Good story, thanks for copying it! Every year i go to Clifftop and for the past couple years have spent at least some of that time jamming with Jake Krack (as well as a LOT of other people). Technically he is very good and can play the notes. . . what has been wonderful over the past couple years is to see him get more of this intangible "feeling" for the music and start sounding more and more like the older fiddlers. I am worried that not enough young people like old-time music and there are too few people like Jake (but there is also Matthew Brown of West Chester PA-- and a number of others) but it's nice to hear Jake getting so good!