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Tom Lewis is certainly capable of leading any song from any tradition given the situation. This year's weather looks more moderate, not exactly beach weather but that's hardly essential.

It's true that too many wonderful singers/workshops happen simultaneously at Mystic, forcing painful choices and mad dashes in and between sets. I tend to high light my choices in advance, knowing I won't have time, or the ability to do so once I reach that "pleasant port."

For the after hours happenings I would encourage newcomers to check for info at the Youth Training Center (YTC) located behind a row of sailing dingies and the rope walk shed, off to the right of Lighthouse Point.

Again, I'll note what appears to be an "open" daytime event called a Chantyblast on Saturday, 2 pm, at the North End Stage.

The shipboard demonstrations aboard the Charles W. Morgan and the Conrad are perhaps the closest any of us will ever get to real shanty/chanty/chantey singing or sailor work.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble