As a 'chalkie' myself and also one who has been botha paramedic and a Youth Worker in my evil past; I would concur with Little Hawk who wrote: "Folk music was always the style of music that most focused on lyrical content.....words....therefore it tends to attract people who are strong in their literacy skills. It also tends to attract people who are interested in knowing about past history in detail. It's just natural that people who are drawn to folk music would also tend to be the types who would go into teaching."

Alec backed this one up; and I think, correctly. Little Robyn also made a very valid observation in that (apparently in NZ) a lot of 'Folk Clubs' got a start at Teachers Colleges and such - it happened here in Australia, too.

Less so these days.

I must admit, it's the history buff inside me that hungers for the folk music I crave and the "need" to pass on history, custom and legend through music and song that drives me.

I'm not sure there are a LOT of teachers involved in Folk these days though; maybe the profession is attracting a diffeent type of persona? A helluva lot of teachers I know aren't at all interested in folk music and a lot more couldn't carry a tune in a bucket let alone PLAY!

However, I do have one question for Capt. Ginger:

What makes you connect Aspergers and Folk?

I have to ask because I am a teacher, a folkie and also an Aspie (that's what Asperger's people prefer to call themselves.

Muttley