Ellen Hawes just notified us that her doctor will not allow her to come to New York for our Celebration of the Urban Folk Music of the 1940s & 1950s on March 28. Dottie Miller Gutenkauf will represent the Almanac Singers. Other panelists will be singers Jean Ritchie and Lorie Holland, Rochelle Goldstein, widow of folklorist Ken Goldstein and friend of many of the Almanac Singers, Anna Lomax Wood and Anna Guthrie Canoni of the Alan Lomax Archive and Woody Guthrie Archive respectively. Also performing their music will be Tony Saletan and Roger Sprung accompanied by Richard Hawthorne and Hal Wylie. The program will be at Little Red Schoolhouse - Elisabeth Irwin High School in Greenwich Village, a center for folk music during the 1940s and 1950s. Info: www.folkmusicny.org.