"It is a radical change but if the models work just fine cut the crap and join in the reforms."

The point I was trying to make, is that these current models which of course do indeed work (as is evident by their continuance) are not however *your* model. Because you regard aspects of all of these examples to be somehow representative of the current "status quo" that you are railing against: be they festivals that accept volunteers in return for a ticket (abusive), or smaller word-of-mouth folk camps (elitist), or amateur events held in public houses where the landlord might want people to buy his beer (exorbitant costs).

It seems that however much people open the door and offer their hospitality for near to free as you're going to get without digging for roots with your bare hands, nothing currently successfully functioning as 'folk for free (or near as dammit)', is pure enough to meet the rigid demands of your personal ideology.

Otherwise, Howard has it nailed.