Hey guys and gals,

I'm gonna be absent from NEFFA for the first time in a decade. I have a paying gig with Anne Price in New Jersey on Friday night, and then I'm attending a memorial concert for my good buddy Eric Levine here in New York on Saturday. If that ain't enough, the local People's Music Network organizing committee is meeting on Sunday and I'm the facilitator.

Excuses, excuses, excuses!

So have a hoot, so to speak, and I'll try to make it next year. Meanwhile, Big Chuck can go around claiming to be me. Maybe no one will notice.

--- Steve