Here's a story about Art.

It must have been in the mid 70's, not that many years after I first met Sandy & Caroline Paton. In those days, The Sounding Board in Hartford, Ct.,in conjunction with Sandy & Caroline, did a Folk Legacy Festival. I was a new recording artist in their stable (and a wonderful stable it was, with Bok, Trickett and Muir, Bill Staines, Kendall and many other fine musicians in adjacent stalls.) Art hadn't recorded for Folk-Legacy yet, but Sandy & Caroline invited him to the festival in anticipation. It was my first festival as a performer and I was trying to be as invisble as possible, feeling very overshadowed by other musicians whose records I loved. Almost everyone there was a stranger to me, including Art. Art says that we talked in the hall somwehre along the line, but much to my embarassment, I don't remember it. Hopefully, I can be excused as the nervous novice (anybody remember Nervous Norvus?) I was.

Maybe I'd better make this a two-parter before Joe Offer Offs me for being too wordy..