I just realized that I forgot to tell you that this is me, Allan C., on moonchild's 'puter.

It was a pleasure to meet Mrr as a Mudcatter! I have known her for nearly seven years and have always known that she had a long-term interest in folk music. I had spoken with her about the Mudcat two summers ago. Nothing could have been more surprising than to discover that she had finally found the Mudcat. She has a good knowledge of Irish songs and quite a few other types as well. It was lovely to hear her sing.

BeauDangles has a permanant smile built into his face. I had spoken on the phone with him early last week. But it was still a wonderful surprise to see him in person. I had encouraged him to bring his flute to the E-Corner. And I am so very glad he did so. He is marvelously talented! He knew a huge number of songs that Bill also knew. I did my best to keep up. I was actually very happy to find that I could actually do so at times.

The end result was more of a jam than a performance. But the audience was both attentive and appreciative. Well, sorta. We got a total of five bucks in our gig jar!

Before we left the gig, we had the 'Catters sign one of the guitars we have. We plan to have each Mudcatter sign it as we travel along. So, if we visit you, please be sure to do so, okay?

I had met Dani at the 1999 Getaway. She has lovely rosey cheeks and a beautiful smile which tells the world about what a happy, cheerful person she is. She seems to love to surround herself with music. She has a cute little store at which she sells some hard-to-get food items. It was a pleasure to get a peek at where she spends her time when she is not at home with her two beautiful children and her "friendly giant" husband.

I hadn't seen BarbaraLynn in about thirty years. It was as if she was still standing on the porch of her house near the highschool we both attended. She has hardly changed. She and Bill and BarbaraLynn's husband, Casey sat and talked until the small hours of Friday night. Then Saturday morning, we shared a few songs. BarbaraLynn has a song she wrote about the atrocities of Custer and his troops that brought me to tears.

Unfortunately we got a late start in getting away from BarbaraLynn's and so we barely caught Mbo and his sister, Cbo, who were just about to give up on us. Mbo, BTW, is not as tall as Bill thought he was. Mbo was a lot quieter than either of us expected. He and his sister were wonderful to meet and we truly enjoyed hearing the songs Mbo shared with us in our brief time together. Mbo has a fine voice which is even better in person!

Bill and moonchild have just started playing a bit of music together so I think I'll go join in.

This is so much fun!

Allan C.