I sent an amendment. It now reads as follows:

The Mudcat Café first opened in 1996 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, Iceland, the Far East, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. 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.

The Mudcat Café also hosts the Digital Tradition Folk Song Database, a constantly-growing collection of some 9,000 folk song lyrics and tunes that has been maintained by Dick Greenhaus since 1988.

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".
       Join us at www.mudcat.org