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Jazz for toddlers
Topic Started: Nov 16 2014, 02:42 PM (1,791 Views)
rumbaba
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http://www.efglondonjazzfestival.org.uk/get-involved/take-part/jazz-for-toddlers

Get em young!
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Mobson
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Ye Gods!

...where's your avatar gone Rum?
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rumbaba
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I replaced it but the new one isn't showing. I deleted the old one and added the new one ( a photo of me from 1977 that someone put on facebook) but the avatar processing on this site is really temperamental in my experience. Will try again tonight.
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I did see your new avatar but when I came back from seeing Take That (Yes I kkknow!!! <laugh> ) it had disappeared... <ninja>
Edited by Mobson, Nov 17 2014, 12:18 PM.
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rumbaba
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Which one did you see? The local & live guitar symbol or me as a 21 year old? :)
Edited by rumbaba, Nov 17 2014, 02:46 PM.
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rumbaba
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Oh, there it is :)
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Yes I can see it too...you as a handsome young man! It was the other one you mentioned that I saw on Sunday...the symbol of a guitar...
Edited by Mobson, Nov 18 2014, 04:34 AM.
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rumbaba
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Thanks Mobs :)

It spooked me a bit when this was posted on facebook (I cut it from a group photo to put on here). It is deffo me but I don't remember it being taken. I used to wear those Wrangler checked shirts with the fake mother of pearl press studs.
Edited by rumbaba, Nov 18 2014, 10:17 AM.
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Mobson
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Ha Ha! I wore one of those in pale blue denim! I schuzzed mine up with pearl drop earrings which I'm sure you did not! <wink>
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Nope, never had any piercings or tattoos. I did have denim shirts with press studs though. We had a laundry room on the university campus with those top loading machines with an 'agitator' and the big tumble dryers. I used to wear jeans and shirts straight from the tumble dryer, never ironed anything in those days. Levi 501s, Wrangler shirts, desert boots was pretty much it, with a leather jacket. I think, in the winter, an army great coat (I had a dark blue one, really heavy, probably Russian navy.) Actually, I remember I had some cowboy boots in black with a bit of heel, which I wore for a bit but I wore my jeans outside, not tucked in like some people, which I thought looked a bit naff.
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rumbaba
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Hang on, why is my old Avatar back?
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Mobson
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It isn't on my devices - it's (still) the young man!
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rumbaba
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I've got the picture of Eric Milligan (Scottish Chef), how can that be?
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rumbaba
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On my tablet at home it is young Rum, how strange
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we've had this happen before I remember when Becky changed her avatar from Amelie to Amelie with umbrella, she had different avatars showing up from time to time...as indeed did I...it's a mystery for sure! <happy>
Edited by Mobson, Nov 20 2014, 09:48 AM.
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This is not specifically about jazz for toddlers, but it is about children....as last night I went to the Barbican Hall to attend a special concert to celebrate the 120th anniversary of Queenswood school, a leading boarding and day school for girls aged 11-18, set in a 120 acre estate close to London in Hertfordshire. Founded in Clapham in 1894 by 2 methodist ministers, it moved to Hatfield in the mid-twenties.

