Here are a few brief notes: BUSY SUMMER S and L jammed with a lot of excellent musicians on various festival stages this year. Par example Stephen Fearing Little Miss Higgins Guy Davis The Good Lovelies Jenny Whiteley Jeff Davis Dardenelles The Brights Marigolds Shout Sister Shout. If you weren’t metioned on this list, its because Sheesham and Lotus didn’t want you to upstage these other people. LUNENBERG WE LOVED YA! BARRIEFOLK LOVES OLDTIME MUSIC! MARIPOSA LOVELY-POSA MILLRACE MISS YA ALREADY!! JENNYFEST WhOOOO! PETERBOROUGH FOLK FEST thanks for having the foresight and good taste for choosing SHEESHAM and Lotus as your Saturday Night mainstage act and hosts. What is new with Sheesham and Lotus you ask? That is indeed the question on the streets these days if you happen to be chilling in like Brooklyn, or London and Paris. And word has it in the downtown section of Wolfe Island that they are working on a couple of releases hopefully ready by the new year. The first is a retrospective of the last couple of years of tune playing and research, co-produced by Toronto producer ZackG. “..the next one will be an exploration of our relationships to our fiddles, banjos and each other,” says Lotus Wight from a rehearsal studio in Denmark, “..we have logged many hours laying into fiddle tunes for years now and we have had yet to really stockpile some of our versions these wonderful old tunes for the record.” Sheesham and Lotus also have another project on the woodstove which is basically a sequel to the Old-time craziness that was “Sheesham and Lotus, EVERYTIME!” complete with Sepiaphonic Monophone Dynamic horn usage. Even beyond these thrilling prospects lie even CRAZIER high-concept projects that will stun and stupefy by the dozen! Has anyone ever heard of an automatic jawharp with a thrimdombulating tonality generator?!?! Neither have Sheesham and Lotus. But with research here at Sheesham and Lotus’ Old-time Sonic Labs we can invent something musical that might look like something that could bear that name!!! Which Brings us to the Horns! Sheesham and Lotus have found a way to harness the power of horns for the purpose of the perpetuation in perpetuity of Old-time music. Watch as they use horns for the GREATER GOOD and project through them the benevolent vibes of Old-time song and sentiment. Watch for them this winter-Hopefully they will get on the Calendar for updates concerning shows, square dances, auctions and taffy-pulls. Thank-you for your interest. Glenda Freisberg-Marantz Sheesham and Lotus Old-time Sonic Labs Wolfe Island, Ontario