Oh, brave new world ...

[shewhomust]

Folk on Foot (it's a podcast, apparently: helenraven was making encouraging noises about podcasts, and here's one I'd listen to) is organising a virtual folk festival tomorrow, the Front Room Festival. I don't really know how this will work, but there are some splendid musicians involved, and tomorrow I will find out ...

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[cmcmck]

Having missed out on Orkney, I could do with something like this!

[teenybuffalo]

It's a really good podcast. I listen to a LOT of podcasts, since it's the easiest way to stay alert at my repetitive job. Folk On Foot is a series of friendly and intimate conversations between the host, who seems like a very kind man, and a series of eminent singers and instrumentalists. Currently hoping to play some of the festival during or after my working-from-home session tomorrow.

[sovay]

I don't really know how this will work, but there are some splendid musicialns involved, and tomorrow I will find out ...

I definitely like several of those people.

(Oh, God, Peggy Seeger, stay safe.)

[shewhomust]

Enjoy!

[shewhomust]

Thanks for the push: I really must get to grips with the technology.

[shewhomust]

One of the records that shaped my musical taste was her Folk Songs of Courtship and Complaint, a ten-inch LP that my parents adqured from - oh, well, that's another story - when they left the UK ...

[sovay]

One of the records that shaped my musical taste was her Folk Songs of Courtship and Complaint, a ten-inch LP that my parents adqured from - oh, well, that's another story - when they left the UK ...

She sang at Brandeis in a concert that was so intimate she sat on the edge of the stage and people in the audience contributed songs and I ended up teaching her the version of "Wild Mountain Thyme" that a friend and I had written for the solstice. I don't know if she's ever performed it, but I like knowing that she knows it.

Of course, I do want to hear the other story.

[shewhomust]

I ended up teaching her ...

Oh, now that's what I call a good story! Mine isn't in that class, but it's a piece of family history: friends of my parents (the wife had been a colleague of my mother) both US citizens, not born in the US but had met and married there, returning to the States via India, where she had been born, to teach there for a year - which is why they passed the record on to us. Later - much later - she and my father married.