Right, Bee-Dubya-ell. I saw the Flecktones at Grey Fox Festival in NY state. Maybe it says something about where I'm coming from that I forgot all about Victor Wooten and Future Man being black. And I have also seen Sparky and Rhonda Rucker. In fact, when Jerry asked the questions in this thread, I ran through a mental picture of festivals and people and jams and tried to focus on whether anyone at any of those was black. Not something I typically think about, which may or may not be a good thing. In fact, I ESCAPE from many of the issues of contemporary society by going off to these festivals, and suffer re-entry when we get home and turn on the news and remember that there's still a war going on in ...... (the country keeps changing) and there's still all the usual hell on the streets and trouble all around. At the festival there are the occasional issues, and maybe it's a nice big sand pile to hide my head in...

I saw some confederate flags and t-shirts at a festival we went to in Virginia, but have never noticed any in the northeast where we come from. But then, maybe I just didn't notice...