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Re: whitby folk week 2012
« Reply #180 on: August 17, 2012, 11:12:54 AM »

TheSession dot org have the Battle of the Somme as a slip jig (9/8). A bit confusing to play it as a jig if you've not heard the tune before  ::)
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Re: whitby folk week 2012
« Reply #181 on: August 17, 2012, 11:48:41 AM »

Yes, I agree it's generally played these days as though it were in 9/8, and usually a good bit quicker than I would think was intended.  The Pipe Major did call it specifically a lament, and I've always thought of it as a 3/2 slow march. The few written versions I've seen have been in 9/8 - I learned it by ear many years ago.  We seem to have slipped into thread drift again..........

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Re: whitby folk week 2012
« Reply #182 on: August 17, 2012, 11:58:32 AM »

It's got a compound beat (long short; long short) and has three beats in a bar, so it must be 9/8. I can't imagine a version in 3/2...
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Re: whitby folk week 2012
« Reply #183 on: August 17, 2012, 12:52:07 PM »

Just had an email regarding the French sessions. New management at the Resolution are being sounded out but some doubts about if they are willing to have the sessions there. Fall back position is the Elsinore in the first instance. Anyone wanting an update text me on 07833091529 from Sunday onwards (this is already a very public number due to my work so no privacy issues). I have told Chris, the guy who sorted out these sessions in the first place, that the pub will be full of melnetters on Thursday. I have just finished my Whitby ironing and so am ready to go  ;D
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Re: whitby folk week 2012
« Reply #184 on: August 24, 2012, 12:36:54 AM »

To rhose that made it, it was good to see you and share a session with like minded souls.

For those that didn't, there's always next year!!
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Re: whitby folk week 2012
« Reply #185 on: August 25, 2012, 10:34:56 PM »

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Re: whitby folk week 2012
« Reply #186 on: August 26, 2012, 12:24:08 PM »

Yup! again. 

Thanks too to the people who organised the Friday night Dolphin pre-festival session.  Twas a jolly good do.

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Re: whitby folk week 2012
« Reply #187 on: August 26, 2012, 12:56:30 PM »

 (:) did mean to get to the Dolphin for the pre- Friday but looked into the Station on the way there and got no further  :|||: :D :|glug :||:

  it's been a great week  .......    thanks to George's melodeon workshop the 'elderly Austrian' might get an airing next year  ;D
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Re: whitby folk week 2012
« Reply #188 on: August 26, 2012, 01:03:45 PM »

Yup! again. 

Thanks too to the people who organised the Friday night Dolphin pre-festival session.  Twas a jolly good do.

Joy

It wasn't really "organised"  it started off with a few refugees from The Board which had a live music act already booked in, and then grew as passing musos saw us in the window!
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Re: whitby folk week 2012
« Reply #189 on: August 27, 2012, 12:48:25 AM »

Yup! again. 

Thanks too to the people who organised the Friday night Dolphin pre-festival session.  Twas a jolly good do.

Joy

It wasn't really "organised"  it started off with a few refugees from The Board which had a live music act already booked in, and then grew as passing musos saw us in the window!

If I remember correctly, it was sounded out as a Friday night venue by Anlej above, and posted on here - which is how I came to signpost at least one friend there, and the others who came with me. So, thanks for that, too - as the first Friday has always been problematic re. a playing venue.

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Re: whitby folk week 2012
« Reply #190 on: August 27, 2012, 08:38:02 AM »

 Next time I see the Landlord or Landlady from the Dolphin I'll mention how much the Friday was enjoyed then hopefully they'll become a regular  'pre-festival Friday' music venue every Folk Week  :|||: :|glug :||:
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Re: whitby folk week 2012
« Reply #191 on: August 27, 2012, 09:24:21 PM »

I went out last Tuesday to The Dolphin  about half past seven and was told by one of the helpful (and I'm NOT being sarcastic - he was trying to be helpful) young bar staff that the music was over for the evening and I'd be best trying elsewhere. Imagine my chagrin then, on my way home from an enjoyable evening spent playing music with some friends in The Board, to hear loud music proceeding from the front bar of the Dolphin! Could you Ann, or somebody else of equal Authority, have a word with the friendly (and appreciated) LandPerson about letting staff know what may happen during Folk Week - ie that impromptu music may just "happen", rather than being "arrranged".  ;D

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Re: whitby folk week 2012
« Reply #192 on: August 27, 2012, 10:25:12 PM »

 (:) will mention it Chris, it was probably the bar staff's first Folk Week in the Dolphin and he wouldn't have realised how spontaneous sessions will bloom at any time of day during the festival in folk friendly pubs  :||: :|||: 

  .... until the present landlords took over earlier this year and did the place up the Dolphin catered more for the ..... ahem.... 'less cultured'  lager obsessed tourist and few folkies ventured through the doors

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Re: whitby folk week 2012
« Reply #193 on: August 28, 2012, 06:55:27 AM »

Just to say that we tottered in to the Dolphin on wednesday evening just before 9pm after a very pleasant supper at Bagdale (the pouilly-fumé is super, and not over priced). There were a mixed instrument group from Essex (various parts) in there.  We had a superb evening, many new tunes or variants on old ones, no one pushing the pace, and everyone willing to listen to what others had brought to the room.

The "Black Sheep" was super, and not over priced  ;)
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Re: whitby folk week 2012
« Reply #194 on: August 28, 2012, 04:40:26 PM »

Many thanks to all members who put up with me in sessions during the week, perhaps next year we should settle on one venue as the "English etc" pub, as the Irish players have done with the Ship? I would vote for the Dolphin. Nice light room, good accoustics and decent beer. By then I should have learnt some of the tunes I recorded in sessions!
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« Reply #195 on: August 28, 2012, 05:07:26 PM »

Good idea!  Plus Malcolm the Landlord use to dance with Boars Head, so he should be used to the  noise (and the smell, and the behaviour......)   :o
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Re: whitby folk week 2012
« Reply #196 on: August 28, 2012, 09:21:07 PM »

Nothing wrong with the Dolphin. Plenty of space. A back room to negotiate for. The Elsinore Mafia wouldn't stoop "so low"  ;)  Beer's OK. There's B&B if you are into that. I  think they even do food  - though to be honest the fish and chips 60m to the East at Hadley's are utterly superb - my thanks to Ken Watson for pointing me at such and excellent eatery "believe me, I'm from Grimsby"!  :|glug
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Re: whitby folk week 2012
« Reply #197 on: August 29, 2012, 09:48:44 AM »

We could have our own seating plan, and put towels on the chairs to reserve them, and have a pre-arranged set order. And maybe a loud (and slow) metronome.

On the other hand........   >:E
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Re: whitby folk week 2012
« Reply #198 on: August 29, 2012, 10:18:49 AM »

.... and with a pre-arranged booked time of arrival, a pint of your own choice sat on the beer mat in front of you, poured to allow it to be the exact temperature you require when it's presented to the lips.
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Re: whitby folk week 2012
« Reply #199 on: August 29, 2012, 10:21:37 AM »

Could we book the back room at Hadley's and arrange for beer to be brought in?
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