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Sighted at . . .
Chicago Maritime Festival - Feb 23rd
What a great time! Teaching kids in schools for a week, then finishing it all off by being featured at such a great festival!
I got to share the stage with a group of gentlemen who used to fish for menhaden and actually use these songs in their
youth. We taught each other songs.
Everyone was great, more than I can get into here. I should start a salty blog.
check it out:
http://www.chicagomaritimefestival.org/2008/
For festival info
Bay Engineers Dinner for C.A. Thayer
What a
thrill to get to perform at a dinner thanking the folks who worked to restore the ship I used to live on at the
Maritime museum. They've made her seaworthy!
SF Sea Music Festival
Festival Maritim - Bremen, Germany
August 4 - 6
This is a fun local festival that draws folks from 11 countries! We
represented the US!!
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'SEAFEST 2006' -SCARBOROUGH
(UK)
July 21-23
I got to help out, run a sing, act in a version of the
Odyssey, Get a few of my own song sets, and Sing Happy Birthday to Hughie Jones! I wasn't actually on the bill ,
but I was on the T-shirt! Still, it was a great chance to meet lots of folks I've long enjoyed listening to who
are part of the UK's living tradition of singing. I look forward to returning.
SF Maritime Closes for Repairs
San Francisco Maritime will be Closed for at least 3 years for some long overdue construction
and rehabilitation. We don't know what direction it or its displays will take upon reopening. All we can say with any certainty
is that the gorgeous Art Deco WPA Mural should still be there. We were there to wish her farewell in song -And honored
to be asked to do so.
Mystic Sea Music Festival 2006
 I have more to say about this year's festival than I have time to write here. This has (for
27 years now) not only been one of the most impressive gatherings of talent in the (US) Sea Music world, but also one of the
most impressive opportunities for education about it. Chanties being used on board historic ships to do the jobs for which
they were intended is not found often and certainly not on this scale. It's a shame that interest is waning for this
sort of accuracy and historical interpretation. More people interested in this music should really make the pilgrimage to
this weekend long event. They should do more to "get the word out" to the young folks (or those not local to New England)
who are just getting interested in this disappearing branch of traditional music.
The Biggest news for me personally, was getting to take the stage, both solo and in the
"all hands concert " at the end.
I've wanted to be up there for years.
By the way, Don Sinetti is just as loud when heard from behind him.
2006 Chicago Maritime Festival
Saturday, March 11.
Well, It's probably not quite fair to put this here, but I'll be there,
and I'm sure singing will be involved. The folks who organize this festival are great, and there'll be a chantey sing the
next day, and there's really good Greek food. . .
Not to mention performers of all walks interpreting the world
of sea music -especially how it relates to the Great Lakes. Some great folks you won't see elsewhere.
No Greek food this
time, but still a lot of personable fun. I was treated well at the Festival, asked to come up on stage to sing at the closing
chantey sing. I got to bear witness to a Dutch Chantey Choir, which is truly a sight to behold. Best of all got to stay up
late with some of the featured performers drinking a selection of Scotches and Rum from Belize. When we moved onto Tequila,
I moved to bed.
The chantey sing the next day was
friendly and well worth the visit. I hope to see more folks there next year.
Boxing Day
Dec 26th Pelican Inn 3pm
Open a special gift of traditional music; Ancient Harmonies,
Carols, and Songs of the Solstice. We'll probably sing some chanties too.
We had a festive time, and people
liked it enough that folks were asking to hear the Christmas stuff for the next two months.
11/25 Friends and Family (kinda) at the Pelican Inn
Had enough of what yer supposed to do on Thursday?
Say "Thank you" to yourself with English ale in an English pub &
Sing along with traditional songs. Leave the creepy relative you didn't
want to eat with at home.
4pm, or whenever we start.
-What a great surprise! Some of the
swell people had come told me (by way of Griff's sexy wife) that they've started to come by as a personal Thanksgiving
tradition: Fri = Hike + Pub + Saltywalt! There were folks who dropped by just to see for a little bit, and others who
stayed all evening! I know that this doesn't surprise some of you, but it always takes little old me off guard, and makes
Jon blush, and Griff smile.
THANKS!
Trafalgar Day
Celebrating Nelson's Victory at Trafalgar,
and the Defeat of Napoleon's Fleet.
Oct 23 rd at the Pelican Inn, Muir
Beach
(415) 383-6000
4pm
-Thanks! This was fun and successful.
Lots of new friends, and people who care about maritime History!
San Francisco
Sea Music Festival
Sat. September 10th
It's always an honor to be invited to this
gathering of maritime music performers
and aficionados.
A great time on a beautiful day!
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Sunday July 31th
Sail San Francisco
Pier 32- All Day
Come down and see the ships, not to mention some of the bay areas biggest
names in Sea Music. Support the American Sail Training Association.
Followed By the "Last Sunday" at Edinburgh Castle -come by
and drink with us as well as sing along. A great showing. Thanks Folks.
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