Hi Nancy & all

Justine & I will be there fri-mon, we're van-pooling with Charlie Noble, thank you Charlie registrations have been sent in & a special thanks to you Nancy & Carly, Charlie B & epically you Ritta. LOL.


Micca, love your idea for a songwriter's workshop


Dani, some ideas that are also very appealing to me too;

Songs of celebration

Occupational Songs (about work or working)

Work songs (from the land)


Edmund, songs "I learned from... " For songs that you learned in person from another human being, rather than from a recording?


Songs that roam the (US) eastern mountain ranges, north to south.


Elizabeth & Sandy LaPrelle


Work songs from the West Indies to the Mid-Atlantic Sea Board


Songs (not just work) from inside the prison systems, anywhere


Whaling (by itself)


Wagon Trains & Pioneers

Cowboys, Over Landers/Drovers & their like from other countries.


Levee Workers & Gandy Dancers


Songs of Transport; Lakes, Canals, River ways & Intercoastal Highways of anywhere


Singing Jigs & Reels


Child Labor(not about giving birth)songs

Or, traditional songs of child labor &/or pregnancies…. Ya know,,,like


"For 9 long years & 9 long months I've carried this child

Carried this child (2x)


I'll bet in 9 more days & things gonna turn wild

Gonna turn wild (2x)


Hoodoo woman better do sump'n fast

Sump'n fast(2x)


For the next 9th day will surely be your last

Be your last (2x)


(by me, on the fly
on the fly)


Seems there maybe idea in there that some one could snack. I'm imagining that Ballads & shanties are going to be well covered. Is Joe Offer coming? Joe????


Barry