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]

You all look awfully serious in that shot.... If that's what you were aiming for - fine.

"Manhatten Transfer" - You don't hear them often these days. I like their versions of "Chatanooga Choo Choo" and "Anything Goes"

Teddy

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Have you asked Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson whether they'd mind? They might be tickled pink.

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.

[braider.livejournal.com]

Baggsy?

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.

[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...

[valydiarosada.livejournal.com]

There was an English a capella folk band around in the 1960s called the Young Tradition, whose members included the late Peter Bellamy and the woman who wrote "A Plea for Order" which I have been known to sing on occasion in a filk circle, but I'm currently blanking on her name and that of her ex-husband who was also in the band. I can't remember who the fourth member was. They split up just before I started going to folk clubs.

The song I remember Manhattan Transfer singing is Chanson D'Amour (Ra-ta da-ta Da!)

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

Considering where you live, the geography, and the geology, "Jurassic Edge".

[rdmaughan.livejournal.com]

I must be hungry the current name sounds like a brand of sausages.

[filkarchive.livejournal.com]

Looking at that picture, the first word to go into a band title has to be "Bohemian"...failing that, how about "Born to be Trad"?