Anyone on their holidays in Cumbria this weekend and want a few 
tunes/dance/concert/workshop?

Furness Tradition starts in Ulverston tonight - the only festival that 
offers a chance to have your photo taken with Laurel and Hardy!!!

http://furnesstradition.org.uk
-- 
Gordon Jones
gordon@hartown.demon.co.uk
http://www.harbourtownrecords.com
Box 25, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 7UN

gordon jones said:
> Anyone on their holidays in Cumbria this weekend and want a few 
> tunes/dance/concert/workshop?
>
> Furness Tradition starts in Ulverston tonight - the only festival that 
> offers a chance to have your photo taken with Laurel and Hardy!!!
>
> http://furnesstradition.org.uk

I'm certainly looking forward to the ceilidh tonight, should be fantastic.



*ahem* clue :- http://furnesstradition.org.uk/Festival_artists09.htm#moorgate
It's true anyway, though, I am.

-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://www.qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

> 
> I'm certainly looking forward to the ceilidh tonight, should be fantastic.
> 
> 
> 
> *ahem* clue :- http://furnesstradition.org.uk/Festival_artists09.htm#moorgate
> It's true anyway, though, I am.
> 

You blatant self-publicist, you, Richard! Looks like a good line-up, 
hope to get the chance to dance to you one day.

-- 
Steve Mansfield
Manchester, England
http://www.lesession.co.uk | http://www.flashinthepan.org.uk

"Richard Robinson"  wrote in message 
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> gordon jones said:
>> Anyone on their holidays in Cumbria this weekend and want a few
>> tunes/dance/concert/workshop?
>>
>> Furness Tradition starts in Ulverston tonight - the only festival that
>> offers a chance to have your photo taken with Laurel and Hardy!!!
>>
>> http://furnesstradition.org.uk
>
> I'm certainly looking forward to the ceilidh tonight, should be fantastic.
>
>
>
> *ahem* clue :- 
> http://furnesstradition.org.uk/Festival_artists09.htm#moorgate
> It's true anyway, though, I am.
>
Excellent. I hope to be at that ceilidh, if I haven't worn myself out 
dancing & playing in the streets all day!

ally
www.belfagan.org.uk

"a l l y"  wrote in message 
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>
> "Richard Robinson"  wrote in message 
> news:4a573759$0$31034$bed64819@news.gradwell.net...
>> gordon jones said:
>>> Anyone on their holidays in Cumbria this weekend and want a few
>>> tunes/dance/concert/workshop?
>>>
>>> Furness Tradition starts in Ulverston tonight - the only festival that
>>> offers a chance to have your photo taken with Laurel and Hardy!!!
>>>
>>> http://furnesstradition.org.uk
>>
>> I'm certainly looking forward to the ceilidh tonight, should be 
>> fantastic.
>>
>>
>>
>> *ahem* clue :- 
>> http://furnesstradition.org.uk/Festival_artists09.htm#moorgate
>> It's true anyway, though, I am.
>>
> Excellent. I hope to be at that ceilidh, if I haven't worn myself out 
> dancing & playing in the streets all day!

I'd join in too if only I could find someone willing to push my piano along.

--
http://www.gillsmith999.plus.com/

> "Richard Robinson"  wrote in message 
> news:4a573759$0$31034$bed64819@news.gradwell.net...
> I'm certainly looking forward to the ceilidh tonight, should be 
> fantastic.
>
>
>
> *ahem* clue :- 
> http://furnesstradition.org.uk/Festival_artists09.htm#moorgate
> It's true anyway, though, I am.

Let's face it, playing for ceilidhs is IMNSHO one of the very most fun 
things you can do as a folk/trad musician. You get lots and lots of 
actual playing time, unless you're the caller the stress levels and 
performance anxiety is minimal / non-existent compared to concert 
performances, and best of all you can see lots of people jumping up and 
down and enjoying themselves as a direct consequence of what you're playing.

I still always look forward to ceilidh gigs despite the occasional 
horrendous wedding reception experience. Hope it is/was a good one.

-- 
Steve Mansfield
Manchester, England
http://www.lesession.co.uk | http://www.flashinthepan.org.uk

Steve Mansfield said:
>> 
>> I'm certainly looking forward to the ceilidh tonight, should be fantastic.
>> 
>> *ahem* clue :- http://furnesstradition.org.uk/Festival_artists09.htm#moorgate
>> It's true anyway, though, I am.
>
> You blatant self-publicist, you, Richard! Looks like a good line-up, 
> hope to get the chance to dance to you one day.

