Uh--GUEST,Wildfire, have you read what has gone before in this thread, and read threads that have been linked to?   Click here:   "Hootenannys, history and such."

I don't know where you got your information, but there is some really authoritative information here on wnere the term "hootenanny" came from and how it has been used (and abused) during the last seventy-some years. I suggest you read and learn.

Don Firth