Sorry about that, but the Fairy Godmother will beat me to death if I nip off to St Albans instead of battling two button accordionas, one concertina, two whistles and only just possibly!) a nose flute at various points in the Bush Ball '98 down at Bundanoon (almost exactly halfway between Sydney and Canberra.

Unfortunately we always seem to clash with St Albans, but there are only so many Festivals. The best palce for Mudcatters to get together may be the Australian National Folk Festival (Just passed, at Easter, in Canberra permanently nowadays). It's a bloody great Festival, although it seems to have had 53,000 folkies this year and rendevous get difficult amid such madding crowds.

Regards,

Bob Bolton New Mudcatter, but frighteningly old folkie)