NW Leicestershire Quarter Session

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: CallyH
Date: 06 Dec 07 - 04:43 PM

I'm hoping to be there!

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: MBSLynne
Date: 07 Dec 07 - 06:04 AM

That's great Rachel! Haven't seen you for ages!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: MBSLynne
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 05:25 AM

Yoohoo! It's on this Thursday!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: MuddleC
Date: 18 Dec 07 - 02:27 PM

can you hear it?


                   -silence!

but don't worry, the widescreen TV will be on the football channel!

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: GUEST,PMB
Date: 19 Dec 07 - 03:56 AM

I can't make it, I've found out the hard way that if you go down steps head first, it hurts your wrists. Can't drive, can't play until after Christmas.

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: jacqui.c
Date: 19 Dec 07 - 04:11 AM

I wish I could but I've already had to forgo another Thursday session as I've been booked to take my grandson out on Friday. Much as I love the music a promise to a seven year old has to trump everything else!

Have fun.

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: MBSLynne
Date: 20 Dec 07 - 08:29 AM

A pity jacqui...it would have been lovely to see you but one does have to have one's priorities right!

Ok...it's tonight. See those of you there who are coming and have fun to the rest of you whatever you are doing. Merry Christmas

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: Leadfingers
Date: 20 Dec 07 - 09:17 AM

Have a good one Lynne - Mary and I are in Dublins in Mechanicsville !

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: mandotim
Date: 21 Dec 07 - 02:30 AM

I had a good time last night; thanks to MBSLynne for organising and hosting, and to the participants for some good music.
Tim

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: Leadfingers
Date: 21 Dec 07 - 09:51 AM

Glad it went well - The couple of times I made it to The Quarter sessions were always good fun . I am happy to say that our Gig went well last night to !

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: Emma B
Date: 21 Dec 07 - 01:27 PM

A lovely evening Lynne, and great to see some old friends again too.

Nice Swanee whistles guys:)

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: MuddleC
Date: 21 Dec 07 - 05:15 PM

Away in a Manger on a swanee..... who needs guitars!!

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: MBSLynne
Date: 22 Dec 07 - 06:28 AM

Thanks all who came. I had a great time so I hope everyone else did too. Once again it was different from every other one we've had. Several people commented on it.

It was lovely to see everyone and great that people had come from so far away. We had people from Chester, Leek, Aylesbury and Harrow. The quality of the singing and music was wonderful and included at least three, no four...no more than that...people I would pay money to listen to. I have to say, as I said to her, that Amanda Diamond should be making and selling records. She is easily on a par with people like Kate Rusby.... a stunning singer.

I was kept totally happy as well, by hearing Eddie Richard's do "The Hiring Fair" which is one of my all time favourites. He was right when he said he'd never have got out of there alive if he hadn't done it for me. He also did "Meet on the Ledge" which is another one to make me totally happy. Houston Diamond did "No Woman No Cry", which I can listen to over and over again.
Steve Thomason was brilliant as ever. Mandotim was great and very useful since he can and does join in with all the music and I loved hearing the Country Joe and the Fish number he did, though amused to see that the only people laughing at it were the over 40s. Several younger people sat there listening with blank faces and not understanding most of it.

Tim and Neil on Swanee whistles were...interesting. Rachel (Cally Hanna) has obviously been doing a lot of practising and was great on both the concertina and the whistle. All the others were equally enjoyable and made a really good evening.

I must say I was so proud of my ShadyLady, who has always been quite a good singer though lacking in lung capacity. Suddenly her voice has become bigger, but remains beautifully clear. I know I'm a bit biased but I think she does brilliantly for 12 years old.

Once again, thank you everyone, it was wonderful to see and hear you all. We4 must make sure we continue to do the sessions regularly again. Still trying to find an alternative venue though, as the landlord remains a surly and unwelcoming sod even though we must have more than doubled his normal Thursday evening takings.

See you in March??

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: mandotim
Date: 23 Dec 07 - 05:34 AM

Hi1 I'm with you about Amanda; somebody record her, and quick! The Hiring Fair is one of my favourites too, it was great to hear it in a session. Well done Shady, who I assumed was much older than 12, given the confidence and skill of her singing!
See you all next time I hope.
Tim
PS it wasn't Country Joe! It was 'Talkin' Vietnam Pot Luck Blues' by Tom Paxton! Small wonder the younger element didn't get some of the references!

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: MBSLynne
Date: 23 Dec 07 - 10:06 AM

Amanda says she's too busy at the moment as she's studying and doing disertations (Is that spelled right? It doesn't look like it somehow) and such like.

