Hi, Mike - I think maybe you have the wrong impression. Most of the Mudcatters I've met are singers, not fans. I've always thought that Mudcat's orientation was toward people who DO the music, and not toward the audience.
Of course, maybe I've had the wrong impression, too. I thought the Philadelphia Folksong Society was a bunch of people who listened to singer-songwriters, unlike the people from the folk music groups in Washington, San Francisco, Seattle, and the UK that frequent Mudcat (not to forget Canadian and Australian and Irish musicians who come here). I guess I'll have to learn more about the Philadelphia Folksong Society. As an outsider, all I know about is your annual festival, and that seems to be a commercial, singer-songwriter, audience-oriented event.

-Joe Offer, who sings in song circles, libraries, retirement homes, camps, churches, and taverns (and in the shower)-