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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: Don Firth Date: 23 Aug 05 - 01:28 PM Sorry about not bringing any Moose Drool, Genie. We got into a last minute bind before coming (Barbara had a recording session—playing a portable foot-pedaled reed camp organ to provide incidental music for a poetry reading CD—that didn't get out until about 4:00 p.m.), so in our rush, we grabbed a bottle of wine out of our larder. It seems, however, that it turned out to be a beer-drinking crowd. Moose Drool next time for sure. Great concert and song fest! Charley and Judy have some really interesting stuff, most of which I had never heard before. I was particularly enthralled by the C. Fox Smith material. And it was good hearing you again, and all the others you mentioned above (spelled Mariide, incidentally—that sea chantey voice of hers reminds me a lot of Judy Henske). Many thanks to Steward and his good wife for throwing their house (and deck) open to a mob like us. More and more I think the house concert format, especially when followed by food and a song fest, is about as good as it gets! Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: emjay Date: 23 Aug 05 - 04:10 PM I haven't often wished I lived in the Seattle area, but this thread did it -- for a while anyway. What a wonderful gathering it must have been. And then when I saw the pictures and all the white heads, I knew I would have fit right in. And the bright sunshine. Wow! |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: Deckman Date: 23 Aug 05 - 05:05 PM "emjay" ... You bet you would have fit right in ... white hair and all. (I did notice that most of us whiteheads had beards, though). Actually, it was a typical gloomy day in Seattle. What you thought was sunshine was just reflected light from all the Martin guitars leaning against the deck railings just waiting for their turn. CHEERS, Bob |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: Genie Date: 23 Aug 05 - 09:32 PM I really enjoyed hearing you again, too, Don. And next time if you bring the Moose Drool, I'll bring Gorilla Snot for everyone, and we'll have a wild beastly time! As you said, "Many thanks to Stewart and his good wife for throwing their house (and deck) open to a mob like us. More and more I think the house concert format, especially when followed by food and a song fest, is about as good as it gets! " That's for sure! Genie |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: GUEST,Franz S. Date: 24 Aug 05 - 11:07 PM It was a somewhat peculiar sensation for me, playing host and tourguide for an old friend in a place I still consider home ground though I haven't lived here for over 40 years. We crawled through the Pike Street Market and alonf the waterfront, where I told Charley about all the things that aren't there any more, went to Blake Island and saw a spectacular sunset on the water, and then the happy gathering at Stewart and Betty's house above Carkeek Park! Charley's performing skills have improved greatly since 1962, and I really enjoy his choice of songs to perform. AND JUDY'S! Deckman did one of my alltime favorites, "Dear Margaret", several people whose names I knew I would forget demonstrated their great taste in music and their wonderful voices (too bad my dad was having problems with his hearing aid), the beer was good (I liked the "Drawbride Blonde"; see, there's tis neon representation of Rapunzel in one of the towers on the Fremont Bridge...)... Seattle is a hell of a good place with a hell of a lot of good people. Thanks for the music and the hospitality. Franz |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: Stilly River Sage Date: 24 Aug 05 - 11:21 PM Franz, I also consider it home ground, though I haven't lived there (except for a summer in 1985) in 25 years. It's engrained in you, the smells, the feeling of saltwater beaches, trees down to the shoreline, the rain, the temperate evergreen climate. And since I know what marvelous voices so many of those folks have, along with the wicked senses of humor, it makes the reading of this thread simultaneously cheering and poignant. I like seeing that this is happening, but I miss not being there to participate. (Especially when the daytime temperature here is hovering around 102!) SRS |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: Don Firth Date: 25 Aug 05 - 12:41 PM Somebody once said: And now that I'm used to the climate,Yup. