Greetings; I was scheduled to perform and participate, but my father-in-law has become very ill, and I had to cancel in order to stay close to home. Ev Cowett organizes this event every year (this year, held in bones virtuoso Russ Meyers' home town of Brightwood), and any Mudcatter interested in tradidional percussion, and the folklore of the Bones, should start visiting Ev's website (URL in Tony's original posting). Ev is doing a GREAT job in keeping this vanishing musical art form alive. It may be hard to believe now, but most people who have researched the matter have found that bones players were once common in America. Today, there are only a handful of us. Some wags attribute this to natural selection.

Since there appers to be an interest, I'll keep the Mudcat posted about next years "Bones Fest" when the time rolls around.