All criticism (warrented or otherwise) aside, I am sorry not to have been able to travel to this event. On balance, though I am sure the event has become something of a "happening" unto itself, it still affords the opportunity to see and interact with those who have lived the "folk music life" and produced the music we all enjoy so much.

A friend, noting the absence of luthiers, et al, from the event, suggested that the reason might be that many of those who fondled the goodies couldn't really afford to buy what they fell in love with. I would certainly have been among those, in my earlier days.