Had a delightful evening at a well attended tune session organised by Valmai and MCed by Dan Quinn (a professional musician) and his son Matt (probably on his way to being a professional musician). Looking forward to Thursday at the Royal Oak with Pete Cooper, a wonderful professional musician and fiddle teacher I've had the good fortune to have a couple of workshops with, and Richard Bolton on cello who I've never heard but I'm sure will be excellent. Looking further forward to Saturday when Will Duke will be doing a workshop on the tunes of Scan Tester (sorry folks, sold out) and then performing in the evening. Will is a retired librarian and one of the best English style Anglo-concertina players you'll ever coma across with a lovely tenor voice. He is donating the proceeds of the workshop to the Vaughan-Williams Library. He'll be keeping the evening fee though (tickets still available but hurry.)

It is being able to spend time with such wonderful people, pro and am alike, almost as much as the music that makes me love the folk scene so much.

And I never have to worry about the smell from the gents.

Night, night.