The Long Dance of Summer began in Santa Cruz, California in 1998, on to North Yorkshire, England in 2002-2003, then it was put away for a while. Early in 2006,in New Orleans, in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, all recordings and paperwork were thought lost in a fire, Miraculously in 2010, a safety copy of the cd master was unearthed deep in the French Quarter. Only the music lived, all paperwork long gone. I have tried to list the players on each track, thanks in part to Ollie Knight at Panda Studio who still had a few basic recording notes in his files. I wish to thank everyone who played and sang and spoke on these sessions for their beautiful work. What’s gone is gone and can’t be done over. We are scattered but the music remains, and so it goes, The Long Dance. Lisa Ekstrom was delighted to help finish the cd with some great tracks of her own, and we went back into the studio, working with Derek Bianchi at Muscletone Studio to make it happen. To all the players: may you bring the summer with you fine and full, joyful, abundant and laughing. Turn turn the wheel of the year.