Folks, I just got off the phone with Ella Jenkins who had some very sad news. Ginni Clemmens was killed last Saturday in an auto accident on Maui where she lived in recent years. Ginni was a big part of the 1960s Chicago folk scene through her grand banjo picking and her work with the Old Town School Of Folk Music in that city. She has continued to play music and write songs all through the last 40 years. A great song she wrote, "Figure It Out", is on Michael Cooney's wonderful very recent CD. I'd kept in touch with Ginni by e-mail recently and cyber-space has a way of telescoping the ether so it seems the sender is just next door. Ginni's personal warmth always survived that trip from Maui easily. It felt like she had managed to beam herself ala Star Trek. ---- I will miss this woman. And I will treasure the recordings I have of her.

Art Thieme