I have coined this term for lack of a better one to describe the following situation. As some of you know I am running a house concert series in Rockland County, NY known as the Borderline Folk Music Club. Apparently many performers as well as wanna be performers have discovered this as well. As a result I am being innundated with unsolicited requests by agents as well as upstart performers, all of who are asked to submit CDs to our booking committee. We stress that we are a traditional oriented accoustic folk music club. Although we will book singer songwriters they have to be in the traditional style such as Bill Staines, Gordon Bok, or Eric Bogle. The 3 concerts that we have run thus far featured Geoff Kaufman, Debra Cowan, & Atwater-Donnelly. The great majority of CDs that I am receiving, (and I do listen to all of them), have been from performers who have the nerve to call themselves "folk singers" but do only hard rock. When I point this out to them they have the "chutzpah" to tell me that I am stuck in the past and that what they do is the real folk music of today. Who is right me or them ?

                                           SOL ZELLER