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John Hall Making Music Again

John Hall trades the halls of Congress for concert halls as the former Congressman from New York reunites with Lance and Larry Hoppen, his former band mates in Orleans.  Hall, who lost a re-election bid for his Congressional seat last fall, calls his return to making music 'good therapy'.  In addition to doing a series of concerts with Orleans, Hall has plans to do some summer dates with Gulf Stream Night, a group he put together after parting with Orleans and fronting a trio and quartet under his own name. 
A highlight of the Orleans reunion is a mid-June weekend in Ithaca, New York, a stronghold for the band before it broke nationally. Being billed as the Salty Dog 40th Year Reunion, the June 17-19 party will find the band celebrating John's return to music in a club (now known as The Castaways) that hosted some legendary Orleans shows in the early-mid 70's.
Always politically engaged, Hall is not ruling out a future in politics, but calls a future campaign something he would have to '...think long and hard about'.  For now, it's Let There Be Music!
Observer.com  PolitiFi.com  SaltyDog40.com