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who's coming to frff this year?

   Discussion: who's coming to frff this year?
goovie is married! · 19 years ago
and where are you staying? and...stuff? i'm massively homesick for frff right now. humor me.
Misch Back · 19 years ago
Unless plans change, I'll be at FRFF in upstairs Camp Früvous. If plans do change, I'll be stuck working and I don't know if I'll make it out there or not :-(
stealthlori Back · 19 years ago
We fervently hopes you gets a job ... that starts July 25. :)
Misch Back · 18 years, 11 months ago
August 1. I made sure of that. (And yes, I could have had July 25th.)

"I'm sorry, new boss, I got these marks fending off some killer tents and Ani fans..."
Shelly Back · 19 years ago
now I'm earwormed with "Beware the Killer Neals"--heeeh!!� � =)
Songbill Back · 19 years ago
I'll be going, lower camp style
goovie is married! Back · 19 years ago
you better come visit upstairs, tho. :D
Songbill Back · 19 years ago
you can count it! I want to hear some of your songs in person... I've been listening on MySpace
goovie is married! Back · 19 years ago
definitely. and same goes for you, sir.
Phoenix Back · 19 years ago
btw you should really play at Camp Dar this time!

since you chickened out last year...
goovie is married! Back · 19 years ago
i didn't know when it was gonna happen, and didn't want to show up and be all like, "hi, none of you know me because i haven't been on the dar-list in five years, but i have my guitar and am going to make you all listen to my annoying songs about my fish and my coworkers!" let me know when it's happening this year, and i will be there. :)
Erato Back · 19 years ago

You'd better show up! You will know at the least Chris and Reinhard and myself. *hugs to you*

rebecca

Phoenix Back · 19 years ago
no excuses necessary :)

But I think that first you're way better than you think you are and second Camp Dar audience is very inclusive and accepting and you shouldn't miss out on this opportunity to perform.
goovie is married! Back · 19 years ago
you have my word. i'll be there. just tell me when. :)
ChrisChin is Getting Old Back · 19 years ago
the song circle pretty much happens at the end of the main stage music each night (and a much much smaller one on Wednesday night) and goes on until whenever people conk out, which can around 4AM or so. And you can just stop on by at any time between then. People who want to play just take turns in a circle to perform whatever they want...be it a singalong or an original work. Several people each year just wander in from wherever and play when they come up in the circle. We're very welcoming and relaxed and would love to hear your songs about your fish and former cow orkers!
goovie is married! Back · 19 years ago
sounds absolutely perfect. i've always been nervous about visiting other camps, but i think i could handle camp dar. :)
It's a girl! Back · 19 years ago

��� The World family will be representing as per usual.� Andy's mom is house-sitting in Egremont, which is like 5 miles away from the festival.�

������Judging from Maddie's behavior at the DVN show last Sunday ---�� grinning and telling everyone� "Hi!", strutting around going "ME!",� giggling and clapping at dogs, insisting on standing right next to the speakers, the better to shake her groove thing, and being so cute that Storm had to serenade her---� this year should be a hoot and a half.

Paul Back · 19 years ago

Though I am on the this list and have attended FR for 5 years I don't really know any of you but I and my family are volunteering at FR. We are camping in the volunteer camp. I did come up to the Budgiedome last year after the main stage shut down but no one was there. Just bad timing I guess. What time do the evening performances usually start?

Paul

Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 19 years ago
This year I'm going to shoot for a half hour after the main stage ends. I think that's enough time for people to make tehir way up the hill.
nate... · 19 years ago
downstairs, in camp shelly... as per always. :)

Kris 'engaged' Bedient Back · 19 years ago
me too. solo. orgy anyone?
stealthlori Back · 19 years ago
*gasps, then cracks up*

i read that as "solo orgy anyone?"

