Heya, Seed, nice ta meetcha. No, don't know Barney Brown, nor yet had the pleasure of browsing Copperfield's Books.

The session tent is a feature of the annual Celtic music festival in Sebastopol. A concertina player and some very fine fiddlers & guitar & bodhrans were jamming when I came to from my Tavern stupor. I was too shy to ask who they were...

There are workshop tents, too & an outdoor stage, an indoor stage & a dance tent, yeeha. At play were Duck Baker & Kieran Fahy, Tim O'Brien & Darrell Scott, Maura O'Connell, John Cunningham, Susan McKeown & Aidan Brennan, & a host of others, some local, some from the auld sod.

Tim & Darrell opened up a Saturday night concert. They had folk wandering in & out of their set - Sharon Shannon,Paddy Keenan, Sean Smyth, Maura O'Connell. And that was the first set - the second set was Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill who come every year and put their particular spell on us.

The festival goes all weekend (from Friday night thru Sunday night) and all the hotels, motels, bed & breakfast places, etc. are usually all sold out for it, so if you want to go next year, plan early. Makes a lovely weekend up on the Russian River and then all that wonderful music and then go eat like small barnyard animals at Negri's.

oh, there are vendors and crafts at the festival, too. And food. Douglas (mine) was gnawing on what I thought was a turkey leg, but now that I think about it, it did look awfully pink... my best eats vote goes to something called "Death & Taxes" - a reasonable substitute for The Black which is my favorite food and is very very good for you.