Just thought I'd add a bit about Jed's concert and last night's music at Chance & Suzette's house, which was prompted by the sad demise of the Minifest....

For those who made it, Jed's Friday concert was undoubtedly the thing that saved the weekend! It was very well attended. CarolC and JackTheSailor even made it, and mMario, Dick and Susan, lots of people who were in town for the Minifest showed up. At the start of the evening we were feeling disgruntled because the mini was cancelled, but by the end of Jed's concert there were nothing but smiles all around. And then we still had the sing-around to look forward to.

You have to picture: Jed performed great music for three hours -- and then about 20 of the people who were at the concert made music for another four hours! We would have quit early if the mini was on, but since it wasn't -- Bill and I left at 2 am and I heard the music continued for another hour.

There was a full sized string bass, more guitars than you could shake a stick at, banjos, a viola, an autoharp, it was a glorious jam and sing. Country, 30's pop and blues, ballads, music hall songs, old timey, gospel, I can't remember it all.

Then Chance and Suzette had an open house on Saturday and it started again, this time with a full size harp and my zither-harp added to the mix. Ahhhhh.

Jed, Chance, Suzette, TJ, Julie -- can't thank any of you enough.

Rita