"Thats right don dont market folk music keep it small and tiny and watch the songs fade from memory. You made my point exactly. Small thinking imposed on folk music. No not for me. Stop standing in the way of the expansion of folk music. Marketing is essential. You have to convince people who are not doing it to do it. That means you make every performance a teaching moment, tolerate less than perfect performances and remove barriers to attendance......"

Conrad, I presume, from the third word in the above quoted paragraph, that this is addressed at me.

You're aversion to appropriate capitalization and punctuation tends to make your writing a bit difficult to decipher. You claim to have a degree in Anthropology. I seriously doubt that, because no one who writes like you do could possibly make it through college, or much beyond the sophomore year in high school.

You apparently haven't understood a word that I have said.

So tell me this—what the f**k are you talking about? I make your point exactly? I should stop "standing in the way or the expansion of folk music?" "Small thinking?"

I'm the person who started teaching folk guitar classes in Seattle (not an original idea, but I'm the one who started it here). I did a series of educational television programs on folk music. I have former students out and about spreading interest in folk music by performing and teaching.

I am standing in the way of the expansion of folk music?

Conrad, dear old one-man-slum, I am the direct antithesis of what you said in that paragraph.

And I have told you, and it should be obvious from what many others have said about their own efforts, that I am most certainly not the only one who is doing this sort of thing.

What the hell is your problem?

Don Firth