Hey, Freda:

Glad you stopped by.

Mudcat is like a folk festival. Folks break up into enclaves. It's ironic how folkies wonder why folk music isn't more widely appreciated, and yet they split up into small splinter groups with very little interest in each other. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Is more an idealizationf of the folk community that doesn't match up with reality.

The first eleven posts, as I type this this morning are about music in England or Ireland. That's very commonplace in here. For a web site dedicated to folk music and blues, there is very little blues ever discussed, because most folkies don't have a particular interest or appreciation for blues. Traditional Folk Music is much more appreciated in England, so our English friends dominate the music threads. Not because they are overbearing, but because there is a much smaller, more widely dispersed traditional music community in the U.S.A. For most of us, the "community" is a six hour drive from where we live.

Down below the line there is the disgruntled with politics community, and a smaller subse5t of disgruntled with organized religion community. Then, there's the Mother of all Threads community which thrives very well, thank you. Step into Mudchat, and you'll have a chance to talk with people who you may not run into on whatever threads you read.   That's why I enjoy Mudchat. It's the one place where you're likely to have a chance to talk with people from all of the enclaves, except maybe the politics and Mother of enclaves. I rarely see Leadfingers or Foolestroups on the threads that I read, so it's nice to have a chance to get to know them on Mudchat. There are many others who drop by regularly.

And then there's this thread: The Koffee Klatch. We've come to know each other around the kitchen table, and that's a whole 'nuther enclave. I really enjoy this place, and appreciate it when you stop by. Drop in Mudchat once in awhile, will ya?

Jerry