Re: Instrument check

To be admitted to the Hospitality Suite for performers and volunteers, all you need to do is sign up for volunteer service, usually 4 hours. That can be helping with any of the many stages/venues, selling buttons, staffing the information booths, etc.
It's a great way to meet people and often hear some great music, and in the hospitality suite you have access to a free check room for instruments and whatever (donations requested but no set fee demanded), free coffee and soft drinks, beer and wine at a big discount, and lots of spontaneous music in the suite. I really recommend volunteering.

I've missed only about 5 Folklifes since 1977, and I look forward to this year's too.

Genie