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stevieannie) wrote2007-01-25 12:06 pm
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Lincoln Tradition Picture...

We're open to name change suggestions. We're currently going by "Lincoln Tradition(s)", but I'm a little unsure as to whether it sounds as though we're doing a City Waits kind of a thing, which we're not. What we're *actually* doing is very traditional english part-songs, mostly seasonal, and largely accapella, with some melodeon, percussion and brass accompaniment, as seems appropriate. The name we liked the most was "Baggsy Not Norma", but as we all know both Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson, and would like to carry on knowing them on a personal, rather than litigous, basis, we think that may be out :-)
Some of the photos from this session were hysterical, particularly the ones where we all broke out in spontaneous "Manhatten Transfer" songs and the ones where Liam was telling jokes involving Kate Rusby and some lard...
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"Manhatten Transfer" - You don't hear them often these days. I like their versions of "Chatanooga Choo Choo" and "Anything Goes"
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It does have trains and southern US cities in it, though...
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To me "Lincoln Tradition(s)" sounds more limiting than you say, I'd expect a group with that name to be only doing trad Lincoln songs (and Man Tran is rather a long way from Lincoln!). I don't know how much difference the name actually makes, though, especially if most people first hear you rather than see the name.
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"Lincolnshire Song Poachers"?
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I know the tune, not the words (apart from the last line of the verse), from the band and orchestral arrangements. That apparently derives from older sources with other words (not exactly unusual for folk songs!).
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So, where are the *fun* pictures? And what was the Kate Rusby story? No fair dangling stories as one might a feather before a cat.
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Help?
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At our first rehearsal, we started singing, accidentally in unison. Frank said, "Let's try that again, a la Watersons. But baggsy not Norma." Meaning that she wanted us to sing in 4 part traditional harmony, but she didn't want to sing Norma's lead part.
It kind of stuck.
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Another example of the use of the word: When I was a kid, "Bagsy not the back!" or "Bagsy the front!" were frequent cries before going anywhere in the car because everyone preffered to ride in the front seat so hope to bag the front seat by calling it first.
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how about Living Tradition,
or focus on the voice side of things - eg Word of Mouth, Lincoln Vox, Vox Folk, Shake and Vox, ...OK I'll stop there...
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How about The Living Dead ? :-)
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I think the other 'undead' suggestions should be passed to Seanan...
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Apropos of nothing in this thread, each time I typed "folk" I had to go back and change the original "i" to an "o"...
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The song I remember Manhattan Transfer singing is Chanson D'Amour (Ra-ta da-ta Da!)
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Royston died rather tragically when he stepped out of his car to help a fellow motorist who had broken down, and was hit by an out-of-control lorry.
I think Heather is an SF fan, as well...
And yes, the "Ratatata-DA" was exactly what we were singing at the moment of hilarity!
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That will teach me to post something without checking first! :)
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