Dave Clement visit

(Dave Clement Guest Blathering coming later today or tomorrow!)

Jeff took the photo above: Dave Clement and I were jamming on harp and guitar last night...SO fun. He added very cool guitar twiddles to my rendition of Maids of Mourne Shore (Kim Robertson arrangement) and also taught me an O'Carolan tune. We're going to work on both some more today, plus perhaps one or two others, and record it on tape. Sadly, I haven't had a chance to fully set up Jeff's birthday present to me (my home recording studio) so we'll have to rely on the ancient Fostex 4-track, but I think it would still be fun to have a recording. :-)

Allison's coming over tonight to visit. Dave's going to show me how to make his famous chili recipe!

Some more FKO and post-FKO photos (Daniel Glasser will have photos up on his site soon)...

Andrea and Gray performing in the open filk on Saturday night:





Another con highlight for me was seeing Andy and Martin Gordon-Kerr again. This photo was taken at their concert:





Rand in the audience just before one of the concerts:





Reid asked in Blatherchat whether "Mary Ellen" referred to Mary Ellen Wessels. The answer is yes! And sorry, I have no photo of Clif because he wasn't at the convention. Reid met both Clif and MEW when they came to visit Toronto a long while ago. Hm...or maybe he met them when he and I went to OVFF I (the first OVFF). Anyway, this photo is for Reid, and was taken when Mary Ellen was performing with Joey in his concert:





Lyanne in the Saturday night filk (the room was really cold, as you can tell!):





Paul giving Kathleen Sloan one of his famous patented good-bye twirly-hugs:





Dave, Katy and Ju, just after Dave sprayed Katy and Ju with the contents of his Coke bottle. Okay, so maybe that's just what he was pretending to do in his photo. In reality, Katy and Ju had just been splashed by a truck driving through a big puddle.





After dropping Katy and Ju off at their terminal, Dave & Tom & I had dinner at the Mars Dining Cafe at the Toronto airport.

Dave has agreed to do a Guest Blathering during his visit, yay! I'll post that later today or tomorrow, depending on when he wakes up (he's still asleep as I type this :-)).