Larry Stout Posted June 23, 2006 Share Posted June 23, 2006 Just checking before I head off on the four day drive (broken up with visits to many relatives)-- Any c-neters going to English Scottish session or Scottish 1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jody Kruskal Posted June 23, 2006 Share Posted June 23, 2006 Sorry Larry, I won't be up until Campers week. Have fun in paradise. Jody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jody Kruskal Posted June 23, 2006 Share Posted June 23, 2006 Sorry Larry, I won't be up until Campers week. Have fun in paradise. Jody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenferry Posted June 23, 2006 Share Posted June 23, 2006 Just checking before I head off on the four day drive (broken up with visits to many relatives)-- Any c-neters going to English Scottish session or Scottish 1? Larry, good for you, for winning the grand lottery! I've found that it's just too complicated to try and win a spot at Pinewoods with the folk mafiosi who control Pinewoods. Would love to go sometime. Was there a few years ago for Labor Day; the biting bugs and humidity were overwhelming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimLucas Posted June 23, 2006 Share Posted June 23, 2006 ...the biting bugs and humidity were overwhelming! The bugs didn't bother me (they rarely do; I think I must taste bad), but I remember the humidity: I had a book that I never opened all week, and it still wound up with all the pages curled as if it had been dropped in a bucket of water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Barnert Posted June 24, 2006 Share Posted June 24, 2006 I'll be there for Early Music Week, my regular gig. Found a deer tick on me one year. I've learned to keep a change or two of bed linens in an air-tight plastic bag for later in the week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 Hi Larry. I'll be at both Scottish sessions, so I guess we'll overlap during Scottish I. I look forward to meeting you there. Will you be taking the music class led by Dave Wiesler? He's a great musician, a fantastic teacher, and a really nice guy. I'll be the one in there with an English concertina. A lot of you seem to have had bad experiences at Pinewoods. Yes, it gets humid there some years, but it's still a heck of a lot of fun, very relaxing, and there are lots and lots of great people there. Besides, if you get too hot there are the ponds to go swimming in. As for the people running it, different sessions are run by different groups, so if you have a bad experience with one group, try a different session run by someone else. I've been going to the Scottish sessions for 15 years, and this year was the first time I ever even had to be on the waiting list (session I was apparently overbooked by 20% this year), but my wife and I got in several weeks ago, in plenty of time to make plans. I can't wait to get there! Steven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhomylly Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 I was there one year ('85? '86?) and dealing with the tail end of a hurricane for English Week. I think we won the humid prize that year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Barnert Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 I was there when Hurricaine Bob roared right through (English Week 1991). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animaterra Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 I tried and got in to English-and-American this year, but a combination of unforeseen factors made me have to give it up in order to visit my dad in Seattle this August instead. I've heard wonderful things over the years but have never been able to get to Pinewoods- maybe next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Peters Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 ...the biting bugs and humidity were overwhelming! The bugs didn't bother me (they rarely do; I think I must taste bad), but I remember the humidity: I had a book that I never opened all week, and it still wound up with all the pages curled as if it had been dropped in a bucket of water. When I was on staff for a folk music camp that fell on the Labor Day week, I eventually got used to the strange sensation of putting on damp clothes every morning. But what a great place! I had a ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Stout Posted July 14, 2006 Author Share Posted July 14, 2006 Just thought I'd report-- The English Scottish Session had three English concertinas present and playing in the band class. The Scottish Session I had two EC's (Steven and me) and an anglo (used for sea shanties in the ceilidh). The weather varied from hot and humid to gorgeous. The dance pavillions are wonderful. The music was fabulous, and the dancing was superb. In case you hadn't guessed, I had a ball. (Well, actually there were two balls while I was there...) Larry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Barnert Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Greetings from Pinewoods Early Music Week. I just discovered a WiFi signal on the PCI manager's porch. Who woulda thunk. Three concertinas here this week (me with a Hayden, others have an English and an Anglo). Rumors of another English I haven't seen. Tuesday is kind of a "night off" hence time for this nonsense, after playing for the camper dance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Barnert Posted July 27, 2006 Share Posted July 27, 2006 Back from Pinewoods a few days, now, but my first chance to visit concertina.net. Somebody at Pinewoods wrote a limerick about the phenomenon of people gathering with their laptops around the building with the WiFi. There's a glow, not the moon, in the trees. It's the screens of the Macs and PCs. They've discovered perfection: A broadband connection! But could the music be a little quieter, please? [from memory: apologies for any inaccuracies] And for the concertina content: Turns out there were (at least) 5 concertinas there last week. Two EC, two Anglo, and my Hayden. We all met briefly to see what we could do together, and although we included someone who had bought her first concertina (an Italian Anglo) moments earlier in the silent auction, we had some fun with easy tunes. Here's me playing for some cloggers last Friday. In the blue is Jan Elliott, a fine EC player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Timson Posted July 27, 2006 Share Posted July 27, 2006 I've found that it's just too complicated to try and win a spot at Pinewoods with the folk mafiosi who control Pinewoods. I can vouch for the truth in that statement. But Anne and I did guest one year at the Washington Getaway, which we still both remember as possibly the most fun we've ever had at a folk event (even though it was dry [sigh]). Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidFR Posted July 27, 2006 Share Posted July 27, 2006 In the blue is Jan Elliott, a fine EC player. And I can vouch for this statement. Jan is fantastic, especially for morris music. And the one time I went to Pinewoods (as a kid) I had a fantastic time. So if you can go, do go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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