Marion and all,

Here's another pay to apply to play for free festival showcase which charges a little less than Kerrville.

Like many other musicians I don't support the pay to play or pay to audition phenomena but if others do then I'll just shrug. Where's the musician's union when you need it? Surely the AFM doesn't approve of this does it? Even if it does I don't.

PS When Peter Yarrow started the NewFolk Concert showcase no fees were charged.

PPS I think of Marshall McLuhan's prediction forty years ago that we would soon have a great deal of leisure time but who would have thought that people in the arts and crafts would be competing to play or display for free? There's always something to hold us back if we'll let it. And there's always some opportunity if we'll only take it but no two people develop themselves the same way. I think of Pete Seeger who raised three children as a "folksinger" during a time when the word had little meaning to the mainstream public. He did it anyway and very creatively, as did several others, still amazingly. And now they are legends.