-Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday to all! - Congratulations to Naomi Sturm for the grant she received for the Working Waterfront Project. Proud to say that I will be a research fellow for the project. It promises to be amazing. - Played some Irish Trad yesterday for a SI Arts Folklore project, Trouble The Water, which is now an online database with victims of Hurricane Sandy telling their stories. What a great time at the Toms River Library a couple of weeks back. Bob and Bill were in top form and I just went along for the ride; big thanks to all who came and to the library for having us back again. And... we got to do all songs about Staten Island! - Another big shout out to Joe Pszonek at WMSC to having Bill and I on to chat and play a couple of things live in the studio. It was a great time and he was impressively prepared for us; the man knows how to run an interview. - got another recording project in the very preliminary works; all shanties from Snug Harbor with an all-star cast... stay tuned... - and still working on some new tracks of some new songs for a new year... - very happy to be back in the Tavern concert series this year... it'll be a goodun' - and the shanty session in this Sunday (12/20)... you need to come... - and very happy to say that the Irish Seisiun is back up and running at the very accommodating Flagship Brewery... psst... the beer is really really good ... next up is January 3, 2-5 pm - and as always... send us your gigs... thanks