Very inspirational Peter T. Thank you for sharing that with us. Perhaps there are some young people who are inspired by the example you have shown; and will take up music with new heart. The way to keep folk music alive and vibrant, is to involve the young, and make the Mudcat a safe and pleasant place to learn. Yours, Aye. Dave

"Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth, and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. ...thus music,too,is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm". PLATO