According to a notice I received from the Folk Alliance within the last few days, the F.A. has struck an accord with ASCAP and BMI. The gist of their e-mail seemed to be that any house concert put on by a F.A. member will not face being charged by these two organizations.

I will leave it to someone with the particulars to explain better what is going down.

I also suspect there will be numerous questions/loopholes/interpretations/fine-print/whatever to learn about before this is well understood by anyone.

Louis Myers at the Folk Alliance deserves some accolades and thanks if this works out well. At least, it could be, hopefully, a first step!

Art Thieme