Mick, you're so right. Paul and Bev are a wonderful team. I consider myself very lucky to be friends with them both - and of course, I cannot imagine a better musical partner than Paul.

During my own dark night of the soul, when I had concluded the musical stage was something that belonged buried deep in my past, Rick began exhorting me to get back out there. He urged me, several summers in a row, to come to the Woods Music and Dance Camp while he was on the staff. When I didn't do that, he began pressuring me to join Toronto's Friday Night Song Circle, and one night when Rick was playing at Toronto's Flying Cloud Folk Club, he intruduced me to Sue Goldberg and asked her to introduce me to the song circle, which she did.

That chain of events put me on the path to finding Paul Mills and the best musical collaboration of my life, and all because Rick would just not let me stay quit.

Joanne