Date: July 24th, 2008

Hello everyone,

This Saturday, July 26, 2 pm (PST), I will be appearing at the 30th Annual Humboldt Folklife Festival in Blue Lake, California. If you’re in the greater Humboldt County area, you should definitely make your way to the festival, which is a free all-day event. If you are nowhere near these parts, I just learned that there will be a video stream of the festival on the Internet, and I suppose if you tune in between 2 and 3 pm (PST), there is a chance you might catch a glimpse of some of my set. The video stream can be found at 2 different Web sites:

The Venue Project Web site
http://www.thevenueproject.com/

The Humboldt Folklife Society Web site
http://www.humboldtfolklife.org

This is going to be an interesting event for me because it’s been a while since I’ve been on stage (I’ve been away traveling with my family – more on that later), and it’s just going to be me and my guitar, and a list of songs I feel like doing. It occurs to me that if you think you might tune in, and there’s a certain song you’d like to request, send an email and I’ll try to fit it in to the set:

ehh@ehhmusic.com

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Before I left on my travels in December, I was able to make a nice deposit to the Drake Crone Fund thanks to those of you who bought copies of the “Two Nights in Myrtletown” CD and pitched in extra money as well. Things were looking really great for Drake for a time, but – I can barely stand to write this – he died from cancer on March 17. For those of you who aren’t sure what this is about, Drake was a beautiful little boy in my neighborhood, and when he was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, the family’s health insurance company wouldn’t cover any of the expenses. For those of you who pitched in, I want to let you know that Drake’s family was really touched and grateful. His mom posted a tribute to him on the St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital Web site:

http://stj.convio.net/site/TR/Events/Tribute?px=1605022&pg=fund&fr_id=1341

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OK – y’all take care. I hope to have my Web site updated soon, and will post a note when I do.

Thanks for listening!
E.