Alex, Good to have you here. All my best to you and Sine!!

Folks this is a grand festival, wonderful folks and I can personally vouch for the superb quality of many of the musical people on Alex' list of performers.

SONS OF THE NEVER WRONG are three of my very favorite people. Bruce Roper singer and guitarist and songwriter comes up with some of the most off the wall but brilliant music ideas you'll ever hear. Knowing my tendency to go only for trad stuff, all I can say is I love these three nuts and their music in spite of their being more clever acoustic pop/rock than anything else. Sue Demel is a dynamo of frenetic non-stop dancing, prancing, song-writing energy with an excruciatingly lovely voice who, if truth be known, I really wish I had known in both the being-acquainted-with sense and also in the Biblical sense when I was 20 years old or so. (But I digress.) Deborah Lader with banjo and other instuments brings a folk presence to the trio that I really appreciate. No other way to say it----- I just love these guys.

That's all I have time to say right at present----but, darn it, Garnet R. is great as are the Little Potatoes Rich and Jacki, Kat Eggleston (wonderful voice--nice body) and Don Stiernberg (better guitar by far than body)I know even the ones I've not heard are tops too.

I hope you'll go if you're in that Northen part of Illinois.

Art Thieme (Alex, now sent me the check.)