The Boston monthly pub sing fell during Yom Kippur this month, and so was sparsely attended.  I asked if anyone had any songs about repentance - but since nobody who was doing the repentance thing was there, my friend Joe sang "Sam Hall" instead, which is about a distinct ABSENCE of repentance!  Then I sang "Net Hauling Song" because it was full of Yom Kippured Herring.

Love, Columbine (what, me repent?) 

P.S. to find out about Boston-area social singing events, go here.
 

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Thanks for the link.  I just wish I could find a social-singing group around here...There are various choirs I could join, but none of them sing chanteys.

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Sing an unwritten song or repent for the deeds you left undone.- GBS
If curious means that you trade your routines for something free, the freedom you feel's the whole point of the deal so curious I'll be! - BNL
Priates over Ninjas!!

You can start one - just find a pub or restaurant with a side or back room, pick an unpopular night (like Tuesday), ask permission a few months ahead of time, and then publicize it.  You're certainly close enough that you could list it on the site!  Then post it all over the local LiveJournal and Facebook communities and put posters on the bulletin boards of the colleges, and tell the people who do the folk show at the radio station.  You can even tempt people out with prizes (e.g. you'll buy a plate of nachos for the first one to lead a song about pirates; or paint a T-shirt if you're of an artistic bent.  You might even be able to talk the pub into donating one of their T-shirts, if they have a T-shirt.)  If you can get a guitarist to show up, it'll hang together better, but it's certainly not necessary (we don't have one; Portsmouth regularly has two guitars, a couple concertinas, a fiddle, and a banjo!)  The pub will be happy to have somebody to serve dinner and drinks to on a Tuesday, and you'll have a blast.

Love, Columbine (Don't leave!  Please don't!  Forget it's Tuesday!) 

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Columbine:

Love, Columbine (Don't leave!  Please don't!  Forget it's Tuesday!) 

And only those of us with the Rankin Street album will appreciate that one! I still miss Darrell.

Anne

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And when the winds of change begin to blow,
I'll whisper, "You're my lighthouse" in case you didn't know.

Sons of Maxwell

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Always thought that comment a little odd because at my university, Tuesday was a popular night at the pub. Accoustic Tuesday, anyone could get up and play for the crowd. Many Tuesday nights were played there by Johnny Reid before he became a star.

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"I see you in the front row, bouncing up and down, you're ripped and ready for a night downtown." ~ Margarita
What's wrong with a little flirtation?

Monster Tee

AnneInPhilly:

Columbine:

Love, Columbine (Don't leave!  Please don't!  Forget it's Tuesday!) 

And only those of us with the Rankin Street album will appreciate that one! I still miss Darrell.

Anne

Anyone know where I can find it?

~ Loula

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Well there’ll be music all around you, You should see the way it feels

been out of print for a while. It was really hard to find back in 1998 when I joined the OKP.  At this point it's not even on Ebay.  ( I just checked)

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Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus
"Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." E. Wiesel
OKP's Resident B****
Imprudens est draconem vivum de consiliis tuis omittere.
Steet team Leader for NYS, OH and Southern Ontario.

Is anyone willing to send it to me? Shoot me a PM and I'll give you my email!

Peace, Love, and Pre-GBS,

Loula

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Well there’ll be music all around you, You should see the way it feels

...or maybe we could convince the powers that be around here to produce a short, cheap run for the store? Limited time offer, pre-orders only maybe?

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Sing an unwritten song or repent for the deeds you left undone.- GBS
If curious means that you trade your routines for something free, the freedom you feel's the whole point of the deal so curious I'll be! - BNL
Priates over Ninjas!!

Columbine:

You can start one - just find a pub or restaurant with a side or back room, pick an unpopular night (like Tuesday), ask permission a few months ahead of time, and then publicize it.  You're certainly close enough that you could list it on the site! 

Oh the bravery of you.  I get nervous hosting family dinners for fear no-one will show up.  Great advice, and if anyone else one the Canadian side of Niagara wants to try, I'll be there!  I can sing, and I own a guitar but I don't play.

Not sure what you meant by "close enough" though. There isn't much ocean at all between Boston and here, but there's a lot of road.  And a border (I tend to make a big deal of border crossings because I haven't crossed in about ten years. - Gawd that's sad. I haven't left the country or even the province in at least a decade!  Going to sit in a corner and feel sorry for myself for awhile...just ignore me for a bit)

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Sing an unwritten song or repent for the deeds you left undone.- GBS
If curious means that you trade your routines for something free, the freedom you feel's the whole point of the deal so curious I'll be! - BNL
Priates over Ninjas!!

Caroldohn:

Oh the bravery of you.  I get nervous hosting family dinners for fear no-one will show up.  Great advice, and if anyone else one the Canadian side of Niagara wants to try, I'll be there!  I can sing, and I own a guitar but I don't play.

You really should do it! It sounds like so much fun! If I were closer/actually had a way of getting anywhere, I would show up. I'm sure there are tons of people who would love it. (I can't be completely crazy, right?) 

I'm sitting in the library waiting for my next class to start, and I already finished my homework for the day. I should be studying for my friday midterm, but I decided coming here was a much better use of my time. Don't you agree?  

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-Ruthie

"I get by with a little help from my friends." - The Beatles

"Whatever happens here tonight, we're blaming it on the moon." -GBS Concert 9/5/09 Buffalo

You're close enough because... well, because I know the people who run the list and know they wouldn't object.  And we sing lot of Great Lakes songs anyway.

And even if nobody did show up, it's not like you'd be in trouble, right?  They'd still have sold at least a slice of pizza or bowl of soup that they wouldn't have otherwise, and you'd have discovered all the local channels for obscure/cheap concerts.

Love, Columbine 

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Okay, different problem.  I didn't even know there were Great Lakes songs,  besides the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald anyway.  There's one about the blackflies of North Ontario, too, but I only know the chorus.  Can't lead a sing-in if I don't know the songs.  Where do you find this stuff?

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Sing an unwritten song or repent for the deeds you left undone.- GBS
If curious means that you trade your routines for something free, the freedom you feel's the whole point of the deal so curious I'll be! - BNL
Priates over Ninjas!!

Great Big Sea albums!  That's how I started, then I learned new songs from the other people.  But at least at the monthly pub sing (not the sea chantey sing) we also sing summer camp songs, Beatles songs, Flanders & Swann, Puff the Magic Dragon, and we'd probably do B-I-N-G-O if some youngster proposed it.  I've ripped into "Mercedes Benz" when I couldn't bring anything else to mind - lots of people know that!

Love, Columbine

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DOUBLEPOST!

Bob Hallett, meet Aleksandr Hrustevich:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUCfSiMB_2E

And, hey, it is technically a button box.

Holy accordion, Batman!

Love, Columbine

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