Weather notes - or how we got blindsided by the cold

There's never a dull moment with the weather in New England. Last Saturday night we were en route from our gig in Hampton Beach to our friend Larry's house in Manchester, MA. We passed a bank time/temperature clock and it was 70° at midnight! How fickle the vagaries of the weather - we were lulled into complacency then, night before last it was 11°! There are some plants that haven't been planted and some carrots that haven't been harvested. There's also a slightly damp load of sand that was delivered here last week to finish leveling the floor of the addition. It's now a very frozen lump. As soon as we find the longhandles we'll get the yard cleaned up before the s*** falls.

Recording session and a seisiùn

We were visiting Larry Young over the weekend to capture his fiddling with our portable digital recorder. Larry is a great player and also a lot of fun. We went early so we could sit in at his regular seisiùn in Salem on Friday evening. It was great fun to play some tunes and sing a few songs at O'Neils.
Larry has agreed to do some tracks for the Robert Burns project we are working on. We have about half of the recording started and four pieces are pretty well finished. I still think we can have it in time for Burns's birthday, but it will require some very focused work. If I get a chance I'll post some samples here on the blog.

We're in Cyber-space!

Some of our alert fans let us know that our recording, Harvest Home, is featured on the opening page of iTunes. Thanks to Leigh and Harmony for pointing this out.

We did Harvest Home last year for a Los Angeles concern. It is a compilation of tunes from the Tapestry series with some additional tracks played on period instruments: suitable music for devouring turkeys.