I was hangin' out up there near the childrens area in the southwest corner of the festival grounds near the participants hospitality room. It was very difficult to find a spot to play that didn't have alot of sound bleeding over from other performers and stages. I was told that my saw carried quite a distance as well even though it did not seem so loud to me. I noticed there were many more folks that opted to amplify their instruments to compete with the staged event volumes. It seems that the area could have used a more creative touch when it came to composing the volume levels of the staged and misc. unplanned performances. Those with instruments that don't have a great deal of volume are being forced out of the area by those who perform with much louder toys. I think that folks who feel a need to express themselves with instruments that by their nature are loud should find a place to play where they will not hinder so many others with their volume levels. Let's carry this to the illogical. Say I played an instrument that by it's nature could dominate volume-wise three city blocks of space. That would mean that everyone within that space would have to either find an indoor location to perform and be heard or compete with me by playing outside the range that my instrument would carry or amplify to try to match my volume level. Well that's just what's going on. It needs to be addressed but it's a sensitive issue on all fronts and not one that I'd want to tackle. Maybe another location with more room to grove is needed or as I said just a more creative touch at composing the participants volume levels.