Yes we need to get all of those in the financial food chain to donate their services.

They need to be won over to the cause just like the volunteers that seem so indispensable today.

Liberate everyone and things will grow much faster.

For most of its existence folk music has occurred in small groups, intimate settings. We need to get back to that. The only thing that amplification does is to provide more money for less work.

If festival organizers cared about traditional presentation then they would make stages smaller which can be done. But they dont. The concern is with profit not tradition.

Conrad