Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: ranger1
Date: 15 Jun 05 - 09:33 AM

Hah! I CAN come on the 2nd and the boss is pretty sure I can have the evening of the 30th off as well. Is it any wonder why I am loathe to leave the park I'm at and go elsewhere?

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Jun 05 - 07:20 PM

I am so glad, Tami. The Lobster Boil is "shaping up" and it just wouldn't be fair for you to miss it. Note to others: there is a real chance I will run out of beds for the July 30th Song Circle. Get your reservations in as soon as you know you will be coming...or bring a sleeping bag.
SINS

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Jun 05 - 09:16 PM

Jed Marum in comcert on August 11th with the usual buffet and beverages. Let me know ASAP if you plan to attend this one. Limited Edition.

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: GUEST,SINSULL
Date: 20 Jun 05 - 01:54 PM

Refresh

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 09:57 PM

Refresh
Will July 2 be a small one too?

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 23 Jun 05 - 08:05 AM

Tom and I will be there.

Still haven't relived the last one via tape and now I've got to transcribe the June sea music singaround.

Linn

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: jacqui.c
Date: 23 Jun 05 - 08:14 AM

We'll be at a picking party that weekend. Our social life suddenly got hectic!

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: ranger1
Date: 23 Jun 05 - 08:29 AM

OK, be that way, jacqui. But can we have Seamus?

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: jacqui.c
Date: 23 Jun 05 - 09:36 AM

Yes, he's going to Mary's tonight. He'll get spoiled rotten and then come back on Sunday to his normal routine.

I'm surprised he ever wants to come home!

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: GUEST,Charley Noble
Date: 23 Jun 05 - 10:15 AM

JudyB and I would like to come. I'll be missing Press Room shanty swaps until September and the song circle is a good alternative.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 23 Jun 05 - 06:34 PM

If Kendall's not going to be there, who is going to help me drink the Bushmill's?

Linn

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Jun 05 - 08:02 PM

I will.

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: ranger1
Date: 23 Jun 05 - 10:41 PM

Like good whiskey will ever go to waste in this crowd.

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 24 Jun 05 - 07:42 AM

Sins -- did you show Kendall the photographic evidence of the size glass he was using last go-round?

Linn (whose lady-like sherry glass was nowhere in sight in the pictures)

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: ranger1
Date: 24 Jun 05 - 09:44 AM

What lady-like sherry glass? You were using a chalice!

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: ranger1
Date: 25 Jun 05 - 09:33 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 25 Jun 05 - 11:55 AM

Just bought a snare drum and a sparkly "song flute" at two different yardsales. Should I bring them along?

Linn (If Tom doesn't kill me first.)

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Jun 05 - 01:14 PM

I have my fish shaped tambourine and Tami has a talking frog. Should make for quite an evening. I will buy another bottle of Bushmill's.
SINS

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: KathWestra
Date: 25 Jun 05 - 05:11 PM

Is there still a bed available on the 2nd? I'd like to try to make this one, since I can't do it on July 30. Kath

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: ranger1
Date: 25 Jun 05 - 09:53 PM

Sins, he's not a talking frog, he's a singing frog!

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: jets
Date: 25 Jun 05 - 10:26 PM

It would appear that I shall be able to attend on the 2nd of July.
I shall require time and directions and a yes or no on the playing of free reed instruments. . I can sing but only know the words to 2 songs.And one poem. Joe

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Jun 05 - 11:24 PM

UH OH Jets is going play with his free reed - what will the neighbors think! We will get you directions, jets and of course there is a bed for you, Kath.

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 26 Jun 05 - 09:30 AM

Curmudgeon's free reeds have been in attendence since the beginning! (Well, sort of free reeds -- they're kept confined to the concertina.)

Hey, Jets! It'll be great to see you again!

Linn

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: Charley Noble
Date: 26 Jun 05 - 11:06 AM

Jets-

And I fully intend to bring in a matched pair of concertinas.

Beware of the twilight zone street that you encounter on your right, just before Sinsull's street. It's name is very similar to her street and there's a portal at its end which leads to...

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: InOBU
Date: 26 Jun 05 - 11:18 AM

Hi Mary...
How hard is it to get to from NYC?
Lor

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Jun 05 - 02:26 PM

Take 95 up to Maine. It's about six hours. And nothing would make me happier than to have you show up at my door, Larry. PM BatGoddess for directions. I always get people lost. PM me so I have a bed ready for you. Vegetarian, I believe?
Mary

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: InOBU
Date: 26 Jun 05 - 05:54 PM

Dear Mary... not a vegitarian... we Quakers used eat whales, remember... BUT, is there a train?

: )

lor

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: ranger1
Date: 26 Jun 05 - 08:10 PM

Hey, Charley, my brother-in-law and dear little nieces live on that afore-mentioned street!

InOBU, we do have a train. You have to switch stations in Boston, though. I volunteer for station pick-up, since I only live about a mile from the station here in Portland. PM me if you decide to join us.

