ThePortForum.com

The Black and White Minstrel Show?

The original line-up of Fairport Convention (pre-Sandy).

DRT wrote:Was it a performance by a re-formed group?

I am not aware of any split, disbanding and therefore no reforming.

djewesbury wrote:The Eagles?

DRT wrote:Fleetwood Mac?

no and no; not a pop group.

DRT wrote:The Black and White Minstrel Show?

ha! No.

A clue: This question and answer are linked very loosely to my last one; re-reading my posts relating to the last question could potentially help.

Someone doing birdsong.

Rammstein

Riverdance?

I have looked at the previous question and find nothing suggestive. Kingfisher; The Musical?

Pans People?

I thought the remains of The Nolans had been around the circuit recently.

LGTrotter wrote:I thought the remains of The Nolans had been around the circuit recently.

The remaining Nolans did indeed gather together in July this year.

DRT wrote:The remaining Nolans did indeed gather together in July this year.

Your tone suggests direct knowledge?
No, not the Nolans, Riverdance, Rammstein or Riverdance (or "Kingfisher the musical"!).

djewesbury wrote:Someone doing birdsong.

No, although to be fair I think in one piece, one of the performers may well have been playing an instrument intended to mimick a bird singing or evoke the image of a bird flying/fluttering... but this is incidental and more likely to confuse then enlighten.

Clue:

LGTrotter wrote:I have looked at the previous question and find nothing suggestive. Kingfisher; The Musical?

PhilW wrote:A clue: This question and answer are linked very loosely to my last one; re-reading my posts relating to the last question could potentially help.

PhilW wrote:I saw the bird while standing on the bridge at the entrance to the Japanese garden at the back of the grounds in which the hotel is set. The garden has many water pools, a stream and lots of trees, shrubs and other foliage.

PhilW wrote:

DRT wrote:The remaining Nolans did indeed gather together in July this year.

Your tone suggests direct knowledge?

I was referring to this.

DRT wrote:I was referring to this.

Oh not what I had thought.

I still seem to be pursuing a German theme.

Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen

JWEW wrote:I still seem to be pursuing a German theme.

Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen

Oh yeah. Then you'd have the bit where Siegfried can understand what the bird is singing to him.

Is it something connected to Japan?

Or water?

DRT wrote:Is it something connected to Japan?

Yes.

LGTrotter wrote:Or water?

no.

PhilW wrote:

DRT wrote:Is it something connected to Japan?

Yes.

Additional clue: all the performers were Japanese.

Were there any puppets involved?

JWEW wrote:Were there any puppets involved?

Not that I remember; it seems unlikely.

PhilW wrote:

PhilW wrote:

DRT wrote:Is it something connected to Japan?

Yes.

Additional clue: all the performers were Japanese.

Further significant clue: The show comprises several pieces played by the performers. All performers play an instrument, almost all of the time. The majority of the time, all of the performers play the same type of instrument.

A Japanese homage to the pan pipe orchestras of the Peruvian Andes?

PhilW wrote:

PhilW wrote:

PhilW wrote:

DRT wrote:Is it something connected to Japan?

Yes.

Additional clue: all the performers were Japanese.

Further significant clue: The show comprises several pieces played by the performers. All performers play an instrument, almost all of the time. The majority of the time, all of the performers play the same type of instrument.

Kodo/taiko drummers

Sent from my GT-I9195 using Tapatalk 2

You went to see the group "Yamato ”“ The Drummers of Japan", or more specifically their new show "Rojyoh".

PopulusTremula wrote:Kodo/taiko drummers

AW77 wrote:You went to see the group "Yamato ”“ The Drummers of Japan", or more specifically their new show "Rojyoh".

It was indeed a (superb) performance of Rojyoh - Taiko drumming by the Wadaiko Yamoto, who had not visited the UK for several years. When I saw them originally the performance was breathtaking; since then I have seen other Taiko drummers and been much less impressed and had begun to doubt my original opinion. However seeing the Wadaiko Yamoto again was everything I had hoped for and more. Highly recommended.

With apologies to PopulusTremula, I think I have to give the next question to AW77 for his precise answer.

Thats fine w me, happy to have this go to AW77.

Sent from my GT-I9195 using Tapatalk 2

Yamato regularly perform in Cologne. So I have seen the posters on the tube quite often. I had to think of them when you said that all performers were Japanese.

Now my question:
In this time of year, there often is a connection between an English city and my feet. What is this connection and what is the name of the city?

You get slippers from Northampton for Christmas.

No, is Northampton famous for its slippers?

AW77 wrote:In this time of year, there often is a connection between an English city and my feet. What is this connection and what is the name of the city?

Is is a city or a town?

It has city status.

AW77 wrote:No, is Northampton famous for its slippers?

Northampton is famous for footwear generally. I'm sure if you can make shoes you can make slippers..

Well, it's not about shoes, nor slippers...

AW77 wrote:No, is Northampton famous for its slippers?

It's better known thanks to a film for some other footwear... Should we be expecting a surprise tonight Mr. Djewesbury?!

I can't possibly reveal the details of my costume.

Do you occasionally have a foot -- BATH.

You get out your wellingtons, not as in Wellington the town in Somerset but as in Billy Connelly's welly song as in Glasgow?

LGTrotter wrote:You get out your wellingtons, not as in Wellington the town in Somerset but as in Billy Connelly's welly song as in Glasgow?

Oh you're back.

Your choice of shoe is the Oxford, possibly with brogue.

JWEW wrote:Do you occasionally have a foot -- BATH.

That's a good one. I like puns myself, but no this time.

Gentlemen, this is a serious meaningless drivel thread. I already ruled out shoes (of any kind).
I hope there will be some guesses now. I will give a clue later tonight, but before that please make an effort.

Should I take you more literally and say the connection will be between your feet and the ground and you are going to Wells to examine the West Front?

Your best socks are Lincoln green?

Or Chichester Cathedral to visit 'An Arundel tomb'?

LGTrotter wrote:Should I take you more literally and say the connection will be between your feet and the ground and you are going to Wells to examine the West Front?

I can assure you that all is quiet on the western front.

JWEW wrote:Your best socks are Lincoln green?

I do not have any green socks.
But you are getting close...

AW77 wrote:

JWEW wrote:Your best socks are Lincoln green?

I do not have any green socks.
But you are getting close...

Close with socks (but not green), or with green (but not socks) or geographically with Lincoln?