Ron, thanks for your response to my questions.

If you or some one else starts a thread on the subject of race/ethnicity and folk festivals/events, I'll post to it. However, I would prefer not to start such a discussion thread myself.

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Btw, you mentioned "sacred steel" in your comments. What did you mean by that? I'm assuming that you don't mean "steel drums" {pans} that originated in Trinidad.