Where are the new folk 'cats from?

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 21 May 02 - 12:01 PM

fersh

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: GUEST,ozmacca
Date: 21 May 02 - 02:20 AM

Mudcat, you're great, and you've only got yourself to blame. I'm pretty new here, and using two computers so I might be posted as Guest or not. I live near Brisbane, in Sunny Queensland, Australia, where it's perfect one day, and better the next..... or something like that according to our tourism board.

What with our great sunny weather, and the terrific regular Sunday sessions we're into, life is too good to be true.... so it probably isn't. Still, until the day they catch up with me and drag me back to grim reality, I'll keep thumping bodhran, singing daft songs - mainly Scots - and telling silly stories.

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Socorro
Date: 21 May 02 - 02:00 AM

I've been around about a month. I'm also from No. Calif, (Sonoma County). I play piano with a group of friends who love traditional black gospel music (sorta like my friend Mr. Jerry Rasmussen). I sing a little. Would anyone be interested in helping me learn to sensitively ACCOMPANY my friends? Rather than just "bashing out the melody"??? I love this place.

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 21 May 02 - 12:18 AM

Harpgirl, with this good thread, has shown you new Mudcat people a thread topic that's very like several others we had a few years back. It's great to see so many good people hanging here with us oldertimers. A few decades ago I was gigging in many of the places you all live in now-----beautiful areas all. It was grand to meet musicians and singers from that earlier era and I do wish I could hear your music around a festival campfire in this brave new century. What a great continuum we / you are a part of. Glad to virtually meet you all !!!! This is an amazing place much more pften than not.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 20 May 02 - 10:05 PM

I'm from Hull, I don't sing but i play mandolin & guitar (badly!), and the weather is crap, it's raining.john

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 20 May 02 - 09:35 PM

hello world, mr happy here

i,ve been around for a while but enlisted for a cookie award way back in april 2002

i impose/ inflict my songwriting on unprepared audiences and accompany these compositions with an unusual style of guitar playing.

i also enjoy slow airs and for this reason play them on melodeon/mouth organ/whistle

i'm in two groups, a duo & a trio

i live in chester uk & the weather always consists of sunny spels [oops, can't spel] & rarely scorchio

i get around to lots of festivals during the season.

this year, having discovered mc + gatherings, its my intention not to attend any more pay fests. but go to mc gatherings & other free do's like pvff beverley where its just constant hedonism etc

i've rambled on too long eh?

i've got the music in me [or is it the wixy?]

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Piek
Date: 04 Mar 02 - 01:14 PM

Hi, just signed up half an hour ago, so how is that for 'new'? I'm from Belgium (so never ask about the weather again) and play guitar, mandoline, bouzouki and english concertina. Right now I'm very excited I have found this site so excuse me I have some reading and bookmarking to do. Greetings to all. Piek.

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: harvey andrews
Date: 04 Mar 02 - 12:48 PM

Paul and Glen who? From Where? The problem is I meet so many people in so many different places that names come to mean little or nothing, whereas face, place and time mean a lot more.

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Ian
Date: 04 Mar 02 - 11:50 AM

Hi dipped in 0ver last 6 months now a member. Orignally from Stoke on Trent (Potteries FSC) now living in Thame Oxon. Handy for Towersey Fest August Bank Holiday. But lately of no fixed FSC.

To Harvey Andrews do you Know Paul & Glen (brothers)

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Genie
Date: 04 Mar 02 - 11:42 AM

Harvey, That's a wonderful tragi-comic story. I think you've got the makings of a good song there. (It's the kind of thing Áine would have used for a Song Challenge! if she had read it in a newspaper.)

Genie

Harpgirl, I'm glad you started this thread. It's given me a chance to 'meet' some other Mudcatters who were mainly just names before.

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Songsmith
Date: 03 Mar 02 - 10:43 PM

Hello Harvey,

The address won't post as a link for some reason. Here it is in long form.

songsmith at canada dot com

Look forward to hearing from you.

Jim

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Ebbie
Date: 03 Mar 02 - 04:10 PM

Willie-O, here is an e-dress for you: www.juneauphotos.com; you'll see why I, for one, am so enthralled with this town, its people and its surroundings. I've been here almost 14 years and I'm still in the honeymoon phase.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: GUEST,Em
Date: 03 Mar 02 - 03:49 PM

I'm a Texan living in London. I play a mean tin whistle, Spider Stacey is my hero ;o)

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 03 Mar 02 - 02:57 PM

Not that new a 'cat, but lost my cookie for a while when my son crashed the comp. Nigel from Cardiff, Sunny(ha ha) capital of Wales

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: GUEST,MichaelAnthony
Date: 03 Mar 02 - 01:44 PM

rea,

If you want to stop in Roanoke on your way up to C'ville, I can get you started on fingerpicking.