:D
goovie is married! Back · 19 years ago
same here.
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 19 years ago
I am still reading it as "solo orgy" and I I will continue to do so.
Kris 'engaged' Bedient Back · 18 years, 11 months ago
ummm, I don't need FRFF as an excuse for a solo orgy *wink*
Shelly Back · 18 years, 11 months ago

yo.� can you tell me your tent size/car size/when you're arriving if you're camping downstairs?� i need to know so i can add it to my spreadsheet on how much space to save & etc.

yes, i have a spreadsheet for The Patch.� sue me.�

we're all about the hi-tech.� :P

Kris 'engaged' Bedient Back · 18 years, 11 months ago
my tent is 8x8, and I will have a car onsite too.
Shelly Back · 19 years ago

i guess i should soon start a 'Pirate's Patch/Lower Camp' forum due to the death of my computer/my Patch database with people/tent sizes/car sizes, etc

and this week i am on the quest for the telescoping flagpole.

and nate, we'll hafta coordinate our *ahem*�purchases this year for our theme nights & such.....heh. this time we have SHAKERS!!�� =)

Josh Woodward · 19 years ago
We're skipping this year.
Kris 'engaged' Bedient Back · 19 years ago
:( boo-hoo. that's so sad.
100% dainty! Back · 19 years ago
noooooooo!!!!!!!
nate... Back · 19 years ago
awwww.
:(

My sweet ass is going to be lonely!

Kris 'engaged' Bedient Back · 19 years ago
what about the rest of you?
Songbill Back · 19 years ago
very sad
zil Back · 19 years ago

> We're skipping this year.

*choke* but... I was... planning ... on seeing sara there. *honestly a little teary*

I gues I should keep in contact better, eh? then I might know this info already and avoid the weirdly emotional reaction. ...

zil Back · 19 years ago
well its not WEIRD seeing as I loves you guys, I gues I was just trying to down play it.... *stops talking*
Erato · 19 years ago
Camp Dar, of course. :)
Phoenix Back · 19 years ago
Represent!!!
100% dainty! · 19 years ago
oh I will be there, along with two good friends of mine. We'll be staying in our own camp again, but making trips to budgiedomeland of course. :)
goovie is married! Back · 19 years ago
you better!
100% dainty! Back · 19 years ago
Oh I will!!! :) Is there a budgiedome lineup yet? That would be cool.
stealthlori Back · 19 years ago
there is ... Gordon knows the details, but so far it includes Sean Altman, the Kennedys, Cadence Carroll, Teresa Storch, probably that rising new artist Carey Farrell :), and a few other folks whose names might be familiar to you. (Gordon, anyone else you want to add to that list?)

if you want in on budgiedome news and discussion, go to groups.yahoo.com and join Camp_Fruvous_FRFF. It's a moderated group, and it starts to come to life about this time every year.
goovie is married! Back · 19 years ago
i've also heard rumors about david morreale, amy speace, and fellow rising new artist bill michalski. :) but again, gordon knows best.
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 19 years ago
Always good advice.

Those are the people I can think of off the top of my head. I'll have to go through my emails to see who else wants to play. For the first time ever I might have to tell some people we don't have time for them to play.
lawrence · 19 years ago
I'll be there. Staying in a motel off route 23. Not the Days Inn in Great Barrington this year, though, 'cause it was booked up. I'll be on the other side of the festival this time. (which will be convenient when I arrive Wednesday night, as I won't have to drive as far :)
nate... Back · 19 years ago
laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame
goovie is married! Back · 19 years ago
not so lame. :)

i used to tease non-campers about being wusses, but then i got strep throat at frff in '03, and i don't think it would have been so bad if i'd been staying someplace warm and safe and quiet.

so we're staying at our favorite b&b again, and enjoying all the fun of frff *plus* delicious gourmet breakfasts every morning and a beautiful room to come home to every night. so we're wusses. but we're happy and comfortable in our wussiness. :)
ChrisChin is Getting Old Back · 19 years ago
hrmmm..I may considering motelling it next year. I had a pretty bad panic/breathing attack due to the cold air and was quite tired driving home, but did it anyway, so both were a bit scary. I would have thought about it this year if I wasn't spending even more money the weekend after to stay at a hotel in Maine for a wedding.
Shelly Back · 19 years ago

do you have to be back to work on monday?� coz a bunch of us {the ^kat^fambly, donna, meg & jer, sometimes anita, the usual suspects...}stay there sunday night, too, go out for dinner after the closing durge, then de-compress from the weekend & just hang out with each other and then get up and pack the tents/the rest of our stuff and go off on our merry ways.

