What exactly is a Hootenanny?

[maveric]

[short bus president]

1. a shindig gone horribly, horribly awry.

it's all fun and shindiggery 'til someone whips out a banjo.

[htuttle]

2. I think it's like a hoedown, but louder

Quite a 'ruckas'!

[chelsea0011]

3. B & W television

or as my kids say. "I"m not watching this. It's in B & W".

[papau]

4. A Hoe down, or in other words both country and western :-)

:-)

[davidinalameda]

5. pacifier

you know--the rubber things that babies suck on

like Maggie on the Simpson

[ewagner]

6. groannnnnnnnnn

It was a show featuring folk music in the dying edge of the folk craze.

As I understood it at the time the term Hootenanny was an old phrase to describe people gathering to sing together.....often with mixed or questionable results......

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. A Hooters' waitress aged 70

[Solly Mack]

8. Hootenanny is singing - folk or blue grass. A hoedown involves dancing

There is a difference.

[Dr.Phool]

9. I think it's a goat that learned how to yodel.

[Taverner]

10. A bluegrass festival

And a fun word to say...go ahead...say it

"HOOTENANNY! HOOTENANNY!!"

[mcscajun]

11. One explanation...

When Hoot Gibson was a young cowboy star and performer, he and his wife, Annie, threw some great parties. Everybody that came had a great time and there was always plenty of music. Jam sessions went on until all hours of the morning. It got so that these parties were the place to be and everybody anticipated the next one. When asked where the party was, the reply of course was, “at Hoot 'n' Annie's.”

Whether this is true or not, I have no idea. But Hoot Gibson was what they say he was. :)