Here the singers are all yuppies and they always meet in expensive places.

Wrong again. Please stop insulting folk musicians. I'm about as far from being a yuppie as it's possible to be.

My suggestion to performers- dont play at places which rip off your audience.

According to your definition of "rip off", this would leave no local venues for folk music. Reality flash: we play where we can. A vast majority of places that want to have music don't have any interest in folk music, especially traditional folk music. And, at the risk of being called elitist again, I have no desire to play at the really cheap dives in town, since whores, bikers, and broken-down drunks also don't have any interest in folk music and make lousy audiences anyway.

Would you care to respond to my post of 23 Sep 10 - 12:08 PM about the difference between competent performers and the incompetent? Especially as regards why "the folk" would want to listen to someone in a performance situation who isn't any good at performing?