Yet again, greetings . . .

A few foolish individuals, who shall remain nameless, have called it to my attention that I have not blathered for awhile. I shall try to remedy that. (And should any of you wish to discuss the situation with the "nameless individuals", send me a $10 contribution and a stamped, self-addressed envelope, and I'll sell them out!)

Folk club season be starting up again, and I be darned happy about it. Beginning this very weekend, indeed, tonight (Saturday) with the Mill Race Folk Club in Cambridge; and tomorrow evening with the White Oak Folk Club in Oakville.

And BTW, if you're heading for the White Oak (as I shall certainly be), you might do well to tune into FM 92.1 which is CKPC in Brantford. There is a folk music show conveniently slotted between 6 and 7. Good windup to a open stage, I would say.

There's also a bunch of stuff happening this weekend and forthcoming week for a lot of our friends, what with Paul Langille at the Winking Judge in Hamilton tonight, and Scott Cameron Smith in Barrie at a house concert tonight and at the Winking Judge next Friday and Saturday.

Both of these guys have CDs, BTW. Paul has a new live CD that was recorded at The Train Room and at the White Oak Folk Club. Scott's CD "Poets and Painters" is currently #4 on the Galaxie Folk/Roots Chart. Way to go, my friend.

Also coming up on Tuesday (11th) forthcoming at the Hamilton Art Gallery free noon-hour concert series is Alfie Smith, who was extremely well received at the Mill Race Festival in August. And also has a new CD available!

Further on the subject of CDs: Spooky Moon has one available. A lot of you know that I've joined them as a bass player; however, this was recorded before I came on board, and it's excellent. "Calling Card" is a 7-song CD and will be selling for $10. Spooky's harmonies are killer and the production by Terry Golletz is superb. I'll have copies with me at all times. Here endeth the shameless self-promotion!

Lessee . . .what else . . . oh yeah, the website: www.jeremiah.ca has some minor changes. The most useful thing I've got is the calendar which covers folk stuff up until November, and gets updated durn near daily. I've also changed the format, so that when you go to the main calendar page, you'll find that clicking on each month opens it in a separate page - should make things easier if you'd like to print out a single month (and I've forgotten who suggested doing that, but thankyou kindly for the advice). Also, the Club Listing page has had a minor mod in that I've separated the clubs themselves from the coffee house and concert venues. Anyway, please do check it out and feel free to offer feedback and advice - I think the site's averaging about one hit per day and is feeling distictly lonely and neglected.

It's been a pretty fine summer for music, with more festivals than any one person can attend. I did get up to Goderich for the Celtic Festival. It's held in a beautiful well-shaded park: a great site. Nice thing about this weekend is that it's an opportunity to visit my most excellent cousin and his family; which also provided my best non-musical moment for the summer: toolin' around the main square in Goderich with Don in his beautifully-restored red '64 Falcon Futura Coupe. Ah, memories!

I managed to attend The Woods Music Camp again this year. Not an inexpensive week, but worth every damn penny. Breakfast at 8, classes, workshops, concerts, song circles and jams ending maybe 2ish in the morning. If I can go next year, I'm taking a BIG bottle of caffeine pills!

The Eaglewood Festival (one of the best) provided something rather neat, and I'm still kicking myself that I missed it (had to leave early). Our buddy Andrew Kerth did the open stage there and was invited to perform his song "Knight Fright" as a 'tween' act on the main concert stage that evening. Outstanding!

Myself, I'm looking forward to a lot of upcoming stuff. In addition to Spooky Moon stuff, I'm also going to be doing a bit of duet stuff with Andrew. Plus, I still get to do occasional bass backup on some of Scott Smith's live gigs, which is a treat for me. As well, Stewart McPhail, Jim Hodges and myself are doing some jamming these days, and may well find our way onto an open stage purty soon. I'm beginning to feel busy, and lovin' it!

That's gotta be enough! I'm outta here! Y'all be well . . .

Jeremiah