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This page is for occasional notes, stories... whatever! and will be updated irregularly unlike the gig page which I will try to keep up to date with as gigs come in.

April 2006

I've been having problems with this site for quite a while and couldn't get anything uploaded. Some of the problems have been sorted out and I'm attempting again!

Thanks to my friends, Joyce McLeod and Pete Wood, I've been able to begin putting some of the reel-to-reel and cassette tapes in my collection onto CD format. Record albums, too! It's a time consuming activity - but I have a lot of time ahead of me and it's a pleasure, most of the time, to listen to this music again, much of which hasn't been heard by me in years.

I'd like you to make a note of this date and event:

Saturday 14th April 2007

CELEBRATING CYRIL: a day to celebrate the life of Cyril Tawney 1930-2005

This will be held at Cecil Sharp House. It is in the planning stage at the moment but already many of Cyril's old friends, including myself, have signed up to perform, talk, and do whatever we can to make this a true celebration of one of the finest singers and song-writers to grace the folk music world in the past fifty years. I hope you will all do your best to be there.

Some friends have told me that they can't find the site when they look for via Google, or the other search engines. I tried myself and gave up after the first 20 pages. I didn't know there were so many references to me on the Web. Anyway, my web-master, Ken Lees is looking into it and hopefully it won't be a problem for very long.

Thank you for your patience.

Louis