Uh oh, we are getting dangerously close to that deadliest of questions "What is Folk Music?" Beware! HERE BE TYGERS!

I agree that what we call folk music today was once popular music. It stands to reason. Schooner Fare used to joke about the youngsters of the day in later years standing around the old upright synthesizer trying to remember the words to songs by Twisted Sister. It isn't that far from being a joke.

My kids like folk music. Not all of it but they like a lot of what I like. They try to educate me about what they are listening to. I don't like all of it but I do like some of it. So I listen to They Might Be Giants, Bare Naked Ladies, and, the latest, some Japanese band that my younger daughter and her friends listen to. And, when I'm housecleaning I put in any old thing from Pete Seeger to Moody Blues, from Emerson Lake and Palmer and Led Zeplin to Tom Paxton (Yes he is too a folkie!) and Gordon Bok.

John Leeder, you are absolutely right. To start a venue takes a dedicated soul but not too many to do the work. One or two people is all it takes to get something started. "If you build it they will come!"