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Day 19 The Show and After-Show

After morning brunch with all the other musicians, I joined Cap’n Bryan and a dozen singers on the shanty boat, namely our good little ship Avocet. Singers were perched all along both sides of the hull as Bryan skillfully wove amongst the other boats in the harbor. Rob and Marcia, our goid friends who we met at Swans Island in 2021, joined the possey of rowboats and such following us as we sang old shanties, most led by Geoff Kaufman. Geoff joined me onstage in the evening to sing “Sailing to Yesterday.” It was really cool to sing it together with him live, as it was his voice that sang the lead on my Sailing Dreams album. Doug Day’s daughters Lydia and Juliana joined me on choruses of “Sailing Dreams,” and I played “Perseid” before people walked out of the theater to the sky filled with stars and even shooting stars. So many cool acts on the show and again we started and finished the show together with shanties and sing-alongs. More music happened at the after-party and we got back to our sailboat at 2am.