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Jun 05 - 09:31 PM

The DownEaster, Larry, from Boston. The Bus and Train terminals are just minutes from here so you will be picked up.
SINS

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: GUEST,SINSULL
Date: 27 Jun 05 - 12:14 PM

Time to get a final head count to ensure enough ale and victuals to go 'round
Tami and Jason
Linn and Tom
Charley and Judy
InObu and his lady?
jets and his lady?
Seamus and four cats (SIGH!)
Some assorted locals may stop in.

Am i missing anyone?
M

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: KathWestra
Date: 28 Jun 05 - 06:07 PM

Me. I'm really gonna try this time, and do need a bed. Need directions to Chez SINSULL, and also some guidance on what I can bring to add to the festivities. Kathy

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: ranger1
Date: 28 Jun 05 - 06:49 PM

Mary, it's just me. Jason's supposed to be coming to Jed Marum's concert and maybe the song circle on the 30th. I'm trying to talk my friend Chris and his wife into joining us, though.

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 Jun 05 - 07:23 PM

Maybe Brien needs a reminder!

Maybe I'll bring a cheesecake glazed with stawberries. Would anyone be interested? We don't want to bring it back home.

Any chance that Jeri will be joining the festivities?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 07:52 AM

Jeri's getting nagged (again).

Aw, we might just have to rescue that cheesecake from a fate worse than death. I volunteer. (somebody has to do it.) (They actually have a very short shelf life -- must be eaten immediately. That's my excuse, anyway.)

Not sure what (non sweet) we're bringing. Could also bring a plate of shortbread.

Linn

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: jets
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 07:43 PM

I am still waiting for directions to the affair. My lady will not be with me this time and she insist that I come home to my own bed.
                                                    Joe

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: Jeri
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 08:21 PM

I have an appointment to get my Piece of TurboCrap fixed ...next Tue. Until I have this over-a-thou repair job done, I shall be surging and stalling around the local area. I'll definitely be at Jed's concert and hope to make the bug boil.

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 08:37 PM

Jeri-

Maybe if we all focus on you together we can transport you instantly to Sinsull.

Late Saturday, be sure to wear...No, I best not say that in polite company.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: curmudgeon
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 08:49 PM

Jeri -- There's a door to door ride available less than 5 miles from your abode!

Talk to you tomorrow -- Tom

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 09:07 PM

I have asked Kendall to PM directions to you and Kathy, jets. I am hopeless when it comes to directions.

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: ranger1
Date: 29 Jun 05 - 10:22 PM

Yes, she is. But it's a minor flaw in an otherwise terrific individual.

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 12:28 AM

Thank you, Tami. Your gratuity will be placed under your chair at the next Song Circle. It's raining - HARD. Hope it doesn't discourage visitors.

Pizza Rustica and salad plus shrimp plus Single Malt Fudge! See ya.

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 09:53 AM

New York style Cheesecake is cooling in the refrigerator. There's a can of strawberry topping cooling next to it.

Maybe we better sample it and make sure it's up to Mudcat standards before we pack it in the ice chest.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 10:22 AM

Also picked up a watermelon and packed it on ice last night.

sOMEBODY POST DIRECTIONS TO bONNY bANK tERRACE FOR JETS. i GAVE HIM SOME...sigh!
sins, DIRECTIONALLY AND capslockily CHALLENGED.

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 12:28 PM

BobBi K is coming and bringing half a turkey, not sure which half!

So we'll all show up at Donnybrook Terrace?

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 Jul 05 - 02:13 PM

Sounds like Nor and Eli will be dropping by for a few songs mid-evening.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: Charley Noble
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 10:51 AM

Sinsull-

Thanks for hosting another great song circle!

Are there any survivors? When we left around midnight Tom, Linn and KathW were still swapping songs, and the strawberry topped cheesecake had withstood vigorous assaults but there were still 3 pieces left.

I thought everyone was in good form but I have to admit that I really enjoy Jets' stories, whether he's describing his maritime experiences which began as a young teenager in the closing year of WW II or the horrors of being the only accordian player at a bluegrass picking party. KathW as one might expect has an incredible repertoire of songs and a wonderful voice. BobBi looked like she was enjoying herself, curled up with her autoharp in her lap. And Brian resurrected at least two "traditional" songs that he had composed. Nor and Eli led another wonderful rendition of "Mollymauk" and several non-nautical songs which I generally don't get to hear including "The Housewife." JudyB did a great job with Les Barker's "My Husband Has No Porridge In Him" and followed it up with the somber "History Man." I badgered Linn into leading C. Fox Smith's "Race of Long Ago." And I believe it was Tom who led Bob Coltman's bicentenial anti-war song. Then there was a run of those attrocious wild west movie theme songs. Good lord!

The usual dogs and cats were there.

Today JudyB and myself are going to spend a quiet day recording a few more songs for my website and Monday we may even get to the beach.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 12:41 PM

I did "Liberty Valance" and threatened "The Sons Of Katie Elder" but it never happened.

Jets' stories are wonderful. The impish grin he adds which leaves you wondering "Fact or Fiction?" make them even better.

The evening started with a phone call from katlaughing. The phone was passed from 'Catter to 'Catter for about an hour. She sounds great, like her old self, maybe even better. Kathy Westra singing under my roof - what a thrill!