MichaelAnthony

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: harvey andrews
Date: 03 Mar 02 - 10:17 AM

Aaaaggghh...what addresses!

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Songsmith
Date: 03 Mar 02 - 09:33 AM

Hello Harvey,

Good idea. Send me a message at one of the following addresses and we'll talk further.

Jim

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: harvey andrews
Date: 03 Mar 02 - 09:19 AM

I have your c.d from Lunenburg. Yes, I'm interested in this festival.Maybe we should talk privately.I understand now I'm a member you can get my private E mail address?

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Songsmith
Date: 03 Mar 02 - 07:46 AM

Harvey,

I haven't been back to Lunenburg since 94. We (Starb'ard Side) played most of the years up to that point. You were certainly a huge hit but as you say the faces and tastes change.

Have you tried your luck with Stanfest? I know the artistic director caught both of your shows in Lunenburg. It's billed as a songwriter's festival and I've played all but one of them so far. It's developed into quite an event. I'd gladly put a good word in for you if your interested.

Jim

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: harvey andrews
Date: 03 Mar 02 - 07:34 AM

For those who weren't there it was at Lunenburg I discovered I was the greatest food treat the mosquito ever had. On stage in the evening I was covered in them, so much so that in the middle of a song the m.c. was so cencerned he came onstage unknown to me and sprayed the carpet of mossies on my back, then the clump on my bald head. Of course, the "Off" (I love the word they don't use) mingled with my sweat and ran into my eyes. A baffled audience heard my roar of pain as I reached for my bottle of water and began pouring it over my face..the situation escalated beyond my control. However when I finished I got a standing ovation!!! Also poisoned ankles.On going to the local doc for treatment he said it was one of the worst cases of mosquito bites going septic he'd ever seen.When it came to payment he asked me "I understand you are performing at our folk festival" "Yes" "Then as a guest of our town, there will be no charge Mr Andrews" Just another of my many "I love Canada" moments. I loved the two Lunenburg festivals I did and then the committee changed and I've not been invited back. This is one of the major problems for the pro musician you fall in love and then you get abandoned because the taste of the booker is not the same as that of the previous one. It's hard sometimes, but you get philosophical!

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Songsmith
Date: 03 Mar 02 - 07:20 AM

Hello Harvey

It's been a long time since the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival and the winged attack you fell prey to on the mainstage. I was talking about you and your wonderful shows just the other day.

a fan for always,

Jim Hanlon

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: harvey andrews
Date: 03 Mar 02 - 07:11 AM

Having found Mudcat compulsive daily reading I decided i should stop being a guest and join the party. I've been writing and performing my own songs for 38 years.15 albums. thousands of gigs. I live in the village of Gnosall in Staffordshire which is on the Shropshire Union canal and six miles from my working lifeline the M6 motorway. Pleased to announce Rick Fielding is appearing with me in my local town of Stafford on Saturday 28th Sept, so all you mudcatters who can make it E mail me for details!

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: donal
Date: 02 Mar 02 - 07:52 AM

hi from Kinsale in Co. cork in Ireland.

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Songsmith
Date: 02 Mar 02 - 05:14 AM

Lost my cookie!

message above is from me...Songsmith is my mudcat handle.

Thanks

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Mar 02 - 04:53 AM

Hello Folks,

I'm from Nova Scotia, Canada. I'm a singer/songwriter with several recordings released and one in the works. I'm working in the Middle East but head back home each year to play Stanfest. I hope to have the new CD ready for debut at Stanfest 2003.

I think mudcat is awesome and have spent a great deal of time in here since joing a couple of weeks ago.

Nice to meet ye!

Jim

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Big John
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 10:25 PM

Hello everybody, John Murphy, living in Dublin. Played guitar with a group call The Lowlanders in the mid 60's and gave it up when I took up a job and raising a family. (gave up drinking and smoking as well). Resumed my former life 6 months ago when I retired. I'm back to playing my guitar (and smoking and drinking). Its 3 am and I've just arrived home from a gig.Thanks to Mudcat I'm re-learning several songs I had forgotten (having a lot of trouble with my brain cell trying to absorb the words). Anyhow, it's better to burn out than fade out. I think the guy who said that is long gone...I don't care if I do die do die do die.

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Miken
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 09:57 PM

Hi Genie, nice to meet you. Have been to one session at the Grateful Bread, last fall, and found some powerful pickers there that evening, and a bunch of music I'd never heard; so I stayed pretty much on the listening side.

Haven't yet made it to any of the Song Circles, but did get to Rainy Camp last month and met some of those folks there. Was looking for you ,too, since I'd read some of your posts, but heard you couldn't make it. As it was I had to leave early, but had a good time.

When you next head up this way, drop me a P.M. Maybe we can cross paths!

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Willie-O
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 07:41 PM

Well damn me, what a nice bunch of truly immersed folkies are still signing in here. That is REAL encouraging given all the carpin, bitchin and whinin that has clogged up a lot of threads of late. (Right now, my kids are upstairs arguing furiously about something to do with popcorn popping technique--come on, how complicated is it to hit a button on a microwave? I'm NOT starting a new thread.)

By the way, could you Alaskans include a glossary? Methinks most of us don't speak your lingo. In fact, I didn't realize there was an "Alaskan" lingo, but now I'm sure of it. While you're at it, include a map. I'm going!

Any quaint little drinking town with a music problem is the place for me.

Thanks, Harpgirl.

Thanks, Max.

Willie-O

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Amergin
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 07:39 PM

Well...I am not exactly new here....I have been here as a member for two years....previously I would come here for the DT.....

I live just downriver from Portland, OR...though am orignally from the great nation Of North Idaho.....

I write a bit...and love to torture folks with my voice.....and am learning how to play the lap dulcimer.....

Also compared to old Spaw.....I am just a baby at a mere 27 years of age.....

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Shonagh
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 07:37 PM

well im fae bonny scotland!i live in huntly now (on the east coast) after living in plockton(on the west coast) for a while. Im 16 and i just love folk music. honestly it is my life!! i just find it all amazing and i want to just do nothing else with my life than be a folk singer in pubs!!its great craic. anyhoo, thats about my life story!! oh i sing, play the fiddle, the guitar, a wee bit of the piano and the whistle.

Shonagh x

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: TNDARLN
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 06:51 PM

Hidy, Y'all,
[I'm kinda new here] Chattanooga's been home for awhile, but Alabama roots do run deep. The name-to cross thread a bit-came from Mick Moloney himself: there were seven of us on one of his tours whom he pegged the Tennessee "Dehrlins" [trust me, it sounds different with an Irish accent]- and I've used it ever' since.
Piano, autoharp, bodhran. Did somebody say "shapenote"? Sacred Harp and Gospel. Old time in general. Music teacher by trade/calling- this forum is an incredible source of background info, lyrics, etc.
A recent thread on "The Night/Dixie Down" reminded me how important that song was to me-- here I was being taught to sing in "head voice", but how I loved singing along with Baez in her range! Still do.
I'm enjoying this thread. Nice to meet y'all.

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From:
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 09:57 AM

Hi,

I believe I've also barged in without properly announcing myself.

My name's Rich Kelly. I play guitar and mandolin and am making headway on the tenor banjo and tin whistle. At least it's not sounding quite like I'm squeezing a cat.

My wife and I met in NYC in '95 while I was playing in an Irish trio, mostly in the Bronx. One son later, we moved to Eastern Ct, around Norwich, for a quieter pace while we raise the boy and enjoy being a family.

My wife, Dee, has a fantastic voice. Heck, she's even trained! Her background is jazz and show tunes. I came to Celtic music via The Pogues and Oyster Band. In high school I played in a punk band called Nixon's Sweethearts. Yes, my musical sins were many.

Our backgrounds, at least, show that musically-mixed marriages do work.

Neither of us had performed in the last few years. Last year we were invited to play for several days aboard a tall ship. After being heckled by a British passenger for playing Irish music, we realized how much we missed performing. Last Sept we were invited by sea shantyman Don Sinetti to play a few songs at Sag Harbor's weekend festival. Nothing was thrown at us, so now we're actually rehearsing and hope to get out more often to perform.

I've haunted this site for months and am always impressed with the knowledge and helpfullness of this site. Hope I have a chance to contribute soon.

Rich Kelly

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 06:48 AM

I live near Bedford, England, and play guitar and sing (one of the residents at St. Neots folk club). Brought up on Bert Jansch when I was a teenager (work it out yourselves!), but also do traditional stuff and a few of my own - all fingerstyle. Favourite guitar (today) is my Martin HJ28.

This is a great site, but don't forget to log off and play!

