For those of you who, like me, like to have their cake and eat it too, a serious potential folk music conflict seems to have been averted for this coming October.

Originally, the NOMAD festival, the FSGW Getaway, and the NY Pinewoods weekend were all scheduled for the weekend of October 18-20. Because of these potential conflicts (and the fact that NOMAD draws many of its performers from the DC and NYC groups), the NOMAD planning committee petitioned the school (in Newtown, CT) to hold the festival one week later, on the 25th-27th of October. I just learned from Patricia Campbell, one of the guiding lights of the NOMAD planning team, that the petition had been granted. This paves the way for two consecutive weekends of great music-making, rather than one weekend of feeling torn and conflicted. Yes!
Kathy