Sandra's National is a list of events I wish I had gone to but I couldn't because I was going to other events that I wanted to go to even more. I spent a lot of time enjoying the Central and Eastern European music of Vardos, Triplika, The Transylvaniacs, Xenos, and Mara. At Warren Fahey's bawdy songs workshop, I sang stuff I'd never sing at Sandra's folk club. Also enjoyed Colum Sands, Colcannon, The Fagans, Kate & Ruth, Bruce Watson, Eric Bogle & John Munro, April Verch, Martin Pearson, the PPM singalong, Andy Irvine and friends, the Spooky Men, Ami Williamson, and a couple of young'uns who were new to me, Ange Takats and CC.

We drove our daughter down on Friday and back on Monday and hardly saw her between. She camped out while we took the soft option of a local motel, and she was in the Sessions Bar until 7:30 each morning while we were generally in by 11pm. Oh, to be 21 again.

Ran into a couple whose daughter had been friends with ours when the girls were 11, a couple we hadn't seen since then. Also met a couple and found out the woman came from the same place as me (New York City), went to the same university as me, moved to Australia roughly the same year as me, and the man works at the same outfit as me in Sydney.