Hi In the 50's I loved listening to Peter Paul and Mary and by the early 60's I was playing drums in Rock and blues bands in the Summer on cape Cod. In 1969 I went to aprentice at Jugtown Pottery in North Carolina and it's owner ,Nancy Sweezey was old freinds with Raulf Rindzler of the Smithsonian Folk Depatment so she had this wanderfull collection of folk records. Clarence Tom Ashley just blew me away so I bought my brother a Banjo for his birthday. Then I buoght my girlfriend a banjo for her birthday and then I broke my neck on a motorcycle working in a pottery nr Bridgend in Wales and went up to London and bought myself a banjo.{I'm alittle slow} .After the sing-songs in Wales and Union Grove Fiddilers Convention in North Carolina there was no turning back.THank You Allen Block in New Hampshire for showing me the joy of playing,and everyone since for sharing the fun of it all.....I saw Lui Collins and Tom Rush tonight in New Milford Ct...What a wanderfull combination of peaple to see in one night.It just never ends... Cheers Guy.........