oh, lordy...so many!

1961..Pete Seeger in Wichita Kansas..little old ladies standing up singing along..(me too!)
...same year...New Lost City Ramblers..(small crowd) 1962..The Beers Family..3 years later, at Wichita State U., I was privileged to help Bob Beers carry his psaltry up in an elevator and stand over his shoulder while he practiced...
1971(I think)..The first Walnut Valley festival (National Flat-picking championships)..saw Norman Blake, Doc Watson & Dan Crary play together...and either that year or the year after, the first time Doc Watson played with Merle Travis
..1974..Bryan Bowers at The Cellar Door in Wash. DC...(stuck my hand up when he asked for help carrying his 'harps back up to dressing room..later that week had him over for supper and told him about Winfield...and he told his agent..)
..1977-78..E.C. & Orna Ball at the National Folk Festival...wow!!
..1977-82..Jean Redpath several times..including 3 straight nights at a club..(she looked down at me in the first row the 3rd night and said, "I think you must be a glutton for punishment..")
..1980-81..chatted with Peter Bellamy after a concert in Wash DC, where he informed me that .."this tape is the BEST thing I've ever done"..someone told me he said that about EVERYTHING as soon as it was released..
..one night about 6-7 years ago, at our local open sing, Tom Paley came in and joined us...(he was in the area, so..*grin*)...and I played "Storms Are on the Ocean" on the autoharp, and when I looked up after verse two I saw he had his fiddle , so I nodded him a break..knowing it would work..it was great

but the BEST moment ...for me, was just 5 or 6 years ago, when the Copper Family gave a concert in D.C...it was the first stop of their tour, and they had a number of copies of their book, which they had personally scrounged from used bookstores in England!! ..just to have something to to offer us!..being early, I got one..(8-9 copies gone in 10 minutes)...and then they sang, and were astounded that we KNEW their songs and sang along...and at the end,watching them...especially Bob Copper, almost in tears at at resounding standing ovation. They said they they had no idea that that many people here really knew their music..(and it was a WONDERFUL concert!!)

....there were others...but I gotta go think...