Chainmaille Show

[dbaldock]

Can't say I have any problem with the Brazilian dancers themselves, but they could really use an actual samba band performing with them instead of the prerecorded music.

Back on the original topic, I'm glad TRF and Lord Randolph were able to work things out.

From the Silver Thistle web shop:

"What do you get when you mix the Afro-Brazilian rhythms of Sambaxe with the traditional (and not so traditional) Scots tunes of The Silver Thistle Pipes and Drums? You get an exciting infusion of world music, embodied in a super-band called Samba Thistle.

I bought a copy of the Samba Thistle CD at Things Celtic in Austin, and it's great!

[ravic]

Everybody chill.

Lord Randolph just announced on FB that there will be a show next year.

HUZZAH! Great news!  Now let us find something else to gripe about! 

We have a few months to come up with something.

[ravic]

Can't say I have any problem with the Brazilian dancers themselves, but they could really use an actual samba band performing with them instead of the prerecorded music.

Back on the original topic, I'm glad TRF and Lord Randolph were able to work things out.

I was working in The Morrocan Bazaar when the Greeks took over & morphed it into the Agora. I was hawking for a psyhic booth and the new people started playing Greek restaurant music LOUD. My workers could not hear their customers. The Bazaar had a full circle of vendors which drew in lots of people between the shows. The Greeks ran everyone out over the next 2 years & the place died, relatively speaking. Except for the shows & the food, there is little to no traffic.

[Merlin the Elder]

You REALLY need to give it another go... 

I was close, m'Laird, but this is stuff I go out of my way to avoid sometimes. It's just my personal taste, and my taste is a lot different from most—I don't taste like chicken.

For the party hard types, TRF is THE place to be, from all accounts.  I've gotten a lot more laid back these last few centuries. If crowds are too thick, I have a tendency toward anxiety attacks, a touch of claustrophobia, I suppose.  If I ever went again, it would need to be on a rain day, when the attendance is light. How much fun would that be?

[Laird Fraser of Lovatt]

You REALLY need to give it another go... 

I was close, m'Laird, but this is stuff I go out of my way to avoid sometimes. It's just my personal taste, and my taste is a lot different from most—I don't taste like chicken.

For the party hard types, TRF is THE place to be, from all accounts.  I've gotten a lot more laid back these last few centuries. If crowds are too thick, I have a tendency toward anxiety attacks, a touch of claustrophobia, I suppose.  If I ever went again, it would need to be on a rain day, when the attendance is light. How much fun would that be?

Actually, i've had the most fun on those days... especially when there's sleet invoved... 

[PollyPoPo]

Ooh, rainy days at Sherwood.

Not good for business, but some memories made.

Early morning, foggy, no fairies flitting about, few mundanes inside yet, surreal almost.

[Riff Raff]

Had a personal belly dance show for my girlfriend and I one rainy day at Sherwood.  Nobody else had come out yet.  I think we were also told that we were in the first six people or so through the gate.  Rainy days can be nice. 

[raevyncait]

One of my favorite days EVER at Scarby was Memorial Day, 2007, I believe. It POURED rain, the entire shire was one big mud puddle. Virtually everybody still there was in garb, playing and having a grand time. Late in the afternoon, a big group gathered in Pecan Grove not far from the horn shoppe, where there was a bit of a wash that filled with water & mud spectacularly.  A collection was taken up, and VIII took a fabulous belly flop into that mud puddle, with the beneficiary of the collection being whoever the Wishing Well benefited that year.  We were all soaked to the skin, and it didn't even matter, the village was so very alive with joy and exhuberance!

[Zardoz]

   When somebody complains about a rainy day at TRF, my response is usually 'sorry I missed that'!

[xed]

I agree, some of my best times at TRF have been in the rain.

[ravic]

It can be the best of times or the worst of times.

[Tudor-Diva]

I always loved performing in the rain.  Good times.  Good times.

[Shandi]

Can't say I have any problem with the Brazilian dancers themselves, but they could really use an actual samba band performing with them instead of the prerecorded music.

Back on the original topic, I'm glad TRF and Lord Randolph were able to work things out.

From the Silver Thistle web shop:

"What do you get when you mix the Afro-Brazilian rhythms of Sambaxe with the traditional (and not so traditional) Scots tunes of The Silver Thistle Pipes and Drums? You get an exciting infusion of world music, embodied in a super-band called Samba Thistle.

I bought a copy of the Samba Thistle CD at Things Celtic in Austin, and it's great!

I got my CD it see,s a million years ago. Maybe 12 or more. I thought I was the only one that like that CD and that sound.

[ravic]

I always loved performing in the rain.  Good times.  Good times.

Including the frozen Christmas? Thought Jingles was going to turn into a Sherrysicle.

[Mouse]

One of my most favourites was a rainy day at TRF..clomping around with no shoes on, mud up to my knees, the Danes looking at me like I lost all  common sense as I hopped from one puddle to the next...I looked like a hobbit, hair long, curly from the humidity, shoeless, in a cloak and a basic tunic....it was fantastic.