The August Press Room Shanty, Forebitter, and Foc's'l Ballad Session-In-Exile will be this Saturday, August 18th from 3:30 to 7:30 at the Continental Restaurant & Bar -- just north of Dover 2 blocks from the intersection of Rtes. 108 and Rte. 9. See previous threads for address and directions.

For consistency and ease is searching for past threads, I'm continuing to refer to the session in the header as "Press Room" even though we're meeting for the time being at the Continental north of Dover and not in Portsmouth. I toured the Press Room last week -- with the aid of one of the owners and a copy of the plans -- but it looks to me like it's not going to be open by the end of August as they'd hoped. While they are being both referential and reverential in their rethinking of the space, it will be considerably different from the old floorplan. That being said, I'm pretty sure we'll be able to take the shanty sing back "home" sometime in the next month or two.

At the Continental, there's plenty of FREE parking, handicapped access, lots of seating, good acoustics, Guinness on draft, and Chinese food and buffet. We're in the function room just off the bar -- turn left at the saltwater aquarium, then turn right into the function room.

Hope to see you all then!

Linn