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Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?

09 Sep 01 - 07:36 PM (#545870)
Subject: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: harpgirl

...Well boys and girls...I just found out about this folk festival. Who went? How was it? Did I miss a thread on it?

Maybe I'll get there next year!!!!! harpgirl www.avalon-nude.com/folk festival


09 Sep 01 - 07:46 PM (#545879)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Noreen

No 'threads' for a nude folk festival... :0)


09 Sep 01 - 08:00 PM (#545882)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Paul from Hull

...Interesting.....*L*


09 Sep 01 - 08:01 PM (#545883)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: CarolC

That's in my nekkid erm, neck of the woods.

I knew about the camp, but I didn't know about the festival. Looks like the entertainers get to wear clothes though.


09 Sep 01 - 09:16 PM (#545907)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Amos

Here's a revised link to the site -- the original 404'd.

Regards,

Amos


09 Sep 01 - 09:58 PM (#545921)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Bill D

now I suppose, they'll be putting out a calendar and no one will have any doubts about what nude folkies look like..*grin*


09 Sep 01 - 10:11 PM (#545924)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Clinton Hammond

ye gods... it's bad enough I have to look a the body of THIS folkie... I sure as hell don't want to have to look at any more!!!

.-P


09 Sep 01 - 11:51 PM (#545951)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: catspaw49

BLOODY RIGHT ON CLINTON!!!!!!

Besides that though.............Pretty good group there with Bowers and Bill Danoff and all...........

And of course the old line about, "If you're nervous, just imagine what your audience looks like naked," takes on a real serious meaning here!!!!

Week long workshops? Naked?

Okay harpy......You sign up to go next year and I'll go too. Oughta' be pretty good pix for the 2002 calendar!

Spaw


09 Sep 01 - 11:54 PM (#545954)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Justa Picker

In a situation like that, only my hair could stand on its end. I'd still have to use my watch to tell time.


10 Sep 01 - 12:50 AM (#545977)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Peter Kasin

Now there's a gig where "Pene Azul" could appear on the program :-).


10 Sep 01 - 01:01 AM (#545985)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: catspaw49

At this joint Peter, he could BE the program!

Spaw


10 Sep 01 - 01:13 AM (#545993)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Amos

Well, boys and girls, remember the deathless words of Doctor Jekyll:

"We have nothing to hide but Hide itself."

A


10 Sep 01 - 09:29 AM (#546176)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Ron Olesko

I wonder how many T-shirts they sell?


10 Sep 01 - 11:51 AM (#546299)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: catspaw49

Well Ron, they don't have T-shirts, but they DO sell the "Iron-On" transfers............Pretty painful though....

Spaw


10 Sep 01 - 12:48 PM (#546352)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Willie-O

Hmm, don't know about a full-fledged nude festival, but I did play a Pagan Festival With Nudity last weekend, which prompted this journal entry from My Daughter:

"my interesting father he's so interesting this weekend he did several interesting things with the cars. and now he's playing at a pagan festival. and i have uncommunicative parents. so i did not find this out for a very long time. and now i am sitting here giggling to myself at the idea of my father and peter playing at a nude pagan festival. like that peter sellers movie, with the guitar."

I had to explain, it wasn't quite like that. I kept my clothes on, so did almost everyone. But it was no big deal if you took some of them off and a few people did. Pretty much like the sixties, or as in my case, the seventies.

Willie-O
not a practicing pagan or anything else...


10 Sep 01 - 12:51 PM (#546355)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: catspaw49

Harpy!!! Signed up yet???

Spaw


10 Sep 01 - 12:56 PM (#546361)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Bill D

I like nudity...I DISlike sun, bugs, sharp objects and instruments sticking to my skin...*grin*...I would only go naked at an event in controlled circumstances...(now skinny-dipping in warm shade...there's the ticket!)


10 Sep 01 - 01:05 PM (#546374)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: catspaw49

That's kinda' tough on the 'harp though ain't it Bill?

Spaw


10 Sep 01 - 01:05 PM (#546375)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Mountain Dog

Bill D.

Should we ask what axe you're playing whilst skinny dipping in the warm shade? Since Martins would tend to get waterlogged and cheap imitations delaminate under those conditions, is it safe to assume you're playing an Ovation...or perhaps simply looking for one? ;)


10 Sep 01 - 01:11 PM (#546384)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: catspaw49

Mountain Dog.........Perhaps, though Bill plays Autoharp, he's thinking about THIS!!!

Spaw


10 Sep 01 - 01:34 PM (#546403)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Murray MacLeod

If I were going skinny dipping with a guitar, the only logical choice would be a Seagull ...........

Murray


10 Sep 01 - 01:37 PM (#546407)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: catspaw49

I dunno' Murray......Might be a real shitty decision.

Spaw


10 Sep 01 - 01:39 PM (#546409)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: brid widder

do the Morris Dancers still wear bells?


10 Sep 01 - 01:46 PM (#546422)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Bill D

gol-LEE gang...first you play, WITH clothes on...then you take 'em off and swim....then you put 'em back ON and play summore....(with all the stupid disclaimers nowadays, it's only a matter of time till Martins come with a warning sticker..."caution, using this instrument underwater may cause warping and loosening of glue joints")


10 Sep 01 - 02:18 PM (#546446)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Peter Kasin

Where on the net did you find that, Spaw? That's brilliant!


10 Sep 01 - 02:32 PM (#546467)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: catspaw49

Somebody posted that here once before, but I entered guitar boat in google since I didn't save it before, and it popped right up....it's a postcard, but somewhere there is a story to go with it.

Spaw


10 Sep 01 - 02:42 PM (#546476)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: catspaw49

Better yet Chantey me boy, CHECK OUT THIS!!!

That's a damn good replica!!!!

Spaw


10 Sep 01 - 02:50 PM (#546486)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Midchuck

do the Morris Dancers still wear bells?

I would assume they'd wear more bells...they'd have more places to put them.

Peter.


10 Sep 01 - 02:52 PM (#546489)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Little Hawk

Actually, for skinny-dipping I would recommend not a Seagull (it might get ruined), but one of those old Kent guitars. They make excellent life preservers in a pinch.

- LH


10 Sep 01 - 02:57 PM (#546490)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: GUEST,Celtic Soul

Oh GAH!

Remember the thread on plastic surgery, and would it help your career?

I think that this relates. I am not gettin' nekkid no way no how on stage until I had some serious help from a surgeon, and I rather think my audience would be grateful! ;D


10 Sep 01 - 04:01 PM (#546518)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: harpgirl

...ah heck! I thought no one would admit to going! Right again, harpy!!!


10 Sep 01 - 04:09 PM (#546527)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: catspaw49

So once again there harpster....Have you signed up for next year? I need to know so I can put my registration in too.

Spaw


10 Sep 01 - 06:13 PM (#546609)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Mr Red

when the audience sat down it sound like applause? **LOL**


11 Sep 01 - 04:57 AM (#546850)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Whippet

Oh My Gawd naked Fat Arse Morris Dancers


11 Sep 01 - 06:03 PM (#547465)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: DougR

Only been to a nudist colony one time. A friend lives in one and invited me to a festival (non musical)there for a day. I learned two things: 1. Not all men are created equal 2. Not all women are beautiful in the nude

DougR


12 Sep 01 - 07:59 AM (#547957)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: GUEST,Ranks

That reminds me of a song Called "We were playing in Nudist Colony" sung by an english Duo (I think called 1812).

Funny, that the musicians are wearing Clothes.

This could lead to an interesting thread: Which musicians would you like to see perform naked?

Greetings,

Ranks


12 Sep 01 - 08:30 AM (#547970)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: CarolC

I am casually aquainted with some of the people who performed at that event. Just can't see the ones I'm aquainted with being willing to do it in the nude.

And, strangely, I can't think of any musicians I'd like to see perform naked. Does that make me a prude?


12 Sep 01 - 08:38 AM (#547973)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: CarolC

I take that back. I would be willing to see Wattie Lees perform naked. Wattie is a Scotsman who plays the Irish pipes and Irish whistle. Last I heard, he was a cop living on an island off the coast of Ireland.

Any ladies thinking about going to the Common Ground on the Hill festival and workshops in Westminster Maryland, USA, should ascertain if Wattie will be there beforehand, and sign up for his classes even if you don't play either of those instruments. And if you can get a private lesson, so much the better.


08 Aug 02 - 10:41 PM (#762268)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: harpgirl

...just for you, Celtic Soul! But you won't see me there, though....hey an eyeful and an earful! cool!


08 Aug 02 - 10:45 PM (#762270)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: harpgirl

Oh, and I was swimming naked with some friends a while back and one coulple said they got married at a nudist colony! One way to keep your relatives away from the wedding! It worked for them, they said!


08 Aug 02 - 11:31 PM (#762288)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: catspaw49

Harpy, the real advantage to getting married at a nudist colony is that everyone can see who the Best Man really is!

Spaw


08 Aug 02 - 11:51 PM (#762299)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull

heloo, if yoo weering no cloths, wear do you put yore munney & stuff?


09 Aug 02 - 01:06 AM (#762341)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: catspaw49

Up your ass. Not many people will want it after that and you'll get a lot of things free that way.

Spaw


09 Aug 02 - 01:28 AM (#762357)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull

i havent got an ass, i got an hamster though (he is called Brian).john


09 Aug 02 - 01:46 AM (#762363)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: catspaw49

Geeziz John.....If you have no ass, where the hell do you keep the hamster?

Spaw


09 Aug 02 - 02:18 AM (#762372)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull

Heloo Catpaw- he live in a hsmster house on the tabel.
Catpaw-dont forget- we (the english peepol) are coming to see yoo soon, (in 2206) for the big interbational mudcat meeting, me and Gary9 are going to fly a plane to america, i never flied a plane before, but i looking forwerd to haveing a go, i bought a map alreedy.my map is not very big, and it dosent show were to land, but will will think about that at the time,( i will let Gary do that bit).i think i will like america, I like to watching Soof Park and the Simsons, can yoo get Ginness in Ameryca and Pizzas? i hope so.john


09 Aug 02 - 02:31 AM (#762373)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

JARPGIRL - This was a rotting corpse before you resurrected a defunct thread... now it just smells of mudcat spew simmered in a self-adulation sause.

Let the dead lie in peace.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle


09 Aug 02 - 02:33 AM (#762375)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Genie

Having visited bathing-suit beaces in Italy and "clothing-optional" beaches in Oregon, I can't really say that the sight of the average Joe or Jane in the nude is that much less appealing than the sight of the average Giovanni or Gina in a string bikini.

Funny thing, having seen lots of folks nude at the beaches here in Oregon, I can't really say I remember much about folks' anatomies except for the features I'd have seen even if they'd been wearing suits. It took me about 2 minutes to get used to the nudity the first time I visited Rooster Rock State Park on the Columbia. But maybe that was because I wasn't standing there in my overalls looking at a bunch of nekkid people.

I do recommend putting a towel between you and the guitar if you're playing in the nude--and putting the guitar down before you jump in the water!

Just think, folks. If you're on stage in your jeans and T shirt and your audience is bare nekkid, maybe they're calming themselves by picturing you naked!

Genie


09 Aug 02 - 02:43 AM (#762377)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

HARPIE You know...this morning...for the first time ....I have un-wound the peculiar traits of you ....and the puss-pussy that anoy me to no end.

