Okay, so we have the occasional truck and squirrel, it gives our artists something to look forward to. The room, which provided hay storage as a dairy barn for 100 years before being converted into the recital room for a music school in 1939, has great acoustics. I've always enjoyed the "natural" sound, loathing the later addition of electronic echo as I do. I figured that I'd surely lose it if I sound-proofed the room.
Being given the guest room with the folklore library has kept Rick Fielding from getting a decent night's sleep every time he's been here. Could you sleep with the entire collection of English Folk Dance and Song Society publications shelved right by your head? Art always went for the various U.S. state and regional collections, which may explain why he deserves to be mentioned prominently in this thread. He always chose to sing traditional songs, with the occasional trad-sounding contemporary song thrown in just to remind us that the tradition is a continuing one. That may explain why he's not rich and famous.
Sandy
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