The fact that an audience dosen't get the point isn't the fault of the audience, EVER! It's a failure of recognizable communication by the communicator.
   You just can't round up an entire audience of total idiots in one place, especially if they share a common interest like folk music. One or two will be clueless, a few will be jerks, some will be there to drag out some self serving agenda. By and large the greater audience will be an intelligent crowd. And if most of that mix doesn't get the point, the point wasn't get-able.
   My only complaint with this forum beyond un-named Guests is it is too easy in a print forum to miss someones point. The end result is often times what we are seeing here now in this thread.
   Still sorry I jumped your case.

DonMeixner