Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003

Subject: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: alanww
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 05:55 AM

Whitby Folk Week was certainly very good last year. I am thinking of going - "that's a bit late to book accommodation" you might say - well yes it is!

Hence I would be interested to know who else is planning to go and whether anyone has any spare beds or floorspace in a house/flat in town which they would be willing to let out to myself and my girlfriend, Sandy? Well you never know ...

"Come fill up your glasses and let us be merry ...!"
Alan

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: alanww
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 06:12 AM

PS I am just off to Latvia for a week to dance at the Baltica 2003 festival with the Chameleonic Morris Men but I will be very interested to see any responses when I return!
"Dancing and singing, bell ringing ...!"
Alan

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 06:23 AM

Sorry - I know lots who are looking for floor space but the rabbit hole is full enjoy your latvian week

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 06:54 AM

Linda and I hope to be around for some of the Whitby sessions this year. We've booked our caravan in one a site near Staithes, so we'll only be along the coast.

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Noreen
Date: 07 Jul 03 - 07:13 AM

Even if he's willing to fight for it, Sooz?
:0)

Good luck, Alan.

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 08 Jul 03 - 02:42 AM

Noreen - rabbit hole has kids and mother in it - since its mothers rabbit hole - he can fight for it if he wants but believe me the noise at 6.00 am when you only got to bed t 3.00 is not worth the fight!!

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Noreen
Date: 10 Jul 03 - 07:39 AM

Refreshing this for Alan while he's in Riga.
(Going for a ride on a tiger?)

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 10 Jul 03 - 08:42 AM

lucky B.....d

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Noreen
Date: 14 Jul 03 - 04:47 PM

You'd think he'd drag himself away from playing for the President of Latvia to find an internet café to check in?

Refresh anyway.

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: alanww
Date: 15 Jul 03 - 11:06 AM

Well, yes I did get to play for Chameleonic Morris men, who danced for the President of Latvia and 5000+ others, and I was interviewed on Latvian TV ...
Anyway, I guess the lack of response while I was away either demonstrates that:-
1 everywhere is full up OR
2 nobody likes me ... *Boo hoo!*

"For she's gone and married a lighterman ...!"
Alan
PS Thanks for refreshing it, Noreen!

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 15 Jul 03 - 12:16 PM

For she's gone and married a lighter man,
So on a diet I must go.
For I would have crushed you so, my love,
I would have crushed you so.

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: treewind
Date: 15 Jul 03 - 12:48 PM

Mary and I will be at Whitby this year, for the Thursday evening and Friday only. You'd better avoid us though as we'll only try and demand money with menaces in exchange for our

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: treewind
Date: 15 Jul 03 - 12:51 PM

.... New CD!


Anahata

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Mary Humphreys
Date: 15 Jul 03 - 01:28 PM

By the way - Alanww mentioned bellringing. I am a rather lapsed bellringer - once I could hack Cambridge Royal and Bob Max. If anyone in the bell-ringing fraternity is going to Whitby I would dearly love to grab the tower. PM me please. But sadly I will only be there on the Thursday & Friday - some of us have day jobs to help pay the fishmonger's bill(& Greedy cat!)

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Noreen
Date: 15 Jul 03 - 02:14 PM

Anahata, you going to mention it on every thread? Doing well so far... looks like I'll have to avoid you at Whitby, Sidmouth, Otley... (anywhere else?)

*grin*

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: GUEST,Sibelius
Date: 15 Jul 03 - 03:44 PM

I missed Whitby last year but am going this. I gather last year they used a different campsite but are back at Stakesby School now. Anyone know whether they've finally replaced that dangerous contraption laughably described as a shower hut? The one with the water swilling around the electric pumps on the floor?

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: MudGuard
Date: 15 Jul 03 - 04:04 PM

Alan, I will be there too, but as I am myself on "borrowed" accommodation, I can't offer you a place to stay...

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 15 Jul 03 - 06:01 PM

can't squeeze anymore in -full of German cyclists and people from Hull!

