Topic: Whitby Folk Week (Read 29748 times)

Ebor_fiddler · « **Reply #80 on:** August 07, 2009, 07:56:22 PM »

That's why I'm taking the motorbike this year .....

george garside · « **Reply #81 on:** August 10, 2009, 11:42:25 AM »

just a quick note to remind any BCCsharpists or anyone just curious about the system that I will be happy to have an informal discussion/ demonstration / short workshop or whatever. Probably best time would be in middle earth immediately after one of my led sessions.i..e. at around 3 pm as the pub i fairly empty after the session. Either just turn up or better still email or pm me before Whitby so I have an idea who to look out for

( please note I will not be using a BCC# for the led session ( but will have one with me)- I will be using a bog standard DG as it is easier on my angina when standing playing for most of the time in a 2 hour session!)

- and for what its worth I will be playing mostly on the row as I feel it more appropriate for what one may loosely term an English session.

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george

george garside · « **Reply #82 on:** August 18, 2009, 10:32:22 AM »

the weather forecast for Whitby week is looking pretty good , warm & hardly any rain! & only 4 days to go

george

george garside · « **Reply #83 on:** August 18, 2009, 10:41:03 AM »

one member of this forum has contacted me to say he is coming to my session on the tuesday & bringing a BCC#. - so all being well we will do a bit of BCCsharping after the session i.e. around 3pm - all welcome

george

Gary · « **Reply #84 on:** August 18, 2009, 05:00:00 PM »

Thanks George that has really cheered me up,this week in North Scotland I am battling against heavy showers and windy days trying to fit in my outstanding air photo jobs.
The programme shows no box session from yourself on Monday. I am guessing that the best idea is to go direct to see Theo when I arrive on Monday morning ,he will no doubt know which of the many pubs has become the gathering place for a Monday box warm up and pint down.

Theo · « **Reply #85 on:** August 18, 2009, 05:10:36 PM »

Gary

There are no specific box sessions at Whitby that I know of, there are some teaching workshops run by George though. Sessions are all open to everyone, but you will be hard pressed to find a session where there is not at least 3 or 4 box players, sometimes many more. Middle Earth sessions usually have loads.

Gary · « **Reply #86 on:** August 18, 2009, 07:45:00 PM »

Thanks Theo, see you next Monday morning at the leisure centre before the Red Arrows rip the sky apart.

george garside · « **Reply #87 on:** August 18, 2009, 07:56:01 PM »

Quote from: Theo on August 18, 2009, 05:10:36 PM

Gary

There are no specific box sessions at Whitby that I know of, there are some teaching workshops run by George though. Sessions are all open to everyone, but you will be hard pressed to find a session where there is not at least 3 or 4 box players, sometimes many more. Middle Earth sessions usually have loads.

my sessions in the middle earth have in the past had instruments ranging from a medieval drainpipe to a mouthie & boxes as well! in other words if you an play it bring it

george

theSmoiler · « **Reply #88 on:** August 20, 2009, 09:41:39 PM »

Quote from: george garside on August 18, 2009, 10:32:22 AM

the weather forecast for Whitby week is looking pretty good , warm & hardly any rain! & only 4 days to go

george

Not sure which weather forecast you've been looking at, George - not the same one as me today...

Ebor_fiddler · « **Reply #89 on:** August 21, 2009, 02:39:48 PM »

Well, Radio York, which covers most of North Yorkshire, at least has good weather until Sunday!

Gary · « **Reply #90 on:** August 28, 2009, 08:17:22 PM »

Thanks to all those who made my visit to Whitby such fun,just got back to North Scotland.Plenty of practice ahead for my next event.
Mallys books and Cds are going to be well used.

Johnjo · « **Reply #91 on:** August 28, 2009, 08:34:20 PM »

Hi all - just wanted to add my thanks for all the help from various people at Whitby:

Theo - many thanks for the brilliant tuning and fettling job you did on the Pokerwork (can't believe it's the same discordant box I posted up to you in the Summer).

