I hope that you really elaborate on the magnificant growth of music specific to the Pacific Northwest..USA portion. B.C. has always had bountiful stores of its music but for some reason, if we did we didn't know about it. I still maintain that is because so many of the workers were not English-speaking, but I could be wrong. Certainly Finns and Croatians and Italians must have written songs about their new homes. Anyway, there are so many excellent newish writers who do such great work..especially I would say in SW Washington, where Matt is writing about the Grays Harbor area, and Nathan and Kate about Eastern Oregon, almost like WOody Guthrie, and the Brownsmead Flats about the Astoria region and the Willapa Hills group about the Lower Columbia. I know you mentioned someone was skeptical about this but I think it is just growing exponentially and if you don't believe me come to Sunnycamp where hopefully we will have some..Tim W. of Guemes Island is supposed to be leading a workshop on this and we will have some very good songwriters in attendance I must say. mg