Just to let all foro members know that the Saulieu festival was a bigger hit than ever. From Thursday night through Monday night.. big crowds, great music, non-stop dancing.. and lots of jams. Met up with fellow Bravenet Forum members John ( UK ) Ron and Gus ( Holland ), Christian ( France ) and Andy W ( UK).. and Sarah Wilson ( US-Russia-France )..

Thanks for a great time all of you and hope to see you next year.


GLENN ( recovering.. in Paris .. )

It was a blast, Glenn. Fantastic weather, great people. Great organization.

We're looking forward to next year.

BJ

We left for France too early to see the replies to the earlier post on Saulieu. I'm sorry I missed Sarah and Fabian ( Did you find any of us, Fabian?).

Well, Glenn, now I know where my beer went. I knew I couldn't have drunk that much. And Andy spat in his? That's OK - I spat in his, too!

BJ

yes i saw some of you like ron and some others... the festival was fantastic Pine Leaf Boys great... it was was might cool, saturday night i some boys from saulieu cedric watson played together zydeco songs and sing until 6 o'cl. next morning. outside was ashley hayes, kevin naquin, drew simon(drummer PLB),Jon Bertrand (Gituar PLB)and Blake Miller(Bas PLB)they all played on my German Weltmeister and enjoyed that sound of old Monarchs... ah it was great
and they can speak German very well

me and Cedric Watson

Leroy Thommas

Wilson Savoy

Kevin Naquin and Ashley Hayes (La Bande Feufolett)

Saulieu SaturdayMarket

and me in a small alley with my WELTMEISTER

Great pics, Fabian. I reckon I saw you around. I recognise the T shirt. For anyone who can't see the detail, the Morvan is big on Charrolais cattle and music. The shirt shows a cow playing accordion. Wild!

BJ

Salut Glenn, John, Andy, Gus...
Yes, it was a great festival and it was nice meeting everybody over a few beers, to the sound of our favorite music. I will just add to what Glenn and John already said that we can also thank the musicians and the organizers for their generosity. Every year the last day is free. The whole afternoon and until one o’clock in the morning, anyone can come to the market square and dance or listen to the music : from Louisiana, this year, The Pine Leaf Boys and Kevin Naquin who agreed to play even though he was not scheduled that night.
On va se revoir l’année prochaine...

Christian

Yes, Glenn, it was a great time.

It was great seeing Wilson playing my accordion

and meeting the other forum members. I made a nice picture of you and your wife. I'll send it to you.
My favourites: the cajun company!. Great dancing band
Also nice to have a chat/jam with 2 of the pine leaf boys.
I missed Andy, although I met an Anglo/French Andy, when sitting with Bas on the terrace. Is this 'our' Andy?

The lady with the sun glasses talking to the pine leaf guitarist on Sunday afternoon, was that Sarah?

Gus

Haha! Yeah, that was me, all incognito--playing rockstars with Jean.

And Cajun Company ROCKS!!!! They are definitely in the top 3 Euro-Cajun bands, if they're not #1. Really fun stuff.

I wish more of you had come up and talked to me, or danced with me or something like Glenn did. Well, next year we'll get it together and I'll be there all 3 days, so that'll be better.

We'll make amends next year, Sarah.

Sunday PM I was jamming on 'tit fer with a bunch of local guys, playing Morvan music! My missus on guitar.
Two 3-rows and a piper.
Glenn and I had taken our leave of the box players about 2:30 that morning, and they told me that around 6 a.m. they were jamming with Cedric on fiddle!
I'll never make a musician. Can't get used to the nocturnal lifestyle.

BJ

Sarah,

Glenn didn't tell me you were there.
I only read after the festival that you were there. So I didn't think about you being there. As I remember now, the guitar player told you about my accordions, at the pizzeria Sunday afternoon. You could have asked if there were flowers on the bellows (!)
Luckily my daughter agreed to dance with me when the Cajun Company was playing, sunday evening.


Gus

Hey, Glenn! It was really nice to meet you (Mr. Setzer--haha). I am so happy I got to go to Saulieu after all and I can't wait to be feeding everybody next year from the cafe! The Pine Leaf Boys just left Paris today. Time for some serious recovery, probably. I got lucky enough to have Wilson put piano tracks down on two of my songs and Cedric to do a harmony on one that he really wanted to sing, so that was cool. I didn't know you were going to be in Paris. E-mail me and we can get together or something. I'll be here until the 19th.

Great festival, in spite of scheduling PLB's in the dead of night (what an embarrassement Didier!). Here are some photo's of Cajun Company.

http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Album=FDIGFOXO

For all the Cajun Company fans... follow the link

geweldig, Peter.
Komt er nog meer?

