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Straw Bear Festival 2013
« on: January 06, 2013, 06:36:08 PM »

Anyone coming along to Straw Bear at the weekend who'd be up for a session and a beer or 7? ;D
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Re: Straw Bear Festival 2013
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2013, 06:49:27 PM »

    I am/would be :P
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Re: Straw Bear Festival 2013
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2013, 06:55:51 PM »

For the first time in years, I won't be there.  :( Damned University hand-in dates...
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Re: Straw Bear Festival 2013
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2013, 09:46:59 PM »

I'll be there Friday night (and Saturday daytime playing for Rivington). Any suggestions on a good venue for Friday night? (It's about 7 years since I've been). I'll have a D/G with me for the morris but I was wondering about putting my 4-stop C in the car as well (?).

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Re: Straw Bear Festival 2013
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2013, 11:14:53 PM »

I was wondering about putting my 4-stop C in the car as well (?).

Mike

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Re: Straw Bear Festival 2013
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2013, 08:54:22 AM »

Is this THIS weekend? Got there last year  but had a great time (but nearly froze the knobs of my melodeon) :D  I was suppose to be on a surgical ward this weekend, but got a reprieve to end month. It's a fair old pedal from here, but y'know, I'm very tempted. van der Aa's are said to play better in very flat, bitterly cold environments  :|glug
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Re: Straw Bear Festival 2013
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2013, 09:19:44 AM »

More likely to be wet than bitterly cold according to current forecast, but I'm trying to put in a good word with the weather spirits and get the rainy periods moved to night time.

If you take a 4-stop C box you might be able to hang out with the Old Glory musicians. Just dress up like this:


I'll be playing for Pig Dyke Molly as usual.
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Re: Straw Bear Festival 2013
« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2013, 10:19:26 AM »

Think I've got a 4 stopper somewhere. Will have a look upstairs  ::) [edit] BBC weather site presently predicting 3º-4º and 'grey cloud' incidentally. My knobs may survive this year - had a terrible time in 2011!  ;)
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Re: Straw Bear Festival 2013
« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2013, 02:03:26 PM »

I'll be there on Saturday ...contributing to the noise for CrossKey ... I'm the tall one with straight hair and curly teeth rejoicing in the nickname 'Grandad'   (long  short story);D 

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Re: Straw Bear Festival 2013
« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2013, 06:40:10 PM »

I'm there with Black Pig Border. Is there a preferred pub for sessions this year?
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Re: Straw Bear Festival 2013
« Reply #10 on: January 10, 2013, 09:49:38 PM »

I'm trying to put in a good word with the weather spirits and get the rainy periods moved to night time.

I'm very pleased to report that the forecast for Saturday has improved. A bit of cold I can cope with, but I didn't want to be playing melodeon in the rain.
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Re: Straw Bear Festival 2013
« Reply #11 on: January 11, 2013, 12:42:49 AM »

Good session pubs Friday night Brickies or The Letter B. :||:

Also Pig Dyke run an evening of music and dancing which anyone can go along and do a a spot singing or playing at St Andrews Church Hall on Friday night. Just round the corner from the Letter B.

Real Ale bar  :|glug and £2 entry which is then donated to McMillan Cancer.

Unfortunately I won't be able to make Pig Dyke's bash on Friday as I'm the MC at the main concert.

Saturday night again session pubs Bricklayers Arms or the Letter B.
I know that White Rose normally end up at one of them.
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Re: Straw Bear Festival 2013
« Reply #12 on: January 11, 2013, 11:05:50 AM »

Apologies for Pig Dyke bach (great last year!) as my cousins are gathering in a town en route and it's too good a family opportunity to miss. Will be there Saturday with the new box.  If anyone here wants a go - just ask.  :|glug
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Re: Straw Bear Festival 2013
« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2013, 11:15:28 AM »

We're not going to Pig Dyke Friday bash either - two trips to Whittlesea in one weekend is quite enough, especially after Xmas break spent shuttling between home and East Suffolk.
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Re: Straw Bear Festival 2013
« Reply #14 on: January 11, 2013, 01:12:53 PM »

After being a long time punter at Straw Bear, I am pleased to announce that this year I will be a performed! I will be playing (a small repertoire) and dancing (an even smaller repertoire) for The Gogs!
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Re: Straw Bear Festival 2013
« Reply #15 on: January 14, 2013, 09:06:04 AM »

Following my Straw Bear experience, can I ask if any fettlers can offer a melodeon refurb with an automatic button warming feature?
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Re: Straw Bear Festival 2013
« Reply #16 on: January 14, 2013, 09:30:57 AM »

Following my Straw Bear experience, can I ask if any fettlers can offer a melodeon refurb with an automatic button warming feature?

