I play in a coupl of groups. In one group, made up of me on fiddle, Shay Black on guitar, Dick Holdstock on mandolin, and the Mudcat's own Riggy on English concertina, we take sea songs and arrange them as instrumentals, for background music at parties and other like gatherings.

The other group is called the San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers - about 70 of us. We meet once a month in members homes for a potluck/session/business meeting/more session/more food, then we eat more, and in the Spring we perform three concerts over a weekend with our fearless leader, fiddler Alasdair Fraser, a wonderful performer and a great guy.

Aside from that, two regular Irish sessions East of San Francisco, and a monthly chantey sing aboard the schooner C.A. Thayer, berthed at S.F's Hyde Street Pier, part of the National Park Service's San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. If you're in S.F. on the first Saturday night of any month, come aboard and join the sing!

-chanteyranger