Yeah, it's and age thing. And every single half generation needs some cultural shoehorn to wedge themselves into an interest in folk music.

Northern Indiana has a very active folk music scene centering around Goshen, IN -- with one of the country's best concert venues in LVD's Concert Hall, and an active amatuer group of musicians meeting twice monthly to play old-timey music, a very active contra dance organization, and an instrument builder and his shop acting as a center for all this acoustic music interest.

MOST IMPORTANTLY: The Goshen scene has managed to cross the generational barriers. The Goldmine Pickers, Jay Lapp, Lukas Simpson and many others actively attending the jams and playing local concerts are in their thirties now and have been playing around Goshen for more than ten years. At the same time, folks in their sixties also regularly participate as well. In fact, one of the big joys of the Goshen scene is that the diverse age groups regularly play TOGETHER -- and not in an older-generation-teaching-the-young-whippersnappers-a-thing-or-two. Actually, in most cases, the younger among us are more musically skilled and engaged than the older participants. It makes for a much more exciting social/musical structure.