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: treewind
Date: 15 Jul 03 - 06:15 PM

Noreen, Breezy's apparently been without web access recently so there hasn't been much thread hijacking. It's a dirty job but somebody's gotta do it....

Anahata

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Noreen
Date: 15 Jul 03 - 07:04 PM

*grin*
You do it so well!

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: alanww
Date: 15 Jul 03 - 07:34 PM

Thanks for the thought Linda Kelly and MudGuard. Not to worry, I'm sure we'll find somewhere and I am look forward to seeing you all again!

"Joys are flowing ...!"
Alan

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: GUEST,White Dove
Date: 16 Jul 03 - 06:32 AM

The NHS have meeee hooked!! I waited and waited months...years..for the date of my op and now they have it ..plum in the middle of Whitby Folk Week!!!

I guess I might make the first weekend..

Was watercolouring Ickle..thought of you...where are you anyways????

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: alanww
Date: 16 Jul 03 - 06:59 AM

Looking forward to seeing you at Whitby, Mary Humphreys. Remember me? I was the other one with the English concertina, sitting next to you in the pub at Thaxted after the Horn Dance!

"I dreamed a dream the other night ...!"
Alan

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Alio
Date: 28 Jul 03 - 10:00 AM

I sympathise White Dove. We're off to Silver Street with the mob again (Firm Friends, a few Shellbacks etc.) and when is my daughter's baby due? Yep, that's right! In the middle of Whitby Week. So if you see leaving me a maritime session or a singaround early, you'll know I'll be hotfooting it back to Saddleworth!! (Complete with hot water and towels of course!!)

See you all there,
Ali

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: red max
Date: 28 Jul 03 - 10:10 AM

When/where is Bob Pegg appearing?

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Raggytash
Date: 28 Jul 03 - 10:19 AM

Programmes are on sale now in selected outlets, however trying to find a particular artist is not easy, it took me 3 go's to find Eliza Carthy ........she's doing a very short spot one afternoon

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 28 Jul 03 - 11:17 AM

My Lord Raggy - its not like you to take three goes!!!!I have told you before - its not the length of tie - its what they do with it!!!

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Raggytash
Date: 28 Jul 03 - 11:28 AM

Have you been drinking again Mrs Rabbit, I thought the nice doctor hold told you to ease off, otherwise they where going to take you to the nice hotel with Lino floors and white walls

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 28 Jul 03 - 02:24 PM

Anyone brave enough to suggest to Malcolm that the Whitby programme (like the Sidmouth working programme)lists the artists at the end with the programme numbers of the events at which they'll be appearing? Or would that make the programme too expensive?

Kitty

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: vectis
Date: 28 Jul 03 - 05:56 PM

I'll be there too. Looking forward to the slow english sessions with George at The Middle Earth and the lunchtime soggy songs at the Endeavour.
Where is the best place to join in slower "not very Irish" sessions in the evenings? I've got nothing against the Irish (having just come back from some excellent craic over there) but their tunes have too many notes and they're too close together for me :-))
Mary

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Alio
Date: 29 Jul 03 - 07:36 AM

Can anyone tell me where / when Strawhead are appearing so I can sort my week out?

Ali

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 29 Jul 03 - 08:46 AM

Geoff and I will mostly be appearing inthe Tap and Spile as ever except when we're out scratching on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1pm should any stray Morris dancers or would be band members be interested.

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 29 Jul 03 - 08:54 AM

I am already in the room with the white walls - Raggy

ps have you bought that caravan yet? How much will you want for your tent?

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Raggytash
Date: 29 Jul 03 - 06:35 PM

Sadly the caravan was not for sale, thus we are still reduced to staying in our existing caravan (though cheese and wine may be a knightly event) The canvas mansion will reappear at some stage later in the summer and is not for sale

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 02:40 PM

may I join your knightly event sire?
Is it a duel or a joust or ale swigging contest?

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Sonnet
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 02:52 PM

Chris McShane will again be running the Children's Festival Orchestra, and I'll be running the Contemporary Poetry Writing workshops. Hope to see some of you.