Pete Jennings

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Genie
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 06:12 AM

Harpgirl, I guess I'm like alinact in that when I started Mudcatting (last July) I just started posting without saying "May I?" or introducing myself. Since I haven't done this before (i.e. answered the questions you asked), here's a bit about me. (You can find photos of me here at Mudcat, but I haven't filled in my personal info page yet. )

I live in Portland, Oregon and play guitar, write songs, and sing. I have a 1955 Martin 00018 and a 1965 Gibson LG-50, which usually stay at home when I'm on the road, while I travel with cheaper imitations. (Steve o., I'm jealous of your D-28.)

Portland is my kind of town and climate--moderate climate, lush greenery and flowers, and traffic that's not nearly as gawdawful as Seattle's (where I also spend a good deal of time).

I love all kinds of music and sing in about 12 languages. Having grown up singing in church choirs, I love harmonies, counterpoint, etc. Professionally (meaning that I earn my living at it, not that I'm any great shakes), I sing a lot of older pop, c/w, r&b, jazz standards, show tunes, etc., with a little folk thrown in. I do most of my folk stuff in unpaid venues like song circles and open mikes. Mudcat has been a great resource for finding out song histories, lyrics, etc., and a chance to share stuff that I've picked up, too. (No wise cracks, Spaw, OK?)

Miken, do you ever go to the bluegrass jam the 4th Sunday of the month at The Grateful Bread (Seattle) or to the SFS Song circles?

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Watersong
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 05:39 PM

Interesting reactions to a simple question ... guess we all have a "fellow feeling" as Lee Hays used to say. I'm from the upper right hand corner of Connecticut on the Mass & RI lines. I'm a singer who backs himself (and friends) up with an old Gibson J-50, a Martin D-35-12 and a new Larrivee OM-9 ... and there's an old Epiphone Caballero on our boat. During "Greensong Season" I play with the Irish band Cashel Rock ... we're at the Vanilla Bean in Pomfret Mar 8 & 9. I started the folk thing with a ukelele given to me as a 10 year old in 1955. Got a Harmony dread. in 1957 and haven't looked back. At 16 I thought I was pretty good so I made it to NYC and got food money working for Lee Hayes (transcribing melodies & verses for a post-Weavers record he was about to produce ... "The Baby Sitters") Met lots of interesting people and learned fast that I wasn't quite yet pro material. (first visit Don Mclain made to our apartment made that painfully clear ... he banged out "Old Man Can Your Dog Catch A Rabbit" and I put my ax away ... he was so good on traditional tunes). We live in an old New England "hilltop" village and there are a lot of folkies (pure coincidence) up here ... we get together once a month at someones house and get to it... Old Time Country, traditional, Celtic, Blues ... all acoustic. The young people are FANTASTIC lead instrumentalists ... us old ones tend to better "song rounded" ... a nice bunch of people.Give an email if you are in the neighborhood. If you are a visitor from way afar we can steer you to some good and reasonable B&B's ... this is beautiful country for hiking, birding, biking, canoeing ... and acoustic music. [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Spartacus
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 08:04 AM

Hello hello.... Im from the great state of Michigan. I play guitar solo and with a recently-formed string band. The weather is cold, snowy, and beautiful.

-Spartacus

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: DancingMom
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 08:56 PM

Hi. Been around a few months. I live in Virginia. I sing alto ( 4-part harmony and bluesy stuff.) My grandfather was a bluegrass musician and used to take me with him to fiddler's conventions as a child. Played guitar in high school and college, getting ready to start up again with guitar and blues harmonica (the kids are older, I'm finished nursing school...I have some free time now!!!) My kids are all musicians. I LOVE blues, bluegrass, folk, old rock-n-roll, Celtic. Music's one of the greatest joys of my life. Sharon M.

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Mervyn
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 08:34 PM

I joined last week after reading the excellent thread on Raglan Road. I'm from Australia, but now live in Santa Cruz, California.

I learned songs and performed in the Melbourne traditional music scene in the early seventies -- a mix of Irish, British, and Scots music. I'm revisiting a lot of them and learning some new ones -- for my own enjoyment at home, and for the occasional party. Mudcat folks have been very helpful in pointing me towards some superb male singers.

I play an OM-style guitar, and blow a wooden flute from time to time.

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Steve-o
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 07:38 PM

Proud to be one of these "new folk"...joined up a week or two ago. Play guitar and mandolin, somewhere around 30 years or so- folk, Bluegrass, string band, my beloved cowboy music, etc., but strictly acoustic. Semi-pro for a few years a while back, and still have a little band- we practice every Tuesday night to keep the chops up, and play around town whenever anybody books us. My babies are a D-28 from 1946 and an A-style Gibson mando from 1934, but got lots of other stringy things hangin' around the walls. Being from Southern California, I won't talk to you folks about weather....ya just might start sobbin'.

