Hi Pete,

It is amazing and kinda' fun...I wholeheartedly agree. And as ypu say, the songs. This probably should be on the show-off thread, but the Civil War medley I do on Hammered Dulcimer, totally instrumental, NEVER fails but to get great crowd response, no matter what size crowd or where it's at. It opens and closes with a several bars of "Dixie" and it's also used as a connector, but is never played in it's entirety. The only non period piece is, of course, Ashokan Farewell which has now become so closely associated with the Civil War that I had to include it...plus like eveerybody else, I love it too.

I really wonder how many "buffs" are out there with us in Mudcat?

catspaw