Barnsley at Easter

Subject: Barnsley at Easter
From: padgett
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 04:31 AM

Barnsley Folk Club Easter Singaround gets better every year

Friday to Sunday (Monday if enough)

Indoor Camping at the YMCA 5 mins walk, town centre adjacent, small friendly town centre, showers etc

Jct 37 M1 1mile [have your breakfast in Barnsley and a walk round Barnsley market, see Arthur's Castle] Holmfirth 14 miles tourists

Contact Ray at [e-mail] for further info

Sunday 1pm special 'Harry Boardman' presentation by Mark Dowding and Chris Harvey

New Irish Landlord, take the pub over!!

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 07:41 AM

Ray, I would love to be there, but Easter has fallen on my Birthday weekend and I have already made plans!
But make sure you have a good one!

muppitz x

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: padgett
Date: 07 Mar 05 - 07:47 AM

Cheers Muppet keep taking the beer catch up with you later
Ray Padgett

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: brid widder
Date: 21 Mar 05 - 07:14 PM

Hope this is still on... Stewart & I hope to make it... are we OK to just turn up on friday Ray?

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: The Unicorn Man
Date: 21 Mar 05 - 07:40 PM

Good luck to all Barnsley fans on Friday, live on sky if you are near a tv. But not as much luck as Luton though. Happy Holls.

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 03:08 AM

Sorry Padgett but i am at Miskin so wont be coming up to see your festival.
Hope it goes as well as Miskin normally goes.
Take care.
Yas

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 05:37 AM

I'm at Miskin too, I'm afraid, which is sad as I'm only just down the road. Hey Ho.

Rhiannon

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: ossonflags
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 06:42 AM

is there any outside camping ie room, for a campervan?

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: GUEST,padgett (at home)
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 09:55 AM

Thanks for resurrecting this link
Indoor camping at YMCA bring TENT (lol) and rubber pegs, bags of room wooden floor ~ shower m/f (no separate) tea/coffee, cooking facilities etc
Saturday usual All day breakfast in Barnsley, particular interest!!

Small amount of room around YM Community hall for early campervaners Friday/Sat YM close to town, one or two Car Parks (pay) and others around the Shaw, free

Stewart nearest bookmakers 200 yards from the Shaw!

Small charge for w/end £5 rest; own beer and food Sunday 1pm

Harry Boardman workshop presentation by Mark Dowding and Chris Harvey

Should be good alternative to Lancaster/Miskin etc again!!
Ray padgett

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: Les from Hull
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 10:04 AM

That Nice Mister Ossonflags has offered a lift to Maggie and me, and so there should be another two for the 'Hull and Barnsley' connection.

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 11:06 AM

Ray,
How could you say such thing about Miskin when you have never come down to Miskin.I will see you at Banbury and have words with you.
Scooby

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: ossonflags
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 11:08 AM

Yep, well up for that Les!! Giz a bell when yerv sorted yersels out.

Suprise guest: the "cultural atache for Bolsover"

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: GUEST,padgett (at home)
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 12:46 PM

Les and Maggie we've got Roy Hardacre and Tony Callaghan helping with musician's session all day Sat in the Shaw; upstairs singaround/whatever as usual, you're more than welcome. Not heard from Lady A, so no idea.
I think Jimmy's coming but I dont know about our Kenneth

Joe and Mo coming on Saturday pm


Scooby Doo how the 'ell are you Banbury was different, still drinking the nectar then eh

Not got to any alternative Easter Fests for years; Barnsley's always a different experience!
Something new and different every year, new characters we attract 'em

Ray Padgett

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 01:02 PM

Yeah,still drinking the nectar and yourself?
Miskin is different every year we seem to attract them too.
Have a drink on me and i will have one on you.
Take care Ray,
See you at Banbury then.
Yas

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: GUEST,padgett (at home)
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 02:15 PM

Hy Scooby I have to admit Ive barely had a drink since New Year!!
Honest with all the things going on.

I have had a quiet year so far, but hope to get to Wath, Holmfirth and wherever I can bareing in mind my home responsibilities.

Enjoyed Banbury and the Catters gathering was probably the best singaround. Now an annual event i believe. Hope to get there.

Ive done a few Yorkshire traditional song workshops (at Cleckheaton, Sheffield and Saddleworth FFs) and Anston FC as well as recorded a Yorkshire song CD. Just had a phone call asking if I want to record next few days but i'm just recovering from a heavy cold!
All the best to all the Catters and hope to put more faces to names, I get confused easily
Ray Padgett

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: Les from Hull
Date: 22 Mar 05 - 06:33 PM

That Nice Mister Ossonflags has offered a lift to Maggie and me, and so there should be another two for the 'Hull and Barnsley' connection.

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: GUEST,padgett (at home)
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 02:32 AM

So whose coming from Halifax and Hell!
Ray P

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: MoorleyMan
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 06:00 AM

Good to hear that the dynamic duo (Booker and Padgett) are now back on form now.

Yes, it'll be a great weekend if past years are anything to go by.

And it should be even better now that the barnsley club's a no-smoking zone!

(Went to their club night with Donal O'Connor recently, an excellent evening's entertainment and it was so good to be able to breathe freely up in that club room again.)

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 07:24 AM

Hope to be theere Saturday Padge

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: GUEST,padgett (at home)
Date: 23 Mar 05 - 08:11 AM

I need to put the record straight re smoking:
I personally am for a no smoking ban. I know that there are a number of smokers who come regularly to the festival. I will be asking smokers to have one down stairs if at all possible; I am unable to impose a blanket ban at the FF. This point has already been discussed on the phone.