Tami took the last of the cheesecake home; Linn and Tom got chocolate cake and half a watermelon. Everyone took some pizza rustica. I never got to try the turkey salad - next time. And wonder of wonders, no one cracked open the Jamison.

Brian just gets better and better. I hope there is a book in the works. It would be criminal for his songs to disappear. He is a brilliant songwriter.

Thanks to everyone for making the party happen. Did anyone get the lyrics to the "naughty" song that Bobbie's friend Chris sang? July 30th is the Lobster Boil. I will need to know by the tenth if you are joining us. But that will be anothe thread. Now to rest.

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: GUEST,guest on/in the way
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 06:52 PM

What's that?!

No one opened the Jameson!?!

What does that mean?

I don't know if I should stay away altogether, or be on the next plane...

Hmmm......

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: KathWestra
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 07:09 PM

Well, nobody opened the Jameson's (Bushmills, actually). But we did polish off an entire bottle of 8-year-old Barbancourt rum from Haiti. We weren't teetotalin', folks! It was my great pleasure to introduce this particular vice to friends old and new.

Loved meeting and hearing the Song Circle regulars, and finally making good on my promise to enjoy Sinsull's wonderful hospitality at one of these events. Good singing all around, great food prepared by Herself (not to mention Charlie's homemade cheesecake and BatGoddess' no-calorie cream-cheese-scrambled eggs this morning), and good company. I got to trot out Bob Coltman's "Valley Forge," which I try to sing at least once around Independence Day. And I loved the chance to listen to some really good singers. A real treat. My only disappointment was that Kendall and Jacqui weren't among the group, although Seamus represented the family well.
Thanks again, Mary!!!
Kathy

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: Brían
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 09:00 PM

I hope all the salad and watermelon I ate displaced the lovely cheesecake and chocolate cake I ate. Sorry for showing up unannounced. It was like dying and gone to heaven to here the usual blend of sacred, profane maritime, country folk, history and lies. I will RSVP if I can make the next, provived I am not kissing the ground of the ol' sod. I must learn Bob Coltman's "Valley Forge."

Brían

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 09:12 PM

I prolly have a recording of Chris's "naughty" song -- I think I got it before my tape recorder died..

What a treat to trade stories & poems with Jets! (again!)

I contributed S. Omar Barker's poem about rodeos after his rendition of what happened to the strawbery roan.

Thanks to Kath for introducing us to the Barbancourt rum -- picked up a bottle on the way home. (NH State Liquor Store -- cheaper than Kath got it) Really really nice. Why open the Bushmill's when there's something new and lovely to try.

Another really lovely evening of conversation, song and verse. What stories! And Tami added to my "stultifying inanities" collection -- stupid things that tourists say. (Look for the booklet; I've got to finally get it together -- the title will probably be "You Can't Get to Heaven If Your're Hit By a Tourist.")

Intense weekend, though -- nobody's yet started a thread about our loss of Norman MacDonald.

Linn

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 10:06 PM

tITLE SUGGESTION:"iF IT'S tOURIST sEASON, WHY cAN'T wE sHOOT tHEM?"
dAMN cAPSLOCK!

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: jacqui.c
Date: 03 Jul 05 - 10:15 PM

Damn - wished we'd been there!

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: jets
Date: 04 Jul 05 - 02:50 AM

Well frankly I attended because I heard from Kendall that the food was good to excelant, which in truth, turned out to be the case.But I must confess that I throughly enjoyed the singing. I even enjoyed yet another sea chanty .
On thing I did want to clear up was that the year that I first went to sea ,was 1942 which was hardly the last year of WW2.

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 04 Jul 05 - 04:15 PM

Well, the only downside to the weekend is I woke up this morning feeling like doggy doo -- beliee it or not, I've got a cold, although how I managed to get one for Fourth of July, I'll never know. (Maybe I SHOULD have been drinking the Bushmill's!!!)

By yesterday afternoon, I had sort of a sore throat from sinus drainage, so I should have figured it out. Ach!

Went to the reading of the Declaration of Independence (and preceding free breakfast and music) anyway, but felt lousy. Been resting (and intermitently napping) all day. Cannot under any circumstances take tomorrow off no matter how rotten I feel. And today I'm getting nothing accomplished but finishing reading "Tender at the Bone" by Ruth Reischl and probably starting "Comfort Me With Apples." I had really wanted to invite a few people over after the gathering this morning. Ah well.

I can only hope I sleep well tonight (thanks to store-brand Nyquil-like stuff) and feel better tomorrow.

Linn

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: ranger1
Date: 05 Jul 05 - 12:23 PM

To second Charley, Nor and Eli's Mollymauk was amazing. I've had it stuck in my head for the last couple of days.

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Jul 05 - 01:47 PM

Well, I didn't realise it was Song Circle night when I called, but I was delighted. It was a lot of fun to talk with ya'll!! Thanks!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Summer Song Circles at SINSULL's
From: KathWestra
Date: 05 Jul 05 - 07:36 PM

And really good to hear your voice, too, Kat, sounding so strong and cheerful. Yeah!