For the last three years I have been playing music in public. Following the sudden death of my best friend in 2019, I took to visiting my local micro pub in Dorchester. The Convivial Rabbit is a marvel any night it opens its doors, but I had noticed that every Sunday night musicians would gather to play, sing and declaim. They performed material that could loosely be placed in the folk tradition. The session's leader was a talented local musician named Jerry Bird. I came to love reading a book, writing a magazine feature