It seems like most of the good folk music activity is either west of the Rockies or east of the Mississippi. Is there anyone at all in Iowa besides me who enjoys this. I finally managed to get a small group of friends together with the help of our local librarian. We have met once so far, but it was almost chaos. We think we need a little more structure, although not too much. We would like to work on some of the same songs, and then have an open time to play some new things. I had suggested that we might want to use RUS as a basis. The debate is interesing. From a teacher's perspective, I'm not sure it has to be an either or situation. We all have textbooks to teach from, but any good teacher will use that as a basis to start and then add more material as you go along. You have to start somewhere.

Kicky