Jay McShane

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Raggytash
Date: 30 Jul 03 - 07:06 PM

I think it may be prudent to allow my good Lady Wombat to reply to the fair Lady Rabbit

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 05:18 AM

Linda and I should be around some of the time - we've booked the caravan on a sight just south of Staithes. What are the best pubs for song (or mixed) sessions ?

Mudguard - any idea where(when) you're likely to be around ? - we haven't seen you since the Stony meet-up.

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: GUEST,Wombat
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 06:03 AM

Cheese and wine will happen at the castle annexe (otherwise known as our caravan) on at least one, if not more occassions during the week. Of course you may attend Lady Rabbit, provided there's none of that hand holding lark with my lord raggy again!!!!! Further details will bew published when the good knight and I communicate later today.

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Raggytash
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 06:20 AM

My Dear Lords & Ladies, Lord and Lady Bulstrode de Wraggetache of Kirklees would like to entend an invitation to the very select few to attend a Pig Roast Supper (BBQ) at our domicile in the fair sea port of Whitby on Monday the 18th in the month of August in the year of our Lord MMIII. (Weather permitting)



Other than that we could all hike off down to the beach one evening, armed with throw away barbie, bottles and bottles of beer wine and spitrits and light a big fire and all dance round naked in a drunken stupor ...........................Ooops there I go again.

I bet I know which one the Rabbit goes for !

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 11:54 AM

the trouble with the beach is sand gets every where!!

Perhaps My lord Raggy you and your good Lady could act as witness to MCFAT and I as we renew our vows - neither of remember saying any at Beverley - neither did we have Stag/hen do or reception or wedding pressies so we thought since we are supposed to be married we had better try to sort some time out and get on with it and then we can get on with the not speaking to each other bit!

Lord Raggy hast thou been defeated I notice the dropping from your Title of West Yorkshire and the North of England - is there another pretender to the throne?

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: smallpiper
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 01:40 PM

Dave Bryant - Tap and Spile is a really good starting point for mixed sesions

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 01:45 PM

Oh Red and White Rabbit - you never saw the wedding presents MCFat arranged for our nuptuals! Don't be too quick in encouraging the purchase of more!

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Tig
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 01:47 PM

The Badger and I are planning to attend the later half of the week - coming up either Tuesday or Wednesday.

As usual you will probably find us in the Tap and Smile :-)

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Tig
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 01:49 PM

Early planning for next year for Alio - Strawhead and the Mrs Ackroyd Band will both be appearing at Alcester Folk Festival!

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Col K
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 05:43 PM

From talking to Strawhead they are doing a workshop every morning at 10.00 in the Albion club.On thursday there will be a performance, I think at the Resolution ,of the completed production ( Ye tyrants of England if I recall correctly)
Hope this helps
See you there
Come and visit me at the Metropole (MET) sometime during the week.
Col K

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Raggytash
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 07:29 PM

Strawhead & Alison Younger are creating a "Hertfordshire Garland" to produce a show based the prose, music and song of said county. 10.00-11.20 at the Albion Club from Sunday

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Col K
Date: 31 Jul 03 - 09:37 PM

From talking to Strawhead recently they have changed what they are doing, the time is correct,just imagine them at 10 in the morning, not a pretty sight.
Hertfordshire Garland was the original idea.

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 05:23 AM

Hi everyone - I have just heard from Malcolm the songs in sign workshop is runnning - Theresa as you attended the last one I hope you will join us again.
Its 1.00 at the seamens mission on Sunday for any of you who are interested if there is sufficient interest it will run during the week as well. I know it clashes with the maritime spot and the singarounds - dont blame me!!
At Holmfirth I managed to teach two songs in sign a NVQ one and an A level one in the hour - Noreen here's your chance!!

Subject: RE: Whitby Folk Week 16 - 22 Aug 2003
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 05:28 AM

forgot to ask MCFAT I know its your time in the Tap but will you be let off for an hour to do the workshop again - yes I know I only want you for your guitar - does that make a tenuous link back to the epiphone thread?