*grin*

I was relieved to see our photo is no more confusing than anyone else's. I
should do a webpage for it, one of these days ...


-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://www.qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

a l l y said:
> "Richard Robinson"  wrote in message 
>> gordon jones said:
>>> Anyone on their holidays in Cumbria this weekend and want a few
>>> tunes/dance/concert/workshop?
>>>
>>> Furness Tradition starts in Ulverston tonight - the only festival that
>>> offers a chance to have your photo taken with Laurel and Hardy!!!
>>>
>>> http://furnesstradition.org.uk
>>
>> I'm certainly looking forward to the ceilidh tonight, should be fantastic.
>>
>> *ahem* clue :- 
>> http://furnesstradition.org.uk/Festival_artists09.htm#moorgate
>> It's true anyway, though, I am.
>>
> Excellent. I hope to be at that ceilidh, if I haven't worn myself out 
> dancing & playing in the streets all day!
>
> ally
> www.belfagan.org.uk 

Yes, I saw you were there. Sorry to miss you.

I'm kicking myself, mildly - I meant to get back up today, but blew it
completely. I blame the weather, but really it's just because I went & got
distracted instead of getting on a train.

There was a young trio there including a woman playing oboe. A good noise,
nice to hear it playing Tunes.

-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://www.qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

Steve Mansfield said:
>> "Richard Robinson"  wrote in message 
>> I'm certainly looking forward to the ceilidh tonight, should be 
>> fantastic.
>>
>> *ahem* clue :- 
>> http://furnesstradition.org.uk/Festival_artists09.htm#moorgate
>> It's true anyway, though, I am.
>
> Let's face it, playing for ceilidhs is IMNSHO one of the very most fun 
> things you can do as a folk/trad musician. You get lots and lots of 
> actual playing time, unless you're the caller the stress levels and 
> performance anxiety is minimal / non-existent compared to concert 
> performances, and best of all you can see lots of people jumping up and 
> down and enjoying themselves as a direct consequence of what you're playing.
>
> I still always look forward to ceilidh gigs despite the occasional 
> horrendous wedding reception experience. Hope it is/was a good one.

Thanks. It was a bit sparsely-attended and not hugely inclined to dance, but
v. pleasant, interspersed with sets from some visitors & some locals. Nice.

And, yes, I like playing ceilidhs. I'm not fussy, I also enjoy sessions,
concert gigs, whatever, but it is nice to see the tunes going out and making
themselves useful. Especially with a nice caller to be the user-friendly
interface. And people jumping up & down enjoying themselves is always good,
of course.

No horrendous weddings, yet, touch wood. Though we did a 70th birthday a
month or two back, when one of the leaping-around enjoying-themselves people
fell over in the middle of a step and had to be wheelchaired off the
dance-floor with a suspected broken hip; something of a damper on the
proceedings.

Before that, we had a very odd one. Booked by email, pwoplw we didn't know,
not sure how they found us; referred to it all as a Barn Dance, as happens
occasionally. It was, indeed, in a barn, complete with the occasional broken
bale of hay and the proverbial big wide-open door (and no heating. brrr),
and many very drunken Young Persons with fancy embroidered shirts &
stetsons, etc, making what looked like line-dance moves. Oh dear, a
Terminological Glitch Gig ... it went sort of okay, really.  Everybody was a
bit baffled about what was supposed to happen (us and them, but we had the
PA), but they seemed to end up quite enjoying themselves.




-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://www.qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

In message <4a59eef2$0$31033$bed64819@news.gradwell.net>, Richard 
Robinson  writes
>a l l y said:
>> "Richard Robinson"  wrote in message
>>> gordon jones said:
>>>> Anyone on their holidays in Cumbria this weekend and want a few
>>>> tunes/dance/concert/workshop?
>>>>
>>>> Furness Tradition starts in Ulverston tonight - the only festival that
>>>> offers a chance to have your photo taken with Laurel and Hardy!!!
>>>>
>>>> http://furnesstradition.org.uk
>>>
>>> I'm certainly looking forward to the ceilidh tonight, should be fantastic.
>>>
>>> *ahem* clue :-
>>> http://furnesstradition.org.uk/Festival_artists09.htm#moorgate
>>> It's true anyway, though, I am.
>>>
>> Excellent. I hope to be at that ceilidh, if I haven't worn myself out
>> dancing & playing in the streets all day!
>>
>> ally
>> www.belfagan.org.uk
>
>Yes, I saw you were there. Sorry to miss you.
>
>I'm kicking myself, mildly - I meant to get back up today, but blew it
>completely. I blame the weather, but really it's just because I went & got
>distracted instead of getting on a train.
>
>There was a young trio there including a woman playing oboe. A good noise,
>nice to hear it playing Tunes.
>

