now...adding a few comments to the ones above.

I have now had 12-13 hours sleep and can almost remember what I want to say...which is, that it was even more wonderful than all those other folks said!

I seem to not be willing to admit that I can operate clearly on 3-4 hrs. sleep any more...but I still try it. I have a lot of memories of sitting in my little chair and listening. I listened to amazing jams featuring harps, clarinet, viola, cello, concertina and autoharp, with dull ol' banjos & guitars happily playing along. I listened to ukelele and Jew's harp...I listened to zither and bass concertina..(no..not together)....

I heard a totally amazing rendition of "The Panic's On" in the "Take me back to 1935" workshop, by Joel Bailes on piano, with Dick Parks on trumpet and T.J. O'Malley doing SUCH fine guitar fills!...'folk music'?? maybe not..*grin*...but WOW!...

I listened to voices...FSGW's own Susan C., in her classically trained soprano....Barry Finn, in his room-filling voice that got stronger the more he sang (and Jeri, whose voice and vocals are headed the same way!...she sang when she swore she wasn't sure HOW she could sing))....the long-practiced harmonies of Sandy & Caroline Paton....soft voices, loud voices, smooooth voices.... raspy, but clear voices, and yeah, a few voices that need some practice, but were still full of feeling.

and how very proud and happy I was with my wife, Ferrara, singing so well all weekend! (yes, Rita...you are reading this and blushing a bit, but lots of folks told you so all weekend)..and my son, Darriel (ShadowMonk) who has already raised a few eyebrows with his voice..(needs MORE songs, but heck...he has time...)

but what I listened to most were people talking and sharing and learning in between songs. There were not enough minutes to meet and explore all the new friendships and renew the old ones thoroughly, but we damn sure tried, didn't we?

........now, I'll post this and go back and read it and see if I said anything near what I intended..*grin*...you just can't do justice to it in a few minutes of typing...