Jim Carrol,

I think the answer is two-fold. Education is the first one. People who are not exposed to
traditional folk music need to have it explained to them. The environment has to be right.

Point two, the best environment is not in a coffee house but in a small living room type
gathering where there is intimacy and NO sound system. A sound system is antithetical
to the experience of folk music. When it is introduced, then it becomes a "performance" and not representative of how folk music has traditionally been transmitted. There is nothing
wrong with this, but it is different than the atmosphere necessary to communicate folk music.

The audience must be intimately part of the experience.

Frank