Art,

When I look at the names of the Folk Alliance Lifetime Achievement honorees, people like Paul Robeson, Woody Guthrie, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Pete Seeger, Utah Phillips and Leadbelly, I have a hard time imagining any of them crossing an NAACP picket line into an Adams Mark Hotel for a folk music business conference.

If the Folk Alliance goes ahead with the conference while the NAACP boycott is still in effect, I think it'll be the end of the Folk Alliance. I know that I won't be alone in ending my association with it.