Shady started singing in public when she was 5 and belongs to three choirs now so she's an old hand! Hoping she can go back to having flute lessons now with a little help from our friends and family.

Tentative next date is possibly 15th of March, though if we manage to sort a better venue it may be 21st or 22nd March instead.

Someone mentioned the Moira mini folk festival we talked about in the summer. If we can get the Railway in Moira for sessions we could include that and the Furnace for the festival. It could be good!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: MBSLynne
Date: 12 Aug 08 - 08:12 AM

Hello! We've been a bit slack with this over the last year. We will try to do better!

Unfortunately, we can't get the other venue...the landlord was most definite. So it's back to the surly but accomodating landlord at the Turk's Head. Unforunately, that probably means it will continue to be a Thursday evening.

Right...next session! Thursday 18th September at 8.00 ish.

Who's coming??

We have also been invited to help organize a folk festival at Moira furnace and are going to a meeting about it on Thursday. Don't know when yet but we will need stewards and helpers. We'll keep you posted!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: MBSLynne
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 08:42 AM

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Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: Paul Burke
Date: 13 Aug 08 - 08:51 AM

Must check up on boat dates- I know we're out sometime about then... otherwise count me in.

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: Mr Happy
Date: 14 Aug 08 - 09:58 AM

Lynne,

Keep us posted on the proposed Moira fest - when's it likely to be?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moira,_Leicestershire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moira_Furnace

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: MBSLynne
Date: 15 Aug 08 - 01:24 PM

Great Paul! It's a while since we've seen you!

Mr Happy, the proposed date is first weekend in September next year, but, having had the first meeting about it I'm not sure if it's a goer. The site poses an awful lot of problems being open to the general public and not able to be shut off. We have another meeting next week. I'll let you know when we've decided anything. I'd better start another thread for it....

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: MBSLynne
Date: 17 Sep 08 - 02:23 PM

It's tomorrow!

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: MuddleC
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 07:33 PM

where's the report Lynne?

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: GUEST,Louise
Date: 12 Nov 08 - 10:32 AM

Hi Lynne... I'm being very over-eager! Just wondering whether you're having a December quarter session? Just planning my Christmas holidays! If not, see you on Boxing Day :) x

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: alanww
Date: 21 Nov 08 - 07:05 AM

Hi Louise
Lynne has sent out invitations on facebook, saying that it'll be on Thu 18 Dec at the Turk's Head ... but I'm not sure I can make it, as I've mummers on Wed 17 & Fri 19 Dec and the Welsh Borders all day morris tour on Sat 20 Dec! Wassail!
"... bedecked in bays and rosemary!"
Alan

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: MuddleC
Date: 01 Dec 08 - 07:17 PM

Odds bodkins! Thursday 18th no less...nice seeing you and Shady at Bed'uth.... plus.... Alan's leather hat is removeable... with a mongol/visigoth padded number underneath!

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: MBSLynne
Date: 21 Feb 09 - 04:25 AM

I'm sorry to have to report the demise of the North West Leicestershire Quarter sessions. Ted tried to arrange one for March but, because there were so few people at the December one, the landlord said "No". Seems a bit stupid to me since he doesn't actually have to do anything and it menas he actually has some people in the pub, albeit only a few, rather than none at all. Oh well, is it any wonder the man is going bankrupt?

Can't, at the moment think of anywhere else to hold it so for now it's off. We will try and find somewhere else.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: Acorn4
Date: 21 Feb 09 - 04:56 AM

Have you tried "The Holly Bush" at Oakthorpe. They've recently started running the Monday Folk night again. I think the management are,once again, hovering about whether to sell the place but they seem pretty friendly.

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: Acorn4
Date: 21 Feb 09 - 07:01 AM

...also, the landlord at the Britannia in Shepshed has a great upstairs room which is used for a Friday Folk Club - he's been very supportive; once again at loggerheads with the brewery but that seems par for the course nowadays.

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: MBSLynne
Date: 21 Feb 09 - 10:08 AM

Shepshed is too far away. One of the criteria for the session is that we should be able to walk there! I guess The Hollybush is in walking distance. It's a possibility. I'd have liked to keep it in Donisthorpe though. Well the Turks landlord is actually selling the place so if he gets a buyer we may be back in. Someone suggested we should club together and buy it as a sort of local cooperative pub.

However, having just been to "The Woodman", which is about 3/4 of a mile from us, to talk to him about sessions at the festival, I'm now wondering if that would be a goer. He doesn't seem to get many other customers.


Love Lynne

Subject: RE: NW Leicestershire Quarter Session
From: MBSLynne
Date: 23 Feb 09 - 06:36 AM

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