Great to see and hear the Arm Chair Sailors – home from the sea – or wherever they’ve been hiding. Or were they just a.k.a. Quartete-a-Tete?. Vanessa returned – expert fiddle in hand, and singer-songwriter Brian Robertson with new songs – joining the core Lynn McGown and Michael Pratt. Great tour-de-force!

The intro feature was ‘Songtree’ – first time at FMATB – but with the familiar talents of Barbara Jackson and Earle Peach playing a variety of music from ‘almost jazz’ to bluegrass..