Sam, I thought about you and your superb accordion playing the other night when we watched a program about young Tex-Mex musicians who have brought new life to folk songs of their ancestors through their accordion playing. You can read about some of the older traditional players and the young ones at Accordion Dreams at PBS. There were qute a few young women playing now, even though it has not been a traditional instrument for women in that culture, and they were really good. It was fun to see younger people connecting to their roots and having so much fun with it as we saw you do on Mudcat radio.

Have fun with the nyckleharpa. I'll never forget how the sound of them capitvated me the first time I heard one on NPR and posted that first thread.

kat