Joe, thanks for the link to the Ballad-L List in the previous note.

Also, everyone be sure and check out the new thread on Elizabeth LaPrelle's CD, and the older thread on recordings of the the Child Collection.

I've been to both Swannanoa and to Augusta Heritage to ballad workshops. Wouldn't it be something if ballad singing had it's own week instead of being subsumed under the "Old Time Music" category! This is one reason why I'm interested in finding out about all of the singers of traditional ballads, to see the scope of this interest and to see what kind of base really exists. I don't represent any organization and I don't have any official connections to any of the festivals or workshops. But I sure would want to be a part of a week-long gathering devoted to this kind of music. T.O.M.