Isn't the point of this Folk Music, not who is or isn't Pacific northwest?
This discoussion got off track before it got going.
I would rather see a discussion of the aims and intents of this Pacific Northwest Folk Music Society far more than care who has formed it. I don't think anyone is in it to get rich or sabotage whatever.
Obivously, the PNFMS cares about the music of the region. I suppose if someone comes in and wants to talk about a song about an area in New York State, that probably wouldn't fit, but if someone comes in with a song from British Columbia or Alaska or Idaho, I suspect that would be acceptable.
Somehow there seems to have been a lot of hostility raised by this and I don't get it.
mj