Lincoln Tradition Picture...

[stevieannie]

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...

Comments

[unclechristo.livejournal.com]

a bandname to go with the photo would be "Serious Folk" - hard to keep that image up live tho for the whole gig :-)

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...

[stevieannie.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I considered "Living Tradition" myself, but there's a magazine of the same name...

[unclechristo.livejournal.com]

oh yeah - sponsorship opportunities.
How about The Living Dead ? :-)

[shannachie.livejournal.com]

WEll, since you are all so serious and dressed in black, how about Undead Tradition?

[the-gwenzilliad.livejournal.com]

To bounce off of this, and have the name sound serious to some people, laughable to others, and get you asked a lot of questions by everybody, what about "The Undying Tradition"? Because that's not quite undead. ;)

[stevieannie.livejournal.com]

Hee :-) I like that!

[unclechristo.livejournal.com]

or Dead Good Folk

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I like it. It's a good wish as well, we don't want traditions to die.

I think the other 'undead' suggestions should be passed to Seanan...

[bedlamhouse]

How about "Folkin' Serious"? Word of mouth would spread pretty quickly ... "That band was folkin' SERIOUS!"

Apropos of nothing in this thread, each time I typed "folk" I had to go back and change the original "i" to an "o"...

[shannachie.livejournal.com]

i'm just thinking of all the misspelt posters...