Don't declare the death of folk music in the US yet, Chris. Like others, I'd really say that it may be more of a local issue than a national one.

In Albuquerque, we have an active song-circle, regular coffee-shop venues that welcome both the singer-songwriter types and the "sing somebody else's stuff" people, and we have acoustic jam sessions in bars and coffee houses, we have house concerts for traveling, less well known semi-professionals, we get Seamus Kennedy, Cathy Ryan, Gealic Storm, the Chieftains and other larger and smaller names, and we have. We also have very active contra dance, caili, and international folk dance groups.

C'mon down and visit