REPORT

I'm having lunch Wednesday with a lady who has occasionally jammed with a handful of other folks, and knows where it is our folks are going, outside the county, to play. I can go visit those other jams and fetch them back home! *G* (Or maybe it's a tri-county folk society in the making.) Funniest thing-- when I called her, I forgot till the end of the conversation, to ask her to BRING HER AUTOHARP so WE could play together! DUH! We had a good laugh over THAT!

I started work on a website for our band, to start promoting what we do and to store information about the workshops I want to lead when I go off on my own. Because when I do, there is one band member in particular who is likely to tag along, so it might as well be a band thing. I'll say more about it later, but basically our band has core members but no fixed lineup, and we want to make buttons for "audience" members to "be" band "members" too, since what we do is lead singalongs and the singers, thus, ARE in the band!

I also started a website for this nebulous folk organization I seem to be starting, so that I could have an e-mail address for it from which to send out press releases. It's an address that's a lot easier to remember, too, than any I had been using personally-- LocalFolks@. It's a community/bulletin board type site so that people can interact in it right away in threads. Of course Mudcat will be the first link I put there. It will also contain information about Mudcat Gatherings we hold, as these become more and more focused on local folks participating. And then Mudcatters can travel to them or not as they choose. I will make myself a permathread on them at that website.

I am also helping a friend move (and she is coming to stay with us for a bit), so that's all I have been able to do for now, except post an announcement on the local cable screen, as follows:

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Dust off that old guitar, banjo, or whatever-have-you!

PORCH-PICKIN' FRIDAY NIGHTS
Third Friday Each Month (usually!)
June 21, July 19, Aug. 23, Sept. 20
7-10 PM (Beginner's Jam 7-8)

Play, Listen, or Sing
Children Welcome!
FMI [phone, e-mail]

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Thanks, all, for all the encouragement (and butt-whoppin'), and your continued good ideas.

~Susan