It seems, as MMario has quoted, that the crowd was a redundant one.

Perhaps if it were a little further away from the Wheaton one, or the Wheaton one were moved to Annapolis or the like, the one in NOVA would have proven an entity unto itself. But, the proximity seems to just have been too close, and so, it was a repeat of the same attendees, and from what I have heard, with fewer gatherers in NOVA than in Wheaton. I would think that there will only be a fairly small and esoteric group in any given area wanting to attend such, and this area already sported one such event (held by the very same group, "Ships Company").

The thing is, it is not really "dead", as it were...it merely insures that the Wheaton sing will be all the healthier, as it will not be dragged out over the course of 2 nights in 2 locations.

I just was hoping personally to not have to make the trek that far, but c'est la vie.