This thread should be in, how do you make money out of folk music, if you see Liam Clancy's house in Waterford, in Ireland, you will see how it's done. The Clancy's were first of all actors, who took Irish Music to a level never seen before in America, when they payed the first time in Carnegie Hall the Irish at home had never heard of them, but they were super. They were also the first to bring some of the neglected songs of the English tradition to a wider audience, but of course, in terms of the Mudcat Cafe they sold out, fair play to them.