My first meeting with lots of Mudcatters in about March of 1999, at Rick Fielding's concert in Washington, DC. I live in California, but I joined the Folklore Society of Greater Washington and I've been to their annual Fall Getaway most years since then.

And then in 2002, Dick Greenhaus and Susan of DT and I rented a house in Whitby and met lots of Mudcatters at Whitby Folk Week. For a week before and a week after, UK Mudcatters hosted me at their homes and made sure I had music every night. And since then, I've met and sung with Martin Ryan and a lot of other Mudcatters in Ireland.

And in recent years, I started a habit of traveling to the Getaway with North Carolina Mudcatters, spending a week or so with them before or after the Getaway. And in 2014, Amos, Abby Sale, Dani, and I went to the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.

And a number of Mudcatters have visited me here in California.