@Nita - hi - and WELCOME !!!!!

Check out page 8 of this thread ( post number 154 ) - Pierre explains what's needed for uploading - don't use email though...

Bill

@Fiddlerman - welcome back - caught your holiday pics on FB - I'm not much into making  FB responses other than hitting the occasional "Like" etc - but great to see you clearly had a good time with family and friends - that's what is important in life - nice one !

Last night, Thursday 25th, I attended a concert in Ullapool to see Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham - (LOL there is another story behind this, but I'll share it in a separate thread) who are both frequent guests on things like Transatlantic Sessions, which surely no fiddler, or indeed violinist, can ignore.

Man, I'm still shaking here - WTF is 21/8 time - come ON get REAL - you CANNOT stamp or clap in "time" to that...  DOH !!!!!   What he played was described as a fiddle tune (although, yes, I understand such timings are not totally unknown, just a bit unusual....), developed by some old farmer guy in Shetland, who was watching his wife work a spinning-wheel and he tried to form a rhythm to her footwork on the treadle of the wheel...  yup..ok... spooky or what...

Anyway - it was a small audience ( less than 200 - but the small hall was packed out -  ^5 to Aly ( and of course to Phil - the mad accordionist )  for coming back to their Scottish roots and playing to small audiences as they always do in spite of their huge international reputation - nice one - - super cool - there is NOTHING better than a live performance, truly, to me, there is not.  "Warts and all" - each and every one - even by the same performers - is unique.

Sorry - I know - this has NOTHING to do with Thaxted - just HAD to get that one off my chest ..  and I have spent today trying to do what for me are still impossible things on the Concert ( man, is it taking a beating or what ! )

Anyway - back to Thaxted - I guess it looks like a "deadline" needs to be set, in spite of your better plans ( which we all of course wish were reached )....  I have a thought - it struck me - did you originally ask for a maximum of two parts to be submitted by each player?  Maybe I misunderstood - I know you did say that anyone who did v1 must also submit another part - I guess that meant two things - i.e.

(1) If you feel you cannot do v1 - just submit one part

(2) If you submit v1 - then ONLY submit one additional part

I mentioned this before - and indeed you commented - often the 2nd, 3rd etc parts can actually be more difficult ( for us mere mortals - not you words - mine ! )

If there's a "misunderstanding" about the number of parts any one individual can submit, that may bring in a few more submissions...

man - I need to go - i've been awake for close on 40 hours but had to catch up with the forum....  sleeeep and tf for spllep cechker (lolol) - trust me - that's the ONLY way this post was half way readable.....

Bill

...off to put up the zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz for many's an hour....  catch you alll tomorriw - oh it may already be.. who knows...  g'night all