I've still got music oozing out of my pores. A really fine Sea Music Festival this year. My list of highlights:

* Standing in the German Hall pub session with Bonnie Milner, and looking across the room at Marin Hugill, who was, at that moment, the spitting image of his dad (he even smokes one of Stan's pipes)

* The symposium paper on sea songs of the Arabian Gulf, during which we got to see a recreation of Kuwaitii pearl divers singing what we'd call a walk-away chantey as they hauled in the anchor line

* Ken Sweeney's fantastic 3-harmonica medley. That guy knows how to entertain!

* The session Chanteyranger refers to, which was in the Schaeffer Tavern -- one of the best I can recall

* Everything Serre L'Ecoute did

* Standing on stage for the final chanteys and feeling the incredible power of 30 strong voices shaking every cell in my body, encompassing the audience and redounding with doubled force -- no better massage to be had

So many more, too...

Jerry