From: David
Pleasants [david_at_plesbit_dot_net]
Sent: 12 May
2015 10:38
Subject: FOLK AT
THE DRUM (FATD) GUEST NIGHT 14 MAY 2014 - MARTIN CURTIS - DEATH AND FUNERAL OF
(DON WYSIWYG) THOMPSON
Good
Morning All,
A quick reminder of the two items in the subject line.
I am really looking forward to having Martin at FATD having met
hm on Armistice Day 2013 by the War Memorial in Wanaka South Island https://www.google.co.uk/maps/_at_-44_dot_501544,168_dot_3842377,9z
Anyone who would like a floor spot please let me know.
Martin
Curtis, New Zealand Singer and Songwriter, lives in Cardrona in the foothills
of the Southern Alps, a place that has become the inspiration behind much of
his music.
He has been
writing and singing songs about his adopted country for over 30 years, and has
recorded and released 10 albums, many of them celebrating New Zealand and the
people who helped make it what it is today. He has toured extensively
nationally and internationally - particularly in the United Kingdom - as well
as Australia, Hong Kong, Austria, Norway and even Nepal.
Don Thompson died on 19 April 2015, the notification on
Facebook of his funeral is set out below and all are welcome to both the
crematorium and the Good Intent afterwards.
I
was so sad to hear of the death of Don (WYSIWYG) Thompson, I was always pleased
to see both him and Winnie when they made the trek down to the White Hart Folk
Club in Hythe or Crabble Mill Folk Nights when I ran both venues. Don's
contribution to the
evening was always thoroughly well appreciated, usually funny, sometimes
serious, and always very well crafted. I was always appreciative of the
distance he and Winnie were prepared to travel to take part. I think he did
make one appearance at Folk At The Drum during my stewardship after September
2007 but lately I have been pleased to read, and support, his common sense
postings on facebook when he was prepared to be counted by inserting a dose of
reality to ongoing conversations. He will be sorely missed in the folk family
as well as his own. Our deepest sympathy to Winnie and her family, I should not
leave out my thanks for Winnie's contributions through her poems either. I
always remember his wonderful song about Winnie's handbag which he maintained
hid two German Soldiers who didn't know that the war had finished!!
Don
J Thompson
Don's family would like to inform you that his funeral will be on 15th May
at 1:30pm at Medway Crematorium (Blue Bell Hill).
This will be followed by a celebration of his life, at the Good Intent Pub in
Rochester.
We would love for anyone who would like to, to bring their instruments and send
him off in the way that he would have wanted.
We would really appreciate some idea of who will be able to attend in order to
organise the buffet.
Winnie, Pauline and Martin. x
Best regards
David