Anyway the concert hall last night, which is a substantial venue on three floors with a capacity of 1,943, was pretty much filled with past, present and future Queenswoodians, family, friends, guests & me for a celebration of their 120 years in existence. Starting off with a humorous speech from past Queenswoodian, actress Helen McCrory, who is patron of their Clarissa Farr theatre - where incidentally 'feminist icon' Germaine Greer will be giving a talk and Q&A in January called The Disappearing Woman - it went into a full blown extravaganza of music, drama and dance featuring an all-singing, all-dancing production of A Midsummer Night's Dream by around 100 girls from Year 7 to Upper Sixth...highly abriged, gratuitous, escapist and feel good are just some of the words that describe what I saw last night - a total 'mash-up' of Shakespeare with the odd quill and codpiece thrown in for good measure. Theseus and Hippolyta binned, the young and intoxicated lovers danced their way through a 'Purple Bubble' nightclub under the influence of Oberon's love potions while a hapless am-dram group prepared in earnest for a play for Queenwood's 120th celebrations...a disco celebration of '70's music and songs ensued with such speed that they were only able to sing a few bars of each song...a falsetto voiced Barry Gibb in a bright orange suit sang Tragedy brilliantly ....'Oo-oo-oo-no, baby please don't go' from the Grammy award winning Chicago hit 'If You Leave Me Now' was rendered with true passion and Shakespeare's lines 'these yellow cowslip cheeks are gone' became Hall & Oates 'She's Gone'...followed by a climaxing Badfinger's 'Without You', most famously covered by Nilsson in 1971..after which there was a bit of Barbara (Streisand)...and then a groovy disco dance from the whole ensemble...summing up I'd say it was a 'sassy Shakespeare with sequins and style'...and needless to say got a standing ovation from the auditorium...

After the interval, the Queenswood festival orchestra, conducted by Ben Parry, Director of the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, and chorus performed John Rutter's Feel the Spirit, a cycle of spirituals that mezzo soprano Melanie Marshall, a mixed choir and orchestre sang & played with great feeling...including Joshua Fit The Battle of Jerico, Steal Away, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (this was movingly sung), Deep River and finally When The Saints Go Marching In. Melanie has an exquisite velvety 'black' voice - I kept wanting to hear her break out into a song from Porgy & Bess... which has prompted me to order it this morning from Amazon - the Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong version as I really don't want it too operatic. The School's Commemoration Song followed after a brief address from the Headmistress who walked on stage with a 120 year old top hat from which to draw a winning ticket for a holiday prize (in a private house on Mustique donated by one of the parents!)...to raise funds for a Bursary...(it raised £30k).

Then came the Christmas Carols, and the real reason I was there...my god daughter Ella, whose poems I have put up here from time to time, was selected as one of 10 girls from her current Junior school (7 Junior schools in toto) to become the Children's Chorus singing 3 carols with the full choir and orchestra...Ella is applying to Queenswood as one of three schools she and her mother are looking at for the next part of her education.

Finally, we were all invited to join in singing Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, which we did with great gusto and it has certainly put me in voice for tonight's carol singing at the lighting up of the Norwegian Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square.

I know what you're thinking reading this...huh! a private expensive school for priviledged girls so what! and in many respects that's true, although there is a bursary plan in place for parents who need financial help, but to see so many young girls singing and dancing their hearts out and really enjoying the process, is an uplifting and pleasurable experience whatever social background they emanate from. <happy>

Edited by Mobson, Dec 4 2014, 02:29 PM.
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May-Cee

Hiya Rum!

So that's you as a handsome 21-year old lad!

The last photo you posted was you as a handsome guy about my age outside the Stax studio!
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rumbaba
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Yup, May-Cee, that's me, aged 21. You can get away with murder in a hat and shades, which I did in the Stax photo <cool> <doff>
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May-Cee

Don't do yourself down!
You looked dead sexy in that Stax photo!
I was tempted to ask for your number...
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rumbaba
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Thanks for that May-Cee, it made my day <laugh>

Actually, I checked the photo and there was no hat, just shades.
Edited by rumbaba, Dec 11 2014, 09:20 AM.
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May-Cee

Shades will do!
I'll get back to regarding your number...
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Mobson
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<devi>;; May I remind you two of the title of this thread! <laugh>
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May-Cee

Point taken, Mobs!

No flirting in front of the wee 'uns!
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rumbaba
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Aye, behave yersel :)
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May-Cee

Mobs is a lovely lady who I love to bits.

