"Making folk music boring is a talent that I'm glad more people aren't blessed with.."

Amen to that!

And to add to the list of natural audiences for folkies, there are all the harvest type celebrations held around the world (well, northern hemisphere right now) at this time of year for just about any old thing from green beans to garlic to seafood, right on up into the hunting seasons. Plenty of events to play for right there, with a ready made "folk" community too.

Still, I'd like to see more folkies get with the spirit of NASCAR and Sturgis type things. I think that is a natural audience too, and goodness knows, a whole lotta them folks could use some left leaning proselytizing through song wafting over them now and again.

As a young pup, I loved car and motocross racing. But that was before the era of the huge NASCAR phenomenon. But we raced everywhere. On ice, dirt, water, tracks...