Folk music going to die? HA! I am the only 20yr old banjo player I know of in a town of 150,000 in Texas (Abilene). For a year after I began to play, I saw no other banjo players at ALL. Then I ran into a weekly bluegrass jam, and I have met about six other banjoist (most all older then me)... and that doesn't mean there isn't more lurking around. Not to mention fiddle, guitar, doboro, dulcimer, bass and mandolin players playing traditional and bluegrass music. There is even, I have heard, a bagpipers group around. Who knows what other styles of folk music are lurking around town? Actually, we have started up an acoustic music association to find out and share. On the other hand I once had a fellow student ask me what my banjo was.

Folk music? "die"? HA!