i highly recommend.� =)� {though i know that everyone can't coz of work.� this year i'm lucky coz i don't have to take a vaca day since i work 4 10's...i just have mon and not friday off that week..yayeee!!!}

ChrisChin is Getting Old Back · 19 years ago
I would, considering that I'm taking the whole week after FRFF off as well. But I think what motivated me most to get home even in my tired state was the warm shower and flush toilet that awaited me when I returned back to my apartment. Though with the girl from Buffalo performing, I may cut out early enough this year on Sunday for it not to be a huge issue.

I just need to remember to get more sleep before the festival this year (or teach Reinhard how to drive. :).
Phoenix Back · 19 years ago
I just need to remember to get more sleep before the festival this year (or teach Reinhard how to drive. :).

Yup there won't be any Emilie to keep you awake this year...
And letting me drive would be an adventure ;-)
nate... Back · 18 years, 11 months ago
I think what motivated me most to get home even in my tired state was the warm shower and flush toilet that awaited me when I returned back to my apartment.

amen to that!
Yeah, I'm usually about ready to roll come sunday morning. I pack up camp as early as possible that day so after I see the last act I want to see, I can just hop in my car and head back home.

Granted, I have a much shorter drive than a lot of folks, so I'm sure that's a factor....

goovie is married! Back · 19 years ago
we always stay sunday and monday nights, then leave on tuesday, so we have time to decompress and play in great barrington. i highly recommend it as well. :)
stealthlori Back · 19 years ago
totally not so lame. *raises wussy (not to mention middle-aged) hand in solidarity*

I likewise have gotten sick every single year I've camped exclusively. Some of us just can't tolerate the combo of great outdoors + diesel fumes + no sleep. So I camp the first night or two, then move into a ginormous condo in GT Barrington for a week, which gives me a few days of post-FRFF stillness. And it gives Steve a really nice place to stay, get cleaned up, and have a nice dinner together Sunday night before he heads back to real life.
lawrence Back · 19 years ago
I'm surprised anyone can still make such an absurd comment after last year's rain. Plenty of people I knew who always insist on camping were envious of the fact that I had a warm, dry motel room to return to, where I could dry off with clean towels (they even delivered more!) and change into dry clothes.
Cos (Ofer Inbar) Back · 19 years ago
For me, heavy rains at Falcon Ridge have been some of my best memories. I still clearly remember the wonderful sudden rainstorm during a mainstage set by a world music band whose name I'm blanking on, and how well they worked the interruptions into their set.

Last year's rain helped catalyze a newly-forming relationship for me :)
nate... Back · 18 years, 11 months ago
*shrugs*

In the immortal words of Tom Waits.... a little rain never hurt no one.

*joolee* Back · 18 years, 11 months ago
Tell that to the witch from wizard of OZ!
nate... Back · 18 years, 11 months ago
She never seems to go to falcon ridge anyway, tho....

Brian Dinsky Back · 18 years, 11 months ago

This reminds me of that time that rain killed my whole family.

ACTUALLY, Tom Waits only said two things, EVER:� #1, something fully incomprehensible, #2 "I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full-frontal lobotomy."

My mom used to make me watch his appearances on Fernwood 2Nite.�

Now, I must figure out how to end this useless post-reply.

ChrisChin is Getting Old · 19 years ago
I'll be there on the slopes of Camp Dar. It's not FRFF for me unless I'm sleeping on a slant.
Erato Back · 19 years ago
So very true. I mean, that totally makes the frff experience sliding down at a slant in your sleep. *grin*
stealthlori Back · 19 years ago
and being run over by the Budgiedomers rolling each other down the hill. :D
Phoenix Back · 19 years ago
totally.

