How much folking d'ye get each week?

Subject: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 21 Sep 05 - 08:30 PM

i bin out folking tonight & in the usual way o' things, work shitfs permitting, will also be folking about on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fri's, Sat's, & some Sun's.

How often are u folks able to indulge yourselves?


[& where?]

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Effsee
Date: 21 Sep 05 - 08:48 PM

And where are you?

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 21 Sep 05 - 09:01 PM

in the lounge, et tu?

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: michaelr
Date: 21 Sep 05 - 09:04 PM

I'm lucky if I get folked once a week.

(in California)

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 21 Sep 05 - 09:39 PM

...not as uch as I'd like - oh you meant folk MUSIC?

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 21 Sep 05 - 09:52 PM

last week was exceptional
tues, wed, thurs, fri, sun, tues again.
thats not counting a few afernoon pro gigs - not really folk music, and recording a song, and rehearsing another.
I prefer just meeting round a mates house and having a jam these days.
music is best when you're playing for yourself, learning new stuff and new ideas that make you want to practice and experiment - in a way that you shouldn't really in public - particularly when you're being paid.

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: jimmyt
Date: 21 Sep 05 - 10:01 PM

Folked around on Sunday at a gig in the PM, then again tuesday night at a bluegrass session. Not much folking future for the next few days, but getaway is coming

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: bobad
Date: 21 Sep 05 - 10:01 PM

Folk off eh! That's personal.

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 21 Sep 05 - 10:15 PM

Folking Music!

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Sep 05 - 10:20 PM

being a modal folker, I am welcome in many venues!

(I used to mix cement with a multi-tined implement, but I just got laughed at when I explained I was a mortar forker, so I quit.)

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Mooh
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 12:26 AM

Last Tues, Preachers' Sons (rockin' blues) jam.
Wed, open mic.
Thurs, Guiddle M'Jig (guitar/fiddle) set at the nursing home in a.m., choir practice later.
Fri/Sat off.
Sun, church choir.
Mon, off.
Tues, jam with piper friend.
Today, jam with concertina friend in a.m. and Preachers' Sons jam later.
Every weekday, some jamming with students, and practice for myself.

Friday next, evening gig with former bandmate.

Next week, it all repeats with some variation.

I would do more if I could.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 12:38 AM

For ten weeks mid year 2005 - three times a day - seven times a week.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 01:07 AM

My folking of preference the last few years has been the jam. Love it.

Have you noticed the same phenomenon that I have recently?- if I don't have an instrument with me, I'm perfectly content to just sit and listen. Somehow your instrument reminds you that you were planning to do something- changes the whole mindset.

I also love working sessions. My singing partner and I meet several times a week, in addition to the weekly song circle.

We are also now in the process of bringing a third person in to make a trio out of what we're doing. SP and I have learned about 40 songs now and worked out harmonies for them. With the new member coming in on some songs - he has a high tenor voice - we'll develop a different format with a third harmony. It's all fun.

We recently started a monthly folk club too and it's a blast.

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 04:30 AM

There are no folk clubs within 50 miles of here, and there are I believe a couple of sessions in pubs, again not locally. So either I drive 20/30/40/50 miles to smoky pub where I can only have one drink because I'm driving, or I get folked in lumps by going to a couple of festivals and a Mudcat gathering or two, when I can. Don't suggest taking a bus as there are none, the train station is 4 miles away, and there are only 4 trains a day.
Giok

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From:
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 04:36 AM

Depends really, I sometimes go to my local folk club, I sometimes go to others, I sometimes go to my local and others for guest nights, and if this year is anything to go by, I get folked on average, one weekend a month!
(That is that my festival count is currently 11, with 5 to go!)

I do so enjoy getting folked on a regular basis!

muppitz x

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 05:30 AM

Every morning at Mudcat provided it is accessible.

Giok - and what about a bicycle? or better a tricycle; it can't tumble when the driver is drunk.

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Gervase
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 05:37 AM

At the moment about once a year - at Sidmouth.
We did get very excited to discover a folk club within half an hour of our place in West Wales, but it turned out to be the direst, most poorly-arranged affair I've ever encountered, run by a control freak whose idea of a folk club was him sitting in front of a minuscule audience picking out bluegrass numbers with enough amplification and electrickery to satisfy Spinal Tap. Suggestions that more partiicipation from guests and floor singers were met with the tart response that "this is a performers' club, you know".
The sad thing is, this is the only 'folk club' within miles, so anyone coming across it without knowing what the real thing was like would risk being put off traditional music for life.

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 06:57 AM

Very hilly in Scotland Wilfried, and frequently wet, who would carry my guitar, and can you cure my arthritic hips so I can ride a bicycle for more than about 5 miles?
Giok ¦¬]

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 07:33 AM

1. so it is easier to wheel down.
2. there are wellingtons
3. change to piccolo
4. no - so you're exonerated.

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 07:43 AM

Souns like Giok needs to start something locally. Who knows, there could be loads of people just waiting ....

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 08:18 AM

I've thought about Guest several times, only one pub/hotel in the village, and that always seems to be full of foul mouthed "kids"
G.

