August 2019 News

Dear Friends: This month we can announce the publication of our songbook, Working Class Heroes. This is not to be confused with the release of the CD of the same name. The CD is comprised of our performance of twenty songs. The same songs are presented with musical...

July 2019

Dear Friends: Yvonne and I will be doing a short tour of England beginning in Portslade on July 4th, continuing in Croxton  Kerrial July 5th and ending in Sheffield on July 6th. Thanks to the efforts of Robb Johnson, Nick Holden and Alan Story, we’ll have the...

May-June 2019

  Working Class Heroes Tour – US North East Yvonne and I will be celebrating the release of our new Working Class Heroes CD June 13th and 14th Woodstock Festival 50th anniversary Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY June 15th and 16th Clearwater Folk Festival...

March-April 2019 News

Great progress has been made since my last news entry. We have completed the recording of Songs of Slavery and Emancipation. What began with Alden “Max” Smith singing “Agonizing, Cruel Slavery Days” in Peterboro, NY, in April 2018, was brought...

New Year 2019

A belated Happy New Year to everyone reading this. I did not compose an entry for December or January. While I try to maintain a monthly schedule of progress reports, I felt it was better to file this one after accomplishing certain tasks. We made great strides toward...

November 2018 News

Dear Friends: I just returned from a month in the United States. The trip was in three parts, each part different from the others. I will summarize them separately. The first part was our visit to Berea College in Berea, Kentucky to record a major portion of the...