Folk Festivals This Month?

Subject: Folk Festivals This Month?
From: harpgirl
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 12:04 AM

Hello kind friends,
What Folk Festivals are around you all in January? Florida has the South Florida Folk Festival in Ft. Lauderdale at the end of January and a Friends of Florida Folk get together in Dade City, the worlds sweetest smelling city...(orange processing plants)...I wish some Mudcatters would plan a trip to Florida in mid April for the Will McLean Festival in Dade City...harpgirl oh Frrraaannnnk!!!

Subject: RE: Folk Festivals This Month?
From: hank
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 09:06 AM

there is one at my place. I don't know when yet, but it will the coldest day of the month. Outdoors on a nearby frozen lake. Did I mention there will probably be a strong wind? No partacing in mind altering substances, you won't need them belive me.

I'll probably be ice skating, without music though. My insterments don't take to well to such nice weather. Unless it turns out that it was last weekend in which case I was putting rafters on a house.

I'm often accused of being the only in the world who loves MN winters, but I think there must be someone else.

Subject: RE: Folk Festivals This Month?
From: Mo
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 03:22 PM

Glasgow is the place to be in January for the Celtic Connections fest.

Subject: RE: Folk Festivals This Month?
From: northfolk
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 08:43 PM

harpgirl, I hope this will warm the cockles of your heart...will be at the Ann Arbor folk fest...all right it is indoors...and camping will be done in a hotel room, which will abbreviate the campfire singalongs...Not to mention that the person in our group, whose turn it was this year to procure tickets called late and all the performers now are going to be only 1 inch tall...and all the people around us will have nose bleeds...we'll have fun through all the travails...and wish we were in florida only after the concert, when we have to walk through a blizzard to the Blind Pig, for a pint and some blues to bring us back down.

Subject: RE: Folk Festivals This Month?
From: Barbara
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 09:54 PM

The Seattle Folklore Society has one, appropriately named Rainy Camp at the end of this month/beginning of next month. I'll be there, and also at the Portland folkies one in mid-March.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Folk Festivals This Month?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 08 Jan 99 - 10:16 PM

At the beginning of February it's the very traditional University of Chicago Folk Festival on the campus. Held in Mandel Hall at 57th & University with workshops in Ida Noyes Hall on the Midway, this is always a grand way to escape (sort of) Chicago's snow & cold. (How cold is it? Hard to say, but I did see a guy & gal with their tongues frozen together in the Loop recently. A city worker was trying to chip 'em apart but then he realized she was a chippy & not in distress at all. A new definition for the word 'frigid'.)

Art

Subject: RE: Folk Festivals This Month?
From: Frank in the swamps
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 03:54 AM

Harpgirl, gotta confess, I've been whistling a tune I can't dance to,this blue moon will see me tied down through march,but mid april could be good. I'll stay in touch on W.M. Festival.

Blackwater, bye the way, is way out by the Redneck Riviera, It flows through the Blackwater state forest over by the Alabama border. There is a state park just north of a tiny town called Milton. Also a couple of other campsites up in the forest. It is, imho, one of the last best places in the entire state. And if locals tell you the fishing sucks, they're lying, use a rapala right at sundown, you'll be eating bass for supper. As the name implies, it is tannin stained to an eerie black, and has "florida snow" white sandy banks.

Frank i.t.s.

Subject: RE: Folk Festivals This Month?
From: harpgirl
Date: 11 Jan 99 - 12:35 PM

Northfolk
I envy you being able to go to the AA folk festival. I always enjoyed it when I was an Ann Arbor resident.
Frank,
I know just about exactly where you refer to on the Blackwater but lots of water is called blackwater around here because of the tannin. I will try the fishing up there this spring. I love that park for camping...real florida is fast disappearing but if you go from spring to spring and swamp to swamp it still seems wild...harpgirl
I'll post all the festivals I know in Florida each month on this thread...harpgirl