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

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

Basically it's a slang way of saying "I don't want to be stuck with Norma's part when we perform this/these song(s)

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.

Teddy

[braider.livejournal.com]

Bingo! This is the bit of word usage I was missing. Thank you!