Heres to Stan

WE ARE EXPERIENCING SERIOUS PROBLEMS WITH THE CHANTEYCABIN EMAIL SERVER PLEASE USE info@stanhugill.com

Three Radio Stations are broadcasting programs about Stan prior to the festival

Genevieve Tudor's Sunday Folk (with Martin Hugill) 20.00 Sunday 12th Nov (for 7 days)

Seascapes with Marcus Connaughton (with Jan & Ken L) 20.30 Mon 13th Nov (for 7 days)

The planning for the celebration is now well under way the running order of the two main concerts (Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon) with artists from all over the world, will be be published as soon as possible.
Stormalong John are performing a tribute to YESTERDAY'S MEN (Stan, Tony & Frank) on Friday night.
We are still looking for 'STAN sound alike's for Saturday afternoon
Midday on Saturday is the launch of the NEW book by Stan 'The Bosun's Locker' the collected articles from SPIN folk magazine. £15.99

We have also been given some drawings Stan did (live on air) for the TV programme All Hands to Dance and Skylark - his idea of what Paddy Doyle, Paddy West and Maggie May looked like! There will be a strictly limited edition of 100 copies of each of these available at the Celebration -these will be sold in aid of the South Liverpool RNLI

Registration will take place 9.30 to 12.00 on Saturday morning along with the payment of the balance due.
Information details ie. maps, times, etc will be emailed or posted as soon as possible

Sunday Morning all are invited to St Nicholas church for a service to celebrate Stan and all mariners

THERE ARE STILL A FEW PLACES AVAILABLE
please email: info@stanhugill.com

The Liner Hotel has made a number of rooms available at their "conference rates" - but we need to confirm the numbers and names about 12 weeks before the event - we do not need any money as yet!

Double rooms (or more correctly Cabins!!) are £86 per room per night including breakfast and singles £70 per night - if you could let us know asap if you would like to be added to the room booking list.

It is with very great pleasure we can announce that Bronwen Hugill-Gowers (Stan's Widow) and her husband Vic have accepted the invitation as Guest of Honour at the celebration and work permitting his two son's Philip & Martin - for those of you who have never met Bronwen and Vic they are really great people and are really looking forward to the event and meeting up with many of Stan's old friends.

Bookings are now pouring in so PLEASE contact us to reserve a place - email will be fine- but numbers are limited by the hotel.

Several singers have also offered to sing so we will be starting to compile lists shortly.

Some people have had a problem downloading the booking form - if you are one of these please email and we will resend a copy.

T-shirts we have contacted the suppliers and they will be available in Small, Medium, Large, XLarge, XXLarge, XXXLarge ( we promise NEVER to tell!!)

If you have ever recorded a tribute song please tell us about it - we would love to include on the "Here's To Stan" commemorative CD - it will not be sold - its a part of the special things being created for this unique event.

We have a theatre/hall booked in the centre of Liverpool in "The Liner" on Lord Nelson St behind Lime St, Station (the old Gladstone Hotel it has been redecorated in a maritime theme), the Hall has limited seating so first come, first served, a list of artists and other events will appear here very soon! Booking forms and details are being emailed out to everyone that has contacted us.

In November 2006 Stan Hugill would have celebrated his 100th birthday and we are thinking of holding the ultimate festival/birthday party - this very outline planning at the moment and we would like anyone who is interested to let us know - no money no definite commitment just an expression of interest is all we are asking about at the moment so that we can have some idea of the size of venue we are looking for!

No artists will be booked or paid - the concept is that this is a chance to say "Thanks Stan"

Everyone is welcome to come - to sing if they want to - to talk to chat - hopefully to look at some of the paintings etc -or simply to be part of this once only unique event

There will be a minimal charge to cover the cost of hiring the venue but all else will be done without additional charge

We have used our mailing list but please feel free to pass on this email to anyone you think will be interested

As we said at the begining all we ask at the moment is that you let us know if you are interested and we will then concentrate on sending further information to those who would like to be part of this very special event

If you are interested and wish to be informed of updates please E-Mail us at The Chantey Cabin