And here be a copy of the latest message to my notify list:

Subject: Okay, okay, I guess it IS a newsletter . . .
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001

Greetings out there,

Here's hoping y'all are well, or well enough, or well off enough or something like that. Got some CD recommendations to make, the usual up-and-coming events and general news, including an upcoming email address change.

October 20th was the date for Allison Lupton's CD release concert in Cambridge. 'Twas an excellent evening, what with most of the musicians from the recording there and taking part: James Gordon, Brian Taheny, Ian Bell, Ann Lederman and more - 11 fine musicians on stage. The music was extra fine, and the CD (beautifully produced by Monsieur Gordon) is first-rate. "My True Love" has been in almost constant play on my machine. It contains some wonderful instrumentals and songs (of the latter, Archie Fisher's "The Final Trawl" and Richard Thompson's "The Dimming of the Day" are particular stand-outs).

I had an interesting/bizarre experience a couple of weeks ago. It went like this: I'd been over to Wayne Marshall's place, and picked up from him a copy of "One Voice", a CD he's produced which is a tribute to Toronto songwriter Norm Hacking. The various performers doing Norm's songs include Jason Fowler, Jory Nash, Nancy White, Rick Fielding, Ron Nigrini and others - some 18 tracks in all.
So there I am, having loaded the CD into my car's player, perusing the playlist and around track 12 I see a song called "Shine". A wee bell goes off in my mind, something about that song title seems very familiar. I pull out the booklet and and look at the track information - I am slightly stunned (Go ahead; that one's an easy shot) to read "Bass Guitar: Jeremiah Budnark". Knock me over with a feather - I'd recorded the bass line about a year back at Wayne's studio and then forgot about it! Two thoughts went through my mind simultaneously: the first was "Ever neat. That is so cool. What a delightful surprise!". The second was "Hey, wait a minute - I paid full price for this thing!"
And worth every penny: if you're not familiar with Norm's songwriting, this is a great way to discover it. Also, the official CD release is coming up in a couple of days (Wednesday the 14th) at Hugh's Room in Toronto. Should be another go-down-in-history concert, and if you can, you should probably oughta wanna be there so that you can say you wuz there!
Contact information: Wayne Marshall or Shirley Gibson (artist manager)
3 Flamingos Music Toronto, Ontario 416 537-3790 Brantford, Ontario 519 751-4449
folkie@interlog.com wayne.marshall2@sympatico.ca or info@normhacking.com
www.3flamingosmusic.com (soon) www.normhacking.com

And speaking of historic, coming up in another week (Monday the 19th) is the CD Release concert of the "Tears of a Thousand Years" CD project. This project, conceived by the White Oak Folk Club's Paul Young, is intended to raise money for the benefit of victims and families of the September 11th tragedy. In just 2 months a twenty-song CD has been produced, with contributions from some of Canada's best-known performers and includes some original work written for this CD.
Contributors are: David Bradstreet (title song), Don Bray, Susan Crowe, Aengus Finnan, Fireweed, James Gordon, John Gracie, Lynn Harrison, Tim Harrison, Paul Langille, The Laws, Doug McArthur, Eileen McGann, Scott Cameron Smith, Brent Titcomb, Randy Uberig, Valdy, Katherine Wheatley, and D'Arcy Wickham. Of particular note is the inclusion of a never before released Stan Rogers performance of a Mark Rust song.
The extrordinary thing is that ALMOST ALL of the contributing performers will appear at the concert. Only Susan Crowe and Eileen McGann were unable to rearrange their schedules. The Stan Rogers track will be performed by Ariel Rogers and David Rogers. In addition to the worthiness of the cause, it promises to be an extraordinary evening of music. My advice: do not delay in arranging tickets. Website: tearsofathousandyears.com Oakville Centre Box Office: (905) 815-2021

Spooky Moon news: I'm getting such a kick out of being part of this group. Latest boost: "Chat Room" from the "Calling Card" CD got some airplay on CBC the other day. In the "drive time" (4 - 6 pm) slot, no less. Forgive us while we bask.

Coming up this weekend: the Black Walnut Folk Club in Kitchener, open stage with a feature set by Andrew Kerth (& Spooky Moon gonna attend the general festivities as well) on Friday. On Saturday, Alfie Smith is playing at the Winking Judge in Hamilton and Sunday is the Oakville's White Oak Folk Club's open stage with a feature set by D'Arcy Wickham (and some Spooky visitation here as well).

Oh yes - the email change. First of all - I ain't goin' nowhere. However, my server is changing names. Here's the change, and please note that it doesn't take effect UNTIL November 22.

Current Email address is: jeremiah-mccaw @home.com New Email address will be: jeremiah-mccaw @rogers.com

Current WebSpace address is: members.home.net/jeremiah-mccaw New WebSpace address will be: members.rogers.com/jeremiah-mccaw

Most of you should have the web site bookmarked as www.jeremiah.ca and that should remain consistent as it forwards automatically to the webspace address. Hopefully gliches will be small and of short duration.

And that be that. be well, all . . .

Jeremiah