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Conference cookie::folk_music

Title:FOLK MUSIC
Notice:Lyrics:500 Concert News:513-515 Festivals:10 For Sale:427
Moderator:SPECXN::WITHERS
Created:Tue Oct 21 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1199
Total number of notes:8539

1199.0. "Sea Music Fest. Mystic Conn." by SALEM::PERRY_W () Tue Jun 03 1997 07:48

    
    
    This weekend is Sea Music Festival in Mystic Conn.
    
    This weekend being June 6, 7, and 8.  1997.
    
    Has any reader attended this event in the past?
    
    
    If so any suggestions as to where to stay,  are there music jams.
    
    Should we bring instruments and if we do is there a safe place 
    
    to leave them?   
    
                 Thanks for any input!
            
                                                       Bill
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1199.1info pageSMURF::PBECKPaul BeckTue Jun 03 1997 10:415
    Check out

http://www.mysticseaport.org/public/visiting.msm/events/sea.music/festival.html
    
    if you haven't already.
1199.2What is -grog-.SALEM::PERRY_WWed Jun 04 1997 13:059
    
    I have a question for anyone,
    
    What is "Grog"  Songs of the sea reference grog, -All for me grog-
    
    A co-worker says it is a generic term for alcoholic beverages that
    the sailors drink and could be anything.
    
                       Bill
1199.3It's liquor, matey!!!!GLDX02::ALLBERYJimWed Jun 04 1997 13:4211
    My understanding of the word was the same as your co-worker's, but a
    quick check of Webster's indicates that it is "alcoholic liquor;
    specif: liquor (as rum) cut with water and now seved hot with
    lemon juice and surgar sometimes added."  The term originated from "Old
    Grog," the nickname of Edward Vernon, an English Admiral responsible
    for diluting the the sailors' rum.
    
    I once attended a military ball, and the (spiked) punch bowl was 
    referred to as the "grog bowl."
    
    Jim
1199.4I'll try some this weekend!SALEM::PERRY_WThu Jun 05 1997 05:257
    
    Thanks for the information Jim.
    
    Maybe I'll make some -grog- this week end just for historical research of
    course!
    
                                         Bill
1199.5SMURF::PBECKPaul BeckThu Jun 05 1997 10:552
    And if you've ever felt groggy, you probably understand the
    etymology of the word. (Grog -> groggy, not the other way.)