While cruising through the internet in search of some old musical buddies, I was shocked, SHOCKED! to come across my own band, Oxalis, on your data base. Nice of you to post us (Paul Friedman, Jim Stephenson and me) there.

The name Oxalis, by the way, was decided on by Paul and apparently refers to a kind of clover-like house plant (which horticulturalist Jim Stephenson says is also the generic name fo a class of noxious weeds).

Other pianists who have played for us lately have included Ellen Cohn from New Haven, Bill Peek from Long Island and Cynthia Shaw from Brooklyn. A variation on our group is called the Tubadors, featuring Paul's wife Karen Geer on euphonium and recorder. (No, not at the same time.)

We play both contra and English country Dance gigs. Paul is also a regular musician and dancer with the Greenwich Morris Men in New York. Jim Stephenson is a frequent pianist for Scottish country dancing in the New York and Long Island area. Me? I do a little of all that, but particularly like to play old hymns at the Bowery Mission.

Cheers, Jim Norman