I've been concerned about June messing into school-end schedules and any festivals that might be going on, but the weather would sure be better. Also, Annamill has often done an early-summer gathering and we both want to avoid overlapping the dates so much that peole feel they need to choose which one to go to. But then she said she has not yet set a date.

Memorial weekend would give us an extra day, but then people so often have standing plans for that weekend. On the other hand, folk music has lost so many people this last year, maybe a folk memorial weekend wouldbe kinda nice.

So let's keep talking dates for another week or so-- give folks who are not here daily a chance to weigh in with their thoughts. When we have a firm date I'll start a new thread.

It feels tempting to do this the weekend of my birthday (May 17-19) as I had first planned, but I am finally well enough to sustain a low-impact weekend event away, and I wanna go!

~Susan