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Post by Capt. Morgan on Aug 8, 2007 7:44:26 GMT -5
Yes, other faires do pub sings. Though the type varies greatly from faire to faire. A lot of them only have music. That is it. No other type of performers. They just play songs, and everyone sings along.. Not sure which Faires you have gone to...but usually it's the Cast (The Queen, her Court, Rogues, Pirates, Peasants et al.) who show up for Pub Sing and kinda "wrap up" the day by helping the Patrons sing the songs they've learned throughout the day...Sterling Faire has to be one of the BEST Final Pub Sings with Cast stepping in to introduce the next song (Like Sir Walter Raleigh doing a bit for "Bonny Ship the Diamond" or a Washer Wench telling how all the men that have hit on her this day were too old leading into the song "Maids When You're Young"...etc...until "Last Call" is sounded in the Pub and the Queen reflects upon the event of the day which leads the entire cast into "Auld Lang Syne"....I tell you...by this point, there is not a dry eye in the Shire.... Places Like MDRF have several Pub Sings at once, the Shire is so big so while The Rogues are jamming at the Dragon's Lair...Pirates Royale are rockin' at The White Hart... MIRF....well...most if not all hit The Guinness Pub where the Queen and Court show up as well to sing songs...it's tricky getting from Owain's Stage to the Guinness in time...so much is going on.... ORF...The Aleing Knight Pub is basically roofed over for both musicans and Patrons and the setting a tad more...intimate...not to mention if it starts to rain...EVERYBODY just stays in the Pub and joins in the fun and the sound is excellent so you basically get everyone singing with a few of the Cast showing up to help along...The Queen used to show up...but I think the last year or so she's been pulled away to Main Gate for something...pity... The problem with our Pub Sing is...I think...projecting over the din of the crowd...I mean, alot of people show up for Pub Sing to just socialize with cast and performers...nothing wrong with that at all...but if I stand on the other side of the Stumble...I can't hear any of the music or bits that are being played...of course, being deaf in one ear doesn't help...but...rarely is it that I hear a tune I try to make it to the other side closer to the stage to sing...save for this past weekend when I heard "Health to the Company" quite clearly...I suspect that this being closing weekend...the crowd will be even bigger...as for "dry eyes"...that will be impossible.... ....must remember to wear water-proof make up....
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Post by BlackKnight on Aug 8, 2007 11:42:12 GMT -5
Well...your problem is that you are on the other side of the bar instead of in the mix....typical rennie snob! *sigh* final weekend already....damn...
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Post by Capt. Morgan on Aug 8, 2007 11:52:20 GMT -5
Yah...that's me to a tee...a Rennie "Snob"...but having kin like you, is it any wonder?? *snerk* I know...I know...but you'll just have to get your fashionable booty up to some of the other Faires now, won't you??
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Post by Capt. Morgan on Aug 8, 2007 13:53:47 GMT -5
Actually...this brings up an interesting question....
How many Pub Songs DO you know? This is a list of what I can recall (for now) of songs I have sang at various Faires during performances of their musical acts and during Pub Sing....
Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl If I Was A Blackbird Red is the Rose/Loch Lomond When That I Was a Little Tiny Boy I'll Tell Me Ma The Loch Tay Boat Song Ringa Dinga Da Roll the Old Chariot Along Auld Lang Syne Andante The Parting Glass Maids of Amsterdam Wild Rover Good Companions All For Me Grog Wild Mountain Thyme Black Velvet Band Bonny Ship the Diamond Easy and Slow The Fisherman's song Good Luck to the Barley Mow The Golden Vanity Gypsy Rover Haul Away Joe A Health to the Company Hey, Ho, Nobody's Home Itches In Me Britches Johnny Be Fair Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya Johnny Jump Up The Jolly Beggarman The Keeper The Lusty Young Smith Maids When You're Young Mary Mac Mattie Groves The Mermaid Mingulay Boat Song The Minstrel Boy Molly Malone Mountain Dew The Queen of Argyll The Rocky Road to Dublin Roll Me Over The Bonny Scotsman She moved through the Faire Skye Boat Song Spanish Ladies Star of the County Down Three Jolly Coachmen Whiskey in the Jar
(These too! Macintyre and Finnegan's Wake...Thanks SSG!)
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Post by Lady Catharine on Aug 8, 2007 14:57:15 GMT -5
Damn! That's alot! **hands kleenex ,er linen nappies to everyone this weekend**** No, say is isn't so,,it just happened!
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Post by Kayenne on Aug 8, 2007 21:53:27 GMT -5
Kayenne....Just my opinion here, but from having watched them perform on "their" stage I could not help but notice a very large set of drums they use in their act. Possibly dragging all that over to the Stumble Inn at the end of the day is just a bit too much. I don't believe that's it. The percussion is important, but guitar and fiddle would easily suffice. Still left with the mystery.
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Post by SwordSchoolGroupie on Aug 8, 2007 21:59:02 GMT -5
that's like telling the beatles to only bring John and Paul and forget George and Ringo. I wouldn't want to leave half my band behind.
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Post by BlackKnight on Aug 8, 2007 22:30:17 GMT -5
Joshua (the drummer) can play the bodhran, bongo or the box, so he wouldn't have to drag his whole drum set over to perform. I believe, pub sing participation is determined by contract, so maybe they elected not to perform at pub sing.
I just hope if nothing serious happens over the off-season, that they come back. I could never get tired of them.
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Post by Sir Trevor on Aug 9, 2007 8:14:08 GMT -5
Ok. So I am working on the pictures Britny took on Sunday. What is up with that goat? Anyone want to enlighten me? I'd ask Brit, but she has her nose stuck in that HP book.
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Post by SwordSchoolGroupie on Aug 9, 2007 8:53:29 GMT -5
I do know that one of the tinkers broke one of the goats. show us the pic.... songs: macintyre and finnegan's wake
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Post by Sir Trevor on Aug 9, 2007 9:05:41 GMT -5
I'm getting there. Still have about 30 pics to go through before I am done with Sunday's.
All I know, is that the goat turns up in the pickle grove. Looks like it get decorated by the goddesses as well. Then it turns up at Johnny Phoenix's show.
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Post by Grace O'Malley (Sarah) on Aug 9, 2007 9:26:49 GMT -5
Goat? One took a terrible battle wound during a goat race over to Shakespeare. Another meandered into the pickle grove... Dillon, I believe it was. Oh, the goats.
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Poison Ivy
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Post by Poison Ivy on Aug 9, 2007 9:54:59 GMT -5
Hey Trevor! About the goat.... I KIDnapped him from the Tinkers camp, and took him to see Dillasandra. She pickled him and named him Dillon. He's "our" goat now. I took him to the Johnny Phoenix show at the suggestion of Mary, one of Johnny's assistants. She wanted to use Dillon in the part of the show where Johnny has an audience member blindfolded onstage, and has someone give him an object to hold. He then uses his "psychic" powers to "tell" the person onstage what he's holding. Mary thought the goat would be funny......she's evil and twisted which is why Dillasandra and I like her so much. Johnny's exact words when he saw me holding up the goat were: "Are you freaking KIDDING me?!?! !" The look on his face was..........interesting.
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Post by Poison Ivy on Aug 9, 2007 10:01:31 GMT -5
Oh yeah, almost forgot... Dillon is now a Dilly Goat! And you can blame Mark at Black Ox Cottage for that one!
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Post by Dillasandra on Aug 9, 2007 13:46:27 GMT -5
The Goddess LIKES goats......................................................... ;D
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