"Don't you have hungry and homeless and out of work folks there?"

Gosh! I didn't know that if people are hungry and homeless and out of work, going to a free folk music event was high on their list of priorities! Wow! Learn something new every day!!

"I know many folk musicians who have perfectly good day jobs and would not qualify as welfare cases who are on the public trough and play at government funded events."

Really!?? Okay, name a few. (I didn't think so!)

"SOCIALIZED" folk music events? Does Glenn Beck know about this!??

Conrad, I refer you back up to Howard's post just above, at 04 Sep 10 - 01:23 p.m., and to Ralphie's post immediately above. There's your solution. If you are REALLY interested in the kind of events you say you want, then DO it. That's what other people do. Even bloated capitalistic singers of folk songs such as myself.

If not, then just shut the hell up and let the people who are really interested in spreading interest in folk music get on with it.

The truth is that not only do you want it all for free, you want someone else to do it for you.

Like I said above, you're the kind of person who gives freeloaders a bad name!

Don Firth (proud to be a bloated capitalist singer of folk songs)