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 07:18 PM

Anahootz, I live across the street from one of the Crabgrassers, the banjo player. So, hi!

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Anahootz
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 06:41 PM

ebbie- Um, not sure...do you play irish? I haven't played with folks out at andy n ellen's for about two years, so I'm sorta out of that loop. I hang out with the crabgrassers ;)

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: boglion
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 06:33 PM

London, England - but I disappear to my cottage on the Dingle Peninsula Co.Kerry, Ireland as often as I can....Three weeks and two days till I'm on the boat again....

I sing rather than play but can annoy a lot of people all at once with my Kazoo!!!

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Murph10566
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 04:58 PM

Hi All - Born in UP-state NY (Massena) on the St. Lawrence River, I now live in the Lower Hudson Valley (Peekskill) and must have rivers in my blood (not so bad now that they're cleaning up the Hudson).

Have been playing music (guitar) and writing songs for over thirty years... I hack away at a five-string banjo on occasion, and am currently trying to elicit something more than a fuzzy squeak from the strings of a mandolin...

Still play at the odd (emphasis: ODD) Pub a couple of times a month... the music varies with the crowd, but seems to lean strongly to the Celtic / Folk / Original numbers...

I'm very pleased to be among so many accomplished and knowledgeable folks - Thanks for sharing your talents and tricks...

Regards, Murph

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Ebbie
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 01:28 AM

Do you perhaps know Cecily, Anahootz? I live on the hill downtown. :)

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 12:49 AM

Hi all. I've been kicking around here for a couple months now.I live in northern Minnesota (way up yonder where the du-dudes a boogie)
I play guitar and harmonica. I've been kind of a closet musician until last year I opened for our local blues festival and played at another fest down south.
This has been one of our nicest winters in a long time. Never got below zero except one night. Hardly any snow left.
Good to meet you all, I really enjoy this place and the people here are groovy! (now does that word age me a bit!)
Susie

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Anahootz
Date: 27 Feb 02 - 12:20 AM

Hi ebbie, you are from Juneau, so you will get this... I live about halfway between the bridge and the Fergusons...on the uphill side...

Haines and sitka run 1-2, but there is more music and drinking in this 'burg than all the rest, just ask Scotty Frye the next time you see him. hehehe.

'hootz

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 09:59 PM

'Hootz, and where is that?? In Southeast, I'd guess Haines. In the west, perhaps Bethel. In the north, Kotzebue. East? hmmmmmm

Ebbie, from Juneau

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Miken
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 09:52 PM

Well, I guess I'd better jump in here and introduce myself.I've been a member since early December or so. Have been interested in folk music since the late fifties, and picked up my first guitar in 1961 to learn traditional ballads of North America and the U.K. Gradually got into old time string band music ,then bluegrass for a few years. Recently felt the need to go back to the old songs again and found the mudcat as well, so I've had a great few months lately reconnecting with the music and with old musical friends. I live in Edmonds,Washington roughly half way between Don Firth and the Deckman (who I hadn't seen for forty Years till I looked in here!) As proof of the prevailing insanity I've acquired while lurking here I've ordered a new button accordion which should be arriving any day! Love traditional Irish dance music. Welcome to all you other new 'cats. I was surprised at how many of you posted here.....I feel in good company with you as well as the remarkable regulars at the mudcat. I learned (and relearned) a lot since I've been here.

Mike Nelson

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From: Anahootz
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 09:36 PM

Male, Alaskan, 32 years of use...runs great, body ok...

Heh. I play dang near anything with strings, but my latest obsession is Bluegrass Mandolin. I can't sing and play at the same time, so I choose not to sing, which is probably a good thing. I don't play in a band, don't really plan on playing in a band down the road, as I like the freedom to play with whomever will have me.

The weather sucks here. Par for the course.

Alaska provides many opportunities to play music, as there is nothing else to do all damn winter long. It has been said on occasion that I live in "a quaint little drinking town with a music problem"...

'Hootz

Subject: RE: Where are the new folk 'cats from?
From:
Date: 26 Feb 02 - 08:59 PM

Welcome to Slickerbill, from another Canadian. I'm in Nova Scotia.

Hi Willie. Nice seeing you again.

I've been here for quite a while. Somewhere around October/November of '98.