i just hope festival stops it's gestapo tactics towards the buskers. they were sued for imposing unconstitutional rules and kept it up any way. when i used to play there they sold the right to sell any cds to tower records, and sent the police to arrest buskers doing direct sales. i sold tweny four cds but tower records did not pay and folklife didn't give a damn. i was a performer for sven years but that was it. it's run by bureaucrats who think they are the festival and not the performers.