tonight was another good night (& strangely enough it is 2.50am now, good thing I decided at a more respectable hour that I would not be going out for breakfast).

Around 10 singers, a few guitars, a banjo & bones made great music in Margaret's living room. Lots of great shanties, sea songs, mining songs, & lots of other great songs. I haven't been to such a good session for quite a while as our weekly session has stretched to fortnightly/3 weekly ... Having visitors with new songs is a treat. We picked up their songs & they picked up ours (naturally). Bob brought along a wonderful booklet of (sanitised) shanties, printed in the 1920's for the edification of polite folks.

I had been listening to Outward Bound in the afternoon & thought (herasy!) that Roll & Go is quieter than the shanty singers I am used to - The Roaring Forties & Danny Spooner - but Brett & Charley proved they can raise the roof & I eagerly await their performance in Sydney's best acoustic venue. The Dog is a late Victorian Town Hall, made of wood & limestone with 20' ceiling & an audience famous for singing along.   

I really must go to bed as it is now 3.10am!

sandra