The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #78884   Message #1424651
Posted By: George Papavgeris
02-Mar-05 - 03:36 AM
Thread Name: Mudcat history - seeking a resume
Subject: RE: Mudcat history - seeking a resume
Thanks folks - done.

Here's the text I cobbled together, by the way:

The Mudcat CafĂ© first opened in 1997 and may well be the best-beloved music forum in the world.   Its website address is in the "favourites" of many a folk music performer or afficionado. Its membership spans the globe with members in North and South America, Britain and mainland Europe, the Far East, Africa and Australia. It reflects voices, thoughts, stories, music and song from all over this remarkable planet, going back hundreds of years to the earliest Gaelic, Welsh, French and English songs and forward to the current week's folk-revival performances. Above all else, the people of the Mudcat sing and play and admire the songs of the human heart.

That so wide a spectrum of people should be brought together in a self-sustaining community anchored by music and song is in itself remarkable. That it should thrive and prosper as well as it has is a testimony to the openness, inclusiveness and warmth of folk music supporters everywhere. As a member said:

"I always wanted to live somewhere like that".
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