Carl keeps improving. He is currently in a rehab center in Colorado, and is slated to go in a couple of months to another center in Nebraska before returning home to Fairbanks, Alaska. It's a long, slow road but he'll get there.

The Alaska Folk Festival is sponsoring a fundraiser party for Carl and Alice on March 12th, this Saturday night, all proceeds to help defray their enormous expenses. There will be approximately 15 sets in 5 hours, with three of the sets being 30 minutes long. Dancing, a no-host bar, munchies - can't get mluch better than that.

Previously this winter, there have been fundraisers in both Fairbanks and Anchorage, as well as another on the East Coast. This is a talented and beloved musician- he long ago earned today's accolades.