Hi fellow Alembicians! For some reason I did not get the group email notification of this year's event. To be fair, I don't check in on the Discussion site too often, or I would have seen the info for this year's gathering regardless of email if I had

In any case I wouldn't have been able to make it on May 6th (not that the success of the event depends on my presence

In fact, the last gathering I made it to, I completely embarrassed myself by--in the greatest tradition of our friends the Grateful Dead--totally sucking when I got up to play "live." Guess my mojo just wasn't there that day, as it sometimes wasn't for the Dead). From the photos it looks like the usual good time was had by all, and the Canyon location is certainly a great place to gather. Living as I do in Northern California, I'm fortunate enough to be able to make a "day trip" to each of the annual gatherings, when the date is available to me in any given year.
Take care, and hope to be at next year's gathering.