Hello everyone,

Susan and Dick, It's going to be wonderful. I hope everyone shows up.

Bill, great. Can't wait to meet you.

Neil, I completely understand your caution and fears. These thoughts have occurred to me. Glenn and I have no children and we rented this house for the express purpose of being able to enjoy live music. Glenn has his own band and we have jam sessions almost every weekend. Up til now it's all been rock and electric blues, which I enjoy, but when I was younger I really enjoyed folk and bluegrass. I love the old blues guitarists such as Leadbelly as well. There are always strangers come to play at our house. Some have been mediocre, but some have been wonderful. (a couple have been bad..shhh)

Have you ever wondered what it might have been like to live on Jim Croce's farm or been in the celler when Zeppelin was starting, or in Woodstock (the town, not the festival) during the folk era? (Actually, I was here. That's where I met my first husband). Now I'm not saying that anyone who comes to my house will ever be considered a great musician, but...you never know. Meanwhile, we're really enjoying music.

I am really looking forward to introducing this wonderful music into our lives. I hope it's here to stay and I hope this isn't a one or two time session. We want to hear this music live as often as we can. With children it might have been different, but Glenn and I have done our stint. I have two, one is 31 and the other is 22. Glenn has a 14 year old daughter that lives with her mom. All we have to do is enjoy life. And experience as much of it as we can.

And the icing, hopefully we'll make lifelong friends who will always be welcome to our home. I am really glad to have found Mudcat.

annap aka APAVAO

Where are you, Neil? Can you make it?