"Folk Songs & Sea Shanty's"

Well here you go folks!!! For some, this will be your first look at our new CD cover, which we're actually very proud of... Ray and I just spent the past week, including many long hours, in the studio with our Producer Christian Gay, and we pretty much completed recording our vocal tracks... And I say "pretty much completed", as we have an added bonus which some Mizzen Men fans will appreciate... Chris is coming home from Ontario for a week, during the first week of April, and will be adding some harmony vocals to a few of the tracks... I'm really excited about that, as Chris (as you all know) was an original "Mizzen Man", and will be until the end of time... So it's great to have the opportunity to include him in our new recording...

As deaf as I'm rapidly becoming, ha!!!, I'm still very pleased with our recording effort, and I'm confident that the finished product is going to sound great... I also had an awesome solo gig on St. Patrick's Day last Saturday, at The Delta in Saint John, along with New Brunswick ECMA nominee's Shanklin Road, (the girls were a riot as always, ha!!!) (thanks Dawn, Lisa, and Joyce...) and I even made a few "Festival" contacts with folks who had come to specifically catch my show... So now t'is all in the hands of our more than capable Producer Chris Gay, at The Sound Expression Studio's in Lake Utopia, NB, who is confident that he'll have the "Mastering", paper work, and finished product in our hands by May 1st... And Tom, Ray and myself have a busy summer of performing ahead of us, so there's little doubt we'll sell a million copies, ha!!! Hey!!! It doesn't cost 5 cents to dream, ha!!!

I just got home to PEI late yesterday, and look forward to a week of just "kicking back"... Chat Soon Everyone and as always, "Slainte"...

Wayne

March Month In At The Burke's

This months many escapades start for our family on March 3rd, this being mine and Darlene's (28th) Wedding Anniversary... On March 9th, Leah will turn 24yrs; March 10th, Donald turns 15yrs; March 14th, t'is the big '48' for moi; March 17th is of course St. Patrick's Day, and always a big time of the year for me, as I'm usually booked to play somewhere, this year at The Delta in Saint John... And in the spirit of "Paddy's Day", thus the attached pic of myself and The Godfather of Irish music, Tommy Makem... This pic was taken at the After Hours Musicians Party, at The Stan Rogers Folk Festival a few years ago... And finally, on March 19th, (as I've documented in previous Blog entries), The Mizzen Men will be back in The Sound Expression Studio's in Lake Utopia, NB, completing our new CD, "Folk Songs & Sea Shanty's"...

So hopefully by March 26th, give or take, I should be back home in beautiful Murray River, recovering, resting, and getting myself Pysched up for the upcoming golf, and Folk Festival seasons which are just around the corner, not to forget of course the release of the new CD, on or about May 1st... "Slainte All"...

Wayne