The Database in Progress

BIOS:

Mr. Barky
(Ernest Kinsolving and Karl Franzen)

These two long time folk musicians will amuse you with a varied set of historical songs, accompanied by a multitude of instruments, as they make their musical way over land and sea, from the hills of Scotland to the American frontier and beyond. They met in 1986 at a mini-folk revival that took place at St. Michael's Alley in Palo Alto. They both have played in the groups Four Shillings Short and Harmon's Peak. Ernest now plays with the group Biddy Early's Bottle. Karl Franzen once played with Broceliande. He now plays with Lady Doris Williams. Both Ernest and Karl also play in the trio Rosin the Beau, who, with Alan Keith, open the yearly St. Patrick's Day party at St. Stephen's Green in Mt. View.

Karl and Ernest will amaze the masses with sprightly tunes, ancient songs and incomprehensible stories.

Set your venue ablaze with Mr. Barky's combustible mixture of sprightly tunes, wry antique songs and possibly incomprehensible stories, kindled by a multitude of instruments. Escape with them through a window to the past. Fly across land and sea, from the American frontier to the craggy shores of Brittain. Fly in for the music, stay for the warmly inflammatory subject matter. AOK for kids (they won't get it).

theater of the mind / time machine / portal to the past / brain rearrangement chamber / amaze and delight you / enlighten and transform you / bully and cajole you / the lean, green sound of Mr. Barky / come for the music, stay for the slightly inflammatory subject matter / oh, but its fine for kids, they won't get it anyway / stale coffee / erudition / comic relief / educational opportunity / moments of excruciating embarrassment / cheap entertainment / mind-bending transformative experience

PNS HOEDOWN (Expanded Cowboy Set, order in process)

1 Alla en Rancho Grande
2 Julie Anne Johnson / 5c. / Fortune
3 Old Chisholm Trail
4 Shoefly / Kitchen Girl / Angeline
5 Home on the Range D (Capo 2 C)
6 Booth Shot LIncoln / Seneca Squaredance
7 Red River Valley C ("...one who has loved you...")
8 Dutch Girl / Stay All Night A (E,F#,A,F#, EF# ED C#, )
9 Crow Black Chicken D
10 Spotted Pony / Debuque / Yellow Rose of Texas D
11 Old Cowhand / instr.
12 Georgia Railroad / Billy in the L. Land / Shove That Pig's G
13 I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago
14 Grasshopper Sittin' / Green Mt. Petronella (GE) D,G, GFGE
15 Sally Anne
16 Polka / Some Folks / La Bastringue Accordion
17 Old Settler
18 Tumblin' Tumbleweeds / Billy in the Low Ground (pent. arpeggio up) / TT again C
19 Buffalo Gals D / Colored Aristocracy G
20 Happy Trails / Saddle Pals

Med/Renaissance:

Bring Us In Good Ale
Please to See the King
Pastime with Good Company
Edi Beo Thu
O Loosty May (?)
He That Drinks is Immortal
Amo, Amas
Stephen & Herowdes

Future Ideas

Mist-Covered Mountains (O, Chi)
Cup o' Tay?

(Tenting Tonight)
(I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General)
(The Elements)
(Poor Wayfaring Stranger)
(Last Words of Copernicus)

(High Barbaree)

(O, Good Ale)
(Stella Splendens)
(There is No Rose)
(The Lowest Trees Have Tops)
(Three Ravens)
(Twa Corbies)

(Bonnie Lad that Handles the Ploo)
(Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?)
(Tramps and Hawkers)
Dicey Rielly

Recent variety set

1. Black Velvet Band - Celtic
1. Away Ri-o - Pirate
1. Crow, Black Chicken - immigrant farmer
1. Booth/Seneca/Girl I Left Behind - military movement
1. Zen Gospel Singing
1. Buffalo Gals D / Colored Aristocracy G - minstrel movement
1. Old Settler - economic refugee
1. Alla en el Rancho Grande - cowboy
1. Home on the Range D (Capo 2 C) - cowboy
1. Old Cowhand - cowboy
1. Star of the County Down - Celtic
1. Booth Shot LIncoln / Seneca Squaredance
1. Georgia Railroad / Billy in the L. Land / Shove That Pig's G
1. Grasshopper Sittin' / Green Mt. Petronella (GE) D,G, GFGE

2. Strike the Bell - Pirate
2. Tarde De Verano - Pirate
2. Yakko's World
2. Amelia Earhardt
2. Cumberlin Mountains - mobile culture
2. C-U-B-A
2. 10,000 Years Ago - travel
2. Elanoy
2. Boney on the Isle of St. Helena/Tunes - compulsion
2. Cool of the Day
2. Julie Anne Johnson / 5c. / Fortune
2. Dutch Girl / Stay All Night A (E,F#,A,F#, EF# ED C#, )
2. Spotted Pony / Debuque / Yellow Rose of Texas D



OLD-TIMEY, ETC.:

Sally Anne - immigrant farmer
Polka / Some Folks / La Bastringue Accordion - happy opus tune
Keep on the Sunny Side
Shoefly/Kitchen Girl/Angeline the Baker - the permiable membrane
There Was a Little Oak - druids
12 Apostles - bringing their religion
Oak & Ash & Thorn