Greetings and felicitations Murray,

Yeah - it is on the Sydney Folk Page Dances listing (now) but it was not until I noticed its absence (a week or so back). This is the sort of co-ordination that is not the strong point of folkies. (Lovely people but they can make anarchists look positively regimented!)

One extra reason for picking Bundanoon is that it is almost exactly halfway to Canberra but I don't think the Ball organisers succeeded in telling the Canberra mob about it, either! Still, it is a nice hall, a nice town and this is a good event for it to re-emerge from the mists of "Brigadoon".

The other reason is that Dave Johnson (author of our "Bush Dance" (tunes) book now lives just down the road at Penrose and his is the director of the Heritage Ensemble - a valiant attempt to get together 20 or so musos from Sydney (and surrounds) bush bands with more "classical" or "orchestral" instruments (cello, viola, clarinet, saxaphone and explore the effects of arranging and conducting instead of free-for-all.

We released a cassette from our 1990 and 1996 programmes ("A Fine Heritage" - listed on Sydney Folk Page) last year but I have not yet convinced them that this end of the 1990s actually listens to CDs. Still working on that one!

Regards,

Bob Bolton