the drastic deed is done

April 17, Southern Hemisphere, South Coast, NSW, Oz.

IT was a packed country hall

and pretty well everyone brought an instrument -

from guitars and drums to spoons and gum-leaf whistles.

We even had a horn section.

And in the best of our mongrel musical inheritance

music was made.

AT some point

the dreads began to fall.

The duty of the first ceremonial cutting fell to the mystical Desire'e

then the youngest audience member....

until finally

our local

old-school barber

Anthony

took charge.

THE result:

1 night of music

100 musicians

1 sheet full of dreads

1 bald head

and $3,330

for cancer research.

CONGRATULATIOINS

and thanks...

we're all holding hands and climbing.

xh