Subject: Starting before midnight GMT (7/6:00 EST/CST) would be ideal.
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Posted on: 2020-12-28 06:57:48 UTC
That's usually about when I'm starting to make dinner. I'm more likely to be able to skirt around other possible engagements if this is in my afternoon rather than my evening, too. {= )
~Neshomeh
One of the joys I have in my offline life is group folk singing, and it's one that 2020 has took from me like a Saint-Malin corsaire. I miss group singing like a red kite misses the blue sky, and I want to keep going with it. I want to combine that passion with my passion for this community, and I'd love to put together an impromptu folk group to sing some songs in the PPC Discord.
I care about this community, and I'd like to give back the best way I can; through song and through rhyme.
I'll be ready to meet people all the time to talk about this, pretty much. I want to make this work and I want to make this something for the community to be proud of. So, y'know... signups below I guess. Bring a voice and bring a reel to sing. I love to sing, and I want the PPC to love to hear.
Or at the very least, like I won't be taking part.
I've got a killer sore throat I haven't been able to shift and my voice is croaky and a little painful. Singing at present is Not Fun.
2020 couldn't finish without stopping me having one last cool thing, I guess.
Sorry everyone.
(Oh, wow, that subject line allowance is long.)
Anyway: here's the first of a couple of folk songs I like all the same!
Maybe it's not a group sing (and I do hope you feel better soon!), but I believe it's still 2020 in your time zone, so I am, in fact, going to battle my internet connection to get you at least a bit of the flavor of the attempted cool thing.
"Santy Anno", sung by Odetta: https://youtu.be/3RAMPBPGQZw One of the first I remember hearing, and in this exact recording, too!
~Z, who would probably be having an easier time of it recording herself, since, uh, most of the folk songs I know I didn't learn from recordings
Sorry you're not feeling well. I'd be happy to give it a go some other time, when you are! Dunno if I have enough moxie to be just one of two people taking turns, though. ^_^;
~Neshomeh
That said, if some sort of hangout were to materialize, I'm not saying I wouldn't pop in...
ETA: To be clear, when I said "two people," I meant you and me, today. I might've wanted to put my sentences in a different order. >.>
~Neshomeh
Hey, we can see if anyone else joins, eh?
I might have family commitments New Year's Eve, not sure yet, but I would be interested in this sort of thing going forward. My IRL friend who likes sea shanties is trying to get me to do something similar, too. I missed out on the wassailing one, alas. So, either I'll bring whatever I brush up for this to that, or vice versa. ^_^
~Neshomeh will now try to remember what folk songs she knows. >.>
Sidenote: for those of you on EST who don't want to do the math, Midnight GMT is 7PM Eastern.
That's usually about when I'm starting to make dinner. I'm more likely to be able to skirt around other possible engagements if this is in my afternoon rather than my evening, too. {= )
~Neshomeh
Is there anything you'd like me-slash-us to learn for this?
That's how I learned all my folk songs anyways.
But maybe pick up Banned From Argo. Or Charlie on the MTA. Or Wild Rover...