We should be able to figure out a way to have some kind of fun. I'm sure that I'm a primitive enough musician for anyone's purposes! Let me know when you have a better idea of just when you'll be here; we can PM each other in the meantime.

I think I'm the only Mudcatter here in New Orleans, but I might be mistaken. I sometimes read messages from a couple of other individuals who seem to know their way around town -- maybe they used to live here, or they visit frequently.

I hope you'll have a place to stay -- Momma won't 'low no sleepovers except for immediate family, and we hardly have room enough for them. It's been a very "eventful" year with illnesses, reduced income, a new grandbaby -- complications by the carload. We'd be glad to hang out, though, show y'all around town, etc., and probably even feed you some good home cooking.

(By the way: When I read that *first* message of yours, I had some real doubts about responding to you at all -- who in their right mind would want to invite a maniac into their home?)

Finding pianos to play may be a bit of an issue, but nothing we can't deal with. I take it you don't travel with your instrument, unless you have an electric keyboard.

And hey, if anyone else living in the Crescent City reads this, let us *both* know who you are and that you're here.