That was Isambarde - they were really good all weekend a real asset to 
the festival.  Although attendance was on the low side the events were 
all really fine and the weather allowed all the outside events to happen 
in glorious sunshine keeping the torrential downpour until we were 
inside for the main concert/ceilidh!

Gordon

-- 
Gordon Jones
gordon@hartown.demon.co.uk
http://www.harbourtownrecords.com
Box 25, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 7UN

In message , gordon jones 
 writes
>In message <4a59eef2$0$31033$bed64819@news.gradwell.net>, Richard 
>Robinson  writes
>>
>>There was a young trio there including a woman playing oboe. A good noise,
>>nice to hear it playing Tunes.
>>
>
>That was Isambarde - they were really good all weekend a real asset to 
>the festival.  Although attendance was on the low side the events were 
>all really fine and the weather allowed all the outside events to 
>happen in glorious sunshine keeping the torrential downpour until we 
>were inside for the main concert/ceilidh!
>
>Gordon
>
Isambarde! Lovely!
http://www.jacey-bedford.com/isambarde.htm
and
http://www.isambarde.co.uk/
:-)

Jacey
-- 
Jacey Bedford

"Richard Robinson"  wrote in message 
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>a l l y said:
>> "Richard Robinson"  wrote in message
>>> gordon jones said:
>>>> Anyone on their holidays in Cumbria this weekend and want a few
>>>> tunes/dance/concert/workshop?
>>>>
>>>> Furness Tradition starts in Ulverston tonight - the only festival that
>>>> offers a chance to have your photo taken with Laurel and Hardy!!!
>>>>
>>>> http://furnesstradition.org.uk
>>>
>>> I'm certainly looking forward to the ceilidh tonight, should be 
>>> fantastic.
>>>
>>> *ahem* clue :-
>>> http://furnesstradition.org.uk/Festival_artists09.htm#moorgate
>>> It's true anyway, though, I am.
>>>
>> Excellent. I hope to be at that ceilidh, if I haven't worn myself out
>> dancing & playing in the streets all day!
>>
>> ally
>> www.belfagan.org.uk
>
> Yes, I saw you were there. Sorry to miss you.

That's OK. I managed to take part in a couple of dances, although I'd 
promised myself I wouldn't, after morris dancing all day. (Your music was 
great!) I'd have stayed longer and talked to people, but the weather turned 
foul and I had a long drive back to NW Cumbria on twisty potholed roads in 
heavy rain, so I had to get going.
>
> I'm kicking myself, mildly - I meant to get back up today, but blew it
> completely. I blame the weather, but really it's just because I went & got
> distracted instead of getting on a train.
>
> There was a young trio there including a woman playing oboe. A good noise,
> nice to hear it playing Tunes.
>
I saw them. They were brilliant! I've never heard an oboe played so fluidly 
in a non-classical context. I was most impressed.

I took some photos - I'll put up a link once I've sorted through them.

ally

At 00:17:15 on Tue, 14 Jul 2009, a l l y  
wrote in :

[Re Isambarde]

>I saw them. They were brilliant! I've never heard an oboe played so fluidly
>in a non-classical context. I was most impressed.
>
>I took some photos - I'll put up a link once I've sorted through them.

I look forward to that!

We had Isambarde as the musical entertainment at a uk.rec.waterways 
(+assorted mailing lists) GIG (=Great Internet Get-together) in 2006, 
and I was deeply impressed by them then;  I'd dearly love to hear them 
play again now, to find out how they've come on in the interim.  From 
their giglist, though, they don't seem to come near the plush Sarf very 
often :-(

I guess it's time I went to bed now, because I am having to restrain 
myself from doing this sort of thing, because it has unfortunately 
turned out to be a *man's song*.  Bugger.

