Nanci Griffith lost a lot of fans here in Juneau, Alaska, a couple of years ago when she was the scheduled guest artist at the Alaska Folk Festival. As usual with guest artists here, she gave two concerts (about 45 minutes each) one each on Thursday and Sunday evenings as contracted; she did not do any workshops contrary to established habit here and contrary to commitment ((other than one question and answer session, to which she had gotten the questions beforehand).

And then on the second concert, a disgusted fan entered the room to which some of us had retreated after sitting at the concert about 15 minutes and said: Not only is she doing the same songs, she is using the same patter!

She was well aware of Juneau's small population (30,000) and relative isolation from other communities. All of us attend the festival every day.

Don't like the bad mouthing? Then let her change her ways.