If you haven't clicked yet, NEFFA is a music & dance festival in Natick, Massachusetts, USA, April 20 - 22.

Saturday 3:15pm The Boston Folk & Traditional Singers Club from Paddy Burke's (listed as Boston Celtic Singers Club), "Songs Celtic & Not". Lineup besides me: Brian Reynolds, Lynn Murphy, Maureen McNally, Michael O'Leary, Gary Martin. Possibly Peg Aloi, Deb Cowan, & Dan Milner (Liam's Brother). Sadly, we'll miss Barry Finn's lively presence, as we have greatly missed him at Paddy Burke's over the past few months. He'll be with us in spirit, & hopefully we'll catch him in person at Mystic in June.

Saturday 9:15pm "Singers Behind the Scenes", a few friends who keep the folk wheels turning, & are talented singers in their own right: - The legendary Peter Johnson put enormous energy into the Boston folk scene, producing concerts, records, & havoc, in the '60's & '70's & maybe 80's. Focusing on family life in recent years, he's just starting to produce concerts & CD's again, & many will be happy to see him performing again... - Gary Martin produces Music By the Bay house concerts in Assonnet, MA, helps out with the New Bedford Summerfest, scouts out talent as far away as Kerrville, TX, bringing many performers to New England for the first time. Gary has a huge, varied reportoire, from Scottish ballads, to contemporary selections, to those wordy, humorous songs where you wonder when he takes a breath... - Mary Lou Philbin travels to Ireland regularly scouting out talent for the Ossian Loft in Louden, NH, & Irish CDs & books to distribute through the Ossian USA store, catalogue, & web site. We see her at alot of festivals - she's usually behind a CD booth & should come out & share her lovely voice with us more... - And yours truly, who works avidly for the Folk Song Society of Greater Boston, which, by the way is celebrating the release of their 40th Anniversary CD at NEFFA. 16 great traditional songs, by some of our better known members, like The Short Sisters, Peter Fishman & Deb O'Hanlon, some of our up & coming members, like 13 year old Cate Levin, & NEFFA regulars like Total Strangers, Suzanne Mrozak, Merle Roessler, Two for the Show, & yours truly doing a humble version of The Nightingale, a wonderful song I learned from Dan Milner's CD...