To Isambarde!  Though Isambarde
be ringed and barred with doors of stone;
Though Isambarde be strong and hard
And cold as stone and bare as bone -
We go, we go, we go to drink,
To drink the beer, and fart a stink,
For cigarettes are burning now,
The ulcers roar, we hunt a whore;
But land of hoboes hears an oboe -
With roll of drum we come, we come!
We come, we come, with roll of drum,
The tunes to hear, and drink the beer!

Reprise:  I guess it's time I went to bed now.
-- 
Molly Mockford
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
(My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever.)

Molly Mockford said:
>
> To Isambarde!  Though Isambarde
> be ringed and barred with doors of stone;
> Though Isambarde be strong and hard
> And cold as stone and bare as bone -
> We go, we go, we go to drink,
> To drink the beer, and fart a stink,
> For cigarettes are burning now,
> The ulcers roar, we hunt a whore;
> But land of hoboes hears an oboe -
> With roll of drum we come, we come!
> We come, we come, with roll of drum,
> The tunes to hear, and drink the beer!
>
> Reprise:  I guess it's time I went to bed now.

One of the local pubs used to have a poster (in the mens' loo) - a picture of
I. K. Brunel, captioned in large letters "Isambard". And in smaller letters
underneath, "Or can I have another drink ?"

-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem

My email address is at http://www.qualmograph.org.uk/contact.html

On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:40:12 +0100, Molly Mockford
 wrote:

>From 
>their giglist, though, they don't seem to come near the plush Sarf very 
>often :-(

And you don't get to the frozen norf often enough. :-)
Our mando player has something to do with them so I think they must be
based near here. Not managed to catch a gig myself yet though
-- 
Geoff
www.slipperyhill.co.uk

In message <o6xGlyYcX8WKFwFK@molly.mockford>, Molly Mockford 
 writes
>At 00:17:15 on Tue, 14 Jul 2009, a l l y 
> wrote in 
>:
>
>[Re Isambarde]
>
>>I saw them. They were brilliant! I've never heard an oboe played so fluidly
>>in a non-classical context. I was most impressed.
>>
>>I took some photos - I'll put up a link once I've sorted through them.
>
>I look forward to that!
>
>We had Isambarde as the musical entertainment at a uk.rec.waterways 
>(+assorted mailing lists) GIG (=Great Internet Get-together) in 2006, 
>and I was deeply impressed by them then;  I'd dearly love to hear them 
>play again now, to find out how they've come on in the interim.  From 
>their giglist, though, they don't seem to come near the plush Sarf very 
>often :-(
>

But don't they come from the sarf?? All the way down there in Coventry 
:-)
-- 
Gordon Jones
gordon@hartown.demon.co.uk
http://www.harbourtownrecords.com
Box 25, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 7UN

In message <o6xGlyYcX8WKFwFK@molly.mockford>, Molly Mockford 
 writes
>From their giglist, though, they don't seem to come near the plush Sarf 
>very often :-(

I'm planning a couple of trips south for Isambarde in 2010, possibly 
April and definitely June.

Jacey
-- 
Jacey Bedford

In message , Jacey Bedford 
<lookinsig@nospam.invalid> writes
>In message <o6xGlyYcX8WKFwFK@molly.mockford>, Molly Mockford 
> writes
>>From their giglist, though, they don't seem to come near the plush 
>>Sarf very often :-(
>
>I'm planning a couple of trips south for Isambarde in 2010, possibly 
>April and definitely June.


I should have said: anyone with involvement in any club that might want 
to book Isambarde could call me on 10484 606230 - but not between 15th 
and 20th July as I'm running away to Ireland for 6 days to visit a 
friend.

Jacey
-- 
Jacey Bedford

"Molly Mockford"  wrote in message 
news:o6xGlyYcX8WKFwFK@molly.mockford...
> At 00:17:15 on Tue, 14 Jul 2009, a l l y  
> wrote in :
>
> [Re Isambarde]
>
>>I saw them. They were brilliant! I've never heard an oboe played so 
>>fluidly
>>in a non-classical context. I was most impressed.
>>
>>I took some photos - I'll put up a link once I've sorted through them.
>
> I look forward to that!
>

Here's the set of photos from Saturday's events in Ulverston - 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/allybeag/sets/72157621350545914/ -
Most are connected in one way or t'other with the festival, but not all, so 
you can ignore the alien dog-beasts, photos of Windermere and Laurel & Hardy 
if you wish.

ally