Am I the one who is missing something? Is the scene in New York really dead? Do you have to go all the way to Quebec to hear good folk, blues, and jazz? I'm about 5 hours southwest of the New York metro area, and in the past 3 years I've gone there at least 15 times, and almost every one of those times I've heard some really fine music. Somtimes it has been the headliners, like Tom Paxton or Odetta at Lincoln Center, or the Vanaver Caravan at the Symphony Space, or Arlo Guthrie at Carnegie Hall, or Peggy Seeger at the Advent Church, or Pete Seeger at a fundraiser in someone's living room on the West Side. Other times it has been newcomers I had never heard of before, like Sharon Katz and the Peace Train at the Clearwater festival. Most often it has been little known but really talented musicians, like Anne Price and Toby Fagenson who I just heard at a club in the East Village.