It's all settled: Jaimie Snyder is going to play for me at the second place (go look at Rick's radio show archive if you want to know who he is, he's a guest on one of those shows). They should be kissing my ass for finding them so great a player willing to play for so little - but I know they probably won't. You know, I've found that matching gigs up with musicians is pretty gratifying in itself - maybe I should be an agent! But it's also kind of fun to turn down a gig... because I've already got a gig! That's never happened to me before!

Don't mind me, I'm a little buzzed because today was my first gig in this nursing home project. It went well, people sang and waltzed, I sang two songs in Italian, I talked, I didn't forget anything! I was so happy that I talked to myself on the way home... and when I got home I had two messages waiting about gigs. I now have fourteen lined up. And I'm using the computer on the way to a fiddle lesson, where I'm the teacher!

Love, Marion