Christmas 2012

We didn't go to the festival this year--Sally had health problems and I didn't have the energy. Now we are down in St. Vincent. I occasionally put stuff on the main SVG blog, but not often. We're getting old

Going North

With a little luck we'll attend the New Bedford Festival. The initial publicity is on the internet and when we get back to Berkley I'll add a reference. I may not take any photos--i'm in my 80s now and I don't have as much energy, even for writing,

Summerfest 2011

We went to saturday's program for a while: I'm in my 80's now and Sally in her 70's and we don't have the endurance we used to have back when the Eisteddfod was at SMU. However, we enjoyed the sets by David Jones and Martha Burns. I took some pictures that I'll put on Flickr, and probably put the better ones here as well. But not tonight.

Last Set

The last performance of the last set of Summerfest 2010

New Bedford Summerfest

The Summerfest has a facebook page with a good video provided by the Quincy Patriot Ledger. The Karlek page in Flickr (mine) has some Summerfest stills and some stills (by me) of the Whalers. My SVG blog at http://svgblog.blogspot.com has photos (by others) at various venues.

I may well be working on a book about the Whalers when we get back to SVG in the fall.

Barrouallie Whalers in New England

The Barrouallie Whalers
Authentic Whalers and Shantymen from St. Vincent & the Grenadines June 2010 Appearances in New England

• June 10 Whaling National Historical Park – New Bedford, MA
Visitor Center on Williams St. 7:00 PM www.ahanewbedford.org

• June 11-13 • Mystic Seaport Museum, CT www.mysticseaport.org

• June 15 •Sylvester Manor Farm (unconfirmed) Long Island, NY

• June 16 Schooner Quinnipiack - New Haven, CT 7:00 pm www.schoonerinc.org

• June 17 Hibernian Hall, Roxbury, MA 8:00 pm www.madison-park.org




Dan Lanier The Barrouallie Whalers Project, Inc. dan@barrwhalers.org

Sorry, But I'm Still Alive

I haven been posting anything here lately, but I have been posting in nthe SVG Blog and doing some non-musical writing. Right now I have a bunch of mp3s in various traditions that are all on HDs that I have here in St Vincent. I'm spending my music time trying to make sense of them. Power Tunes lets one control multiple music libraries and I'm learning how to use that. But I've got so many mp3s, some with the same tune under different titles, that it is taking time.

But I'll get back to this blog eventually. In the meantime there are some things reprinted from Ceildh Columns, the publication of the SMU (U Mass Dartmouth) Eisteddfod that I edited for Howard Glasser. That may still be of some interest.