tinker Date: 06 Mar 03 - 04:19 PM Barry, I really hope you two make it... Tinker |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: SINSULL Date: 06 Mar 03 - 05:53 PM Yeah, Barry. And this time sit with us or let us sit with you. |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Barry Finn Date: 06 Mar 03 - 05:56 PM Aw shucks guys. Barry |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: curmudgeon Date: 07 Mar 03 - 11:27 AM The meteorological prognostication for tomorrow bodes well -- mid 40s and sun. See you at the Press Room -- Tom |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Uncle Jaque Date: 07 Mar 03 - 01:51 PM Thanks, CN; Lord knows my navigation leaves much to be desired around Portland - Portsmouth would be a hopeless cause! Every time I get off the beaten path through Portland I wonder if I'll ever be seen or heard from again. It took me about an hour to find Keith's Sewing Machine shop from Congress St. the other day to get some needles for my old treadle Singer. There are several alternative options for Sat. PM, including a rally with, err.. "the other crowd I hang with" (this can be weird, but terribly interesting) in Brunswick and a New England Pot Roast supper in North Yarmouth...Plus we have yet to see "Gods and Generals" and this might be the last weekend it's around. it's gonna be tough! Is there a landline or cell number you could PM me in order to get directions should I elect to head South? I have been a little distracted from the 'Cat lately on some other forums and issues - I sort of found myself rather spontaniously out between the ideological trenches of the two "crowds I hang with" being somewhat of a "peace activist" in order to keep some of them from hurting each other... how weird is that?! My E-mail has been funky lately, too; have updated and scanned with Norton 2000 revised and no hits, but we've gotta wonder. |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Charley Noble Date: 07 Mar 03 - 04:15 PM It's hard, hard, times, Uncle Jaque. The easiest thing to do the first time around it take advantage of the Roll & Go van, and as I've said before it fires up to leave 40 Salem St. at 2 pm sharp. So far it looks as if it's only Nor and me in the van; you won't even have to ride outside. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Charley Noble Date: 08 Mar 03 - 10:58 AM Mudcat is back on line! Time to refresh this timely thread. Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: curmudgeon Date: 08 Mar 03 - 09:38 PM Once again, thanks to all participants, we had another fine sea music session. It was great to meet Tinker, who travelled all the way from New Jersey to add some really fine songs to the mix. She now holds the record for furthest travelling. Another highlight was to hear two of our Friday regulars do some songs, especially so in that they are not regular singers. Ramona has been fiddling in the Friday night sessions for some years now, and tonight offered up some North Carolina sea related songs from the Warner collection. And Mark, who has been a regular listener, finally broke down and sang some songs, including one by Fred Gosbee, the name of which escapes me now. But I'm tired and my leg hurts, so I'll leave it to others to flesh this out a bit more when they have a chance. Thanks to all -- Tom |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: GUEST,Tossi Aaron, folkcat in PA Date: 08 Mar 03 - 09:42 PM HOpe your sing went superbly well and that someone will be able to help me. Looking for real info on categories of sea songs for my Phila Folk Song Society monthly column; Please confirm fill in or??? 1. Fo'c'sle --not work song, stories, adventures,lonesome,maybe chorus 2. Capstan Shanty.Anchor raising? slower, call and response? example?? 3. Long haul??Mainsail? Run and go? Example? 4. Short haul?????Example? Just titles will be fine. Can look up. Fifty years in folk music, have sung shanties but am too much of a landlubber to have accurate background info. HOpe you can help me.. Tried to reach B.J. Whitehouse in RI to no avail |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: curmudgeon Date: 08 Mar 03 - 10:10 PM Tossi -- PM me your email address and I will answer all your questions. To do this on a thread would ultimately be counterproductive and clog the thread with too much information. BTW, I know your name from many, many years of reading Sing Out! Glad to know you're still active -- Tom |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: SINSULL Date: 08 Mar 03 - 10:22 PM Back home after driving Brian to Portland. Once again, a great evening with good people. Barry gets the prize for "Most Goriest and Bloodiest" with mangling and strangling with blood and gore. Poor Rose and her sailor! Ramona was a treat. Some beautiful choices and a sweet voice. Will stop here because I will forget someone. For the record: Tinker is only visiting and all rumors to the contrary are false. |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Tinker Date: 08 Mar 03 - 10:48 PM Thanks guys ! Had a great time and with some wonderful music. Really glad to see Barry and Jeri tonite. And I got to put faces and voices to a few more mudcatters whose posts I've followed for quite a while. Thatnks for the encouragement and the fun... Tinker |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Brían Date: 08 Mar 03 - 11:40 PM That was a great night. Barry's song was great. We were missing some of the regular faces, Naemanson especially and Uncle Jacque who we are going to have to shanghai one of these times. Charley's song about the sailor's compass is grog was very nice. Nice job "channelling" that melody from 1808 I think it was. The new voices were great. It was great to hear Tinker. I had been talking with Ramona about singing at the session at Brian Boru's and it was grat to hear her raise it up Maith an cailín! Brían |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: curmudgeon Date: 09 Mar 03 - 09:56 AM Ahoy you lot of layabeds! Is there no one about to augment my abbreviated commentary on the session? |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Charley Noble Date: 09 Mar 03 - 10:21 AM It wasn't even a dark and stormy late afternoon when we made our way up the rolling brick sidewalks