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12 Aug 08 - 04:24 PM (#2411856) Subject: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: curmudgeon REMINDER - This month's shanty/forebitter/ballad session will be taking place on the FOURTH Saturday, 23 August from 3:30 to 7:30 PM at the Press Room in Portsmouth NH, for this month ONLY. This is due to an unavoidable scheduling conflict. "Normal" operations will re-commence in September. I won't start asking for a head/voice count until next week - Tom |
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12 Aug 08 - 05:27 PM (#2411926) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: jacqui.c Darn it - won't be there - it's too far to fly back, even for that. |
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12 Aug 08 - 05:37 PM (#2411938) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: SINSULL SO I should cancel my non-existent song circle???? I will be there Tom. Stop yelling at me! LOL |
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12 Aug 08 - 05:40 PM (#2411942) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: Jeri Mary, we can all go home with you and have breakfast on Sunday. |
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12 Aug 08 - 05:53 PM (#2411967) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: SINSULL How about you all come home with me and serve me breakfast in bed - QUIETLY. |
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12 Aug 08 - 05:59 PM (#2411975) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: curmudgeon Coffee first! |
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12 Aug 08 - 06:04 PM (#2411979) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: Severn Mary, Then will the non-existant circle be broken by and by? |
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12 Aug 08 - 06:07 PM (#2411982) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: SINSULL Severn, Don't make me hurt you. Now back to the Press Room. |
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12 Aug 08 - 06:58 PM (#2412028) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: stallion Now breakfast in bed at Sins is quite an attractive offer but 2BS&S are on holiday, we are looking after Ron's kitten whilst his family are on holiday and we are smitten, and scratched, and bitten, it uses the litter, hey ho, better than having a shoe full cat pee hu Sins! Pete |
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12 Aug 08 - 07:14 PM (#2412042) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: SINSULL Peter, I don't know what you are smoking but it is rude not to share. Did Alice pee in your shoes when you were here? She does sometimes. SINS |
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15 Aug 08 - 08:39 AM (#2414477) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: Bat Goddess refresh |
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15 Aug 08 - 09:04 PM (#2415109) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: Bat Goddess Just a reminder that for THIS MONTH ONLY the session is the fourth Saturday (August 23) and not tomorrow (cuz we're otherwise engaged). Linn |
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17 Aug 08 - 01:24 AM (#2415860) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: TRUBRIT Jacqui -- are you going to the UK? I'll be there in early Nov for a wedding. Can't make the Press Room - going to Texas on Sunday am at the crack of dawn for some training .have fun. |
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17 Aug 08 - 10:01 AM (#2416005) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: Charley Noble Alas, we'll be missing next Saturday's shanty session at the Press Room. We're booked at the 2nd Annual Downeast Pirates Festival in Rockland (Saturday and Sunday). We expect a full report! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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18 Aug 08 - 08:42 AM (#2416721) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: SINSULL Refresh |
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19 Aug 08 - 08:34 AM (#2417629) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: SINSULL Someone left some charts at my house after the festival. Peter, maybe? Shall I bring them Saturday? M Refresh |
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19 Aug 08 - 08:46 AM (#2417640) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: maeve I brought some and gave them to Jacqui who thought she could find them a home, Sinsull. Portland area, they were. |
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19 Aug 08 - 09:24 AM (#2417680) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: curmudgeon Also, I fear that Peter and the Gloucesterfolk will be off on an adventure this weekend, and others will be rolled and gone. Who's left ? Hope to see a few good people this saturday - Tom |
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20 Aug 08 - 06:02 AM (#2418447) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: maeve My heart will be there, Tom. The rest of me will be hard at work on the farm. Sing lots; laugh more. maeve |
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20 Aug 08 - 08:12 AM (#2418527) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: SINSULL So it's me, Linn, Tom & Jeri? |
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20 Aug 08 - 08:31 AM (#2418537) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: Bat Goddess And more locals who aren't 'Catters. Linn |
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20 Aug 08 - 03:06 PM (#2418837) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: curmudgeon I think that Barry's planning on being there, and I hope, Justine. The "smaller: session can be quite rewarding on a different level, but a few more singers would be nice - Tom |
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21 Aug 08 - 12:42 AM (#2419192) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: Barry Finn Well I am planning on being there but I never know for shore (heh,heh) till the last minute. Can't say how Justine's feeling about it, she's been working some long hours this week to keep me in the style of living I've grown a custom to,,,, poverty! And some one said I was middle class cause I have a car! Barry |
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21 Aug 08 - 10:15 AM (#2419389) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: Bat Goddess I just started reading Judson Hale's memoirs. He stated that in Vanceboro, Maine in the 1930s there were two classes -- poor and dirt poor. Linn |