But us Celts are a wee bit more unsophisticated than Mobs!
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rumbaba
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I've nae finesse at a'
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May-Cee

If you and me started talking Gaelic, I don't think anyone else would understand us!
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rumbaba
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I certainly wouldn't understand Gaelic :)
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May-Cee

Hiya Rum

In truth, I wount'd be too good at Gaelic either.

I've forgetten which part of Scotland you're from.

As an Irish /Argie, I'm obviously a Celtic gal...

Sorry!
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I'm from Fife May-Cee, born in Dunfermline (maternity hospital) but was brought up in a small mining village called Oakley that nobody has ever heard of. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakley,_Fife I went to school in Kirkcaldy (I was bussed to the nearest Catholic High School) and did my degree at the University of Stirling.
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May-Cee
Dec 11 2014, 09:21 PM
Mobs is a lovely lady who I love to bits.

But us Celts are a wee bit more unsophisticated than Mobs!
Oh I say! <phwor> <bubbly>

....and now a Royal's moved in.... bang goes the neighbourhood! ...not literally I hope! <whistles>
Edited by Mobson, Dec 12 2014, 12:27 PM.
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This is a poem writtem by a guy from Oakley, the village where I was brought up. His name is Andrew McGeever, I knew him but he was a few years older than me.


TOUGH

(A reply to Stephen Spender's My parents kept me from children who were rough)

His parents kept him from children like us:
they dressed him in school uniform and drove
him to the cubs and soppy chess clubs.
Our pleasures cost nothing; feeling earth was free.

He was a speccy scaredy-cat who puked
at the sight of rabbits in our traps.
They drank tea with the vicar and M.P.,
who wouldn't be seen dead in our streets.

We bonded like the Apaches we saw
at the Saturday matinees. He sniffed
and bubbled in his mummy's arms, and smelled
too clean, like shampoo: yet we were pure.


More of Andrew's stuff here http://tomdstiller.awardspace.com/friends/andrew.htm#wmd

Edited by rumbaba, Dec 12 2014, 02:20 PM.
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dai Cottomy
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Some good stuff there, Rum.
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rumbaba
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I knew Andrew's dad, the caliper poem brought a tear to my eye Dai
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May-Cee

Hiya Rum

I've just been looking up Oakley - sounds like a lovely wee place!
And I love that photo of Blair Tower!

I grew up on the Falls Road of Belfast in the 70s; my images would just be bombed-out buildings!
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May-Cee

I stiill hope you're more Celtic than Rangers but I won't insist on the matter....

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Dec 13 2014, 01:59 AM
I grew up on the Falls Road of Belfast in the 70s; my images would just be bombed-out buildings!
May-Cee There's a gripping film that has been doing the rounds since October set in Belfast at the time of the troubles...centering on one soldiers experience...it's called '71 and it's up for BAFTA's...however, filming took place in Northern England not Ireland using present day locations such as Stansfield Street and Bank Top, Blackburn, Lancashire to represent Belfast...I've seen it twice!
Edited by Mobson, Dec 13 2014, 08:35 AM.
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Yup, I was always Celtic but my brother, who is a catholic priest (Dominican) has always supported Rangers. Strange but true!
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May-Cee

Hiya Mobs

Yes, I've heard that fillum is good.
But the silly thing is -

I have so many bad memories of those dark days (as with every family, some of my family were killed) that I honestly can't watch plays or fillums about Belfast and the Troubles.
Although I write some plays, I don't even write about it.

That's a wee bit daft, I know, but there you go...

Rum -
I think that brother of yours needs a good talking to!
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Dec 13 2014, 02:49 PM
Hiya Mobs

Yes, I've heard that fillum is good.
But the silly thing is -

I have so many bad memories of those dark days (as with every family, some of my family were killed) that I honestly can't watch plays or fillums about Belfast and the Troubles.
Although I write some plays, I don't even write about it.

That's a wee bit daft, I know, but there you go...

That's perfectly understandable... <rose>
Edited by Mobson, Dec 21 2014, 08:36 AM.
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