I think it's because we are the media that carry our music. Now granted, with the internet, one can get a lot of info from all over. Look at this site for example. Nonetheless, this site, doesn't seek us. Green Linnet, Philo and Shanachie don't call us out of the blue and say "We've got a whole world of music, that's not on VH-1, and if you checked it out, you might like it." Before I ever learned a thing from anyone on this site, I learned from people here in Pittsburgh. Now we have a moderately small folk scene, but it's enjoyable, and there are good people here. Granted I had a little push from the more mainstream stuff like the Chieftains and such, but it's the grassroots people here that sucked me in. I don't know what I'd be into if there wasn't a community for me to have fallen into, but I doubt I would have ended up as a folkie if my seed linded on rockier ground.

Rich