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Sooz
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 08:30 AM

Giok - move house!
Lincolnshire is good or South Yorkshire.

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Lowden Jameswright
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 08:32 AM

More than I'm able to find time for - there's folking every night in these parts if you have the stamina. It's very humbling to read some folks experiences - that "folk club" in West Wales described by Gervase certainly ain't no folk club, and I'd suggest starting a genuine one!

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 09:22 AM

Ah, the days of my youth. I remember folking three or four times a week, mostly at open mikes or at friends' houses, occasionally at paying gigs.

Then I got older and got married and developed additional obligations. Now if I folk once a week I figure I'm on a roll. Used to play my guitar every day. Now it might be every week. I look forward to retirement and more time to folk around.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Beer
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 09:54 AM

Folking right now. You can to if you go to www.ckutfolk.com and take in Mike Regenstreif's "Folk Roots Folk Branches" located in Montreal Canada.
Beer

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 02:20 PM

Between elderly parents needing attention and the need to keep the day job nowhere near enough. Pigged out on early music at the South Bank last weekend, plus a chance to see the lovely Rivington Morris then nothing for a fortnight. After that the ceilidhs get going again so will be hitting the dance floor three or four times a month plus a couple of clubs or sessions.

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 06:10 PM

Spoilt for choice here in and around Edinburgh: something on every night of the week in various pubs and folk clubs. This week includes: Sunday; Linlithgow Folk fest assocn monthly pub session. Monday: Almond Valley Folk Club, Tues: Balerno Folk Club AGM, Weds: Edinburgh Folk Club - Archie Fisher (after ALP Scots Music mixed instrument class), Thurs: Newtongrange or Portobello (but stayed in to wash hair and do some WORK!), Friday: Davey Graham at Ed FC or Hootenanny in Glasgow.............and so it goes on! Iain Anderson playing good music on BBC Scotland online as I type too!
Can't wait for retirement , then i can go out EVERY night!
TB

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: PennyBlack
Date: 22 Sep 05 - 09:34 PM

Sun: Night
Mon: Night
Tues: Lunch & Night
Wed: Night
Thurs: Night
Fri: Night (plus Fri Lunch end Oct beginning Nov (another ARC gig))
Sat: Night

on average: 26hrs per week at venues
            20hrs per week rehearsing/recording/p1$$1n@ about
          <>12hrs per week traveling to locations (singing in car!)


Then any other time I/We can fit in!

PB

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: mooman
Date: 23 Sep 05 - 05:48 AM

I used to folk quite often but now, sadly, as I am older only do so rarely (generally around the first weekend in May). I believe I may next folk in Cork, a scene of much enjoyable folking in my younger days.

Peace

moo

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Stu
Date: 23 Sep 05 - 08:25 AM

Once a week, every week on Friday nights at a session.

Plenty of beer and tunes, with the occasional song.

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Sep 05 - 09:34 AM

Some people just have no shame!

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Pseudolus
Date: 23 Sep 05 - 09:52 AM

Is it true that to get information about local folkers you can call 1-800-FOLKYOU?


Frank

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Sep 05 - 11:52 AM

Well, SOMEONE has to say it. . .



I don't get any. I have to do it by myself at home, with a dulcimer.

Where'd I leave my hat?

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Sep 05 - 07:46 PM

I just HAVE to ask....

do you pluck it with your fingers or hit it with a hammer?

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: JennyO
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 10:37 AM

Oooooooooh! The hammer sounds a bit vicious! Eyes watering just thinking about it!

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 06:54 PM

Boom! Boom!

there's always one - never throw out a straight line to a bunch of wannabe comedians...

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Susan A-R
Date: 24 Sep 05 - 10:40 PM

I go out for up-to-speed folk on Tuesdays,and slow folk on Thursdays, and sometimes me and the boys go out and do it in public. It really raises a few eyebrows at the farmer's market, but they seem to like it. But then Vermont is one of those hippy states.

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 12:56 AM

Robin,

Plucked, of course! Sometimes with a feather, sometimes with a pretty primrose pick.

I have considered adding amplification. An electrical boost would improve the output, don't you think?

;->

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Genie
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 02:29 AM

Well, sad to say, I haven't been folked in almost 2 weeks. ¨§:-(
(I've been sick.)

I did get jazzed a bit tonight, and that felt pretty good, I'm happy to say.

Lookin' forward to some good ol' fashioned folkin' this coming weekend at SunnyCamp in SW Washington, though!

§;-D
Genie

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: JennyO
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 04:54 AM

I'm looking forward to getting well and truly folked at my birthday party on the James Craig on Wednesday night. Chanteyranger just wrote me a birthday shanty on my birthday thread too! There's nothing like having a good folk!

Jenny

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: Grab
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 08:35 AM

I've slowed down a bit - generally only once a week these days (Friday or Wednesday depending on the week). But I also I go to a singing teacher once a week to learn how to give oral satisfaction.

Graham.

Subject: RE: How much folking d'ye get each week?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 26 Sep 05 - 06:43 PM

SRS

you should probably install sound insulation in that case...