Can I also point out the wonders of facebook???

admittedly - it isn't the best site for non-folkies to discover the music, but I'd like to think that between the pictures I take and the pictures others take of me, I'm giving a good visual representation of what the folk community bit of my life is like to all my non-folky friends. This may not instanteously convert non folkies to folkies, but I hope it (in a small way) opens up what folk-i-dom is about, so that if they stumble across it in the real world, they are less likely to brush it aside as something they are not interested in.

Also - with a lot of my folky festival friends being geographically spread out - it's great to keep in touch with them and see the pictures of what they are getting up too elsewhere. It increases the sociable aspect of the folk community, which I think is incredibly important to young folkies who don't have many others living close by to play music with etc, esp in those cold wintery months...

Jems