Folk Music - Lists and reviews for festivals, events, local venues, and artists for folk music with direct links to other types of local, national, and international music.
Bracken Rigg Barn Dance Band - Traditional Scottish/Irish accordion and fiddle band. Site includes tips on organising a barn dance or ceilidh, and a gig list.
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-- John F. Kennedy He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Music Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Music
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Music
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Music Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Music
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Music Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Music
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Music "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Music
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Music Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Music
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Music The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Music
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Music Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Music
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Music I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Music
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Music Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Music
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Music You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Music