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21 Aug 08 - 11:02 AM (#2419427) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: maeve My dad knew Judson! And I'm just poor; plenty of dirt here. Not enough music, though. |
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23 Aug 08 - 01:20 PM (#2420755) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: curmudgeon Only two more hours... |
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23 Aug 08 - 01:54 PM (#2420771) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: Barry Finn Justine & I will both be there Barry |
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23 Aug 08 - 09:18 PM (#2420958) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: Bat Goddess Well, all you people, you missed a really lovely session. Small, yes -- it started out with just Tom and I and Jeri, then Justine and Barry arrived and we got some good singing started. We didn't sing just sea songs. I'd had a boring late morning and afternoon at work (why exactly would anyone want to be at the mall with the weather so glorious?) and had had time to run over a few songs in my head that I haven't sung in a loooong time -- "Cropper Lads", "Chickens In the Garden" (where I found I actually sing it in a different key from what I did originally), "Poverty Knock" -- and some ("Fathom the Bowl") that I've sung in recent memory. My head's too full right now to remember everything we sang. Then Jeri left and the second wave came in -- Bill and Carol from FSSGB (Boston), who have only been to the session once before (and also came to the Portland Harbor festival a few weeks ago), and then, a little later, Lynn Feingold (the "Tavern Wench") arrived -- her first time to the session. Jeri, you should have stayed! Let's see, what else did I sing? I added a couple new verses to "Madame Gashay's", Tom and I harmonized nicely on the instructional song, "Dundee Weaver", and followed the theme on "Nine Times a Night", "Little Piece of Wang" (prompted by Lynn when my memory flagged), oh, I dunno what else. I'll let the others post what they sang -- I won't remember everything until I listen to the tapes. Yes, there was a lot of discussion of the songs, etc. as well as the singing. And good beer and good commestables. And new friends. All in all, a very enjoyable and satisfying session! Linn |
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23 Aug 08 - 11:03 PM (#2421000) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: TRUBRIT Sorry none of the Portland contingent were there..... |
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24 Aug 08 - 11:57 AM (#2421216) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: Bat Goddess We definitely missed all those -- Maine and Gloucester contingents -- who had gigs and other commitments yesterday and the local gang who were at Cuzin Richard's NH Folk Festival listening to Bill Staines, David Francey and other singer-songwriters. This session was, after all, on the "wrong" Saturday. But I guess it's a sign of a good SESSION that that it's lively and engaging no matter what the configuration of singers. We had a lovely time! I even got to hear yet another song I'd never heard Tom sing before. (We've only been married for 26 years...) And Justine sing more often than she usually does and Barry sing a couple he doesn't often sing, as well as new fodder from Lynn and some lively discussions as well. Thanks, Justine, for the potty training book with the computer chip button sounding a loud flushing noise (followed by a giggle) -- just what our bathroom with a composting toilet needs. Visitors without non-flush toilets sometimes need "closure"... This should do the trick! Linn |
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24 Aug 08 - 12:38 PM (#2421242) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: Jeri Headache was a bit worse later on, so I was glad to be home. Sorry I missed the singing though. Bary, if you have a car that's less than 5 years old, you're middle class. Just about anyone can afford a hoopdie. (Maybe not the gas though.) |
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24 Aug 08 - 04:26 PM (#2421370) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: SINSULL Sorry guys. At the last minute I had Seamus duty. Kendall went to a blue grass do and Seamus needs to be watered and de-watered regularly because of the prednisone(?), pregnisone(?)...drugs. The puppy and I had a lovely lazy day together. Poor baby has no mischief in him at all. He is like an old man - his only interests are sleeping, eating and peeing. He even ignored Ed who tried his best to be threatening and finally gave up. It's no fun if the dog doesn't whimper and cower. Seamus did manage to make me step on a slug - barefoot - me not the slug. Very gross. He did enjoy that. Even wagged his tail. |
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24 Aug 08 - 06:11 PM (#2421433) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: Barry Finn Jeri, not if you can't afford the payments. Barry |
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24 Aug 08 - 06:36 PM (#2421443) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: Jeri Barry, I mean the $1500-$3000 sort of hoopdie. |
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25 Aug 08 - 09:17 AM (#2421709) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: Bat Goddess Did I mention that several times after we got into a vein of bawdry, we had to stomp down the invisible flames of hell (so Justine wouldn't have to start singing "Ave Maria"). Interesting bunch o' songs -- and Lynn added at least one I'd not heard before. But in actuality, we barely scratched the surface of our collective repertoires. Linn |
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25 Aug 08 - 01:34 PM (#2421870) Subject: RE: Aug. Shanty Session @ the Press Room(NH) From: Charley Noble It is nice to hear what went on at the Press Room while some of us were away entertaining pirate wannabees at the 2nd Annual Downeast Pirate festival in Rockland. The weather was great all weekend but I think the organizers were somewhat disappointed in the turnout. It's always difficult to find a weekend when there's not major competition. There was the annual free American Folk festival happening an hour or so away in Bangor, not to mention a bluegrass festival. However we did have a whole lot of fun during the festival with the singing and the demonstrations of sword play and cannon fire, and we led another successful "shanty raid" on the local taverns, ending up with a bawdy song session in the bar of the hotel where performers were put up; I led "The Ballad of Anthony Clare (Balls as Heavy as Lead)" and Eli led "Saraphina." See you all in September! Cheerily, Charley Noble |