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MARC DOUGLAS BERARDO DECEMBER 2004 |
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Happy
Christmas. I am pleased as Holiday punch to announce that I am a finalist
for the second year in the prestigious Plowshares
Song Contest.
This is one of those nationally recognized song honors that make me
feel like a real dandy when hobnobing* with the folk and song crowd.The
showcase night will take place in Phoenixville, PA on March 12. The
show will be headlined by the great Cliff
Eberhardt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I will be playing on Jan 1, 2005 at 8pm in Westerly, Rhode Island at Perks and Corks, downtown at 48 High Street. However, since Jan 1st is historically the worst night of the year for going out, it might be a good idea to call first to see if the show is on (or if I am on): 401.596.1260. I sincerely hope you have a fine Holiday and thanks for a great year. Marc ---------------------------------------------------------------- *Word History: Hobnobbing with our social betters can be a hit-or-miss proposition, a fact that has an etymological justification. The verb hobnob originally meant to drink together and occurred as a varying phrase, hob or nob, hob-a-nob, or hob and nob, the first of which is recorded in 1763. This phrasal form reflects the origins of the verb in similar phrases that were used when two people toasted each other. The phrases were probably so used because hob is a variant of hab and nob of nab, which are probably forms of have and its negative. In Middle English, for example, one finds the forms habbe, to have, and nabbe, not to have. Hab or nab, or simply hab nab, thus meant get or lose, hit or miss, and the variant hob-nob also meant hit or miss. Used in the drinking phrase, hob or nob probably meant give or take from a drinking situation hob nob spread to other forms of chumminess. |
