The school where we held the participants' party for a couple of years was the Monroe Center--an old junior high school that was rented to the Folklore Scoiety, Skandia and some other groups as a sort of folkie cultural center for several years back around 1988. It has long since gone back to the school district, who are using it as a school again.

The official Folklife Festival participants' party this year will move off the Seattle Center grounds to a location that will have a bunch of rooms and other spaces for separate jam sessions and sing-arounds.

I'm not naming the site here, because it's technically a private participants-only event and this is a public forum. Those of you who are performers and volunteers will receive word of the time and place in your registration package.

If you're not already a volunteer, it's not too late to sign up.

Anyway, it appears that we will have a potentially decent place for singing without the need to organize a separate singers' party. I'm hoping that we can reserve a "singing room" as we did when the party was at the Mountaineers Club.

Maybe we should create some kind of sticker for Mudcatters to add to their festival buttons...maybe a little dot in a dayglow color or something.