My first Saulieu and loved it. It was great to meet up with so many more like minded souls - old friends and new.
So many highlights for me - jamming in the bar for 3 or four hours on free beer - have to remember that one for next year - I am Scottish after all! Loved hearing those local guys playing some Morvan (local) music on three row boxes and a guy on tartanless bagpipes - what a treat!
Also just to see Eric Martin jamming in the Parisien bar - he made it look so easy. I know that BJ and myself, at least, started playing box using his teaching method.
Hopefully we'll see a few photos in the next days/weeks - I'll post some up in the next couple of days.
Hi Glenn, nice to meet you at last - sorry I missed out meeting some others from here!
Christian, I hope you pick up that box again!!

Hey BJ, we moved on to Troyes after Saulieu and bumped into Phil and Leslie - purely by chance in the same restaurant.


Regards

Andy W

A few photos from Saulieu - any blurred ones were not the result of excess beer - those were taken on a mobile phone.


A future cajun accordion star?


BJ drinking beer, as usual, with Eric Martin playing his own brand French Cajun box - also known as a 'Martin' - great sounding box!


locals playing local Morvan music - accordions and pipes - me in the bright shirt pretending to play along.

Great pics, Andy. Many good memories. You got any more?
Who do you say the old geezer drinking beer was? Didn't recognize him myself.

BJ

A few more pictures - didn't actually take many. Look forward to seeing some more from others who were there.










don't remember the name of this band?

That band is File Tes Bongos, Andy. Perhaps you don't remember because YOU were the guy giving me dirty looks when I got up there and started singing with them? Seriously, though, some guy was giving me MAJOR stink eyes from the dance floor...

Hi Sarah,

Impossible for it to be me giving you those 'stink' eyes from the dance floor - I am usually concentrating so hard not to step on my partner's toes to have time to look up and use stinkovision as a form of disapproval. I'm sure you were pretty wonderful anyway.

Regards

Andy W

Great shots Andy, thanks .. was great meeting you and your wife.. ( PS Andy tore out some great tunes on his Larry Miller box.. ).. the local Morvan players jammed with us a few years ago.. and came back for more !

Their bagpipe player came by later and did some phenomenal playing of Morvan tunes..with a World/Jazz twist .. amazing.

Glenn

I will try to correct myself

Christian

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Replying to:

My first Saulieu and loved it. It was great to meet up with so many more like minded souls - old friends and new.
So many highlights for me - jamming in the bar for 3 or four hours on free beer - have to remember that one for next year - I am Scottish after all! Loved hearing those local guys playing some Morvan (local) music on three row boxes and a guy on tartanless bagpipes - what a treat!
Also just to see Eric Martin jamming in the Parisien bar - he made it look so easy. I know that BJ and myself, at least, started playing box using his teaching method.
Hopefully we'll see a few photos in the next days/weeks - I'll post some up in the next couple of days.
Hi Glenn, nice to meet you at last - sorry I missed out meeting some others from here!
Christian, I hope you pick up that box again!!

Hey BJ, we moved on to Troyes after Saulieu and bumped into Phil and Leslie - purely by chance in the same restaurant.


Regards

Andy W

Christian,
ther is very nice Morvan music and musicians. I agree with you that the Morvan bagpipe is a lovely instrument.
But back to cajun...
There also was a (French?) bearded accordion player with a beatiful (eye and ear) accordion jamming on sunday afternoon (after the Cajun Company dance) with Wilson Savoy and Eric Martin on fiddle. He was playing "he mom" (one of my favourites). Lovely to hear them, so relaxed.
But I was heading to the lake with my daghter for a swim, so couldn't stay longer than one minute or so.
By the way, it was great swimming in the lake after the dance. Real holiday feel!

What kinde of pictures do you want to see? Leroy, Wilson? I'll try to post some.

Gus

If someone can post the pictures for me, I'll send some.

Gus

Hi Gus,

I don't mind posting some for you. It's easy enough though with Photobucket.com - best to keep the photos around 100kB each. See Joanie's excellent instructions for posting photos.

Regards

Andy W

Thanks, Andy,

Reading Joanies instruction I should put them somewhere on the internet.
I'll send you some. Then you may choose which one to post.
OK?

gus

Is that when I was jamming with them too, Gus? If so, that was my accordion player, David Rolland, on that Red Pine Acadian I posted pictures of some time ago in here. I've got a video of that jam session if I can just get it off this dang DVD. I'll let you know by the end of the week, I hope, but e-mail me around Thursday just to kick me into gear again.

Dunno, Sarah,


Now remember that Erics'wife (or somebody who is always in his neighbourhood) played the guitar. It was a small group sitting there at -I think- the Parisien. I was indeed tinking about the accordion you described some time ago, so I tried to read the brand name. I thought it was an Eric Martin, but mayby I was mistaken. I tried to read it from a distance. It was a real nice light wood with -I think- black stripe of wood on the keyboard.

By the way, your brothers' accordion is very simular to mine, has the same 'miscouloring' on the wooden parts that are on the top of the keyboard as mine.

Gus

Videomateriaal: Nout Grupstra is er mee bezig. Foto's: ik zal nog een serie op mijnalbum.nl zetten!

Love the dog close to the camera! Watch as they group stops singing...

AR

Saw your pictures, Peter, Great!!!

Gus