No I'm not from PEI but as a matter of fact I do know a couple of Barachois folks. and thereby hangs a tale. About ten years ago we went on a family camping trip to PEI, with our old Dodge pickup camper. Kids were four and 1 1/2 then. Spent a week at Cavendish park, it rained most of the time. It was September, post-tourist season, not a lot of music going on but there was something at a fancy resort which turned out to be a "PEI kitchen party for tourists" kind of thing. The band was Grady Poe (now Barachois' manager), his wife Helene (Arsenault) Baillargeon and a couple others. They had an audience participation thing so I did a couple of my songs...afterwards we chatted and found out that Grady & I had both been introduced to playing trad music by the same person, Nathan Curry. On the strength of that, they lent us their cottage on Northumberland Strait for the weekend. Real nice folks. Years later the CBC did a whole hour broadcast of a real kitchen party at Grady & Helene's house in Acadie, with her father the great fiddler Eddy Arsenault. Greatest hour of radio I've ever heard. Haven't seen them since, but I'm real pleased Barachois is doing so well.

Willie-O