I am either very annoyed or very amused at some of the comments here, I can't quite decide which.

If you know anything about Andy Cohen, you have a pretty good idea of what you're going to hear, and, if Andy is running an open performance event, you just naturally want to play a Gary Davis tune, or some such thing(well, I'm not sure I'd have the nerve to play a Gary Davis tune with him right there, but you know what I mean).   

It is really tedious to have someone like Banjoman pontificating about "The Tradition", when anyone who doesn't live under a rock (actually, a folk rock) knows that there are different traditions, vigorously pursued in different places, and that people get very picky about style, source, and age of music, because that is what makes different kinds of music different.

In Galax, at the Old Time Fiddler's Convention, they have this rule "No Bluegrass Banjo style picking to be in Old Time Band. No Old Time Banjo style picking to be in Bluegrass Band", though we all know that rule already--