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: Deckman Date: 25 Aug 05 - 03:45 PM Nice poem Don! Ever thought about putting it to music? Bob |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: GUEST Date: 26 Aug 05 - 10:26 PM Stilly, My dad and wife and I spent Tuesday mousing around the Stillaguamish and the Pilchuk. Is there a Washington State version of "The Rivers of Texas"? I'm now loking across Lake Union at the house where I learned Midnight Special and Michael Row The Boat Ashore about 50 years ago. |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: Deckman Date: 26 Aug 05 - 11:25 PM Guest, I'm assuming that this is Franz .... right? Yes there is. Contact Mary Garvy, she's a catter and yes, she wrote a Washington state version. Bob |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: Stilly River Sage Date: 27 Aug 05 - 12:06 AM Funny, because an acquaintance of mine (he lives in Albuquerque) wrote a book along the lines of Rivers of Texas. Might have been him, I don't have a copy to check. Verne Huser. Small world. Good luck getting that book. There was a big festival up the Stilly last week, too bad you didn't get up there then. I read about it in the Everett Herald. Enjoy that water. I grew up always looking at Puget Sound, or Lake Whatcom, or various rivers in places where I lived around the state. Don't take it for granted. I consider myself extremely lucky to live next to a year-round creek here, but it is a tiny thing in comparison to the bodies of water up in the Northwest. Sycamore Creek (in my back yard) is a tributary to the Trinity River that flows eventually into the Gulf of Mexico. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: GUEST,Franz S. Date: 28 Aug 05 - 12:37 PM Yeah, that was me. I now live in an area with a three-foot trickle in a 200-foot riverbed. I'll never take this water for granted. We spent yesterday up the Tye, doing trail maintenance on the Iron Goat Trail. Today we're headed for an anitique threshers conclave down in Cowlitz County. The fun never stops. (and the rain is gently drifting down.) |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: Metchosin Date: 28 Aug 05 - 02:03 PM Here are some pics of Charlie and Judy at The Bent Mast with some members of the Nautical Song Circle in Victoria, BC, last night . (hope they work, I still haven't totally figured out the tech stuff on Flickr) Charley delighted and enlightened the group with his renditions of C. Fox-Smith songs and perhaps he and Judy were still out early this morning looking for Cicely's initials carved in an old piling. It was great to meet some more Mudcatters in person this month and to have Charlie bring a few wonderful pieces of lost BC history back home. |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: Deckman Date: 28 Aug 05 - 02:35 PM Thanks for posting the pictures. Much appreciated. Bob |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: Charley Noble Date: 28 Aug 05 - 05:04 PM Nice to see the pictures so soon! We really had a good time with Metchosin and her family at dinner last evening before the Nautical Song Circle, comparing notes on our musical experiences. There were about a dozen folks at the Bent Mast Pub when we got there and we we warmly welcomed by Bill who was coordinating the Circle. Most of the folks were leading traditional sea shanties so I tested the ceiling plaster with "Fire Maringo." I provided folks some background on Cicely Fox Smith's residence in Victoria in the early 1900's. And then described the results of my "field research." I think I've pinned down where she used to work in an upstairs law office along the west side of Wharf Street, adjacent to what is now Chandlers Sea Food Restaurant. I've taken a lot of photos of old buildings nearby which she must have been familair with, as well as photos of her favorite fishing haunt at the old Outer Wharfs. It was great to watch the sunset out at the breakwater, just as she described it: the sun flaming down into the China Seas, reflecting off the snow capped crests across the Strait. Never did find her initials carved anywhere. I did my best to reseed the Song Circle with my musical adaptations of her poems. I led "Outward Bound," "Shanghai Pssage," "Hastings Mill," "and "Pacific Coast (Victoria)." There were some strong singers in the Circle and some nice local variation of familiar songs and some entirely new ones, to me. Judy did a great job of leading John Warner's "Bunyip Song," "Willie-O," and Tanglefoot's "Treilleigh Bay." Thanks again for the warm welcome and we'd love to get back in a year or two. I'll do another post with regard to the experiences we had in Vancouver and neighboring Steveston Village. Cheerily, Charley Noble PS The racoons still haven't made it back in but they're trying! |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: Metchosin Date: 28 Aug 05 - 06:29 PM Glad you enjoyed yourself Charley, although you forgot to mention comparing notes on the simultaneous bathroom renovations too. BG I will endeavour to learn Pacific Coast, it brought a tear to me eye. I will think of it with every late summer and fall sunset