of old Portsmouth to The Press Room, to assemble for the monthly Shanty Swap. And it was good to see familar faces and a few new ones in the welcoming circle. I'm again impressed with Barbara's robust voice, and she also did a great job of backing up "Mollymauk" with Jeri. Linn did a fine job with "Race of Long Ago" without a "Bruce sheet" and another fine rendition of "Nine Times a Night." There seemed to be a loose set of songs where those listening were not sure whether we were singing about ships and their assorted parts, or about wenches; it's always about ships! I esecially liked Barry's working up of "Come Down, You Roses." And I think we'll get more use out of "The Mariner's Compass", and it's a song with a message that should resonate with the master of an Exxon tanker as well as a crew of dissipated but aspiring shanty singers. I thought Nor did a fine job of leading Bok's "Jerico" which he normally doesn't lead in Roll & Go and sometimes that gets one in deep trouble. It was good to see Sharon and Bunker of China Seas Marine Trading Company, although I wish they'd arrived earlier so we could have heard some more songs and stories from Bunker. Nor and I hung around afterwards with them for dinner and more stories, some about Bunker's encounters with Stan Hugill. Thanks again, Tom, for setting this shanty swap up. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: SINSULL Date: 09 Mar 03 - 11:16 AM Re: "Red Red Roses". Barry made a valiant effort to get his crew in order. Amazing how good I do my part when I have the Boarding Party to back me up then go tone deaf and rhythm impaired without them. Next time we will bring the cat o' nine tails and allow Barry to mangle and strangle the stragglers. On the other hand, late in the evening Barry managed to silence the bar crowd with London Julie. Some even joined in. Jeri had a full fledged screaming headache but still managed a few. Her rendition of "I Will Always Be A Fisherman" (Title?) also quieted the bar and turned heads. Some applause from the dinner crowd which I think she missed. Brian sang a moving ballad about the woman left behind. His own translation, beautifully phrased and performed. But he then slipped back into songs he claimed were Gaelic - I am still not convinced. He will miss our next shanty sing - surgery. Maybe we can convince him to come and watch if he feels up to it. Heard "Reuben James" for the first time in many years. Farewell To Liverpool from Tom ended the evening. So appropriate and pretty. I am leaving out multiple people including Tinker who added a blues note to the event. See you next month. Mary |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Jeri Date: 09 Mar 03 - 11:29 AM Barry's Come Down You Roses - there are 3 parts under the solo, and we barely got 2 of 'em. I will LEARN them for next time. Barry's part singing over the top was the best I've heard, bar none. I LOVE singing Mollymauk with Barbara! Every now and then, we'd hit the harmony dead on at the end of a line and would hang onto it for perhaps a bit too long - you may have noticed. Sorry if that bugged anybody, but I sure enjoyed it! "The Mariner's Compass" - YES! I definitely want to hear that one again. Sorry I missed any of Bunker's stories or songs. I missed a lot even while I was there. I had a headache when I left for the session and thought it might go away, but it just kept getting worse. The fault of the weather, I believe. Nice to see Tinker again! |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: SINSULL Date: 09 Mar 03 - 12:00 PM Sharon and the Captain showed up too late to sing or tell tales. They were warned that it can not happen again - Barry, mangle, strangle, etc. I was really disappointed at not getting a "story". |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Charley Noble Date: 09 Mar 03 - 12:51 PM My only complaint is that "Mollymauk" was TOO short; I could probably have listened to it all evening. It's amazing the effect some songs have. Who was it singing that strange song of the galley slaves. "toward Calvary." It's not terribly relevant to his singing but he's a dead ringer for my older brother, maybe about ten years younger; could be they were separated at birth. Brian also did some fine work on the tin whistle. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: katlaughing Date: 09 Mar 03 - 01:32 PM Curmudgeon and others, please share your info on categories of sea songs in this new thread for such: Real Info on Categories of Sea Songs. Thanks, kat! |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Charley Noble Date: 09 Mar 03 - 01:44 PM Oh, and where did that song come from about the Great Salt Lake whalers? I was tempted to sing my version of "Fresh-Water Whaling", Si Kahn's haunting ballad, in response but thought better of it by the time the circle had cycled back to me. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: katlaughing Date: 09 Mar 03 - 01:55 PM Oh, and welcome to the Mudcat, Aaron Tossi! Thanks for psoting your questions. Several of us are interested.:-) |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Charley Noble Date: 09 Mar 03 - 02:19 PM Lookie what I found while surfing for info on Great Salt Lake whaling: www.geocities.com/lakemichiganwhales/ Amazing! The TRUTH is out there. Cheerily, Charley Noble, drifting away with the thread |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Night Owl Date: 09 Mar 03 - 02:36 PM sounds like a FUN time up there last night..(except for Jeri's headache!) Thanks for the reporting. Charlie....I think "Drifting Away With The Thread" cries out for lyrics! "Drifting Too Far From The Shore" is a great melody for it. lol Tossi Aaron.....welcome to Mudcats. Looking forward to reading the answers to your questions. (thanks for the new thread, kat.) |
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Subject: RE: March Shanty Session at the Press Room (NH) From: Micca Date: 09 Mar 03 - 03:08 PM Sinsull, I suspect that Jeri's song (it ends "I know I'll live and die a Fisherman") was " Sparehand" by Linda Kelly ( a Mudcatter from Hull!!), and Jeri does it SO well!!! even Linda said so when she heard the recording of Jeri from the Getaway 2 years ago!! |
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