Greetings!

Happy New Year!

Thanks everyone for making the back end of the 20th century a real pleasure. 1999 saw a radical career change for me, from Paperboy to musical mercenary and general hanger-on, and the release of my much beleaguered first album. I'm glad to have such people as yourselves to make those potentially disastrous moves virtually painless.

Join me this Friday the 21st at your favourite neighborhood pub- that would be Conor Byrne's on 20th and Ballard Ave, for our first OFFICIAL gig of the 21st century (only because I forgot to tell you about the others). You'll be amazed at how much Finn and I have changed since last year!

We will be playing material from a new recording that goes into production in mid-February. This will be a trio venture, featuring myself, Finn, and fiddle-phenom Dale Russ. Which reminds me... look for Finn and Dale's album "North Amerikay" in music stores or at amazon.com.

I'd also like to announce that I will as of February 8th be joining The Casey Neill Trio for gigs around the US and Canada. I'll be keeping up my appearances with Finn as well. My Pacific Northwest debut with Casey will be in Olympia on Sunday, February 13th.

Some other dates:
Feb. 17th at CB's

     18th at The Galway Arms
     19th at The Irish Immigrant (Seattle's newest Irish bar across
             the road from The Galway Arms)

All the best,
Hanz