I would like to learn if the songs mentioned are available as collected recordings - such as the CD of Dave Ruch's 2004 concert. In the 80's and 90's I lived in the smallish Western NY city of Jamestown for 15 years. It was a little too far away to visit Buffalo often. Nationally known musicans perform at the arts venue of Chautauqua, near Jamestown, but I never heard any home-grown folk music, except a guy playing a musical saw on a front porch, once. This sounds like a most interesting mixture.

One aspect of life in Jamestown that I think has the makings of a great song, is the newspaper article about the first coming of the railroad to Jamestown in August 1860. Every 4th grader learns about the crowds that gathered that day as the band broke out with "Ain't I Glad to Get out of the Wilderness". Here is the Jamestown Journal article describing the event. --Linda