- Happy New Year and hope you all had a Merry Christmas and a happy holiday! - No Seisiun this month but we'll be back on February 1st and every first Sunday after that! Come on by and bring a song or your dancing shoes. - the Stan Jay tribute is on 1/11 and there will be a lot of fine musicians playing and paying respects to a local legend and all around good guy. - February brings Bill and I out to FAI in Kansas City and we have a few showcases set up so far. See you there! - April we will be back at the New England Folk Festival on the Friday night of the weekend with Harbortown -As always, we are looking for gigs and hoping to come by your town and offer up our musical wares. Let us know if you have a venue we'd be a good fit for. - Thanks to Bridget Bartolini for inviting me to take part in the 5 Boro Story Project at the Staten Island Museum. A really wonderful afternoon with some fine performances. And thanks to Diane Matyas for her usual great work at the Museum coordinating it all and emceeing. - great shanty session in December and we will be back at it again the third Sunday of the month. no excuses, you know you want to sing.