Dear Jean: Finding you back on Mudcat warms my heart.
I wrote a tribute to George you can find here:
http://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2011/01/24/columns/8717320.txt

should have sent it to you earlier, but I felt I hadn't quite done him justice. Still feel that way, but on a second read, the piece isn't as bad as I had thought.
It's only a guess, but I think the concert Chantey Lass references above was "Mountain Music in the Ocean State" at the historic Slater Mill site in Pawtucket.