It really was a small but special session. It's not often that I attend a sea music session of shanties, ballads, lumberjack songs, Irish songs, and drinking songs, and stories, all intermeshing when one another. There were about a dozen singers. I also haven't seen Barbara Benn for some time.

I got to launch another new song for me, "Rathlin Head" by C. Fox Smith as adapted for singing by Mike Kennedy. I only stumbled on a couple of words, which I managed to dredge up with some help from listeners: "Does anyone know a word that begins with either a B or a D that would fit in here? Yes, 'blind' will work nicely!"

I note that Marty is already posting photos to his Facebook page.

Maybe more tomorrow.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble