I just returned from the 51st annual Florida Folk Festival, and I did not see a single dead person there. I did see large numbers of children, teenagers, young adults and older adults of white, black, Asian, Hispanic and American Indian ancestry. In other words, there was something there for all types of people and they all came.

As long as festival organizers keep diversity in mind when planning and booking for festivals, they will draw a diverse crowd. If, as has happened with many American bluegrass festivals, they narrow their scope down to what will appeal to a specific crowd, then that's the crowd they'll draw. Go to a bluegrass festival and try to find a black person. If you do, he's probably in the concession area selling hamburgers.

Bruce