You were way out of your league?  Yeah, right, Alex.
Don't listen to him, fo'ks, he's got a gorgeous baritone voice that can even sing some bass parts, he's a fan-folkin-tastic guitar picker (who can even fingerpick in slow motion and keep a steady beat, and that's HARD), and he writes silly songs like nobody's business--plus he knows the words to just about every doo-wop and early rock and popular folk song ever recorded, and he's a mean impromptu dancer!

Thanks so much for the compliments, folks.  There was no shortage of talent at Jen's this weekend.  Jack, Amos, Mary Ann, Jen, Roger, Amergin, -- all of 'em put on a great show, storytelling (ask Alex to tell you the ventriloquist joke sometime), pickin', singin', harmonizing, etc.  And Jen is a marvelous hostess who makes wonderful blackberry pies from her own blackberries.

I gotta say, though, that all our human talents pale in comparison to Angus The Spoiled Rotten Singing Mutt.  Have you ever heard a dog that can say "Oreo" and do back-up barking on "Proud Mary"-- (singing "Rowl-in! Row-lin!)?  Between Angus and Jen's two mischievous/mysterious cats who survey the crowd from the rafters in unpredictable locations, we were well entertained by the quadriped contingent.

I had to miss the really big group sing on Saturday evening, but I got to hear and sing with everyone in smaller groups at one time or another.  And my hat's off to Amos for driving all the way from San Diego.  I had already met him down there, and I'm so glad some of you NW catters got to meet and hear him, too, 'cuz the lad do have a great folk voice and guitar style, and he even does dishes (not to mention mending gutters and fish ponds)!

Any of you folks who can make it in August, really, do come!

Genie
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