Dave Ruch:
"There's a whole world of good paying work out there that seems, in many ways, ideally suited to the folk musician. School gigs, libraries, cultural arts centers, and the like - - places where you can educate a bit while you entertain, and where the venues secure funding to make the programs happen because of the benefit to the community."

Stim: "It isn't about finding grant funded arts employment."

Don't know about the internal dialogue within your head, but out here in a specific debate between me and Dave, yes it is !!!.

Come on stim - less time chuckling and more time concentrating if you don't mind..

In fairness, yesterday I asked a significant other who has a life time at managerial admin level in this sector.

The reply, "Well yes we sometimes still get in outside freelancers [entertainers in education] if we can.
But mostly these days we are looking for anyone who will do it as a volunteer for free"