Greetings:

For those who have asked, here is a very quick summary of how I have been spending my retirement. I have been busy with music. Only a small portion of my time, however, has been devoted to making music. Much more of my time is spent:

• Helping to run the Peoples' Voice Cafe in New York City. I am one of two people who currently do the booking, I am often the MC and/or the person who collects the money at the gate, and I sometimes run he sound system.

• Serving on the board of directors of the New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club / Folk Music Society of New York, Inc. This is my home club, so to speak.

• Producing the annual Woody Guthrie Birthday Bash at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City.

• Doing work for the People's Music Network. I had served on the PMN steering committee, as they call their board of directors, but I chose not to stand for re-election in 2011.

I still manage to do some performing. For example, my singing partner Anne Price and I have four gigs in the UK this coming May. (We are not accepting any payment for ourselves. Whatever money we receive will be accepted as a donation to our home club.)

--- Steve