Countdown to Jam for the Fans Day 2

posted May 18, 2011


So I finished the song for the finale, except now it’s not for the finale. If we can arrange it in time, it will be somewhere else in the set. Katryna and Patty and I just met for lunch, looked at lots of old pictures, massaged the set list, planned the dinner menu for the folks who bought the entire weekend package. I think we are supposed to call them “package holders.” So many people have requested songs on Facebook! I wish we could learn them all. I mean relearn them all.

As part of this blog-every-day project, I will also post an old photo a day. Here is today’s: It’s of me and Christine Lavin plotting to set Patty (our manager) up with Julie Gold. Don’t we look like evil yentas? Sorry about the quality. (As far as I can tell, we weren’t successful.)

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