The contracts have been sent out from Mystic Sea Music Festival HQ and I was gratified to receive one.

I'll be sharing a C. Fox Smith Workshop with Danny and Joyce McLeod and with Bob Zentz. We've all poured a lot of energy into reviving interest in Smith's nautical poetry, making the poems accessible on-line to the public, adapting them for singing, and performing the songs. In addition Danny has played a key role in researching this poet's life. The draft anthology of her poems that Jim Saville and I have assembled (and referenced) now contains more than 550 poems, and may be accessed at the Oldpoetry website under her name: click here for website!

I'm certainly looking forward to this workshop, as well as everything else I can get involved in at the Festival. No sleep for me!

I didn't see any mention of any Thursday evening activity this year in the materials I received. Has Thursday been dropped from the schedule?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble