I agree on all counts with what Ron said but with the caveat ---it is not a concert that Pete Seeger would have put on. I believe (and hope) that he was not involved in the producing of this event and I also doubt it will lead to another "folk revival" or "scare" but rather be a huge happening since some of the names ---Springsteen comes to mind--could fill that hall in the blink of an eye.

What is nice is that they are lending their names and talents to the event and, other than the lead line giving the name of the concert in the announcement AMEX printed in today's NY Times, all names are equal size---I also suspect that Pete had something to do with the guaranteed lower price seats (probably in the stratosphere).

As far as helping the Clearwater Organization this should be a financial boon to them. As far as tribute goes---I think the Kennedy Ctr honors covered that and looking back at it now companies like Ticketmaster (who recently settled their scalping issue with NJ--Springsteen tickets) and AMEX were never involved, to my knowledge with any Seeger or Folk concerts prior to that. Weavers tickets were Town Hall Box Office or Carnegie Box Office.

I guess the suggestion to have local tributes would be more meaningful and less cash producing---sort of akin to a cake sale vs booking MSG. This is the type of thing I doubt that anyone will ever know who thought it up and who organized it. One has to figure the Clearwater Org. is trying to do its good works on a larger scale and one can only hope that commerecialism will not be rearing its head there.

Bill Hahn