Interesting reactions to a simple question ... guess we all have a "fellow feeling" as Lee Hays used to say. I'm from the upper right hand corner of Connecticut on the Mass & RI lines. I'm a singer who backs himself (and friends) up with an old Gibson J-50, a Martin D-35-12 and a new Larrivee OM-9 ... and there's an old Epiphone Caballero on our boat. During "Greensong Season" I play with the Irish band Cashel Rock ... we're at the Vanilla Bean in Pomfret Mar 8 & 9. I started the folk thing with a ukelele given to me as a 10 year old in 1955. Got a Harmony dread. in 1957 and haven't looked back. At 16 I thought I was pretty good so I made it to NYC and got food money working for Lee Hayes (transcribing melodies & verses for a post-Weavers record he was about to produce ... "The Baby Sitters") Met lots of interesting people and learned fast that I wasn't quite yet pro material. (first visit Don Mclain made to our apartment made that painfully clear ... he banged out "Old Man Can Your Dog Catch A Rabbit" and I put my ax away ... he was so good on traditional tunes). We live in an old New England "hilltop" village and there are a lot of folkies (pure coincidence) up here ... we get together once a month at someones house and get to it... Old Time Country, traditional, Celtic, Blues ... all acoustic. The young people are FANTASTIC lead instrumentalists ... us old ones tend to better "song rounded" ... a nice bunch of people.Give an email if you are in the neighborhood. If you are a visitor from way afar we can steer you to some good and reasonable B&B's ... this is beautiful country for hiking, birding, biking, canoeing ... and acoustic music. edward.clement@snet.net