Here's my “local.” It's a fine place in many ways, with live music every night of the week, specializing in jazz, blues and folk. Our weekly traditional session is held on Friday night, from 4-9. The music is English, Irish, Scottish, American, vocal, instrumental, and occasionally, there's a recitation. Not only is it free to attend, but it's a bit of a free-for-all! There's no set order for the night, and folks play and sing when the mood strikes. Or not! Suits me.

One of our gang is a fiddling entymologist who has written a folk rap song about ticks! We are a diverse bunch!! This photo accompanied an article about the session, published in a local paper in February, 2006. Read it here.

Sing it loud and sing it proud! I've never wanted for enthusiasm... it's fun for all and all for fun! All the kids love you, Babz!

Who wants to look at someone singing, when you can listen?? Here are four short clips of some of my Performance Moments. HA!!

“Last Month of the Year,” an African-American Christmas song, recorded December 2005 at the Strawbery Banke Museum Candlelight Stroll. 39 secs.

“Soul of Man,” a gospel song from the Primitive Baptist Church, recorded September 2004 at Paris Plains, Ontario. 42 secs.

“Coast of Barbary,” collected on the Outer Banks of NC in the 1940s, but clearly a very old English ballad, recorded at Paris Plains. 1:06.

“Our Town,” a contemporary song by Iris Dement. See! I don't always have to shout it out! 47 secs.

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