The N.O. Quarter Shantey Krewe has been only sporadically active since Katrina. We've all been distracted, to varying degrees at different times, by personal issues as well as the huge public issues of rebuilding our home town.

Our leader and organizer, K.C. King, has become very deeply involved in the recovery effort in recent months. Also, he and his wife Kathi have other musical projects in addition to the Shanty Krewe (as instrumenal accompanyists for Irish dancers), so their already-limited time and energy can't be solely directed towards maritime music.

I do not believe there are any existing recordings of the NOQSK, but then I've only been involved for a couple of years (and have been largely UNinvolved in recent months). Maybe the prospect of recording something for "volume 2" of this project would prompt us to action!

I'm curious through which channels the proceeds of this project will be sent. (I haven't checked the web links yet, but intend to do so.) As we all know, some "charities" function much more effectively than others in effiently serving their causes, without skimming too much off the top. I know that the Tipitina's Foundation is doing a lot of good work supplying instruments to schools ~ they were engaged in that very effort even before Katrina, and have kept it up very well.

I believe KC's mudcat name is "ship*scat" or something like that, but I'm not sure that he's checking for PMs very regualrly these days (or at all). I will email him a link to this thread so he knows about this effort.

Tom "PoppaGator" Henehan
New Orleans, LA

PS: Barry ~ it seems that you and I should know each other, but I don't think we do. Are you living in New Orleans now? I'm playing the Neutral Ground tomorrow night (Thursday) at 11pm(!?!), and am also on Spencer Bohren's Christmas Show at the Snug Harbor on the 20th. If you can come out, please say hi.