Huzzah to all who are taking music back into pubs, street corners, parks, weddings....To me, that's bringing it all back home. I know what you're doin, IanC, and that's great.

And Amos... I'm not suggesting that folk music ever could (or should) compete with the corporate-driven music world. God forbid (I think He does, actually..) But, that doesn't mean that we can't try to take it back to the people in smaller ways. The 60's were an abberation ( a wonderful one, from my perspective.) It just seems to me that whenever there is any group or movie that arises that achieves mass popularity, too many folkies rise in protest that it isn't pure, forgetting that we all came through the impurity of popularized folk music. Nickle Cree, The Dixie Chicks, Oh Brother Where Art Thou create a big uproar, rather than a welcome from the folk community.

Jerry