Ane the Tall German Guytm doesn't have to go back after FRFF *bounce*
Kat Kunz Back · 19 years ago
yaaaay chriscookies! :D
iPauley · 19 years ago
Camping and sleeping arrangements to be determined.

-- Pauley
Andrea Krause · 19 years ago
Probably will. Depends on finances, as usual. And whether the kitten's old enough to be left with her sisters.
sheryls Back · 19 years ago

hey, i'll cat sit! you can leave her with my dogs!

..as a snack!

:D

ETA: before i start a cats vs. dogs argument, this was a joke, the intention being that it's impossible for me to cat-sit because my dogs would think kittens = poptartssquirrels.

Andrea Krause Back · 19 years ago
Dude. If she wasn't already named I would SO consider PopTart. :)� Maybe it can be one of her many nicknames.
sheryls Back · 19 years ago

naww, Poppy!

Phoenix Back · 19 years ago
*dies of teh laughing* ;-)
renita Back · 19 years ago
i so want that kittens=poptarts tshirt!!!!
Songbill Back · 19 years ago
You must go! Ahhh!
Andrea Krause Back · 19 years ago

Well if you'll be there it's definitely another point in FRFF's favor! :)

I'll find the money somehow. It's just slow going, because we also have to buy a tent.

Songbill Back · 19 years ago
We could have a benefit concert for the tent-fundage.
Andrea Krause Back · 19 years ago

Hahah no. There are fruheads out there in much more dire need of fundage at any given time. :)

stealthlori · 19 years ago
I'll be hanging at the Budgiedome when I'm not near mainstage, but I'm not sleeping onsite after Thursday night, because my allergies can't handle the pollen and diesel fumes 24/7. I have rented a condo in Gt Barrington to take refuge in.

I'll also be visiting downstairs a coupla times, because *some people* never seem to make it upstairs, and I'd like to see them anyway. :P

See? I'm sociable! :D
Andrea Krause Back · 19 years ago
drink!
stealthlori Back · 19 years ago
is that a suggestion to ease my allergies, or a suggestion for sociable me?

either way ... sure! *raises a glass of wine to Andrea*
Andrea Krause Back · 19 years ago
Sorry, Great Big Sea conditioning. Something about saying "Sociable!" and then drinking. It's been a while so my memory is fuzzy. :)
stealthlori Back · 19 years ago
ahhh ... I don't recall that bit of audience participation. (or maybe it was band banter?) But I've only seen them ... *counts on fingers* ... maybe six times, so it's not all that surprising I missed it.

So now we can start cueing one another for GBS lyric-moments like we used to do back in the day with Drinking Song and Pisco and King of Spain and Horseshoes? hee.
Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 19 years ago
You are old school. I haven't heard them do the "socialble" thing since they started playing in the larger venues. All it was that if someone said Sociable everyone had to raise their glass then take a drink.
Andrea Krause Back · 19 years ago
Yeah, precisely...I haven't seen them in years, since they were playing mid-size venues like Pearl Street in NoHo.
nate... Back · 19 years ago
where do you find diesel fumes?

stealthlori Back · 19 years ago
They waft through the backstage/food/performers/med tent areas, and when the breeze is veryveryVERY wrong they float up the hill. They sting my eyes. If you ever see me wandering around FRFF with tears streaming down my face, by all means give me a hug, but I'm probably not in the clutches of dire emotional woe -- just suffering from diesel. :(
nate... Back · 19 years ago
ahhhh.. that sucks. :(

See, I actually *like* the smell of diesel... both fuel and exhaust.... but, I'm weird. :) That does, however, probably explain why I never noticed it.

stealthlori Back · 19 years ago
i don't think i've ever smelled diesel fuel itself ... just the exhaust.

but i like the smell of gasoline. :D

(not that i, like, purposely sniff it for mind-altering effects, but whenever i'm at a gas station and a little has spilt on the paving, i have a little olfactory joy.)
nate... Back · 19 years ago
ahhhh.. we're opposites!

I hate the smell of gasoline... and of gasoline exhaust.

trunger is counting... · 19 years ago
yeah...so i botched my wisdom check so i think i'm gonna end up driving with mr. bill to ny. heaven help me....i'll be so broke....
Kat Kunz · 19 years ago
the ^k^fam will be there, weds afternoon--monday morn, camping lower. However, I will *definitely* make a point of visiting the b-dome for a couple of the post-show events, particularly since the ever-fabulous Sean Altman will be making an appearance! ohh, I am so excited. :D
goovie is married! Back · 19 years ago
yay kat!
Kat Kunz Back · 19 years ago

yay carey!

...aaaand I'm moving to Chicago in August for law school, so you'll have to�tell me where all the best venues for live music are.� :)

goovie is married! Back · 19 years ago
omgwtf. seriously? where in chicago?

and believe me, i will give you all the info. :)
Kat Kunz Back · 19 years ago
I'm going to be living in the gold coast district (1100 N. Dearborn, if that makes a difference) and attending Northwestern Law (in... Streeterville? I think?). and I need serious Chicago help, because even though I live less than six hours away from the windy city, I've been to *falconridge* more times than I've been there. :D lots to discover! woo!
lawrence Back · 19 years ago
The most important thing to know about Chicago: Cubs good. White Sox evil. :)
100% dainty! Back · 19 years ago
oh wonderful. :) maybe i will get to see you for more than like three seconds this time.
Kat Kunz Back · 19 years ago
I know, right? like ships passing in the night... must not let that happen this year! :D
Rachel Marie aka RAI · 19 years ago
How come everyone goes to FRFF and not Philly Folk Fest? I can never go to FRFF 'cause it's too far away, but I've been going to Philly Folk the past three years (my mom's been going for like, 12 years). Actually, I don't even know if I can go to PFF this year as I'll be moving near the end of August. Not that there's much to see that's interesting besides Tempest.

...Y'all suck. So do I. :o(
nate... Back · 19 years ago
because it's overpriced, overly commercialized/asshole-ized and never has good acts.
:)

I base the first and last on my own experience, and the middle one on the experience of friends who have been.

Gordondon son of Ethelred Back · 19 years ago
It has great acts but everybody I know that has been there tells me it is a zoo. That is actually cause and effect, they get so many people they can afford top priced talent.

Years ago Rita Houston at FUV told me that FRFF was the best and I got hooked the first time I went.
stealthlori Back · 19 years ago
Yeah, I've often seen the Philly Folk lineup, or heard about it on XPN, and thought "wow, that looks like it could be awesome ... "

And then I remember the horror stories I've heard from other people who have gone and regretted it. The occasional rowdiness/vandalism/scary late-night behavior witnessed at FRFF really pales in comparison to what seem like endemic security and crowd issues at Philly. It's a shame, because it's so close to me, but that reputation -- and the people I know who have *stopped* going because they didn't want to put themselves through it -- have kept me from ever seriously considering going. I didn't even go when Fruvous played in '99.
Rachel Marie aka RAI Back · 19 years ago
That's just silly. I've never experienced any of that... just singing, dancing, drum circles, free hot dogs.
stealthlori Back · 19 years ago
well, everyone knows I'm silly. :)

and my summer festival schedule's quite full enough without adding a questionable experience to it. in fact, in the past Ottawa FF has often been the same weekend, and that's a relatively small and sweet festival that I really dig.

*joolee* Back · 19 years ago
The camping is pretty tight. When I heard people park cars @ FRFF I was amazed. It's sardine-land there. You are lucky to have enough room to create common living space.

But I still go. Last year was worth it b/c WA9, DVN, and Girlyman were there - among other awesome acts. I'm not so excited this year.
Shelly Back · 19 years ago

i also think it speaks VOLUMES that gene shay, folk dj at XPN/MC of philly folk/major player/connected to philly folk fest takes his vacation every year -TO- FRFF.

i live right here and i don't like philly folk.� it's too spendy and their camping thing is bizarro{though i've never}.

the only time i went besides when fruvous last played was when i did merch check-in/out for the band{EFO} and the nields the other year.� but there were decent-ish acts that year, too...like old john gorka, mary chapin carpenter, and others that i can't remember right now.

