Hello everyone of my/our subscribers around the world, thanking you for your time & support. Since my last e-letter Marion and I have played at two concerts The first one All originals, 2 songs Marion wrote were well received . People just sit & listen to the creativity of song writing & enjoying the music of the different types of genre's The second gig was a dance party were the audience celebrated the Grand final of The Australian Rules football season. A great interactive audience which had a great time singing along & dancing The story behind this gig was that we stayed as it was 3.5 hours from Melbourne Australia and what happened next was unbelievable. A huge bush fire broke out, half a klm from the small town which is on a peninsula & only one road in and out. Police closed the road as the fire jumped the road with huge winds very dangerous so to late to leave. 25.000 hecters burnt .With no electricity the fire burnt down 7 polls. We had flat mobiles/cell phones, so no communication from government emergency services. We did have gas & food so stayed inside praying for rain. We didn t know that the emergency plan was to go to the hotel and to be evacuated by boat if necessary as the small town is on the large East Gippsland lakes Victoria. Australia Anyway thank God we were blessed saved by the rain it poured down & 1000 people saved at last. That wasn't all it rained so much that we stayed another 3 days as for the flooding the road still closed . We did get power as 3 huge generators were temporarily installed until the polls could be replaced. We will never forget that gig. Now for our most exciting news Marion my music buddy was fortunate enough to have 2 song lyrics reach the top 30 in the lyrics section of the Australian Songwriting Awards. We flew to Sydney from Melbourne attending the gala night on 21st Sept 23 dressed in our best. Marion didnt get to the first 10 but was highly commended her 2 song lyrics by the Chairman. He asked for a photo of the 2 of them to be able to put in their newsletter, website & social media so she feels a winner anyway.He was very impressed with Nation's achievement being blind & was quite interested in one of the songs lyrics Title "One Hundred Migrants" a true story of Migrants that arrived in Australia in the 40's 50's & 60's . On the same day an Australian Broadcasting commission presenter Scott Bevan on drive time radio was doing a story on the same subject & interviews us both which we were surprised and delighted for the support. A guy called Alek Schulha has written a book and on to his second so Marion has sent him the lyrics & acoustic version for him to promote with his books. Our next venture is on 25th November 23 for a songwriting workshop so we are looking forward to that catching up with fellow musicians. Marion is going on a cruise for songwriting in December to the Pacific Islands so hopefully she will come back with some great lyrics for our next album which we hope will start to record in the new year. I know I said we were hoping for new songs this year but with family commitments it didn't go our way. That's enough for now from me so till next time stay safe, take care , cheers Johnny Shilo (& Marion)