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Signup for Vi Wickam's Fiddle Tune a Day: www.vithefiddler.com Get the CD Today, I had the second opportunity to be on Pirate Radio with Charlie Wrobbel. This time, Steve Eulberg was available to join me. After playing Silent Night the first time, I had a brainstorm of the perfect song to play on Pirate Radio - What do you do with a drunken Sailor? My mom used to play this tune on the hammered dulcimer when I was a kid. I would bet that she could still pull it off if push came to shove. Ironically, it was my mom's doing that got Steve and I playing music together in the first place. Steve taught my mom Hammered Dulcimer lessons, and mom kept telling Steve, "You really need to meet my son, Vi." And she kept telling me, "You really should get together and play music with my dulcimer teacher. I think you guys would really get along." Now, those kind of introductions make me think, "DANGER, Will Robinson, DANGER." But, an opportunity arose last year to coordinate the musicians for FoCo Help Portrait, last year - an event where local photographers provide family photos for families who wouldn't be able to afford them otherwise. I asked Steve to play a set, and I ended up joining him for half of his set. We jammed on various old time tunes and Christmas Carols and had a GREAT time. We both agreed that we needed to get together again and play more. That was the start of a great musical relationship, which has resulted in the creation of my latest project, Old School Old Time ...