Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival

Subject: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: GUEST,Pete
Date: 06 Jan 07 - 02:05 AM

The 16th annual Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival will be held in the twin towns of Fareham & Gosport in Hampshire between Thursday 5th April and Monday 9th April 2007.

Artists include Kate Rusby; Seth Lakeman; Show of Hands;
John Tams & Barry Coope; Colvin:Quarmby;
John Renbourn & Robin Williamson; Lau; Megson;
Hazel & Jennifer Wrigley; Shona Kipling & Damien O'Kane;
North Cregg; The Tim Edey Band; Alistair Russell;
Heidi Talbot ('Cherish The Ladies') with Boo Hewerdine;
Paul Downes; Harriet Bartlett; Flossie Malavialle;
Chris & Siobhan Nelson; Emily & Hazel Askew and many more

Full details can be found on www.gosportfestival.co.uk

http://www.gosportfestival.co.uk

Earlybird season tickets as well as day tickets are now on sale. There's free parking for caravans and motorhomes and plenty of cheap B&Bs and hotels nearby.

Most concerts, workshops & sessions are held in the Ferneham Halls, Ashcroft Arts Centre & Lysses House Hotel, all within two minutes walk of each other in the centre of Fareham.

Session singers and musicians are welcomed all weekend in the Ferneham Hall bar and the Lysses House Hotel bar, there's a Showcase Stage every teatime and an infamous Late Night Festival Club with sessions (and a bar!) through till dawn.

Subject: RE: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: Cats
Date: 06 Jan 07 - 09:23 AM

Sorry we'll be in Belfast. We would have been at Miskin but...belfast it is.

Subject: RE: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: GUEST,Katie & Joe
Date: 08 Jan 07 - 10:18 PM

What's the Easter attraction in Belfast then Cats?

We're going to give the Gosport & Fareham Festival a try this year. The line-up looks good and we've heard excellent reports from the Barden of England and from Isambarde who were at both Miskin and Gosport last Easter.

Subject: RE: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: The Shambles
Date: 09 Jan 07 - 08:22 PM

Refresh

Subject: RE: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: Cats
Date: 10 Jan 07 - 11:53 AM

Belfast is my National Trade Union Conference, not a folk event but people who know me know I leave Miskin at some ungodly hour to travel to another part of the country to become a union official for the week, all expenses paid, of course. But as Belfast is too good to miss we're adding a few days holiday on to check out some music venues and have a holiday!

Subject: RE: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: GUEST,Eldorado
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 12:55 AM

Miskin will miss you Cats and sadly we'll also miss Miskin.

We're going to the Fareham Festival for the Friday and Saturday then onto the Albert Hall on Sunday to see Show of Hands again.

Not been to Fareham before but as it's en route from Dorset to the Albert Hall we thought we'd try it for a change this April.

Subject: RE: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 01:33 AM

You will be missed at Miskin.Enjoy yourself at the Albert Hall and Fareham we will see you next year perhaps at Miskin with Cats and Jon.


A Miskinite who will also be missing Miskin this year.

Subject: RE: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: bubblyrat
Date: 14 Jan 07 - 04:44 PM

Gosh !! Miskin IS gonna be quiet this year----Does this mean I can relax in the galley a bit ?? Last year ,we took more on the Sunday than for the whole of the previous festival !! While I"m here,& on the subject of Gosport--Does anyone know of a local musician called Don McKenzie ( good mandolin player ) -Little bloke with strong Glasgow accent ??? He & I used to help run a folk-club in the Queens Hotel,Queens road,Gosport, many moons ago .. He MIGHT still live there !! Cheers ! Roger (AKA Bubblyrat )

Subject: RE: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 15 Jan 07 - 06:45 AM

Hmmm Miskin quiet?? Nah! 76 names on the guest performers list will turn up at least..
2000 pints betwwen 76 people = 26 pints each,over three days...easy.

Subject: RE: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: bubblyrat
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 04:56 PM

What ???? Bill McKinnon ?? And Derek Tarrant??? Only 26 pints each over three days?? Are you mad ??

Subject: RE: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: GUEST,Guest Anne
Date: 25 Jan 07 - 06:56 PM

Bubblyrat,

          I'm trying to work out who you are. I know THE Don MacKensie you mean who plays mandolin and moreso in recent years the fiddle. I too helped to run the Queens Hotel folk club, Queens Rd, Gosport many moons ago, although I was still at school then and Don and various others were slightly older than me. He was with a group called The Mariners then. Ah I think the penny's just dropped - are you the Roger that lived round the corner from Julie & Tony who was also in the Mariners and do you wear a brightly coloured jumper and sometimes a little hat at Miskin??? Guess that covers most folk at Miskin though!

