Jennifer (Woods, my wife) and I will be there, as will my Sidekick, Pete Kraemer. Pete and I have a Sidekicks set on Sunday (noon? 1:00?), followed immediately by my set with Jennifer. The set is based on some new approaches to several traditional songs, and the new approaches come from our work with our electric band, Last Gold Dollar. We're not bringing the amps, of course, but we're trying to use that "what if?" thinking that we use with Last Gold Dollar (as an example, we wondered what it would have sounded like if Dock Boggs played "Mole in the Ground," a Bascom Lamar Lunsford song; we're not sure we'll do it in the set -- it has to "hold together" better than it is so far, but that's the kind of thinking we do in the electric band).

My set with Jennifer is called, "As the Twig is Bent," and consists of songs we have learned from others in our lives, such as Helen Schneyer, Margaret MacArthur, Jon Eberhart, and Gus Meade, to name a few of our sources. We think it's an interesting approach to making a set of songs.

So we'll be there on Sunday, on-stage, but also "around" on Friday and all day Saturday, ready to play or sing or schmooze at the drop of a hat (and I'll bring the hat).

Bob Clayton