Hi Gordon: Last Sept. we were staying at a b&b in Lubec and met a couple from N. CA. You have been their favorite for 40 yrs. They traveled to Maine just to attend one of your concerts. Rick even sang a couple of your songs for us. When I got home I checked your website and now I am hooked. I ordered some of your CDs and play them all the time. Next year our annual trip to Maine (I am a maniac) will be in June - 6/9/12 to 6/16/12 on Monhegan and 6/16 to 6/30 in Cushing. If there is a concert, event, or any appearance you are doing during our time in Cushing I would love to know about it. I will continue to check your concert schedule on line. I love your music - you are a great addition to my life.

Dave, thanks for the verses; it's neat how they still keep coming after all these years.
Gordon

Hello Gordon. Sitting here in Morogoro, Tanzania, looking out at the mountains, and all the green, listening to your music on my iPod. Miss the sounds and smells and sights of Maine. We saw you in Bristol just before I left and thoroughly enjoyed the performance. By the way have you had a chance to hear The Mallett Brothers Band's new CD, Low Down? It's a superb effort by the boys from Maine.
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Thanks for the reminder, Bruce. I'll be ordering that. Go well.
Gordon

Gordon,
Heard you Sunday in Augusta also many years ago in Rhode Island. Many thanks for a warm and sincere show. The boat building poem: is that published? Or could you share it with us on your site?
Thks,
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Should be on its way to you soon, Dave. Glad you liked it.
Gordon

Hi Gordon and Carol,
I happened to hear one of your songs, Gordon, on the "Hudson River Sampler" tonight....that precipitated this log.
I love your music....Carol,I'm sure you will have continued success in physical therapy...and that is wonderful....
Leigh Nilsen
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Thank you, Leigh. G&C

Wildbirds is your latest that touches our souls, of many throughout the years. We lost our dear little parrot, of 28 years that knew your music just as well as we do. His name was Pecker and he was unique. Everyone who met him felt a connection. When playing your music, he would sway to the rhythm and often join in vocally to the sound of your voice. He became animated especially when Ed and Ann joined you. We would love a copy of the lyrics to Wildbirds and we'd like to share the following prayer that we acquired after an early morning balloon ride. We buried our little guy with a copy and recitation of it.
Baloonist's Prayer:
The winds have welcomed you with softness.
The sun has blessed you with warm hands.
You have flown so high and so well.
That God has joined you in your laughter,
and set you gently back
Into the loving arms of Mother Earth.

Could the song be "Tak a Dram Before Ye Go"?
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Yeah, but what was the QUESTION?
GB

Dear Mr. Bok,

Your music has meant a lot to me since I first arrived in the Maritime world of Nova Scotia thirty years ago, and I have just ordered CD's of two of your albums to replace long-lost cassettes I have pined for for years. I am the editor of the Shambhala Sun, a Buddhist magazine based here, and I would be very happy to give you a subscription if you send me a mailing address. From the great integrity and heart of your work, I think you might like it.

Very best wishes, Melvin McLeod
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Thank you, Melvin.
GB

dear dear gordon-we saw and heard you last night in newburyport at first parish.it was beautiful.my love had seen you before but i had not-it was a treat for both of us-especially since he is now on o2 and just got out of the hospital.what was the neame of the sweet song that had the refrain about "one more time before i go"?i want to learn it-again-thank you so much-laura ____________________________
Laura, I'm afraid I'll need a few more words to identify that song. Gordon

Hi Gordon, looking at your site reminds me of the days when my mom, Jean Finke, arranged concerts for you, and for Ann and Ed, in California. Do you ever get out here any more?
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Christa, give my best to your mother, aand yes, I sing on the west coast every few years. Stay well,
Gordon

My siblings & I took Dad to a concert you were giving in Kennebunk on his 80th birthday. He was always a huge fan of yours, so when he died a few months after his 90th birthday, we decide to sing Isle au Haute Lullaby at his memorial service on Monhegan next week. I've just suggested that song for your next album because I learned it from a songbook & have always imagined you singing it rather than Ann.

Dear Gordon, I became acquainted with your music at the Meadowlark Music camp in Maine, August 2010, and am forever grateful for that experience. Is there a piano and cello arrangement of "Sherry's Song" that I can purchase? I would love to perform that at one of our noontime concerts at work. Best, Paul Butler
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Sent the tune & chords to you lastz week...hope you got it. GB

Dear Gordon,
Best wishes from Cornwall, where you have many friends.
All the best, Mike

You will sing at the CCOBristol this fall. I would rally enjoy the song you sang years ago in Damariscotta-it related to nuclear energy. The chorus had something to do with writing your mother and watering your plants. Actually will enjoy anything you choose to sing.
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That song is called (I think) " In case of Nuclear Attack ", Mary, and was written by Jan Harmon. I never learned it, and the only one I know who sings ity is Lois Lyman, of Lincolnville. Hope that helps.
Gordon

Been trying to find an album or the lyrics to a song about "that silly old fool will go down on the bay" except I have forgotten the song's exact title. Have loved that song for years but can only remember the first verse.
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It's called Mrs. MacDonald's Lament, Charlie, and it's on a Folk Legacy album called Peter Kagan and the Wind.We sell that album at Timberhead music.
Gordon

blessings and gratitude always...thank you for sharing Go East as you do, Gordon.
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Thank you, dear.
GB

I just wanted to say that I have always revered Gordon's music since 1972 when I and Tom Dwyer hitchhiked to Maine from New Jersey, and camped out on Gordons kitchen floor in Rockport for a week or so and participated in a local concert. I have been playing Fundy Bay, which is my father's favorite of Gordon's tunes, for close to 40 years, and it is still one of my favorites too.
Nice to see you still doing well after all these years.

Dear Gordon, More than 32 years ago my then partner and I heard Peter Kagan and the Wind and, ironically, a very dear friend named Joyce Briere did the photo of you on the cover of that album.My son, Kagan, turns 32 this year and that song and my son has been and always will be a deep stream running through my life. Thank you.

To Deena from Ithaca:
Thanks for that information, Deena. I did get one of those guitar cusions, and it works better than the one I cobbled up. Enjoy the summer.
GB

Dear Mr. Bok. Thank you for the years of beautiful music.I have been a fan since a young boy. My father and I found a common ground in your stories and music, and at times I believe it even brought us closer.The songs of fishing, boats,and the characters involved,have raised my spirits at times when life presented its challenges. Thank you again, and I look forward to seeing you and Carol in Sept.Gordon F.Wiley
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