You BOTH start threads about things you don't really care about. There is no urgency in your life, or her's about nudism, gardens, or libraries

..............................You post ...........because......................you are................................bored.................lonely........sexually frustrated.........hungry.......constipated........or just idjets.

You don't REALLY seek a solution to a concerned question.

Women O Women you have a rattlin tongue
Your rattlin has made the world undone.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

now girls.... why is this Not an attack upon the messenger, ad hominum?


09 Aug 02 - 02:58 AM (#762386)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull

He's weird!


09 Aug 02 - 04:01 AM (#762411)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Murray MacLeod

Gargoyle, that should be "ad hominem", rather than "ad hominum"

Murray


09 Aug 02 - 04:53 AM (#762418)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Dave Bryant

A morris side which I was associated with used to dance at a Naturist Club (called EUREKA) every year. They started off with full kit, but by the third year wore only Baldricks, Bell Pads, plus an extra bell on a bit of elastic around you-can-guess-what. Albion Morris' spoof dance "Tool Setting" went down a bomb !


09 Aug 02 - 08:20 AM (#762528)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: GUEST,nobby

rumour has it that there is another one in January on the top of Ben Nevis. Could be some beautiful views.


09 Aug 02 - 08:34 AM (#762540)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: harpgirl

...wrong again, oh stoned one! I'm never constipated!


28 Sep 10 - 04:26 AM (#2995033)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: open mike

in this discussion is a missing URL...
perhaps it led to site that had something like this: http://gizmodo.com/5061738/josh-pykes-guitar-boat-floats-on-an-ocean-of-rock

or this http://www.jflis.com/leisure/canoeing/boat_2000/dreadnot.htm


28 Sep 10 - 05:24 AM (#2995054)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Jack Campin

A morris side which I was associated with used to dance at a Naturist Club (called EUREKA) every year. They started off with full kit, but by the third year wore only Baldricks, Bell Pads, plus an extra bell on a bit of elastic around you-can-guess-what.

I guess that's why the Morris Ring is men-only?


28 Sep 10 - 02:01 PM (#2995372)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: frogprince

Short answer; US. In '04, though, not back when this thread started.
When we got home, I posted this. Didn't get a single response.

Subject: Avalon music fest
From: frogprince - PM
Date: 25 Aug 04 - 11:17 PM

Went to the Avalon Music Festival in W.Virginia in mid month. So much good stuff, Amelia Spicer Carla Ulbrich,Joe Glazer, Mad Agnes, etc. etc., and John Gorka headlining, and not a very big crowd. Are people unaware of the fest, or unable to deal with a clothing optional setting? Do any performers feel they would damage their careers by performing there? What are your reactions, either as performers or possible audience?


28 Sep 10 - 08:48 PM (#2995677)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: The Fooles Troupe

What if they held a Nude Folk Festival and nobody came?



I'll get me hat ...


28 Sep 10 - 11:44 PM (#2995762)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: frogprince

"I'll get me hat ... "

That's ok, Foolestroupe; I'm sure no one will object if you wear that to the festival.


29 Sep 10 - 01:09 AM (#2995802)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: The Fooles Troupe

I'm not going to tell you what it's hanging on ....


29 Sep 10 - 05:29 AM (#2995869)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: GUEST,Guest

Advise from one who's tried, never play the accordion in the nude. This also applies to people fully clothed.


29 Sep 10 - 05:30 AM (#2995870)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: Jack Campin

I tried doing a Google image search on "nude folk festival" to see if I could find any pictures from this. Even though I keep "aafe search" filters turned off, the result astonished me. EXTREMELY not-safe-for-work. It looks as though several porno sites are using keywords relating to folk festivals as tag-spam (look at the text accompanying the image that Google shows you).


29 Sep 10 - 08:00 AM (#2995978)
Subject: RE: Avalon Nude Folk Festival: Who Went?
From: The Fooles Troupe

And don't try to Google The Flintstones theme song using the phrase "Let's have a gay old time" ....