blazing with red and gold. Thank you again for a delightful evening. |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: mgarv Date: 28 Aug 05 - 09:22 PM Sorry to have missed the event but I am in the true clam country of the state...threshers? Wasn't in Toledo, was it? I went to high school right there at St. Mary's. Hope all northwesterners can make it to Sunnycamp...it is drawing more interest earlier than usual despite my usual failure to publicize it early enough so could everyone who has a mailing list of friends or contacts at radio stations etc. give me a hand if possible.. Sept 30 and Oct 1 and 2 PRice $50 Location: Nahcotta, Washingon in oysterlands..on Long Beach Peninsula, sw corner of state, 3.5 hours from Seattle. 3 or so from Portland/Vancouver. We're thankfully getting several people from Olympia, Shelton, Port Townsend..California... mg Can someone bring Nancy Quense to it..she has got one of the most beautiful voices anywhere. mg |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: Genie Date: 29 Aug 05 - 08:37 PM Mary, on replaying one of my Gordon Bok CDs after Charlie's house concert, I wanted to kick myself for not doing your song about Willapa Bay at the concert. Like other songs of yours, it's a great sing-along! For Don, Charley & the other attendees at the house concert & jam: Now, who has the more hostile climate, Down east or this wet northwest ground? To make both immortal, we'll rhyme it In songs of Maine and Puget Sound. In hymns to Maine & Puget Sou-ou-ound, In hymns to Maine & Puget Sound. To make both immortal, we'll rhyme it In songs of Maine and Puget Sound! I'm halfway a slave to tradition, Yet tempted by satire and slams. No doubt I'll be sent to perdition Surrounded by Mudcatter hams! Surrounded by Mudcatter ha-a-ams, Surrounded by Mudcatter hams! No doubt, I'll be sent to perdition Sooooo-rounded by Mudcatter hams! Genie |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: Charley Noble Date: 30 Aug 05 - 04:43 PM I should mention that my Victoria post above was typed in a hurry at a bookstore internet cafe, after it swallowed a much longer post...Grrrrrrr! Now Judy B and I are safely back in Maine. The place still looks familiar. Our two cats still recognize us, and their are fresh claw marks on the catdoor deck surround. I don't think the little raccoon bandito gang ever made it in but they sure were trying. I also led "The Old Fiddle" at the Nautical Song Circle which has to be my favorite song from the twilight zone of C. Fox Smith. But we got to get someone to accompany it with an old sailor's fiddle. Metchosin- Thanks again for your hospitality and the intense discussion of bathroom renovation. I'm glad you feel in love with "Pacific Coast." I'm convinced that this is one of C. Fox Smith's more personal songs, nostalgic in that she's back in England far from the Victoria she loved and lived in for almost 10 years. I'm also convinced that she had the traditional sea ballad "Rolling Home" in mind for the tune. Be aware that I've dropped out one of her verses and made a few small changes to what she wrote. My website should clarify much of that: Click here! Genie: ;~) Hopefully, it won't take us another 10 years to revisit the Pacific NW. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: Charley Noble Date: 01 Sep 05 - 10:55 AM refresh! Danny and Joyce McLeod will be continuing the research in BC after their participation in the San Francisco Maritime Festival in a week or so. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: Franz S. Date: 01 Sep 05 - 12:39 PM mgarv: Yes, it was Toledo. I relearned everything I had forgotten about Stirling engines. Genie: Excellent work. I've been trying to work something out about our sailing attempt on Lake Union, like "Becalmed on old Lake Union", but it isn't going anywhere. Charley, you're the songwriter. Charley, welcome home. I won't be home until after the Sea Music Festival on Hyde St. Pier in SF Sept. 10. The party never ends. |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: Charley Noble Date: 01 Sep 05 - 01:03 PM Franz- The wind is was abating, The sails flapped listfully, As we urged our noble Blanchard Across the halcyon sea! Cheerily, Capt. Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Seattle House Concert - Charley Noble From: Charley Noble Date: 01 Sep 05 - 07:58 PM Here's a link to my latest update from my research to the C. Fox Smith thread: Click here! Danny and Joyce McLeod will be following up there own C. Fox Smith leads in Steveston and Vancouver after their appearance at the San Francisco Sea Music Festival at the Hyde Street Pier, September 10th. They will also be looking for opportunities to sing. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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