Th club room is poorly ventilated and has one window which opens (from the bottom and is usually secured at the top by a beer mat) to be seen to be believed lol

The pub is a smoker, I cannot IMPOSE a no smoking ban this point was raised at the FC on Monday, we at the FC continue to have a NO SMOKING policy. The FF attendees I would like to think will agree that this policy should be extended to the festival

The YM does have a no smoking policy (alarms in place) and smokers usually stand just outside to have a smoke.

Any comments are invited, but only from smokers as to a practical way around this problem!!

Ray Padgett, festival director {the buck stops here}


See you Jimmy!!

Any news of the Kenneth!!

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: Carol
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 05:58 AM

Hi Ray

About the smoking bit surely as the club are running the weekend and upstairs is a 'private' function room you can designate it as non-smoking? I'll be coming for the weekend anyway but I do know of 'others' who now won't go to anywhere with smoking.

Anyhow looking forward to the weekend, always plenty of singing at Barnsley weekend.

and the markets are good

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: ossonflags
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 08:41 AM

Dont go with the idea of blanket bans it ends up with everyone missing out.I know "others" who will not go anywere with a full smoking ban.

Sorry there is no easy answer with the eternal smoking/no smoking argument.It has been explained that there is bad ventilation in the club room.I sing in a band that has non smokers as members.As most of our work is done in pubs we try and control the problem by taking a large portable fan to all our gigs and blow the smoke away from us.Maybe you could use this idea coupled with letting smokers sit in the rear of the room?
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I run and attend regular sessions and there is no ban on smoking , this would be very difficult as they are held in pubs.Cottingham Folk club is no smoking so I do not go.

I shall be coming to Barnsley Festival(for the first time) I smoke as do the people who are coming with me, but as there is a ban in the club we will respect that and smoke elsewere.If it was a complete ban I would be going somewere else for the weekend.

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: GUEST,padgett (at home)
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 08:49 AM

HY Carol
I would dearly like to say that the FF upstairs room is a no smoker.

However there are a number of FF regulars who are habitual smokers. I believe that they are coming round to the change in the 'norm' and I as I have stated, will be asking them not to smoke in the club room!

There are still many clubs which do not have such a ban. I would like the law changed to prohibit smoking in public houses to come in as in Ireland asap and if our experience and the excellent work pioneered by Pete Swift (No Smoke Folk)in FCs as a result of Roy Castles' untimely death leads to greater folkie longevity then all to the good.

Education education education I cannot impose this ban this year without the agreement of all concerned.
thanks to everyone for raising this is and general concern.

Next year's festival will be a non smoker upstairs, or i wont be festival director!

The pub downstairs permits smoking, so if you want to smoke but come why not stay downstairs!
Ray Padgett ~ Barnsley FF director (is this now flippin clear) !!

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 04:36 PM

Am hoping to get there Fri & Sat... can you give me an idea of what time(s) things kick off each day?

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: GUEST,padgett (at home)
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 04:46 PM

Friday in the Shaw from about 7.30pm, get underway 8pm

A number of people been in touch YM open from 5pm on Friday!

Saturday pub open at noon; craic down in the YMCA earlier on, pop in for a tea/coffee and a chat!!

YM just down the road Pitt Street into town on foot about 5 minutes walk, left on Blucher St, before the Post Office and go infront of the YM (closed for Easter) then right up the entrance to the back and the Community hall is there!
Ray Padgett

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 05:31 PM

Great, Ray – ta muchly!

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 24 Mar 05 - 08:08 PM

Oh my Gawd smoking no smoking. This ban will come in totally withing the next five years, in the meantime why oh why are our knickers getting in a twist. Pubs are and always hav been associated with smoking some of my bestest friends smoke and i as a non smoker respect their right to do so even tho i don't have a go at the weed. I think some things are over the top. Recently i witnessed a non smoker closing the door (after the landlord had opened it) between the non smoking room where the session was to the rest of the pub saying the 'smoke came through' first of all this was bollocks secondly the landlord (who actually owns the pub)had the right to do what he wanted. Get a grip it's not nuclear war. Padge has done what he can it's not enforcible yet let's try and be accomidating to all

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: ossonflags
Date: 25 Mar 05 - 01:10 AM

Well said Jim !!

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: Mr Happy
Date: 08 Mar 06 - 08:54 PM

any tent camping spaces/places??

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: GUEST,padgett
Date: 09 Mar 06 - 08:50 AM

room for very many on the floor in Community Hall (warmest) and next door on floor in large Hall also showers provided you put the light/ extractor fan on or we will have the Firebrigade down again!!

£5 for Fri/Sat/Sun indoor camping limited Camper space around YM get there early, little room around the Shaw pub for w/ed if needed for cars etc (see other thread somewhere on mudcat)

Downstairs on Sat pm ideal for musican session led by Roy Hardacre and Mel and Tony Callaghan, expected influx from Wakefield area

Upstairs venue NO SMOKING down stairs anything smoked which is legal

Sunday pm Joyce and Danny Mcleod doing Cicely Fox Smith presentation for £4

Ray

Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: r.padgett
Date: 10 Mar 06 - 12:34 PM

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Subject: RE: Barnsley at Easter
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 14 Apr 06 - 04:03 PM

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