Renee la Prade does it for me  ;D 

...alternatively keep your hands on your small change when not playing 8)
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Re: Straw Bear Festival 2013
« Reply #17 on: January 14, 2013, 10:47:32 AM »

Lots of layers of clothing is (are?) the only answer. If the rest of you is warm enough your fingers will cope.
This weekend's weather was perfect - it wouldn't be right if it was too warm.
Three years ago it was -6ºC and a thick padded waistcoat-style jacket (along with several other layers over and under) worked wonders.
I also have thin white cotton gloves (sold as make-up gloves) - chop the fingertips off the RH glove, perfect for playing melodeon and make a big difference. Gloves are part of Pig Dyke kit anyway, though optional for musicians depending on what you play.

My biggest problem this year was melodeon related. About 1 minute into the procession my Oakwood lost a palette . Fortunately my car was parked very close at the Brickies and my spare Pokerwork was in it, so a quick change of boxes and I was back in the procession about 200 yards further down. Then the Pokerwork started making funny noises too: it wasn't unplayable but worrying for the rest of the day. On Sunday I brought the Dino Pro; first time it's been used to play outside for dancers.

Loose pallette now waxed back on, and the Pokerwork had a stray valve that had got wedged between the two treble reedblocks with each end jammed in a reed. Bizarre!
Both boxes survived a good testing in a session last night  ;D  :Ph
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Re: Straw Bear Festival 2013
« Reply #18 on: January 14, 2013, 11:42:08 AM »

Lots of layers of clothing is (are?) the only answer. If the rest of you is warm enough your fingers will cope.
This weekend's weather was perfect - it wouldn't be right if it was too warm.
Yes - it wasn't too bad; slightly warmer less cold than last year (my first) anyway. My feet got cold though. I think there must have been some sort of negative geothermal gradient in Whittlesey  :o

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I also have thin white cotton gloves (sold as make-up gloves) - chop the fingertips off the RH glove, perfect for playing melodeon and make a big difference. Gloves are part of Pig Dyke kit anyway, though optional for musicians depending on what you play.
I wear fingerless mittens which seem to do the trick!

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My biggest problem this year was melodeon related. About 1 minute into the procession my Oakwood lost a palette . Fortunately my car was parked very close at the Brickies and my spare Pokerwork was in it, so a quick change of boxes and I was back in the procession about 200 yards further down. Then the Pokerwork started making funny noises too: it wasn't unplayable but worrying for the rest of the day.
I had a worrying but fortunately short-lived problem with my Sander when starting to play indoors in the Ivy Leaf in the afternoon: various weak and feeble sounding notes, which I put down to condensation on the reedplates/valves after being outside in the cold for the previous few hours. A few blasts of pub air through the bellows and reeds soon did the trick. Phew!  :Ph

I looked out for you and Mary both, but didn't get to see you - we were kept busy elsewhere!
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Re: Straw Bear Festival 2013
« Reply #19 on: January 14, 2013, 12:19:02 PM »

I was there last year too and it was very cold. I went to University down there and coming from Newcastle was amazed at their Arctic winters! Even this year was colder than Iceland!

AFAIR a dip into the geography section of the library showed a -5C isotherm sneaking through a gap in the Urals, crossing Belorussia  and lower Germany, before  a quick loop round Cambridge .. and  back to Siberia  :-\  So I'd shaken the moth balls out of my thermal undies (incl. 'long Johns') from last month's Reykjavik expedition, and kept reasonably comfortable. 

Sorry not to see you Steve. Bumped into Mary/Anahata and we tried hard to 'nucleate' a session in the 'Letter B', eventually attracting Ed Johnson of this parish, who I must say bows a very fine rhythmic fiddle. The White Rose people turned up later, and for all I know are still in the bar;) My new box is starting to feel 'played in' and my fingers more used to its 4th start layout (though not the consequential absence of a top G)!  :||:

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