Here it is Tuesday and I'm just now checking in. Too tired Sunday and even yesterday, but ya know you just can't get to bed early when you can stay up singing in the pub after the concerts. (I think I'm still recovering from LAST week's 9 states in less than 24 hours with no sleep . . .)

The publicity was the best yet this year, but it's still amazing to see how many in the audience found the festival by accident or by being at Federal Jack's for lunch. There was a couple from Indiana and at least one person on a boat and I don't think they had early knowledge of the festival.

But what a wonderful weekend of sea music! And it's going to take me awhile to listen to all the CDs I bought. (Baggyrinkle, my computer CD player doesn't like your CD, but it works fine in my other CD players. I just won't be able to listen to it while working until I do some rearranging.)

I thought we'd have a lot of time to fill singing between the Saturday afternoon performances and the evening concert, but it went by way too quickly.

So . . . when's the next Portland shanty sing? And the Portsmouth (NH) Maritime Festival is in September. And sometime before thenTom and I will have to have a music gathering in Nottingham to make up for not having our annual Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend "Tune It Or Die" Music Party and Ladyslipper Festival (I was in Wisconsin).

Linn