SEVERIN BROWNE released one of our favorite albums of the 2001 year. This Twisted Road is a wonderful album with catchy songs and great musicianship. The album contains 10 songs that showcase some of the very best of Severin's songwriting talent. Severin produced the album with Edward Tree, and had the help of James Coberly Smith, Freebo, John Townsend, Skip Edwards, and others. Those familiar with Severin's earlier work will quickly notice his continued growth as both a songwriter and guitar player. The album showcases Severin Browne at the very top of his profession as both a singer and songwriter. Severin also happens to be one of the nicest people we know and a strong supporter of the whole house concert concept. You can get Severin's 2001 album, This Twisted Road, and his 1995 album, From The Edge Of The World, through his Web site at www.severinbrowne.com.

Like many people in the Sixties, PENNY NICHOLS started her career as a folk singer in coffeehouses around Orange County, CA. She shared stages with many legendary artists such as Jackson Browne, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Ponies, Jennifer Warnes, Mary McCaslin, the Dillards and many others. In 1977, while working with Emitt Rhodes on a record for Elektra, Penny joined Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer band. She appeared in the movie FM with the band, toured the U.S. with them and earned a Platinum Record for her singing on Son of a Son of a Sailor. In the late Seventies and Eighties, Penny went back to school and got a degree in music and psychology from Antioch University, then went on to Harvard University and got a doctorate in music education and psychology. During the same time, she recorded and toured with many performers like Art Garfunkle, Suzi Quatro, Yvonne Elliman, Jennifer Warnes, Albert Brooks, The Credibility Gap, Steve Gillette and earned a Grammy nomination for her work on Arlo Guthrie's album The Power of Love. Penny hosts a Songwriters Camp in the Catskill Mountains for a week each summer. Find out more at www.summersongs.com. If you are thinking of going... please take us along!!

One of rock's original fretless bass players, FREEBO actually plays several instruments quite proficiently -- among them, the tuba and guitar. Freebo has been in the studio and on stage with Bonnie Raitt, John Mayall, Maria Muldaur, Crosby Stills & Nash, Aaron Neville and Ringo Starr among many others. Freebo's bass playing, as well as his background vocals and occasional tuba parts have adorned over a hundred records, including Muldaur's smash multi-Platinum single "Midnight At The Oasis," all of Bonnie Raitt's early Gold albums, and tracks for over a dozen other notable artists and bands. Freebo's newest release, The End of the Beginning (Poppabo Music, 1999), is a collection of great-feeling songs spanning styles from country to reggae to second-line horn driven rock and featuring appearances by Bonnie Riatt, Paul Barrere, Catfish Hodge, Valerie Carter, Michael Jochum, Albert Lee and others. Be sure to visit Freebo's Web site at www.freebo.com.

This standing room only performance was a wonderful evening of great music and friends. Simply the perfect way to celebrate the holiday season and the end of our fifth year of hosting house concerts... or the beginning of our sixth year!