George - very many thanks for all your help at the Middle Earth. I'd never played in any form of session before, and you actually made it all so much fun - AND - painless.

It was great to meet up with the redoubtable HallelujahAl as well.

Hope to be back next year, but in the meantime, I'm wearing out my CD player trying to learn some of those tunes from the Middle Earth. It's a good job my elderly neighbour is pretty deaf.......

John

Ebor_fiddler · « **Reply #92 on:** August 29, 2009, 07:55:37 PM »

mikesamwild · « **Reply #93 on:** August 30, 2009, 11:17:18 AM »

I'd like to add my thanks to the session and workshop leaders and we've already booked for next year. It was irritating to see Tony Hall booked in to the Fleece and not be able to get in for his session. Need for better organization in future

I met a lot of nice people, quite a few who are members of mel.net

Mike

HallelujahAl · « **Reply #94 on:** August 30, 2009, 11:18:50 AM »

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As with everybody else, thanks Theo and George for help advice and encouragement (even if I was the only person in Whitby) who admitted to knowing "Oh Joe, the boat is going over"!

psst...I know it too..but kept silent...sorry

AL

Gary · « **Reply #95 on:** August 30, 2009, 01:20:39 PM »

Mike, you did not miss Tony Hall in the Fleece, the session was moved at short notice to another pub a fair walk further past the muddle Earth. I just could not manage to get to it, I was already late. I saw him at a concert in the rifle club on thursday, very droll and playing ragtime, wow.

GuyWyatt · « **Reply #96 on:** August 30, 2009, 03:36:05 PM »

Cautionary tale, more or less related to Whitby...
I went to see Theo at his stall and as I needed a rather more rugged melodeon bag I asked him what he had to offer. I inspected the relevant offering which steemed admirably sturdy. I didnt buy it though, as it was,I thought, remarkably ugly. The next day (Saturday morning and after Theo had left) the strap on my existing bag failed and my melodeon landed with a ghastly thump on the pavement. Bass end blocks came adrift. Fortunately it was easily fixed but you can imagine my feelings. Moral of the story.... next time buiy the damn bag. Of course, if this is of general application the moral of the story is that I should also have bought that cute Preciosa he had. Oh well, another time perhaps.
Had a great Whitby, by the way.
Guy

Theo · « **Reply #97 on:** August 30, 2009, 03:39:16 PM »

Quote from: GuyWyatt on August 30, 2009, 03:36:05 PM

Cautionary tale, more or less related to Whitby...
I went to see Theo at his stall and as I needed a rather more rugged melodeon bag I asked him what he had to offer. I inspected the relevant offering which steemed admirably sturdy. I didnt buy it though, as it was,I thought, remarkably ugly. ...

!! Beauty is in the eye of the ~~beholder~~ owner of the undamaged melodeon

Ebor_fiddler · « **Reply #98 on:** August 30, 2009, 05:38:55 PM »

I had bought a melodeon bag a few weeks ago from Hobgoblin in Leeds, where they are at a very convenient distance from the bus station (ie cunning use of bus pass

). Imagine my horror when on Tuesday morning, the top bit where the handle is attached simply burst apart, because the sempstress had run her seam too near the edge of the material!

I am only too pleased to report that I took the bag to their stall, without any proof of pucrhase and the replaced without any trouble at all.
I, too have protection!

theSmoiler · « **Reply #99 on:** August 30, 2009, 09:47:08 PM »

Quote from: Ebor_fiddler on August 30, 2009, 05:38:55 PM

I am only too pleased to report that I took the bag to their stall, without any proof of pucrhase and the replaced without any trouble at all.
I, too have protection!

Nick (with the pony tail), who was on the Hobgobling stall at Whitby, works in the shop at Leeds so probably recognised it as one of their's. He's also an extremely oblighing young chap.

Diane

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