Subject: RE: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: bubblyrat
Date: 26 Jan 07 - 08:43 AM

Well now,Guest Anne,if you go on the Miskin site,and look at the photos for 2006,you"ll see a couple of me on the first section,in me stripey jersey !! I have been at Miskin 4 or 5 years now . And longer at Sidmouth ( first went in 1965 !! ) Yes, I lived in Franklin Road,at Rowner . The line-up of The Mariners was me,(Roger Mills),banjo,Don MacKenzie,mandolin, Andy Pearce ,vocals,Dave Lowe,guitar, & Lt.Commander Christine Poulter ( nee Place),12-string guitar & vocals. At the time,she was a leading Wren, so the girl done good !!! I would love to get in contact with "Wee Donald " again---can you fix it?? If you think it"s not advisable to swap E-mail numbers on this site,you can give me his details at Miskin this year---if you are going ??? I shall be in the kitchen doing my Gordon Ramsey bit again !! Love ,Roger xxxxx

Subject: RE: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: bubblyrat
Date: 26 Jan 07 - 08:47 AM

Come to think of it, I"m not proud,so just let me know (here) & I"ll give you my phone number !!

Subject: RE: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: GUEST,Guest Anne
Date: 26 Jan 07 - 05:47 PM

Bubblyrat,Yes, I already checked the Miskin site last night and I know who you are now. We have conversed at Miskin without recognising each other from way back then. Have the years changed us so much!!! I've been going to Miskin since it all started (way longer than you) but blooody hell Sidmouth since 1965 - I was still in primary school then!! I'll be at Miskin this year again with my daughter Alison (fiddle player with long black hair)and she looks like I did back in the days of the Queens! She's a talented fiddle player whereas I was a crap guitar player back then. Re Don, will see what I can do - talk more at Miskin. Re Mariners you forgot the other banjo player Mick P. or were you his replacement? Re Gordon Ramsey - whats on the menu then?

Subject: RE: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 26 Jan 07 - 06:09 PM

Good luck with the festival. Sadly we will miss it as we are going to our very fav festival of the year - Miskin!

Have fun anyway.

Rhiannon

Subject: RE: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: bubblyrat
Date: 27 Jan 07 - 08:11 AM

Dear Anne Guest--Much to say,& mustn"t clutter up this thread.You can E-mail me at [e-mail] as I would love to talk with you----Miskin too far away still !! This year possible culinary surprise from Greek person of note !! Can say no more !!Contact me soon ! Love,Roger xxx

Subject: RE: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: Fidjit
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 07:19 AM

Oh Rog. Not crumbly cheese salads!

Have a nice one G&F I'll be at the other one drinking my share of the Black Rat Cider. Give G&F a go another year praps.

Chas

Subject: RE: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: bubblyrat
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 07:46 AM

Dear Chas, By Rog ,do you mean me ?? I"m off to MISKIN, not G&F !!
I"ll be in the kitchen again,with the likes of "Bins" (Fagin !! ) and Gilly Robins,& NO crumbly salads as far as I know !! There MIGHT be a surprise,in the comestibles department,courtesy of a certain,shall we say,well-known Hellenic Troubadour !! ( Plate-smashing optional ! ) Must go & get ready now----It"s Bill McK"s Sunday Session in Wallingford today ---I believe Mr.Brakspeare & Mr.Strongbow are in support !!      Roger..........

Subject: RE: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: Fidjit
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 08:16 AM

Bubblyrat. Yes it's you. See you there. Look forward to seeing Bins (and Fred) Guess Snuffy will be in the kitchen too.

Chas

Subject: RE: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 10:49 AM

OI !!! Fair play chaps. This is supposed to be a space for Gosport & Fareham chat. How'm I s'posed to get big numbers on the Miskin thread if y0u keep coming on here.

Andy

Subject: RE: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: bubblyrat
Date: 28 Jan 07 - 11:12 AM

Sorry Andy---It kind of went that way after I appealed for help in finding an old friend from my Gosport "Den of Folk " days,---didn"t mean any harm.

Subject: RE: Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival
From: GUEST,Terry with the Accordion
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 04:59 PM

I'm staying local this year and going to G&F. They've got a great line-up and the all-night sessions are always entertaining.

For Guest Anne & Bubblyrat. The Queens Hotel is still going strong and is renowned as the best Real Ale pub for miles around. Doesn't have music nowadays but the landlady Sue runs a superb corner boozer. Probably the best in Gosport apart from The Clarence where the Easter Festival host their farewell session on Easter Monday.

There's a couple of new sessions in Gosport, the Kings Head on Brockhurst Road having just started-up to join the weekly sessions in the Fighting Cocks and The Clarence. Shep Woolley is also hosting some gigs at the Thorngate Halls. Seems the Gosport & Fareham Easter Festival (now in its 16th year I believe) has helped boost traditional music all-year-round in this area. As the birthplace of the great Cyril Tawney, Gosport is a good place to be.