"Festival" is very much a misnomer for Indian Neck. It's more of a convention, in which a group of folkies (number severely limited by space at the camp) get together for a long weekend that's much like a convention, with a lot of singing and playing going on. Being invited or not leads to a lot of division and hurt within a part of the folk community. Rick is spot on when he mentions the potential of this gathering to drive a wedge in the community. There are even eople I know of who could go if they wanted to, and are invited, but choose not to go because other friends of theirs are excluded. Nevertheless, the opportunity to get together with so many good musicians for a weekend is irresistable, and many of those invited do go. And the tales of long-past hurts and snubs seems too oft repeated by too many people not to have some basis in fact., for my money.

--one who knows many invitees, and more than a few non-invitees