famed: cathie ryan, sally rogers, mary black, jean redpath, peggy seeger, joan baez, kirsten braten berg, maddy prior, june tabor, maddy prior and june tabor together, stan rogers, andy stewart, james taylor, lyle lovett, keb' mo', pancho sanchez

local and not yet famed: alissa nashold, ruby darb (the band, not the stripper), bruce haedt, crooked mile, the dips, joe prater, ania somethin'orother, b. sue johnson, susan welch (oh my god how i love her), mike murray, larry dewey, sandy sandridge, eddie jay williams

all my sweeties, all my mudsweeties, the fella who invented the capo, the fella who gives away guitar strings down at the coffee cantina every christmas, the fella who wrote "the peace carol", and patrick hohol, my junior high choir director who in 1989 taught me i could sing, and four years later died of aids. i owe him everything.