Robin: Thanks for asking. It is en route right now.

Paul: :-) All the old spots, venues, coffee houses (ya know, it's 40 years) have been dug up & removed. Still, there's a huge lot going on. John Lupton has been doing an old-timey/folk show on WXPN for many years and is quite knowledgable & a decent guy. (Gene Shay's been doing a folk show over 20 years but I don't know him.) And, of course, there's the Philadelphia Folksong Society which does the Festival & other stuff http://www.nothinbut.net/~pfs/. Including, it should be said, one of the very few grants to DigiTrad.

A friend recently checked out the bar-b-q ribs joint (4 tables) we used to go down to at 4th Street. It used to be "ethnic." Now it's yuppie. Such is the way of things.

The Guilded Cage is long gone but Ed & Esther Halpern still organize a thing or two.

I'll send you their e-mails but I'd have to check venues out meself as a newbie. Robin2's certainly much more aware than I am.