[Dixielandjazz] Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 81, Issue 26

[Stephen G Barbone]

>  Nancy Doran Giffin <nancyink at surewest.net>
>
> Happy Birthday, Steve B.
>
> That event you have on the 25th sounds like a good place to celebrate.

Thanks Nancy. Yeah, The Church of the Loving Shepherd is a neat place.  
It is a non-denominational church, built inside a big old converted  
Chester County PA Barn. Lovely acoustics. They even have a restored  
wooden pipe organ which was used with us a couple of years ago on a  
tribute to Duke Ellington. The only time I read a music score in the  
last 20 years. It is a wonderful instrument and was played by a master  
organist. They are starting a monthly musical program and this is a  
fund raiser.

BTW, the other night before my birthday, we did an upscale retirement  
complex in New Jersey. One of the oldest in the area and with a very  
old average age. Our guitarist mentioned to them that the next day I  
would be 76. At the end, an 87 year old gal came up and said: "Enjoy  
the rest of your seventies young man they are a great time of life,  
but the eighties suck." I replied with a grin that it was more than I  
wanted to know.

Cheers,
Steve barbone