FRFF is da way to go.� even if it's a bit of a journey for us philly....folk.�� heeeh!� =)

stealthlori Back · 19 years ago
bwahahahaha.

yissss. WE are philly ... folk. :) we just travel 4+ hours to really folk it up.

Shelly Back · 19 years ago
coz, like, we know goodstuff, yo.� ;)
*joolee* Back · 19 years ago

Duuude, I go EVARY year!!� I think this will be my 6th or so year.� This year's lineup isn't so amazing, but it's tradition and I do enjoy it.

zil · 19 years ago

I just got paid! (under the tablewootwoot) and I think I have enough for the mystical frff ticket.... although i'd like to camp it out I have been freed of my tent and other campy like items by my fatherbastarddevil... so. I'm still trying to figure out if I'm going to go and sleep curled up next to a trash can for protection or what. we shall see. I may even make it up to THE dome this year as I'm dramaticly LESS of a pussy than I was the first frff I attended... I have retired the "duck and cover" method of meeting people as it is not so much the meeting as avoiding, word up.

talcott never does anything so I don't know if it will be the zilcott or just the lone zil. if he actually TRIES to ask for time off he might be able to go. this "try" thing is hard for him. he's special. ;-)

Talcott Back · 19 years ago
*nyah* ;-)

I could try and put in for the time off right now actually (well, tuesday when I go into work). I'm a bit worried about being able to afford the ticket, but I think I could do it.

So, yes, hopefully it'll be the full zilcott :-D
nate... Back · 19 years ago
So, yes, hopefully it'll be the full zilcott :-D

Is that anything like the full monty?
goovie is married! Back · 19 years ago
YAY!
stealthlori Back · 19 years ago
double YAY!

:D
zil Back · 18 years, 11 months ago
the zilcott will be there! WITH BELLS ON! well maybe not bells, cause then I'd jingle-jangle and people would look at me, but we'll be there!!!
stealthlori Back · 19 years ago
don't curl up next to a trash can. curl up in the dome. it's warmer. :D
nate... Back · 19 years ago
Well, if the weather thus far is any indication, we won't have any problems keeping warm at frff this year. :P

stealthlori Back · 19 years ago
true enough. *loathes the 90F+ temps featured the past two weeks*

in which case ... curl up in the dome! it's cooler! :D

Cos (Ofer Inbar) · 19 years ago
It will be my tenth in a row. I actually first heard fruvous because they came to Falcon Ridge (in 1996), rather than having found Falcon Ridge through fruvous or fruheads. Strange, no? :)
caroline: tired. · 18 years, 11 months ago
no. i'm not going. bah. hopefully next year. i tried, though:

me: is there anything, anything at all, that i could do to change your mind?
mom: yes. move it 2 or 3 hours closer, and change the date.


yeah...it's pretty easy to convince her, if that's all i have to do. :P

ChrisChin is Getting Old Back · 18 years, 11 months ago
how sad....but now you have to convince her to let you go to see Dar Williams on August 21st at KoP AND the XPN festival on Sunday, July 24th featuring Erin McKeown and the Indigo Girls. in Camden, NJ
caroline: tired. Back · 18 years, 11 months ago
I knew about the XPN festival...but it's on the same day as the twins' birthday, hence teh non-frffing as well. dan's going, lucky duck.

however, i will surely try my best for Dar in August. Because KoP is easy. And everything that was wrong about FRFF is right about the Dar show. So ha.
Kris 'engaged' Bedient Back · 18 years, 11 months ago
I am so annoyed about the XPN show. I can't go to both. :(
J. Andrew World · 18 years, 11 months ago
I will be camping Camp Andy. This is the final one. I have camped Camp Andy sence 1997 (I moved their in time for 1996, but had no clue about FRFF.)
Brian Dinsky · 18 years, 11 months ago

I aim to camp along the back of the hill, along the road, against the tree-line, hopefully near where the road circles back around.

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